The count of confirmed exoplanets just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes. Not so long ago, we lived in a…
UC Santa Cruz astronomer Garth Illingworth, former Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, has had a hell of a career. He's dedicated decades to the pursuit of finding…
This experimental setup shows an ultra-low-power wireless communications device that could one day be used in tiny remote sensors. Credit: Zerina Kapetanovic, CC BY-ND A new ultra-low-power method of communication…
Tractor beams have long been a staple of sci-fi, but you might not know that they’ve also existed in the real world for some time, albeit at a very small…
Image source, NASA/ESA/CSA/STScIImage caption,It would take years to traverse the pillars even moving at the speed of light Why satisfy yourself with one course when you can have a double…
Ceres, the biggest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has huge reserves of sea water under its surface, according to multiple new peer-reviewed studies published in the…
We have an unquenchable energy need. When we need to run anything that cannot be plugged in, electricity will have to come from a battery, and the quest for a…
Ytterbium atoms have been used to make a very cold magnetCarlos Clarivan/Science Photo Library A new kind of quantum magnet is made up of atoms only a billionth of a…
La NASA otorgó recientemente a Ad Astra Rocket Company en Texas $ 10 millones para ayudar a desarrollar su cohete de magnetoplasma de impulso específico variable (VASIMR), un propulsor electromagnético…
Cuando se trata del espacio, hay un problema con nuestro deseo humano de ver y experimentar todo. Un problema significativo. El problema, después de todo, es el espacio. Es demasiado…
Nuestro universo es tan vasto que parece imposible que exista algo más. Los expertos comienzan a sospechar que nuestro universo podría existir dentro de un agujero negro de cuarta dimensión.…
Andrómeda está en curso de colisión con nuestra galaxia. Ahora comienza la mejor época del año para captarlo a simple vista. Nuestra galaxia, la Vía Láctea, y su vecina del…
Hay una reserva de agua del tamaño de 140 billones de océanos que acecha en un agujero negro supermasivo lejano, el depósito de agua más grande del universo y 4.000…
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