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Researchers have come up with a new phase of solid carbon, which has the qualities that were earlier thought to be impossible, and can be used for the creation of diamonds at room temperature and the similar atmospheric pressure as the ambient air.

North Carolina State University scientists have named it Q-carbon, saying that it is different from the other solid forms of carbon, graphite and diamond that are known to us.

NC State’s Jay Narayan, lead author of three papers on the findings, including a paper published recently in Journal of Applied Physics, said that the sole place it could be found in the natural world would be likely in the core of some planets.

Past week, President Obama signed the US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, governing ownership of asteroid resources. This could trigger a fresh fight in the commercial space race. The new US Asteroid Mining Law may lead to the violation of International Space Treaty.

Under the section 5103 of the Act, the companies in the US get the right to resources mined from asteroids, though it hasn’t given them rights to the asteroids themselves.

The signing of the act by the president has drawn applause from a five-year-old asteroid mining company Planetary Resources.

The FIA Formula E Series and Kinetik announced collaboration on Friday that is all geared up to see the first autonomous motor racing series, starting in 2016. The new series have been named ROBORACE, which is going to follow the all-electric FIA Formula E series in the 2016-2017 season.

While talking about the motive behind the move, Denis Sverdlov, Founder of Kinetik and ROBORACE, said that they passionately believe that all vehicles in the world will be assisted by AI and powered by electricity in the coming time, which would improve environment and road safety.

On Monday, the California Supreme Court declined the environmental impact report for the planned Newhall Ranch development. The court has declared that it understated the impact of the greenhouse gas emissions from the project and didn’t protect a dying out species of fish properly.

The ruling has come as a blow to the project, which was planned for the building of over 20,000 new homes, a commercial district and a number of schools on a nearly 2,500-acre parcel in Santa Clarita. The whole 12,000-acre project is mainly undeveloped open area.

It was SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s plan to land a rocket successfully on earth, but Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin achieved the historic milestone and trumped rival SpaceX. The company’s announcement about landing a rocket successfully on the surface of earth blindsided everyone. The company’s achievement has given a clear message that it is going to be a big player in commercial space race.

Last week, the Jeff Bezos-backed spaceflight company announced it launched a rocket, New Shepard, past the edge of space. According to the company, it was a suborbital test flight. During the flight, the rocket’s crew capsule touched the altitude of 100.5 kilometers before landing back on earth. The greatest thing about the launch was that everything worked as planned by the company.

It is extremely rare and surprising to spot a supermassive black hole snacking on a star. An astrophysicist from Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) said the black hole was seen ejecting massive energy after swallowing a star.

The astrophysicist, Dr Gemma Anderson, said watching a black hole gulping stars in which the star is getting ripping apart isn’t an everyday event. When a black hole is forced to consume large amount of gas, plasma-elementary particles’ fast jet in magnetic field runs off from the black hole rim, as per the astrophysicist.