A space oddity

  • 25/12/1997

  • Economist (London)

Out in the reaches of the solar system, beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto, something strange is going on. Two space probes, now speeding away into the interstellar void, are not behaving as they should. They appear to be experiencing an unexplained extra tug from the sun-raising the possibility that there is something amiss with the laws of gravity.