Scientists from Queen’s University Belfast have led an international team in the discovery of a rare new planet, which is larger than Jupiter and orbits a distant star every 180 days. Named NGTS-38 b, it is an exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star beyond our...
In a new study, published in the Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Warwick researchers led an international effort to uncover some of the faintest debris in geosynchronous orbit ever observed, finding fragments as small as 5 centimeters (2 inches) and obtaining...
Plasma pinches: From pursuits of nuclear fusion to an attractive point source of accelerated protons for proton radiography. Go to Source
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars. Go to Source
Astronomers spend much of their time mapping the universe, but until now their results have been collected and archived in so many different ways that the data can’t talk to each other. Go to Source
Researchers are closer to unraveling a longstanding solar mystery surrounding the extreme thinness of the sun’s tachocline layer of strong shearing motion—a region believed to be critical for creating the violent eruptions of high-energy particles and radiation...
The St. Peter Police officer was at the front of a line of officers climbing a set of stairs when a shotgun-wielding suspect fired at them, striking the officer in the arm and vest Go to Source
Building material samples from the University of Delaware spent six months mounted outside the International Space Station, where the harsh conditions of low Earth orbit tested their limits. Go to Source
A former Barrackville sergeant says he and the department’s remaining officer were placed on inactive status after reporting that the evidence room had been broken into Go to Source
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 hole tears apart a star, revealing what appears to be the off-axis...
The explosive growth of data generated by artificial intelligence, cloud computing and modern digital infrastructure is placing increasing pressure on existing information storage technologies. Although magnetic storage systems such as hard disk drives remain the...
In 2024, a U.S. government official warned that Russia could be developing a new satellite designed to carry nuclear weapons into space. The statement followed the launch of a suspicious Russian satellite into low-Earth orbit in 2022, just a few weeks before the...
Quantum computers, devices that store and process information leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics, have been found to be promising for tackling some problems that cannot be solved by classical computers. Quantum computers store data in the form of qubits...
The teen suspects are accused of shooting water bead guns and drinking while riding in the autonomous vehicle; the Waymo contacted San Mateo Police and waited in a parking lot until they arrived Go to Source
When two black holes orbit each other, they eventually spiral inward and collide in one of the most violent phenomena in the universe. The event is so energetic that it significantly distorts the universe around it. It emits gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric...
