SpaceX completed a record triple-header early Sunday, launching a Globalstar communications satellite from Cape Canaveral after putting a German radar satellite in orbit from California Saturday and … [+2802 chars]
A Native American tribe in what's now California has named a unique asteroid at the request of scientists who discovered it. Two years ago, astronomers operating the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) … [+2617 chars]
Dust was long considered the bane of astronomers, blocking off light and hiding away objects they wanted to observe. But with the advent of infrared astronomy, researchers found that dust is not a du… [+2684 chars]
NASA is set to launch a probe the size of a tennis court to the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter this year; where the remnants of the early solar system circle the sun. After the … [+3202 chars]
A new study has revealed that Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier is retreating at the fastest rate of the last 5,500 years. The Thwaites Glacier has been given the nickname Doomsday as it has the potent… [+2367 chars]
Researchers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered two rocky exoplanets in a system in our cosmic backyard, located just 33 light-years from Earth. These are some o… [+2824 chars]
A study on the atom laser titled "Continuous Bose-Einstein condensation" has been published in the journal Nature. Conventional lasers produce a coherent wave of light, meaning all of the light vibr… [+1326 chars]
Yet, combining multiple data sets for this purpose remains a major challenge. Despite those difficulties, Afonso managed to formally combine multiple satellite data sets with land-based data sets to… [+1274 chars]
A celestial workhorse and its dedicated team of astronomers are at it again by delivering a hypnotic new image of a globular cluster and its infinite depth of stars. But while a new image from the H… [+2317 chars]
Table of Contents <ol><li>Altitude and the Human Body</li><li>Altitude Sickness</li><li>Mimicking Altitude at Sea Level</li><li>Hacking Altitude with Heat</li><li>Slowing Down to Speed Up</li><li>Pr… [+16609 chars]
Cataclysm: Artists illustration of two merging neutron stars. (Courtesy: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet) Physicists have created a framework for better understanding the super-dense ma… [+5127 chars]
