Ideas for future NASA missions searching for extraterrestrial civilizations
Credit: Rafael Luis Méndez Peña/Sciworthy.com A researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is the lead author of ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
Porous, ultralow-temperature supercapacitors could power Mars, polar missions
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04780 NASA's Perseverance Rover recently made a successful landing on Mars, embarking on ...
Class assignment leads to published research
Credit: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Armando Collazo Garcia III got more than he expected from a graduate course he took ...
Gigantic jet spied from black hole in early universe
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/JPL/T. Connor; Optical: Gemini/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Infrared: W.M. Keck Observatory; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss Astronomers have discovered evidence for an extraordinarily long ...
Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel
Astrophysicist at Göttingen University discovers new theoretical hyper-fast soliton solutionsCredit: E Lentz If travel to distant stars within an individual's ...
Engineers propose solar-powered lunar ark as ‘modern global insurance policy’
The ambitious project proposed by a University of Arizona team aims to preserve humankind - and animal-kind, plant-kind and fungi-kind ...
The aurora’s very high altitude booster
Credit: ERG science center A critical ingredient for auroras exists much higher in space than previously thought, according to new ...
How fast is the universe expanding? Galaxies provide one answer.
New measure of Hubble constant highlights discrepancy between estimates of our cosmic fateCredit: Photo courtesy of the Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey ...
What is life? And will we find it on other planets? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, March 8, 2021 -- Chemistry is helping us figure out how life got started ...
Most distant quasar with powerful radio jets discovered
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser With the help of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered and ...
Christopher Tunnell wins NSF CAREER Award
Grant will support combined physics and computer science effort to find dark matterCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 5, ...
Sixth mirror casting brings Giant Magellan Telescope closer to completion
In a marvel of modern engineering that takes four years of effort, the 8.4-meter mirror is the second-to-last being made ...
Earth has a hot new neighbour — and it’s an astronomer’s dream
A rocky planet discovered in the Virgo constellation could change how we look for life in the universeCredit: RenderArea, https://renderarea.com ...
A super-Earth is discovered which can be used to test planetary atmosphere models
Credit: RenderArea During the past 25 years astronomers have discovered a wide variety of exoplanets, made of rock, ice and ...
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