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New modeling shows laser power networks could better connect and energize the Moon’s shadowed south pole craters.
Harbin Institute of Technology researchers developed an optimization framework for laser power networks at the lunar south pole.
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Dr. Niayesh Afshordi, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute (PI).
SpaceGroundbreaking new theory rewrites quantum view of the Big BangJoshua Shavit
JWST reveals Saturn’s aurora drives a self-sustaining heat cycle, solving its shifting rotation mystery.
SpaceJWST just helped solve Saturn’s mysterious spin problemJoshua Shavit
A strange LIGO signal hints at primordial black holes and a possible link to dark matter.
SpaceAstrophysicists are close to proving the existence of primordial black holesJoseph Shavit
Artist's impression of Space Reactor-1 Freedom, the nuclear-powered spaceship NASA says it is sending to Mars.
SpaceAmerica’s nuclear spacecraft is heading to Mars, and it’s bringing helicoptersJoshua Shavit
From spaghettification to time dilation, here's what science knows, and still doesn't, about matter falling into a black hole.
SpaceThe physics of no return: What actually happens if you get pulled into a black holeJoseph Shavit
Microgravity disrupts sperm navigation and fertilization, raising new questions about reproduction in space.
HealthGetting pregnant in space isn’t that easy, study findsMac Oliveau
Modern physics suggests distance may emerge from motion, gravity and quantum entanglement, not exist as a basic fact.
SpaceDistance in space is an illusionJoseph Shavit
Scientists directly measured dark points in light waves and found some moved faster than light without breaking relativity.
SpaceDarkness can move faster than light without breaking relativityJoseph Shavit
Illustration of the formation of the GCR cavity in the ecliptic plane. The white lines from the Sun show the typical pattern of magnetic field lines in interplanetary space, referred to as the Parker spiral IMF.
SpaceRadiation ‘cavity’ near the moon could lower astronaut exposure to cosmic radiationJoshua Shavit
XRISM observations suggest Gamma Cassiopeiae’s strange X-rays come from an accreting white dwarf companion.
SpaceGamma Cassiopeiae may be hiding a magnetic white dwarf companionJoseph Shavit
VLT images of two planets forming around the young star WISPIT 2.
SpaceIn a dusty young solar system, two giant planets are taking shapeJoseph Shavit
A new study reveals that stretched, not tilted, disks may explain strange brightness patterns in binary star systems.
SpaceAstronomers solve decades-old mystery of flickering binary starsJoshua Shavit
An artist's impression shows the giant spiral galaxy NGC 1365 as it collides and merges with a smaller companion galaxy, stirring up star formation and redistributing gas and heavy elements.
Space‘Space archaeologists’ use oxygen map to reconstruct a galaxy’s 12-billion-year pastJoshua Shavit
The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog 4.0, pictured, is a record of cosmic mergers detected between 2015 and 2024 by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA gravitational wave observatories. Each panel is a time and frequency signature of an individual event — the merger of two black holes, two neutron stars, or one of each, somewhere out in the cosmos.
SpaceExpanding catalog of black hole collisions is rewriting the history of the universeJoseph Shavit
The ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d is surrounded by the thickest layer of haze found on a planet yet, according to a new study that used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to take a deeper look at the “super-puff” planet.
SpaceThe haziest planet we’ve ever seen won’t give up its secretsJoshua Shavit
New calculations suggest collapsing gas clouds can build galactic magnetic fields far faster than standard theory predicts.
SpaceScientists are rethinking how young galaxies formed their magnetic fieldsJoseph Shavit