Astronomers are planning to hunt for cores of exoplanets around white dwarf stars by “tuning in” to the radio waves that they emit. In new research led by the University of Warwick, scientists have determined the best candidate white dwarfs to start their search, based on their likelihood of hosting surviving planetary cores and the ...
Astronomers have found the ghostly remains of one of the Universe’s first stars inside a rare, ancient star far, far away on the other side of our galaxy. ANU astronomer Dr. Thomas Nordlander said the parent of the star they discovered 35,000 light-years away in the Milky Way was about 10 times the mass of ...
Space is increasingly becoming the new battleground and China is planning to dominate it. The People’s Liberation Army recently released a whitepaper report that outlines its space war plans. Preparing for space war The whitepaper identified the United States as the enemy, arguing that China has to strengthen its defenses against American aggression. It accuses ...
Vast rings of electrically charged particles encircle the Earth and other planets. Now, a team of scientists has completed research into waves that travel through this magnetic field, an electrically charged environment, known as the magnetosphere, deepening our understanding of the region and its interaction with our own planet, and opening up new ways to ...
Moons ejected from orbits around gas giant exoplanets could explain several astronomical mysteries, an international team of astronomers suggests. Researchers led by Mario Sucerquia, from the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, and Jaime Alvarado-Montes from Australia’s Macquarie University, modeled the likely behavior of giant exomoons predicted to form around massive planets — and discovered that they ...
British Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has announced that it will merge with Social Capital Hedosophia (SCH), a public investment firm, sometime later this year. The merger will create a new company called Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc., which could end up becoming the first publicly traded commercial space travel company in the world. First to ...
Fifty years after the Apollo 11 Moonwalk, a vexillologist looks at the challenge of planting the flag on the Moon. When Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted the United States flag on the Moon 50 years ago this month — July 20, 1969, to be exact — it was a team effort. ...
To keep our society running, we need fuel. But the fossil fuels that we are dependent on not only pollute the atmosphere, but they are also rapidly declining. Helium-3, a non-radioactive isotope of helium, offers a non-polluting energy source. Even though it is only available in rare quantities on Earth, it is plentiful on the ...
A determined bunch of scientists set out to map the Moon in preparation for the Apollo landings, but that was only the beginning. A new field of science blossomed, and UA scientists have been involved in nearly every U.S. space mission since expanding out to the Solar System. Here’s a fun thought: Imagine if University ...
Artificial gravity has long been the stuff of science fiction. Picture the wheel-shaped ships from films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Martian, imaginary craft that generate their gravity by spinning around in space. Now, a team from CU Boulder is working to make those out-there technologies a reality. The researchers, led by aerospace ...
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