February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... it was unanimously approved by the Council of Ministers, ushering in what it is hoped will be a new era for exploration and discovery. ESA Director General, Josef Aschbacher provides context for this bold initiative which will be confirmed at the...
01 June 2018
Largest discovery of trans-Neptunian objects released
... tracking efficiency for trans-Neptunian orbits,” state the OSSOS team on their recent research paper. The discovery of such a large set of TNOs therefore not only bumps up the number of known objects significantly, but it also...
13 July 2018
Neutrino discovery helps resolve a century-old riddle
... in superb research facilities." Just as the recent detection of gravitational waves ushered in a new branch of astronomical research, this discovery could pave the same path for neutrino astronomy, and telescopes all around the world would...
29 October 2018
A rare discovery helps scientists measure a key process in star formation
Astronomers have for the first time observed the birth of a dark molecular cloud, a giant gaseous interstellar region that will eventually one day become the breeding ground for a new generation of stars. Stars are predominantly made up of the most ...
08 June 2020
New discovery provides important clues on mysterious cosmic bursts
... University, who was one half of the duo that originally found FRBs back in 2007. “This exciting discovery highlights how little we know about the origin of FRBs," says Lorimer. Along with PhD student Devansh...
16 January 2022
NASA Space Shuttle Discovery STS-31
Regular readers of ROOM may remember my article on “Lego’s replica space programme” [issue #24, 2020], in which I suggested “that icon of human space travel, the Space Shuttle”, as the next space-related Lego model. Little did I know it was already ...
