Before an ESA mission reaches the launch pad, it has to go through a number of approval procedures that ensure the mission’s readiness. The future space-based gravitational wave observatory, the Laser ...

Centauri Dreams reports on what may be a big step towards one of the greatest astronomical instrument breakthroughs since the invention of the telescope. This could be a genuine advance in ...

A lot of what I write is about measurement, not because I’m in love with calipers, but because the cutting edge of physics is at the limit of what we can measure. That means that when you want to ...