08 May 2019
Tests start on first design of 'wafer scale' spacecraft
...optical systems, sensors and a camera and when combined with directed energy propulsion, it would be capable of speeds around 20 percent of the speed of light, if not more. With a large enough laser array, you’d be at Alpha Centauri in something like...
12 July 2019
Hubble uncovers black hole that shouldn't exist
... University. The disc’s material was measured by Hubble to be whirling around the black hole at more than 10% of the speed of light. At such extreme velocities, the gas appears to brighten as it travels toward Earth on one side, and dims...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
...Marizomib. Sending a ‘genesis ark’ of extremophiles to Alpha Centauri on board ultra-light nanocrafts travelling at 20 percent of the speed of light could be a possibility using Project Starshot, an initiative sponsored by the Breakthrough Foundation...
July 2017
Hunting for neutrinos in the ice of Antarctica
... neutrino interaction that travel faster than the speed of light in the medium. As light ‘slows-down’ when it is not ...for anything but an elementary particle to cause a flash of light in dark ice, every electrical machine creates radio emission. Since...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... power of a thousand atomic bombs, sending high powered x-rays and gamma rays streaming into space at the speed of light United Nations (UN) action to create the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) and the Space Mission Planning...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
... the source. It is these ‘ripples’ of space-time that are detected as gravitational waves. These waves travel at the speed of light carrying information about their progenitor and they can also be produced by other violent events in the cosmos...
