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 ...
October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
... and obelisks on the planet Abydos, from Stargate. Myth of Atlantis and ancient astronauts The notion of the discovery of remains of extraterrestrial civilisations on other planets has inspired the plots of many science fiction films since the...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
...which the project is based. Observation experience and the discovery of potentially dangerous asteroids on MASTER II telescopes shows... and product launch, it is anticipated the first discoveries made with MASTER III will follow shortly afterwards and...
24 July 2020
A first of its kind white dwarf merger with a dense compact object discovered by students
... the cataclysmic event took place. Back in 2016, the discovery of gravitational waves produced by the merger of two black ... another new development in the world of gravitational wave discoveries, when a pair were caught colliding 130 million light...
09 October 2019
This year's Physics Nobel Prize winners
... James Peebles, Princeton University, USA “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and the other half jointly to...October 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the first discovery of a planet outside our solar system, an exoplanet, ...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... and pushing the frontiers of scientific exploration and discovery - roles which will only increase in importance ...30 years. Goals Outer space is transitioning from primarily a discovery and exploration phase to a security and commerce phase It is...
