European Space Agency’s Gaia Space Probe Maps Milky Way Galaxy
The Gaia Mission (Courtesy ESA) The Gaia Space Probe, a project of the European Space Agency (ESA) has mapped the Milky Way Galaxy, well at least as much of it as possible. So if you want to know what the More...
US and Israel to cooperate on preventing satellite collisions
Israel and the United States announced an agreement of cooperation on Monday to track and prevent collisions between satellites in orbit.The US will give Israel 96 hours warning on potential collisions. Israel More...
Researchers: Gravity Saved the Universe after the Big Bang, Maybe
New research by a team of European physicists could explain why the universe did not collapse immediately after the Big Bang. Studies of the Higgs particle – discovered at CERN in 2012 and responsible More...
Europe’s space-based, laser-powered data highway passes early test
– A European satellite beamed images to earth using new laser-based communications technology on Friday, opening the way for uninterrupted and near instantaneous viewing of natural disasters being sent More...
When Galaxies Collide, Do They Jettison their Black Holes?
– In his general theory of relativity, Albert Einstein predicted that there are such things as gravitational waves. In fact, the very existence of these waves is the linchpin of the entire theory. More...
European spacecraft begins descending to comet 67P
– The European Space Agency’s unmanned Rosetta probe successfully released a lander toward the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday, putting it on its final seven-hour More...
New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts buried a mile beneath the sea bed
– Mysteries of the deep come alive as satellite data bring new clues into focus; 80% of the ocean floor remains unmapped or buried by sediment. – Scientists have created a new More...