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Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionIn October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. The $5 billion mission...
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Clashing Cosmic Numbers Challenge Our Best Theory of the Universe | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionIn the early 2000s, it seemed that cosmologists had solved the largest and most complex puzzle of all: how the universe works.
“There was this...
Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface, Clues to Life’s Origins | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionNear midnight on March 26, 1961, dark waters lapped at the hull of a converted naval barge as it queasily rocked in the Pacific...
The Biggest Space Stories of 2023 – Decrypt
Space exploration took several leaps in 2023 as countries and organizations around the world turned their attention back to the stars. In this article,...
New superconducting nanowire single-photon detector has 400,000 pixels – Physics World
The highest resolution to date in a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) camera has been claimed by researchers in the US....
Icy Oceans Exist on Far-Off Moons. Why Aren’t They Frozen Solid? | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionFor most of humankind’s existence, Earth was the only known ocean-draped world, seemingly unlike any other cosmic isle.
But in 1979, NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft...
NASA Prepares Deep Space Mission—Why AI Will Play Important Role – Decrypt
As the new space race ramps up and humanity looks to deep space and potentially life as an interstellar species, the United States National...
Dark photons could explain high-energy scattering data – Physics World
A new analysis conducted by an international team of physicists suggests that dark photons –...
NASA Tests Deep Space Communications on Six-Year Asteroid Mission – Decrypt
As humans inch closer to becoming an interplanetary species, maintaining communication with Earth is vital. On Friday, NASA and partner agency Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
NASA launches $1.2bn Psyche asteroid mission – Physics World
NASA has launched a mission to study an unusually metal-rich asteroid dubbed 16 Psyche. Launched...
The two faces of a wartime aerospace engineer: the controversial tale of Wernher von Braun – Physics World
Ian Randall reviews Depravity’s Rainbow by Lewis Bush
Ettersburg Castle, Germany, 1926. A previously unremarkable student who had shown...
Have We Already Recorded Proof of Alien Civilizations? There’s Only One Way to Know for Sure
My college laptop was slow. It didn’t help that the internet was too. Neither fact distracted me from two crucial tasks: downloading music and...
Challenging the space industry’s attitudes towards diversity, the ‘wild boar paradox’ explained – Physics World
In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, the science journalist Anna Demming meets four people who are trying to...