We may be entering a renaissance for human spaceflight research as record numbers of private citizens go into space — and as scientists improve techniques for gathering data for these intrepid test subjects. A sign that rebirth is imminent appeared earlier this week, when the journal Nature published a small batch of papers detailing the … Read more
How it works: A proton (far left) from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator at CERN hits carbon nuclei (small gray spheres). This produces a shower of various elementary particles, including a large number of neutral pions (orange sphere). As the unstable neutral pions decay, they emit two high-energy gamma rays (curly yellow arrows). These … Read more
The journey to the space should be an eye-opening experienceone that gives you a new perspective of humanity and its place in the cosmos. But while you might think that an experience like this would make a person infinitely wiser, a new report discovered that space travel can be real make you a little more … Read more
When it comes to space exploration, Jeff Bezos dreams big. “I’d like to see a trillion people living in the solar system. If we had a trillion people, we’d have, at any given time, 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins,” he told podcaster Lex Fridman in a 2023 interview . To realize this dream, Bezos envisions … Read more