Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are mysterious flashes of radio waves originating outside our Milky Way galaxy. A team of scientists, jointly led by Caltech postdoctoral scholar Vikram Ravi and Curtin University research fellow Ryan Shannon, has now observed the most luminous FRB to date, called FRB 150807.
NASA appears to be serious about its ambitious Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) that was being discussed last year.
To find habitable worlds in a sea of space data, we need computers that can think fast
The Journal of Propulsion and Power, a peer-reviewed journal published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), published a paper this week asserting that radio frequency cavity thrusters such as the electromagnetic thruster, or EmDrive, are theoretically viable.
Astronomers have precisely measured the strength of a fundamental force of Nature in a galaxy seen eight billion years in the past.
The builders of the pyramid complex in Egypt had a very good astronomer. We call him Senenmut (the Mother’s Brother, or the Uncle).
As Rosetta’s comet approached its most active period last year, the spacecraft spotted carbon dioxide ice – never before seen on a comet – followed by the emergence of two unusually large patches of water ice.
Donald Trump wants to take a giant leap forward in the public-private partnership in outer space and may tell NASA to ditch their own launch vehicles in favor of using commercial spacecraft on a contract basis.
One of the great mysteries of the cosmos is why it is expanding at an apparently accelerating rate.
A third structure has been found within the famous Kukulkan pyramid in eastern Mexico, experts say.
