ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli starts third mission on Space Station
Science & Exploration ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli starts third mission on Space Station 29/07/2017 4514 views 62 likes ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik ...
Cassini detects hydrothermal processes on one of Saturn’s moons
In 2015, during the Cassini spacecraft’s deepest-ever dive into the plume of spray that emanates from cracks in the south polar region of the ice-covered Saturnian moon Enceladus, in...
Cassini concludes pioneering mission at Saturn
Science & Exploration Cassini concludes pioneering mission at Saturn 15/09/2017 25130 views 212 likes The international Cassini mission has concluded its remarkable exploration ...
A way to measure and control phonons
Those photons were then reflected back to a photon detector and were subsequently analyzed using Hanbury Brown and Twiss interferometry. The researchers used the state of the photons...
A ‘toast’ to Copernicus Sentinel-2B as it delivers its first images
Crotone, Italy The multispectral imager is being calibrated during the commissioning phase – which will take about three months. Sentinel-2B is the second in the two-satellite missio...
World’s smallest neutrino detector finds big physics fingerprint
The research, performed at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) and published in the journal Science, provides compelling evidence for a neutrino interaction process predicted by t...
Watch Gaia first data release media briefing
Science & Exploration Watch Gaia first data release media briefing 21725 views 146 likes Replay of the media briefing on the first data release from ESA’s Gaia mission on 14 Sep...
VLA reveals distant galaxy’s magnetic field
The achievement is giving them important new clues about a problem at the frontiers of cosmology – the nature and origin of the magnetic fields that play an important role in how gal...
Video: Dark matter hunt with LUX-ZEPLIN
SLAC is helping to build and test the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector, one of the biggest and most sensitive detectors ever designed to catch hypothetical dark matter particles known as wea...
Schiaparelli readied for Mars landing
This week’s uploading was conducted by the Orbiter team working at ESA’s mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, and marked a significant milestone in readiness for arrival. Schiapare...
Revolutionary guitar string rocks the guitar world
Credit: University of St Andrews A revolutionary guitar string developed at the University of St Andrews has struck a chord with some of the greats of the music world. Dr Kemp said:...
Researchers demonstrate quantum teleportation of patterns of light
Quantum communication over long distances is integral to information security and has been demonstrated in free space and fibre with two-dimensional states, recently over distances e...
Proxima Liftoff
Thomas, Peggy and Oleg will spend six months in space working and living on the International Space Station. The Proxima mission is the ninth long-duration mission for an ESA astrona...
NASA mission surfs through waves in space to understand space weather
One type of wave, plasmaspheric hiss, is particularly important for removing charged particles from the Van Allen radiation belts, a seething coil of particles encircling Earth, whic...
Methane-flooded canyons on Titan
The aptly named Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is remarkably Earth-like. This image, taken with the radar on the Cassini spacecraft, shows just how similar the features in Titan’s sur...
Magnetic oceans and electric Earth
Applications Magnetic oceans and electric Earth 03/10/2016 14431 views 159 likes Oceans might not be thought of as magnetic, but they make a tiny contribution to our planet’s protec...
Galileo begins serving the globe
Applications Galileo begins serving the globe 15/12/2016 23587 views 213 likes Europe’s own Galileo satellite navigation system has begun operating, with the satellites in space del...
Galileo 15-18 - liftoff replay
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Gaia’s billion-star map hints at treasures to come
On its way to assembling the most detailed 3D map ever made of our Milky Way galaxy, Gaia has pinned down the precise position on the sky and the brightness of 1142 million stars. “B...
Full circle: space algae fighting malnutrition in Congo
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti ate the first food containing spirulina in space and now the knowledge is being applied to a pilot project in Congo as a food supplement. Prepari...
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet arrives at the International Space Station
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky docked with the International Space Station today after a two-day flight in their Soy...
Dark Energy Survey reveals most accurate measurement of dark matter structure in the universe
Map of dark matter made from gravitational lensing measurements of 26 million galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey. The new DES result (the tree, in the above metaphor) is close to for...
A record of ancient tectonic stress on Mars
Sets of ridges and troughs some 1000 km north of the giant Olympus Mons volcano contain a record of the intense tectonic stresses and strains experienced in the Acheron Fossae region...
XENON1T, the most sensitive detector on Earth searching for WIMP dark matter, releases its first result
The result from a first short 30-day run shows that this detector has a new record low radioactivity level, many orders of magnitude below surrounding materials on Earth. The latest ...
What will humans look like in 100 years?
We can evolve bacteria, plants and animals – futurist Juan Enriquez asks: Is it ethical to evolve the human body? In a visionary talk that ranges from medieval prosthetics to present...