Megan Williamson, Author at Different Impulse

Artist's concept showing Dawn arriving at the dwarf planet Ceres

November 2, 2018 Science

Sun sets on Dawn spacecraft’s asteroid belt mission

After 11 years exploring the asteroid belt, NASA’s Dawn mission has come to the end. On Monday, the space agency

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October 29, 2018 Technology

Researchers create scalable platform for on-chip quantum emitters

Household lightbulbs give off a chaotic torrent of energy, as trillions of miniscule light particles—called photons—reflect and scatter in all

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October 21, 2018 Science

First Bose-Einstein Condensate Created In Space

An international team of physicists reports that they have successfully produced a Bose-Einstein condensate in space for the first time. In

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October 19, 2018 Science

Researchers confirm Earth’s inner core is solid

A new study by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) could help us understand how our planet was formed.

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October 15, 2018 Science

Five in a row—the planets align in the night sky

For the second time this year, the five brightest planets can be seen at the same time. You can catch

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"Ultra high-definition TVs have four times the pixels of a current high-definition TV, but still have fewer pixels than the images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). This image from SDO was captured on Nov.13, 2012, and shows a star-shaped solar flare in the lower left-hand corner."

October 14, 2018 Technology

World’s fastest camera at 10 trillion frames per second

The world’s fastest camera has been developed. Called the T-CUP the camera operates by ‘freezing time’ at 10 trillion frames

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The image is a combination of data from three telescopes: the Chandra X-ray Observatory (illustration shown), the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope

October 14, 2018 Home

Another NASA Space Telescope Sidelined by Glitch

Another NASA space telescope is out of commission, at least for the time being. The Chandra X-ray Observatory, which has been

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October 11, 2018 Science

The Clearest Image Yet Of The Centre Of The Milky Way Galaxy Has Been Released

The clearest image yet of the centre of the Milky Way galaxy has been released from South Africa’s shiny new

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October 10, 2018 News

This New Headset Lets You See VR As Clearly As the Real World

With AR and VR companies racing to build the ultimate headset that can truly embrace mixed reality, a Finnish startup,

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October 3, 2018 Science

Hypervelocity alien stars could be invading the Milky Way

Astronomers have discovered a population of incredibly fast-moving stars bearing down on the Milky Way. It is possible that these

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September 29, 2018 Science

Astronomers Capture the Sharpest Image yet of a Monster Galaxy 12.4 Billion Light Years Away

Looking back 13-billion years into our universe’s past, a group of scientists first discovered the monster COSMOS-AzTEC-1 galaxy using the

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September 27, 2018 Science

SpaceX and ispace Plan to Send Robots to the Moon by 2020

Japanese lunar exploration robotics firm ispace announced today its plans for its first two lunar missions scheduled for 2020 and

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