17 February 2017
Researchers suggest a new natural law can explain the rotation of galaxies
... of the galaxy were seen as orbiting just as fast as those nearer the centre – a notion that appears to violate Newton's laws, which predicts that these outer stars should be flung away from their galaxies. To overcome this...
15 March 2018
A shining light in physics is lost
... system for communication, Professor Hawking held the post of Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, the chair held by Isaac Newton in 1663, holds over a dozen honorary degrees and was awarded the CBE in 1982. But Hawking will...
08 February 2021
UAE Hope probe poised to enter Mars' orbit tomorrow
... Hope probe’s six Delta-V thrusters in a 27-minute deceleration ‘burn.’ Hope’s six thrusters will deliver some 650 Newtons of thrust during the burn, which is intended to rapidly slow the speed of the spacecraft from 121,000...
27 October 2021
Astronomers may have detected the first planet outside of the Milky Way
... works." Moving forward, the team say they will search the archives of both Chandra and XMM-Newton for more exoplanet candidates in other galaxies. Another interesting line of research is to search for X-ray transits from...
06 December 2021
Astronomers find a galaxy with no dark matter
... an alternative theory to dark matter, known as MOND (MOdified Newtonian Dynamics, a hypothesis that proposes a modification of Newton's law of universal gravitation to account for observed properties of galaxies) doesn’t fit the data either. There...
14 April 2023
Europe’s JUICE begins its long journey to Jupiter
... space science mission to launch on an Ariane 5, the culmination of a legacy dating back to 1999 with the launch of XMM-Newton, which is still in operation today, and most recently, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope...
