September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... dawn for those looking at the legal framework governing human space activity. About the author Christopher Newman is Professor of Space Law & Policy at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He has been active in the teaching and...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... time Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 275 (1636): 759-765. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1370. 13 Grazier, K.R., W.I. Newman, W.M. Kaula, and J.M. Hyman, 1999. Dynamical Evolution of Planetesimals in the Outer Solar System. I. The Jupiter/Saturn Zone...
11 July 2016
Short gamma-ray burst is from a binary neutron star coalescing into a black hole say researchers
... researchers a few years ago to describe a GRB originating in a gravitational collapse leading to the formation of a Kerr-Newman BH. The Kerr-Newman black hole identified by Enderli and team is linked to a gamma-ray burst first found by the Fermi/GBM...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
... Ram Jakhu (Acting Director of the Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University, Canada), Prof Chris Newman (lecturer in space law at the UK’s University of Northumberland), Helen Tung (Co-Chair of IAF Space Operations & Space Debris committee...
06 July 2015
From SETI to black crust on Churyumov-Gerasimenko: looking for alien life
... Earth’s contamination by space germs are already in place, though as some authors, including ROOM’s own Christopher J. Newman, point out – we may need entirely new ethical paradigms for addressing contamination in space and on earth . In spite...
29 September 2015
Mars contamination fears: excitement over RSLs also inspires caution
... we could be closer than ever to finding life on Mars. But that revelation has also inspired concern. As Christopher J. Newman wrote earlier this year, a new ethical framework for exploring space is very much needed today – to be enshrined...
