Space

Everything you need to know about signs of life discovered on Venus

Wired UK: Although Venus is the closest planet to Earth, it’s also one of the Solar System’s most under-loved residents. While Mars is inundated with orbiting problems and visits from rovers, at the moment Venus only has one spacecraft keeping it…

NASA will pay for moon rocks excavated by private companies

Technology Review: NASA announced today that it was seeking proposals from private companies interested in collecting samples from the moon and making them available for purchase by the agency. The news: As part of the new initiative, one or more companies…

China says it launched and landed a reusable spacecraft

Technology Review: On September 6, China successfully landed a reusable spacecraft the country had launched into orbit just two days before, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. “The successful flight marked the country’s important breakthrough in reusable spacecraft research and…

Quantum Simulations of Curved Space

Physics: A heptagonal-lattice superconducting circuit, and the mathematics that describe it, provide tools for studying quantum mechanics in curved space. According to John Wheeler’s summary of general relativity, “space-time tells matter how to move; matter tells space-time how to curve.” How this relationship plays out at the quantum scale…