Category : Space and Atmospheric Physics

The SPIDER instrument has finished its 16-day voyage through the stratosphere above Antarctica, completing the second and final flight of its mission to search for...

Scientists have studied the night sky for thousands of years searching for clues to help them understand the universe. The South Pole Telescope team achieved...

The National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super-pressure balloon prototype that will one...

Two National Science Foundation experiments at the South Pole will be featured in a live Webcast as part of a special event marking the 2009...

After two years analyzing data from the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope project, an international group of astronomers and astrophysicists from the United States, Canada and...

The South Pole has become the place to be for scientists searching for high-energy neutrinos or to understand the nature of the dark energy that...

Findings by an international team of scientists using a telescope located at the U.S. Antarctic Program’s South Pole Station show that cosmologists probably do know...

Francis Halzen is no ordinary academic, even though his background is in theoretical physics, a realm of abstract reality where E=mc2 and Star Trek scriptwriters...

The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu once wrote that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. For a team of physicists hoping...