The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...
The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars. Planet Earth sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times ...
One of the ways Survivor has not only survived but thrived on the air for 49 seasons and counting is by slowly evolving over the years. Instead of making sudden massive changes, showrunner Jeff Probst ...
Sadly, a disc could never approach the speed of light. If you had a high-strength steel disc that was 1-metre thick and 1 kilometre in diameter, it would come apart from centrifugal force at just 11 ...
I am always drawn to the Large Hadron Collider when considering questions like this. The LHC has a diameter of about 8.5 kilometres. When operating, it uses the equivalent of about a third of the ...
When’s the last time you saw a laptop with a spinning disc drive on a store shelf? Outside of a pawn shop, I don’t think I’ve seen one in almost 10 years. But Japanese manufacturer Fujitsu just ...
Six Flags Magic Mountain has teased a diverse collection of possible new attractions that include a launch coaster, dark ride, water coaster and thrill rides in a survey of its biggest fans. Six Flags ...
GE Aerospace recently successfully demonstrated two different rotating detonation combustion (RDC) engines—a missile-scale ramjet and a dual-mode ramjet for high-speed aircraft. The company in a Sept.
As the watch exhibition known as Geneva Watch Days gets underway, Swiss watch brand Ulysse Nardin unveils another blend of technical mechanical prowess and decorative innovation: Freak [X Crystalium].
August continues to be a great month to check out the skies. This month offers one of the best opportunities to see the Milky Way. The center of our galaxy is teeming with billions of stars that ...