18 September 2019
Researchers calculate feasibility of sending a probe to C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
... with some caveats attached. Using a specialist simulation programme, called Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software (OITS), three researchers from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies, based in the UK, have assessed the technical feasibility...
19 September 2023
A Research
... you’d expect from a book on space policy. The overall aim of the text is to “set out a forward-looking research agenda for the 2020s, identifying key problems and conflicts related to the topic and exploring policy...
June 2016
A new microgravity research facility for Central Texas and beyond
...). The BRIC facility, which in its former days used to be a tire factory, was recently transformed into a modern research building by Baylor University and stakeholders like local communities and academia as well as private foundations. The idea...
11 July 2016
Short gamma-ray burst is from a binary neutron star coalescing into a black hole say researchers
...gravitational wave event. Now, an international team of researchers have submitted a research paper that states that this idea is in fact...is commonly thought at present. For more information on this research, see: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.02400.pdf *...
16 August 2016
Have researchers uncovered a fifth fundamental force?
... and dark matter. "If true, it's revolutionary," said Jonathan Feng, professor of physics & astronomy and lead author of the research paper that worked on the re-analysis of the original Hungarian experiment. This new force has come to light...
24 February 2017
Researchers find a new type of X-ray transient
...number of emerging classes of exotic X-ray transients whose nature and driving mechanisms remain unclear or unknown. Now, researchers have potentially found another new type of transient using an image taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory satellite...
