Quantum calorimeters are opening this new window on the Universe. First promised four decades ago, the quantum-calorimeter era of X-ray astronomy has finally dawned. A quantum calorimeter is a device ...
James Gunn’s Superman movie will be plunging viewers into a fully formed DCU, which already has its heroes and villains in costume and operating across various corners of that world (globally ...
Between takes, Gunn sat with a bunch of reporters and revealed his approach to the Man of Steel — one that focuses solely on Superman’s story without getting bogged down in larger universe ...
In 2003, Hubble provided evidence of a massive planet around a very old star, almost as old as the universe. Such stars possess only small amounts of heavier elements that are the building blocks of ...
It both enhances our capability to explore distant worlds and strengthens our connection to them. The future holds exciting possibilities for real-time data transmission and interplanetary ...
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have long understood that the universe is expanding—in other words, the space in between cosmic objects that aren’t bound by gravity is getting ...
"This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe," he argued. "It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many ...
It centers around the Hubble constant—the measurement of how fast our universe is expanding—which comes out as two different numbers when calculated two different ways, even though those ...
Balle’s work disrupts one of the foundational laws of the universe: that time moves forward. Only the act of writing allows Tara to feel some control over her time again. “That is why I began ...
“I just love the sparkle galaxy with its Christmas lights shining as it was when the Universe was just 600 million years old,” Prof Catherine Heymans, Scotland’s Astronomer Royal, told BBC New ...