Hubble spots the farthest star ever seen
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has broken another record. The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the most distant star ever seen, according to a study...
OneWeb to fly on competitor SpaceX’s rockets
The London-based satellite company OneWeb will resume launches of its spacecraft using rockets operated by its American competitor, SpaceX Both firms are building constellations in the sky to...
Science shines a light on anti-matter
Physicists on Monday announced an important step towards unravelling one of the Universe’s great mysteries: What happened to all the anti-matter created in the Big Bang? A new technique has allowed...
Scientists Prepare to Challenge Einstein Theory’s Key Tenet
A joint team of scientists from the UK and Canada have developed a theory they claim will challenge a cornerstone of physics: the speed of light. A key principle in modern physics is that light and...
Making Human Settlement of Space a Reality
Today, President Obama outlined a vision to CNN for the future of space exploration. Echoing what he said in the 2015 State of the Union address, the President wrote, “We have set a clear goal...
Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded for ‘design and synthesis of molecular machines’
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 has been awarded to French, British and Dutch-born scientists “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines,” the Royal Swedish Academy of...Russian, Japanese physicists create compact graphene-based plasmon generator
Researchers from Laboratory of 2D Materials’ Optoelectronics, Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technologies (MIPT), and Tohoku University (Japan) have...
Antarctica Provides ICE to Study Behavior Effects in Astronauts
A trip to the Red Planet begins long in advance of liftoff. NASA’s journey to Mars includes preparing astronauts to cope with several months of isolation, confinement, and in an extreme environment...
