Those flattened clouds of gas and dust surrounding supermassive black holes are known as accretion disks. Around some ...

Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In the ...

Graham Tinkers has created a Raspberry Pi-powered system that automatically backs up stacks of floppy disks and takes a picture of the label as it goes.

Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out ...

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...

The city’s light-rail system has used 5¼-inch floppy disks for nearly 40 years. Getting off them won't come cheap.

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

Transportation officials in San Francisco took a step towards modernizing the train control system that powers the Muni Metro ...

Going to higher disk counts in the same HDD form factor requires thinner disks. Hoya, a glass disk substrate manufacturer has shown higher disk count configurations in the conventional 3.5-inch ...

In San Francisco, 5.25-inch floppy disks form the basis of the light rail control system. Hundreds of millions of US dollars are now being spent to change this. The operator of the light rail ...