New research shows that Mars did not dry up all at once
Mars had dry and wet eras and dried up for good 3 billion years agoCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/CNES/CNRS/LANL/IRAP/IAS/LPGN LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April ...
Tag: Experiments in Space
SwRI’s 100-kg small satellite platform added to NASA’s RDSO catalog
SwSP-100 now available through the $6 billion Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV contractCredit: SwRI SAN ANTONIO -- April 6, 2021 -- ...
Japan-Germany international joint experiment on space optical communication
NICT's optical ground station successfully received downlink light from DLR's small satellite-mounted optical terminal (OSIRISv1)Credit: NICT -Successful experiment to receive ...
Astronauts in crewed missions to Mars could misread vital emotional cues
A study simulating the effects of weightlessness also finds that impaired cognitive performance cannot be counteracted by short periods of ...
NASA partners with companies to test satellite fixtures for robotic grappling
Credit: NASA NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has chosen three companies to participate in a new partnership ...
Skoltech and MIT researchers identify optimal human landing system architectures to land on the Moon
Credit: Pavel Odinev (Skoltech) Researchers from Skoltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have analyzed several dozen options to pick ...
Ideas for future NASA missions searching for extraterrestrial civilizations
Credit: Rafael Luis Méndez Peña/Sciworthy.com A researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is the lead author of ...
Porous, ultralow-temperature supercapacitors could power Mars, polar missions
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04780 NASA's Perseverance Rover recently made a successful landing on Mars, embarking on ...
New study highlights first infection of human cells during spaceflight
Credit: Graphic by Shireen Dooling for the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University Astronauts face many challenges to their health, ...
Engineers propose solar-powered lunar ark as ‘modern global insurance policy’
The ambitious project proposed by a University of Arizona team aims to preserve humankind - and animal-kind, plant-kind and fungi-kind ...
How fast is the universe expanding? Galaxies provide one answer.
New measure of Hubble constant highlights discrepancy between estimates of our cosmic fateCredit: Photo courtesy of the Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey ...
Earth has a hot new neighbour — and it’s an astronomer’s dream
A rocky planet discovered in the Virgo constellation could change how we look for life in the universeCredit: RenderArea, https://renderarea.com ...
A super-Earth is discovered which can be used to test planetary atmosphere models
Credit: RenderArea During the past 25 years astronomers have discovered a wide variety of exoplanets, made of rock, ice and ...
Optical measurement technology and space data to increase the effectiveness of forestry
The University of Vaasa, Skogstekniska klustret and Adopticum are together researching how optical measurement technologies and satellite data can be ...
Life from Earth could temporarily survive on Mars
Study shows sending microbes to Earth's stratosphere, to test their endurance to Martian conditions, can reveal their potential use and ...
The CLASP2 space experiment achieves an unprecedented map of the Sun’s magnetic field
Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). Every day space telescopes provide spectacular images of the solar activity. However, their instruments ...
Young planets with teenage sun give space studies a lift
New planetary system offers glimpse into how planets evolveCredit: Illustration courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center HANOVER, N.H. - February ...
Origami-inspired antenna technology for use in small satellites
A multidisciplinary team engineered a small, light, and low-cost deployable antenna for nano- and micro-satellite communicationsCredit: Pusan National University Modern ...
Super-Earth atmospheres probed at Sandia’s Z machine
A step in the search for life elsewhere in the galaxyCredit: Artist image by Eric Lundin; Z firing photo by ...
Astronomers offer possible explanation for elusive dark-matter-free galaxies
UC Riverside-led study finds extreme tidal mass loss in dwarf galaxies formed in a simulationCredit: Stan Lim, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, ...
