Cooling Atoms to Almost Absolute Zero
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station cools atoms down to a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, or the temperature at which atoms
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First Maps of Electric Currents around Mars that are Fundamental to Atmospheric Loss
Five years after NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems,
Dinosaur-dooming Asteroid crashed at ‘the deadliest possible angle’
Asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs 66million years ago struck Earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle of 60 degrees.
There could be another Universe beside ours
Earth’s oceans are only 5% explored, outer space is supremely larger — and we haven’t explored even a hundredth of a percent of it.
GPS celebrates 25th anniversary
The Global Positioning System, the GPS, marks its 25th year of operation Apr. 27, 2020.
Space Station as it passes across the face of the Sun
An astrophotographer captured the International Space Station from Earth, as it passes across the face of the Sun.
This Exoplanet is so Hot that it Rains Iron
ESO Telescope observes an exoplanet where temperatures climb above 2400 degrees Celsius and could rain iron.
A Typical Neutron Star is only 22 Kilometers Wide
New ultra-precise measurement shows that a Neutron star, witch is about 1.4 times as heavy as our Sun, has a radius of about 11 kilometers.
NO2 amounts have dropped with the Coronavirus Quarantine
NO2 amounts have dropped in China with the coronavirus quarantine, Chinese New Year, and a related economic slowdown.
NASA is working on a Nuclear Moon Rocket
DARPA is developing a nuclear thermal rocket to transfer satellites from low Earth orbit to the area between the Earth and the Moon.