The European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer) has just imaged the Earth’s gravity in HD

Issue 8 is another splendid feast for the mind, so read on to discover the highlights of this month’s edition of your favourite science and technology magazine

Three spacecraft orbiting the Sun and 3 million miles apart are to fire lazer beams at each other across the emptiness of space in order to finally prove whether Einstein’s theory of general relativity is true or not

Europe’s first mission dedicated to studying the Earth’s ice was launched today from Kazakhstan

UK researchers based in Surrey have designed an ingenius new device to clear the multitude of space junk orbiting around Earth

In preparation for the Mars500 project which begins in May, four candidates who wish to accompany the mission at a later date (only two can go), have volunteered to be locked away in steel containers for 18 months in order to test their mental resilience for extended spaceflight

Phobos, Mars’ small rocky moon, has been imaged closer than ever before by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft