February 2023
Cultivating cultural memory as Asgardians
...‘One Humanity, One Unity’, is the motto on Asgardia’s coat of arms and for many it is an attractive idea. In some circles that ...shake hands with those who are currently willing to take up arms, because their technology can and should be at the service...
27 October 2016
Rare newly forming triple star system observed by astronomers
...compared to a figure skater doing a spin who has pulled in their arms to gather speed, the spin from the cloud causes a disk to form...the star. If the disk of gas is large enough, spiral arms form and the disk can fragment to another star. The system ...
29 September 2017
Virgo and LIGO detect fourth gravitational wave signal
... L-shaped (though not all interferometers are this shape). As such, both have mirrors at the ends of the arms to reflect light in order to combine light beams and create an interference pattern. The advantage of combining detectors is that...
10 April 2020
A recently discovered stellar black hole could be the most massive yet, say astronomers
... at a distance of between 4 to 8 kiloparsecs (kpc) away in the Galactic Scutum-Centaurus arm; one of the two major spiral arms in the Milky Way. The Scutum-Centaurus arm passes between us and the galactic center, and extends to the other...
21 October 2020
OSIRIS-REx successfully touches asteroid Bennu
...) and took around four hours, during which time the spacecraft extended its 3.35 metre (11-foot) sampling arm, known as the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), in preparation of the sample acquisition at a collection site known...
19 August 2019
Maxar selected to build, fly first element of NASA’s Lunar Gateway
...Maxar have also been selected by NASA to build a robotic arm called SAMPLR for use on the Moon. SAMPLR, which stands ... and will be used to acquire samples of lunar regolith. The arm is a flight spare from the Mars Exploration Rover mission, which ...
