If you were to list the imperfections of the standard model –
physicists’ remarkably successful description of matter and its
interactions – pretty high up would have to be its prediction that we don’t exist.
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Following a 2.8 billion kilometer inter-planetary journey lasting almost five years, NASA's Juno spacecraft has successfully entered orbit around Jupiter on a bold mission to unlock the secrets of our solar system and its...
Modern physics deals with some truly mind-boggling extremes of scale. Cosmology reveals the Earth as a tiny dot amid an observable universe that is a staggering 93bn light years across. Meanwhile, today’s particle colliders...
A massive survey of the cosmos is revealing new details of one of the most mysterious facets of the universe, dark energy. Intriguingly, when combined with other observations, the data hint that dark energy,...
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...
NASA's Europa Clipper Arrives in Florida for Launch Preparation
by Clarence Oxford
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 01, 2024
Crews rotated to vertical then lifted NASA's Europa...
NASA has selected 9 companies to conduct early-stage studies of concepts for commercial services to support lower-cost, higher-frequency missions to the Red Planet. (This...
Astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko have returned to Earth after spending almost one year living and working in low-Earth orbit aboard the...