Up until fairly recently in human history, people believed that a solid dome, studded with the Sun, Moon, and stars, lay above Earth. The ancients called this dome the firmament. Above it, the ancient Jews taught, lay the vault of heaven. Our human instinct—something in our DNA, perhaps—compels us to rise beyond...
Through analysis of high-resolution data from a ten-metre telescope in Hawaii, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in generating new knowledge about three stars at the very heart of the Milky Way....
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The Boeing CST-100 Starliner represents a significant shift in the approach to spacecraft recovery upon returning from orbit. Unlike many previous crewed spacecraft that relied on ocean splashdowns, the Starliner is designed to...
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
Power modules driven by ocean temperatures save money, reduce pollution
No one has mapped more territory than NASA. The agency not only charts stars...
While everyone was paying attention to Deadpool & Wolverine potentially saving the Marvel Cinematic Universe at its lowest and the second Joker movie that...
The Standard Model of particle physics does a good job of explaining the interactions between matter’s basic building blocks. But it’s not perfect. It...
Artist's impression of a gas cloud from tidal disruption. Credit: University of Sydney Astronomers have for the first time used distant galaxies as
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Researchers have found that maternal obesity causes long-term changes in the brain via the microRNA miR-505-5p, leading offspring to prefer high-fat diets and increasing...
Japan plans to launch the world's first wooden satellite this September. The experimental satellite, called LignoSat, was developed by researchers at Kyoto University and the...