Wired: NASA is usually pretty careful with its space probes. But this time, with DART, it’s different. A team of scientists have now deliberately plowed a craft into a tumbling space rock at high speed. Mission accomplished. It’s just a…
Physics World: The equality of inertial and gravitational mass central to Einstein’s general theory of relativity has been confirmed at unprecedented sensitivities by the MICROSCOPE satellite. Having gathered several thousand…
Scientific American: Deep in the heart of the Milky Way, strange things happen. This is a place where stars slingshot around apparently empty space at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light. Scientists have long thought that only a supermassive…
VICE: China has discovered a crystal from the Moon made of a previously unknown mineral, while also confirming that the lunar surface contains a key ingredient for nuclear fusion,…
Physics World: Researchers in France have created a new experiment that could improve our understanding of the dynamics of stellar and black hole accretion discs. Designed by Marlone Vernet and colleagues at the Sorbonne University of Paris, the experiment uses a…
