If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, BGR may receive an affiliate commission. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has had a record breaking trek across the Martian surface. The tiny exploration drone took its first flight on April 19, 2021. Since then, it has made a number of … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman These first images from the James Webb Space Telescope will mark the beginning of Webb’s science operations, in which excited astronomers will have the opportunity to use Webb to explore the early universe,[{” attribute=””>exoplanet atmospheres, star birth and death, and the … Read more
A new technique for studying some of the brightest objects in the universe has thrown a curveball into scientists’ understanding of the link between active monster black holes and the suppression of star formation. Quasars are the ultraluminous cores of galaxies that contain extremely active super massive black holes. A quasar’s intense radiation originates from … Read more
Physicists have just taken an amazing step towards quantum devices that sound like something out of science fiction. For the first time, isolated groups of particles behaving like weird states of matter known as time crystals have been linked into a single, evolving system that could be incredibly useful in quantum computing. Following the first … Read more
Updated 7 p.m. Eastern with additional contract details. WASHINGTON — NASA awarded contracts to Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to provide spacesuits for International Space Station spacewalks and Artemis moonwalks, although neither the agency nor the winning companies offered many technical or financial details. NASA announced June 1 it selected the two companies for Exploration … Read more
Today let’s take a walk on the wild side and assume, for the sake of argument, that our Universe is not the only one that exists. Let’s consider that there are many other universes, possibly infinitely many. The totality of these universes, including our own, is what cosmologists call the Multiverse. It sounds more like … Read more
A star in deep space from a neutron star “graveyard” is emitting a strange pulse that is intriguing scientists who didn’t expect to detect any radio emissions at all from that area. Roughly 1,300 light-years from Earth, in the Vela-X 1 region of the Milky Way, PSR J0941-4046 emitted a pulse that lasted about 300 … Read more
Unlike a multiphotovoltaic cell system where the emitted light is absorbed by a subsequent cell (left), the single cell nonreciprocal photovoltaic converter proposed by Sergeev and Sablon (right) causes emitted light is re-absorbed by the same cell, limiting emission losses without the need for additional PV cells. Credit: Sergeev and Sablon, Journal of Photonics for … Read more
“We think these gust-liftings are infrequent but could be responsible for a large fraction of the background dust that hovers all the time in the Martian atmosphere,” Newman said. Why Is Jezero Different? While wind and dust are prevalent all over Mars, what the researchers are finding seems to set Jezero apart. This greater activity … Read more
In a new experiment, scientists created two time crystals inside the superfluid, and brought them to touch. Time crystals were long believed to be impossible because their perpetual motion would seem to defy the laws of physics. However, using quantum physics scientists have not only created time crystals, but they have also now shown that … Read more
