The world’s second-largest radio telescope crashed on Tuesday morning. The Arecibo Observatory’s 900-ton platform, which sent and received radio waves and suspended 450 feet (140 meters) in the air, crashed into a 1,000-foot (300-meter wide) disc below. When it fell, it pulled down along the tops of the three surrounding …
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Like all stars, our sun is powered by the fusion of hydrogen into heavy elements. Nuclear fusion is not only what makes stars shine, it is also the primary source of the chemical elements that make up the world around us. Much of our understanding of stellar fusion comes from …
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There are traces of ancient dust at the bottom of the South Pacific Ocean that has changed the Earth’s atmosphere, and new research suggests it came from beneath Argentina’s ice-age glaciers. Wrapped by heavy westerly winds about 20,000 years ago, these microscopic minerals would have circulated almost all over the …
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Astrophysicists have discovered for the first time the explosion of cosmic radio waves inside our galaxy and identified its source, revealing a new mystery in the universe, according to research published on Wednesday. The emergence of powerful fast radio rates (FRBs) – the intense glare of radio emissions that last …
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On Tuesday, September 29, the Russian State Space Corporation (Roscosmos) announced that astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) had found the source of a suspicious leak. The crew of the expedition – NASA astronaut and commander Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Evan Wagner – had been …
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