What’s It Like to Travel Near the Speed of Light? Part 1: The Broken View
You can’t ride alongside a beam of light, and the reason why opens a door onto the strangest parts of relativity. A tour of rest frames, why a photon has…
Spiral Arms and Bars are Galactic Fuel Pumps for Star Formation
Astronomers thought that early galaxies were messy, clumpy, and turbulent from mergers. That means their gas was all stirred up. So what could explain the rapid star formation during the…
Startup working with University of Texas focuses on trapping small debris
NAPA, Calif. – Florida startup Satellite Orbital Access and Removal (SOAR) announced a partnership July 15 with the University of Texas, El Paso, (UTEP) to develop a passive system to…
Icarus Robotics taps KULR to provide batteries for Space Station robots
NAPA, Calif. – Icarus Robotics, the New York startup developing dexterous mobile robots for space missions, selected KULR Technology Group to provide batteries for Joy, a free-flying platform destined for…
After a Billion Kilometres, China’s Asteroid Hunter Finally Arrives
After chasing a small asteroid across a billion kilometres of space, China’s Tianwen-2 probe has finally caught up, closing to within twenty kilometres of its target and beginning detailed scientific…
A Relativistic Jet Could be an Indication of the ‘Missing-Link’ for Black Holes
Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF VLA) have detected an extraordinary burst of radio light from a rare cosmic event in which an intermediate-mass black…
The Oldest Stars in the Galaxy Just Weighed In on One of Cosmology’s Biggest Arguments
Astronomers have measured the ages of over a hundred and fifty thousand ancient stars scattered across our Galaxy, and found the oldest of them is just the age it should…
SpaceX launches flight-proven rocket for 600th time, sending Starlink satellites to orbit
SpaceX reached a milestone with its latest Starlink launch, sending the satellites into orbit on its 600th flight of a flight-proven booster. The sexacentennial launch came on the second of…
NASA Invites Media to Serbia Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony
Credit: NASA The Republic of Serbia will sign the Artemis Accords at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 16, during a ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt…
Scientists spot 4 superdense stellar corpses hiding behind their red dwarf companions
Astronomers have spotted four dead star white dwarf stars playing a game of cosmic hide-and-seek, all four of which were hiding in the glares of red dwarf companion stars. This…