Lewis Pinault is a partner at Airbus Ventures , where he invests and serves as board director for space technology related startups across the globe. A NASA-trained meteoriticist, he is also a resea… [+14111 chars]
Computational detective work by U.S. and German physicists has confirmed that cerium zirconium pyrochlore is a 3D quantum spin liquid. Despite the name, quantum spin liquids are solid materials in w… [+8595 chars]
All four science instruments on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have achieved "perfect alignment" in advance of the telescope's official debut this summer, project officials said in a news teleconf… [+3081 chars]
A Hubble image taken on Dec. 5, 2005 of the Main Belt asteroid 2001 SE101 passing in front of the Crab Nebula. (Image credit: © NASA/ESA HST, Image processing: Melina Thévenot) Astronomers have re… [+4618 chars]
Update: Next Spaceflight reports that SpaceX has delayed Starlink 4-15 to 4:38 pm EDT, May 14th, ending the immediate possibility of a new SpaceX record for time between launches. After a few days o… [+4934 chars]
To owls, the distress call of the greater mouse-eared bat sounds similar to hornets buzzing.Credit: F. Deschandol and P. Sabine/Biosphoto/Minden Pictures Some bats can imitate the sound of buzzing h… [+3200 chars]
Every time you take a step, space itself glows with a soft warmth. Called the FullingDaviesUnruh effect (or sometimes just Unruh effect if you're pushed for time), this eerie glow of radiation emerg… [+3652 chars]
WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - Residing at the center of our spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy is a beast - a supermassive black hole possessing 4 million times the mass of our sun and consuming any mat… [+3981 chars]
The Antarctic ice is finding its secrets harder and harder to keep. Deep below the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the largest ice sheet in the world, scientists have confirmed the existence of… [+3789 chars]
ByMara Johnson-Groh, NASAs Goddard Space Flight CenterMay 10, 2022 The GOES-17 satellite captured images of an umbrella cloud generated by the underwater eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai vol… [+6145 chars]
Four-and-a-half months after the James Webb Space Telescope's Christmas Day launch, engineers have achieved near-perfect alignment of its complex optical system, setting the stage for final instrumen… [+5819 chars]
Searching for Dyson spheres, rings or swarms remains a preoccupation of many astronomers. If there are any out there, they will eventually be found, and the person or research team to do so will go d… [+4933 chars]
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