December 2014
Finding NEO
... from Cerro Pachon in northern Chile. The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter; taking an inventory of the solar system; exploring the transient optical sky; and mapping the Milky...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... proportion of a mission. And, concerning science, the fact that 95 per cent of the universe is ‘hiding’ behind dark energy and dark matter gives plenty of room for hope and expectation. And, from industry, I hope to see more responsible...
April 2024
Rotation in the Universe
..., be flying off into space… which clearly they aren’t. This discrepancy is one of the principal arguments in favour of ‘dark matter’, which is assumed to occupy a ‘halo’ around spiral galaxies, exerting a gravitational influence which keeps the stars...
28 September 2016
Yorkshire mines to help shed light on life on Mars
...projects at the mine have ranged from the search for Dark Matter in the Universe, to studies of cosmic rays and ...we call these halophiles. By investigating the difference between the dark outer edges of these polygons compared with the lighter inside...
29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
... past century”. “The cosmos”, it continues, “is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter”. The ‘tour’ comprises seven chapters covering astronomy and astrophysics from the “early...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... of the habitable exoplanet Gamma2042. An exploratory journey is not yet on the agenda, even though the scientific grail of dark matter has finally been found and the existence of space-time gaps identified with certainty by astrophysicists. It will...
