IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 A DARPA-led team set a new record by transmitting 800 watts over 5.3 miles using optical power beaming. ⚡ Power beaming could revolutionize energy delivery to remote locations and reduce logistical challenges. 🔬 The breakthrough involved a customized receiver and a high-energy optical laser to maximize efficiency. 🌍 Future phases aim
By studying the leopard-like spots on rocks from Earth and Mars now, scientists will be ready to analyze returned space samples when they arrive. In 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover retrieved an unusual rock sample from Mars. Named Sapphire Canyon, the specimen stands out for its striking pattern:
Using NASA’s Chandra and ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatories, Indian astronomers have explored the population of ultraluminous X-ray sources in the galaxy NGC 5813, which resulted in the detection of a new source of this type. Results of the observational campaign were published August 7 on the pre-print server arXiv.
Researchers Robert Hazen and Michael Wong have put forward a bold new law of nature — one that could explain how everything in the universe evolves, from atoms, minerals and stars to living cells, ecosystems and even human civilization. At the heart of their theory is the idea that information is as fundamental to the cosmos as mass, energy or charge. Their law revolves around a concept called functional information — a measure of the ratcheting-up of complexity and function in evolving systems over time.
Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led to the cosmos as we see it today.
A new theory suggests gravitational waves – rather than hypothetical particles called inflatons – drove the Universe’s early expansion, and the redistribution of matter therein.
How close to Earth could we find the next Earth-like exoplanet? This is what two papers accepted in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a | Space
0:00 Alpha centauri surprise! 0:40 What we know about the star system so far. 2:57 Potential detection in 2019 3:35 Why JWST is so good at this but there were still challenges. 4:55 Methods used to observe this star. 5:30 Surprise results and the initial analysis. 8:00 Non detection at later dates was important! Orbits worked out. 9:15 What we know about the planet so far. 11:30 Could this be rings? 12:30 What this implies and conclusions. 13:30 What’s next?
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U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of astronomers from around the world, including a doctoral student from the University of Michigan, were the first to report the discovery of the third confirmed interstellar object
Newly identified Midpoint cloud reveals rare insight into star formation and the movement of galactic material toward the center of the Milky Way. A group of astronomers from around the world has identified a vast cloud of gas and dust in an underexplored part of the Milky Way. This structure, cl