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...
January 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
...results processing. These projects are highly important from a practical standpoint. However, their primary goal is to catalogue celestial bodies and they are not able to accurately predict the after-effects of a dangerous space object colliding with...
February 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
...may not. [9] Moreover, Article VI, discussed in more depth below, makes clear that individuals cannot make claims to celestial bodies, because nations must both ‘authorize’ and ‘supervise’ the activities of its nationals to ensure compliance with the...
