[ad_1] Black hole, meeting neutron star. Neutron star, it's a black hole. Play well. Carl Knox / OzGrav Center of Excellence ARC Astronomers observing the cosmos looking for light ripples in space-time may have detected a black hole swallowing a neutron star for the very first time. Gravitational wave observatories in the United States and … Read more
[ad_1] Astronomers from MIT, Harvard University and elsewhere have been looking for signs of an atmosphere on a rocky exoplanet, the size of the Earth, without finding any. Atmospheres have already been detected on planets much larger than ours, including several hot Jupiter and sub-Neptunes, all mainly ice and gas. But this is the first … Read more
[ad_1] Students from the Brazilian capital are protesting the government's decision to cut funds for education and science earlier this year.Credit: Evaristo Sa / AFP / Getty Brazil's Leading Science Funding Agency to Suspend More Than 80,000 Scholarships to Postdoctoral Fellows, Postgraduate and Undergraduate Students, Starting in September, Unless the Government Provides Funding additional. The … Read more
[ad_1] Scientists discover worrying signs under CNN Greenland Glacier On the bottom of a glacier in Greenland, scientists are discovering troubling signs KoamNewsNow.com NASA's "OMG" program follows record Greenland Bloom Bloom TicToc NASA's "OMG" program tries to determine how quickly Greenland ice is melting CBS News At the foot of a Greenland glacier, climatologists discover … Read more
[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists have developed a large-scale economic method to extract hydrogen (H2) from tar sands (natural bitumen) and oil fields. This can be used to power hydrogen powered vehicles, which are already marketed in some countries, as well as to produce electricity; Hydrogen is considered an efficient transport fuel, similar to … Read more
[ad_1] At least two giant planets, 20 million years old at the most, revolve around the (hidden) star: β Pictoris c, the nearest, which has just been discovered, and β Pictoris b, farther away. The disk of dust and gas can be seen in the background. Credit: P Rubini / AM Lagrange According to a … Read more
[ad_1] NASA's Parker Solar probe was launched on August 12, 2018 as part of NASA's "Living with a Star" program, which aimed to probe and observe the Sun's outer ring. The spacecraft is the closest artificial object to the Sun and there is still about six years to complete the mission. Elon Musk, CEO of … Read more
[ad_1] SEATTLE (Reuters) – The first US spacecraft to land on the moon in the next 50 years will be an unmanned robotic lander built by Astrobotic Technology Inc and launched two years ago by United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket. announced Monday to Reuters. PHOTO: A United Alliance Alliance Atlas 5 rocket takes off from … Read more
[ad_1] Mr. Musk's message is a surprise to his fans considering his dreams of colonizing the red planet. The South African billionaire Elon Musk, who heads SpaceX, had previously revealed that he was planning to set up a government on Mars based on direct democracy. Always the joker, Musk then tweeted that he would soon … Read more
[ad_1] The 10-by-10 book: The Chronicles of Sydney Brenner's Evolution is a book commissioned by A * STAR and published by Wildtype Media Group, tracing the evolution of life across ten log scales of time . The study of evolution allows us to reconstruct the past and understand how life has evolved from simple organisms … Read more