Category : Space and Atmospheric Physics

Scientists creating a network to triangulate and pinpoint lightning strikes around the world are using a very narrow band of radio waves to detect the...

Imagine a universe that exploded into existence and expanded exponentially, faster than the speed of light. Cosmologists operating a new telescope at Amundsen-Scott South Pole...

Searching for a minute change in microwave radiation that has traveled across space for some 14 billion years requires not only state-of-the-art equipment, such as...

When cosmologists – astronomers who study the origin and structure of the entire universe – must try to explain their work to laymen, they sometimes...

John Carlstrom has taken some pleasure from stirring up things around the South Pole this summer during construction of the South Pole Telescope. “This thing’s...

One of three long-duration balloon experiments launched on the ice shelf near McMurdo Station at the end of December made an encore appearance during its...

Mike Comberiate and his team of engineers and students are using a small robotic vehicle to test a host of systems that NASA may use...

Quick deployment is one of the key components that NASA is after for a space habitat that will shelter astronauts on long-term missions to the...

Construction of the world’s largest, and perhaps most unique, telescope is 50 percent complete. Drillers deployed the 18th string of digital sensors for the IceCube...

The South Pole Telescope was constructed during the 2006-07 austral summer. The following winter, the telescope achieved what scientists call “first light” (meaning, it worked),...