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...
18 June 2021
The spin of the Milky Way's galactic bar has slowed by a quarter, say researchers
A 30 year suspicion that the spinning bar at the centre of our galaxy is slowing down has been confirmed by researchers at UK institutions. Whats more, according to their study it has slowed by about a quarter since its formation nearly 14 billion ...
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...
16 April 2021
Five double star systems potentially suitable for life identified by researchers
... almost futile then to search for planets suitable for life in these systems. Not so, say an international team of researchers who have developed a new mathematical framework to account for all of the dynamical variables circumbinary planets have...
08 December 2020
First ever COVID-19 drug research in space through ICE Cubes
...-to-end ICE Cubes service is developed and operated by Space Applications Services NV/SA (Belgium) to simplify access to space for research and technology, through a partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA). Since its start, the service...
