April 2018
Developing Mars
... LMT proposes using laser-deflection technology to redirect a small celestial body to a 2036 Mars impact. The plan to create an...certification assigns to the MATT licensee the designated small body resources, and assigns to the ISRU consortium the ...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... venture beyond LEO towards the Moon, Mars, or other celestial bodies, they leave the protection of both Earth’s atmosphere and... to study space radiation and its impact on the human body, and to increase the scope of testing novel personal radiation...
18 August 2016
Space Rebel Niku Baffles Astronomers
... that is about 10 times as big as our Earth. If it does exist, Planet Nine could be gravitationally influencing an entire population of celestial bodies. However, since no proof of Planet Nine has ever been found, and since Niku is much further from...
January 2017
Prospects for progress on space security diplomacy
...status, forbid stationing of WMD in orbit or militarisation of celestial bodies, and specify that the use of space should be for ... of gridlock for 20 years unable to establish a subsidiary body on space or on any other theme. This disconnect between...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... minerals. This definition is considered to include abiotic or non-biotic resources located on the Moon, planets and other celestial bodies. There was no legal definition for ‘space resource’ prior to 2015, but that does not mean space...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
...ahead to LISA. Gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of space-time produced by accelerations of massive celestial bodies such as orbiting pairs of black holes, compact binaries or other astrophysical objects. Albert Einstein postulated the...
