September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
..., India became a signatory to the international US-led initiative to work together with other countries on space exploration and research on 21 June 2023, bringing total sign-ups to-date to 27 nations. But why did India do this, what was...
26 November 2015
Russian research scientist and mathematician recognized for space weather research
... due to conditions such as solar storms. Dr. Podladchikova’s research aims to tackle these problems and provide answers to the ...state of the magnetosphere can be monitored in real time. Researchers believe the new method might also be used for weather...
22 February 2016
Researchers constrain a possible location for Planet 9 using Cassini data
...’s flybys of Saturn, Jupiter and the outer planets to track the positions and velocities of solar system bodies, researchers have constructed models to constrain a possible location of Planet Nine. The hunt for a Planet X started in 1915 and...
23 February 2016
Researchers probe black-hole mergers with fast-powered winds
... of sensitivity now being planned for the U.S.-based LIGO detectors and the Italian counterpart, Advanced Virgo, researchers are hoping to spot signs not just of binary mergers, but for a range of signals from unexplained bursts...
29 February 2016
Missing matter still lost, as Fast Radio Burst not quite what it seems say researchers
... amount of baryonic matter in the Universe, is that half of it appears to be missing (the so-called “missing baryons” problem). Some researchers are using cosmic microwave background (CMB) data obtained via WMAP to search for the missing matter...
07 March 2016
Researchers show how water content in protoplanetary discs can affect planet formation
...these studies can be complicated by the presence of clouds and hazes in the upper envelope in an exoplanets envelope. In the research presented by Bitsch and Johansen, the authors studied dust composition (its oxygen and silicon content) in different...
