September 2023
From the Earth to Mars
... Qian Xuesen with both American and Chinese leaders. Nuclear funding American, Chinese and Russian leaders funded the development of ...the huge rockets of the nuclear age that also allowed space visionaries to develop civilian ...
13 April 2016
The mystery of neutrino mass to be solved by a calcium isotope
... are emitted) and the characteristics of the parent and daughter nuclei. This implies that, knowing these nuclear characteristics, and once this decay has been measured experimentally in one of the underground laboratories working on it, it will...
14 November 2016
Mysterious Quark Nova lights up an exploding star for a second time
... a companion star and as the matter reaches a critical limit, it ignites a series of runaway nuclear reactions. Type II supernovas occur when a star runs out of nuclear fuel and it collapses under its own gravity. What is left after a star...
02 May 2018
Astronomers spot fastest stars in the galaxy with Gaia
...dwarfs are small, very dense stars that have exhausted their nuclear fuel supplies. A typical white dwarf is about as ...onto a white dwarf companion. When this happens, it triggers runaway nuclear fusion in the white dwarf, causing it to explode as a...
11 January 2021
Strange star unlike any seen before, scientists say
... observations of IRAS 00500+6713 revealed another intriguing property of its central star; X-rays. Despite no longer undergoing nuclear fusion reactions in their cores, white dwarfs can still produce x-rays by siphoning off material from a nearby...
16 July 2021
NASA's $25 billion FY2022 funding bill is approved
...bill specifies that $110 million is for development of nuclear thermal propulsion, despite NASA not submitting a request ... … about $585 million on the Moon to Mars thermal nuclear propulsion”, Nelson said at the meeting, according to Smith. Meanwhile...
