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 …
Read More »Scientists reveal first light image of exoplanet just 63 light-years away
Most of the exoplanets we’ve confirmed to date have never really looked straight. We confirm their presence through indirect means, such as their effect on their host star. But now, astronomers have released images of exoplanets found indirectly. It is not just an impressive feat of skill and technique. The …
Read More »We finally know how much radiation there is on the moon, and that’s not great news
U.S. As humans prepare to return to the moon in this decade, the biggest risk to astronauts in the future is space radiation that can cause lasting health effects ranging from cataracts to cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Although Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s proved that it was safe …
Read More »Has come up with a physics monastery that makes ‘conflict free’ time travel possible
At least to our knowledge – no one has managed to pass the time, but the question of whether such a feat would be theoretically possible continues to fascinate scientists. Such as movies Terminator, Donnie Darko, Back to the future And many others show that moving on time poses many …
Read More »Supercooled water is actually two different liquids in one, physicists reveal
Water is a very strange thing. In our everyday experience, when liquid water falls below 0 ° C (32 ° F or 273.15 Kelvin), it becomes OK, freezes in solid form. But the snow, it turned out, is also rather strange. Most of the time, the ice seems to be …
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