20222022 promises to be an equally busy year, with a number of private spaceflights planned, and new vehicles continuing their development:Blue Origin could fly six or more suborbital flight this year, with the first scheduled for late March.In April, three private astronauts will fly on the SpaceX Dragon to the International Space Station.The month...
A survey of over 1,500 supernovas conducted by the Dark Energy Camera has placed strong constraints on the accelerating expansion of the universe. The results suggest that the mysterious force that drives this cosmic acceleration,...
Even while government and the private sector were working together to build America’s greatest economic successes, the narrative increasingly turned against any public involvement in the economy. We celebrate the achievements of...
Using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have characterised a bright quasar, finding it to be not only the brightest of its kind, but also the most luminous object ever...
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...
Astrobiologists at Cornell University have devised a method to determine the ocean temperatures of distant celestial bodies like Enceladus and Europa by studying the...
Using radio telescopes observing distant stars, scientists have connected optical atomic clocks on different continents. The results were published in the scientific journal Nature...