November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... material as a resource. The potential dangers imposed by the growing population of space debris has been well-covered in ROOM Space Journal. Currently, there are around 36,000 objects larger than 10 cm in low Earth orbit and millions...
28 May 2016
Editor-in-chief speaks at international space lawyers’ conference
... international law, and international humanitarian law with respect to conflict avoidance in outer space. The current edition of ‘ROOM - The Space Journal’ is themed with a number of space law-related articles, looking at future challenges, space...
17 December 2021
New study shows that 99.9% of the mass at the centre of our galaxy is due to black hole
... in the centre of the Milky Way is almost entirely due to the Sgr A* black hole, leaving very little room for anything else. “We are very grateful to Gemini Observatory, whose GNIRS instrument gave us the critical information...
01 April 2016
32nd Space Symposium to Be Held at Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 11-1
...; and senior industry executives, as well as a host of national and state officials, astronauts, private space travelers, etc. ROOM: The Space Journal is proud to be a 32nd Space Symposium's Media Partner. For more information about the Space...
16 October 2020
When Simpson met Simpson
...’t end there. Soon after proposing his article for ROOM it became apparent they both lived in the same ...it was great to take the opportunity to actually meet someone connected to ROOM in person at a local coffee shop,” said Clive. “Life is always...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... these types of microbes are found in so-called ‘clean rooms’, super clean facilities in space-related laboratories, where probes...prior to being launched into space. It is in these rooms that the greatest planetary protection efforts are put in place ...
