After decades of inertial confinement fusion research, a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ) was achieved at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) for … [+5273 chars]
ByGeorgia Tech Research InstituteAugust 9, 2022 The telescopes at Maunakea sit calmly at an altitude of around 4200 meters (13,800 feet) beneath a sky filled with extraordinary light. Gemini Norths … [+9077 chars]
As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope turns its gaze on a selection of the more than 5,000 strange new worlds confirmed to exist in our galaxy, scientists will begin to trace out a fuller picture of t… [+5656 chars]
In the last couple of days, several asteroids dangerously whizzed past the Earth, which could have caused a major accident if one of them had hit the planet. And, NASA has alerted another asteroid 20… [+1639 chars]
The Giant Magellan Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever engineered, has secured a new $205M funding infusion that will be used to accelerate its construction. When finished, it will be four ti… [+3223 chars]
LOGAN, Utah Debris from a Russian antisatellite weapon demonstration that caused squalls of close approaches to satellites earlier this year is now affecting a new series of Starlink satellites. Dur… [+2291 chars]
In the dark of Sunday night and Monday morning (Aug. 7 and 8), a surprise solar storm slammed into Earth, showering our planet in a rapid stream of charged particles from the sun . The resulting c… [+2512 chars]
On Sunday, Earth's magnetic field was pelted by a solar wind stream reaching velocities of more than 600 kilometers (372 miles) per second. While that's nothing too alarming solar storms often pumme… [+3285 chars]
28 with 20 posters participating Sometimes science can be a messy endeavornot to mention "disgusting and smelly." That's how British researchers described their experiments monitoring dead sea bass … [+3453 chars]
Earth, a veteran planet known more for its craftiness than the quickness and explosiveness of its youth, put on a vintage performance earlier this summer, completing its fastest rotation on record. A… [+3816 chars]
Earth, a veteran planet known more for its craftiness than the quickness and explosiveness of its youth, put on a vintage performance earlier this summer, completing its fastest rotation on record. A… [+3816 chars]
One of the chief functions of the JWST is to find the earliest galaxies, expanding our exploration of the universe in both space and time. In the few weeks since the space telescopes first data relea… [+3780 chars]
