20 January 2016
Our view of Van Allen belts set to be revolutionised by new data from NASA probes
... probes also has benefits when measuring the flux of electrons at lower energies compared with past observations. Protons in the radiation belt regions closest to Earth are prone to passing through particle detectors, creating a noisy background...
14 March 2016
And it's off! ExoMars 2016 launches successfully
... have partnered with Russian space agency Roscosmos to provide the proton launcher for the mission are expecting the first acquisition of .... To get the necessary momentum to fly to Mars, the Proton M Launcher, one of the heaviest rockets in the world,...
13 April 2016
The mystery of neutrino mass to be solved by a calcium isotope
... light on these elusive particles. One example of this is the decay of calcium-48 (a very rare isotope of calcium with 20 protons and 28 neutrons) into titanium-48 and it occurs when an atom's parent nucleus decays into a daughter nucleus, gaining...
09 May 2016
Ancient silicate grains reveal histories of stardust in the Galaxy
..., but different numbers of neutrons – the most abundant oxygen atom is 16O, having eight protons and eight neutrons in its nucleus. In stellar nucleosynthesis, different types of reactions produce oxygen atoms with different ...
09 October 2019
The first satellite servicing spacecraft launches successfully
...off of a 58.2-metre (191-foot-tall) Russian Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan within the ...this one is destined to provide broadcast services for Eutelsat. “Once Proton gets us to the to the transfer orbit, they will first deploy...
04 March 2020
A new candidate for dark matter is identified
... quarks - the building blocks of other known particles such as protons and neutrons. When these quarks combine though they result in a... can combine together in very different ways to the protons and neutrons. The researchers, whose lead author on the...
