04 March 2020
A new candidate for dark matter is identified
... neutrons. The researchers, whose lead author on the recent paper submitted to the Journal of Physics G Letter is Professor Daniel Watts, suggest that shortly after the Big Bang, conditions could have allowed for many d-star...
10 June 2020
New map boosts chances of finding water on the Moon
... present on the Moon, and at what percentage is in the lunar regolith. Coming to their aid is Kevin Cannon and Daniel Britt of the University of Central Florida who have put forward a geologic model for how ice deposits...
29 June 2020
Black hole collision may have exploded with light
... study, it may have ploughed through the disk of gas, causing it to light up. "This detection is extremely exciting," said Daniel Stern, co-author of the new study and an astrophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in. "There's a lot we can...
17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
... years. Ultimately, it will get as close as 42 million km, which is almost a quarter of the distance from Sun to Earth,” says Daniel Müller, ESA’s Solar Orbiter Project Scientist. “We are all really excited about these first images – but...
23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
... their tidally locked planets are unlikely to have magnetic fields helping deflect their stellar winds,” says Daniel Horton, an assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the...
29 September 2021
Orbit Fab to launch first geostationary fuel tanker
... a Halcyon HTP propulsion system designed and built by Benchmark Space Systems for orbital maneouvers. Co-founded in 2018 by Daniel Faber and Jeremy Schiel, Orbit Fab, who were also the first ever private company to resupply...
