(MENAFN- The Conversation) The UK government is reportedly considering a £16 billion proposal to build a solar power station in space. Yes, you read that right. Space-based solar power is one of … [+5876 chars]
File this one under the "bold predictions" section. A new theory says there might be a bizarro universe out there, or an "anti-universe", that has been running backward in time since before the Big … [+3046 chars]
This NASA handout shows NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard atop a mobile launcher in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building before rolling out to Launch Com… [+3684 chars]
Two enormous bubbles extending far above and below the center of the Milky Way galaxy are probably the result of a powerful jet of activity from a supermassive black hole, according to a new study. … [+5806 chars]
NASA communicates with space missions like its Mars rovers or even the distant Voyager spacecraft using a system called the Deep Space Network (DSN). This consists of giant dishes in three locations … [+1230 chars]
On December 25th last the James Webb Space Telescope JWST for short was finally propelled into the heavens on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. The telescope is the successor to Hubble, which h… [+6518 chars]
Graphene, an atomic-thick sheet of carbon has found immense applications in gas sensors due to its single-molecule sensitivity, low-noise levels, and high carrier density. However, graphene's much-he… [+3538 chars]
A team of researchers at the University of Liverpool has tested the assumption that hafted tools (those with handles) provided early humans with enough benefit to warrant their construction and use. … [+2716 chars]
A team of researchers led by the University of Copenhagen recently looked at volcanic eruptions on Earth for the last 60,000 years. To estimate the number and intensity of these eruptions, the scient… [+2260 chars]
NASA communicates with space missions like its Mars rovers or even the distant Voyager spacecraft using a system called the Deep Space Network (DSN). This consists of giant dishes in three locations … [+1230 chars]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — The first mission in NASA's Artemis moon program is set to roll out to the launch pad today (March 17). More than 50 years after NASA landed the first humans on the moon w… [+4053 chars]
Eugene Parker, a pioneering American astrophysicist whose mathematical prediction that charged particles streamed from stars in a solar wind was met with disbelief before he was ultimately vindicated… [+3165 chars]