For the first time, spacecraft catch a solar shockwave in the act
On Oct. 8, 2013, an explosion on the sun's surface sent a supersonic blast wave of solar wind out into space. This shockwave tore past Mercury and Venus, blitzing by the moon before streaming toward ... more
|  |
Stars akin to the sun also explode when they die
The birth of planetary nebulae, resulting from the death of low and intermediate mass stars, is usually thought of as a slow process, in contrast with the intense supernovae that massive stars produ ... more
| |
NASA ISRO radar satellite beams first Earth images from space
Morocco High Atlas whistle language strives for survival
China warns Papua New Guinea over Australian defence deal
| |
Forget the Higgs Boson, Massively Upgraded LHC to Search for 'Squark'
The Earth's most powerful particle accelerator is returning to action next month after a two-year break. Scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider [LHC] are optimistic of a new breakthrough ... more
|
NASA photographs fireball streaking across Pennsylvania skies
NASA cameras, along with several hundred amateur astronomers, caught a glimpse of an impressive fireball as it streaked across the Mid-Atlantic late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning. Sightings were reported in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. ... more
| |
Two Years On, Source of Russian Chelyabinsk Meteor Remains Elusive
Two years after a 20-meter rock slammed into the Earth after a meteoroid dramatically fragmented in the atmosphere over the Chelyabinsk region in Russia and injured hundreds of people, its parent as ... more
|
|
Laser 'ruler' holds promise for hunting exoplanets
The hunt for Earth-like planets around distant stars could soon become a lot easier thanks to a technique developed by researchers in Germany.
In a paper published 18 February in the Institute ... more
| |
Building trustworthy big data algorithms
Much of our reams of data sit in large databases of unstructured text. Finding insights among emails, text documents, and websites is extremely difficult unless we can search, characterize, and clas ... more
|
JUNO begins decade-long mission to probe neutrino mysteries
SFL Missions to Deliver Spacecraft Buses for HawkEye 360 RF Signal Detection Expansion
Voyager debuts first space based multi cloud region to advance orbital data processing
