12 September 2018
Birth of new star from a supernova seen for first time
... and it temporarily gets bright again. If this does happen, then astronomers can identify the interaction as it shows up as a hydrogen spike on a spectrograph. Not so for SN 2012au. Not only is this supernova still shining bright when others would...
07 December 2018
Misplaced satellites provide highest accuracy yet of Einstein's theory
...made possible thanks to the very high stabilities of passive hydrogen maser (PHM) clocks aboard each Galileo. These particular...one. “The fact that the Galileo satellites carry passive hydrogen maser clocks, was essential for the attainable accuracy of...
26 April 2021
Microbes could potentially live beneath Mars' surface, new study suggests
... it first needs to be broken down into its constituent parts; hydrogen and oxygen. To rip water molecules apart a chemical reaction with... is known as radiolysis and after the individual hydrogen and oxygen atoms in the water have been freed, microbes...
15 December 2021
ExoMars discovers large amounts of hidden water in Mars’ Grand Canyon
...stands for Fine Resolution Epithermal Neutron Detector, is designed to map hydrogen on the martian surface down to a metre deep to help ...be water. This is based on the assumption that the hydrogen seen by FREND is bound into water molecules, he adds....
02 June 2016
XCOR lays off significant part of workforce
... was concentrating its resources on developing a liquid hydrogen engine under a contract with United Launch Alliance ... are planning to place more emphasis on fine-tuning the hydrogen engine program to achieve an optimal closed loop system for ...
15 April 2020
Scientists discover most brightest and energetic supernova yet
..., say 60 solar masses, had merged before the explosion. The lower mass stars hold onto their hydrogen for longer, while their combined mass is high enough to trigger the pair instability." "Finding this extraordinary...
