November 2025
Unlocking the secrets of Europa
... carried out even with limited contact with mission control. To optimise its trajectory, Europa Clipper performed a gravity assist manoeuvre by flying just 550 miles above Mars on 1 March 2025. The flyby not only adjusted...
March 2026
Humanity – the potential of space
...microgravity can be higher quality than those made in normal gravity, and the ISS provides a potential platform for commercial ...asteroids, and boundless solar energy. Even the lack of gravity and the vacuum of space are useful resources, enabling new...
18 January 2016
Does a second black hole lurk near the centre of the Milky Way?
..., such as a supernova explosion, was ruled out. Further analysis of CO-0.40-0.22 using simulations of gas clouds attracted by a strong gravity source found that the gas would increase in velocity, reaching a maximum speed at the closest point to the...
15 March 2016
Are our ideas of Dark Matter wrong?
... not behaving as expected. When Newton's Law of Gravity were applied to explain the rapid motion of the stars... should look for a heavier dark particle that interacts only by gravity and thus would be impossible to detect directly,” says Sloth. ...
