Five years ago, humanity still had to find gravitational waves. Now, the observations are moving at an astonishing pace. Over a six-month period last year, the LIGO-Virgin collaboration detected an average of 1.5 gravitational wave events per week. From 1 April to 1 October 2019, upgraded LIGOs and virgin interferometers …
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Two years after he left Earth, Mercury probe Bepi Colombo has completed the first of its first flyby of Venus. The maneuver spacecraft is designed to speed up its journey – but it’s also a great opportunity to pass a little science. As it rotates on a curved path around …
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It would be very optimistic to suggest that we have a good handle on dark matter. But even the slightest understanding we have can lead to the loss of something important. New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have found much higher concentrations of dark matter in the order of …
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