March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
At 3:37 am on February 28, 2014, the H-IIA launch vehicle blasted off in a huge fireball. All the launch spectators, including NASA engineers, scientists and local residents, cheered as the engines ignited. The bright white flare slowly rose in the ...
26 July 2016
Will PIPER be successful in confirming Inflation Theory?
... of two enormous black holes. Now however, it is the turn of another instrument, PIPER, the Primordial Inflation Polarization ExploreR, to search the skies for the signature of primordial gravity waves, but this time, by those produced in the...
29 November 2017
Deepest spectroscopic survey completed of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
... the years of research already conducted into the HUDF, with the help of MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers have produced a groundbreaking dataset that has already resulted in 10 science...
22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
... when it comes to gravity, the theory still stands the test of time. Using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile – a device that looks like a machine straight out of the...
12 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx discovers ingredients for water on Bennu
Having arrived at its destination less than 10 days ago, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has already found the ingredients for water on Bennu – an indication that the much larger asteroid it broke apart from eons ago had liquid water present on it at ...
04 February 2019
The Moon is a mini-Earth suggests new research
... impactor that struck it. However new research from planetary scientist Kevin Righter of the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division (ARES) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, questions that assumption. Using a “bulk...
