09 September 2019
Ancient light helps to unravel cosmic "dark age"
... in a radio-quiet environment 800 kilometres north of Perth, Australia and is designed to detect electromagnetic radiation emitted by neutral hydrogen - the EoR gas that would later form the first stars. So far, though, no one has been...
04 November 2020
New studies reveal the origin of fast radio bursts
... gamma rays shooting out from the magnetar. The next day, two radio telescopes, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) and the Survey for Transient Astronomical Radio Emission 2 (STARE2), in the...
03 September 2022
Hydrogen fuel leak scuppers second Artemis 1 launch attempt
... damage occurred and the effort resumed but minutes later hydrogen fuel began leaking from the engine section at the ... engineers would not be able to test the fitting with cryogenic hydrogen, which is when leaks are most likely to show up. Either...
02 January 2021
Life beneath glaciers is good news in the search for life on icy worlds
... was being created in cold, dark subglacial terrains. "We kept finding organisms in these systems that were supported by hydrogen gas," said Eric Boyd at MSU's Department of Microbiology and Immunology and an author on the recent study. "It initially...
October 2015
From the kitchen… to the stars?
... ratio of the components. We used a prototype engine, which previously passed a cycle of fire tests with LOX + liquid hydrogen fuel, to ensure maximum reduction of costs for the study. Cold tests allowed us to develop a methodology for preparing...
06 April 2020
Planets can form second atmospheres rich in CO, new study shows
... observations two years ago, revealed that at least three of the exoplanets (d, e, and f) do not seem to contain puffy, hydrogen-rich atmospheres. At the time, the fourth planet's (g) atmosphere was unknown, but a layer of volatiles were identified...
