To find giant black holes, start with Jupiter
Credit: David Champion The revolution in our understanding of the night sky and our place in the universe began when ...
Tag: Experiments in Space
Australian Space Agency backs locally-designed space suit development
Australian researchers will lead development of the next generation of space suits in a major international collaboration with NASA, the ...
As many as six billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, according to new estimates
There may be as many as one Earth-like planet for every five Sun-like stars in the Milky way Galaxy, according ...
Scientists carry out first space-based measurement of neutron lifetime
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Scientists have found a way of measuring neutron lifetime from ...
Finnish researchers have discovered a new type of matter inside neutron stars
Credit: Jyrki Hokkanen, CSC - IT Center for Science A Finnish research group has found strong evidence for the presence ...
Galactic cosmic rays now available for study on Earth, thanks to NASA
Credit: Image courtesy of NASA To better understand and mitigate the health risks faced by astronauts from exposure to space ...
NRL conducts first test of solar power satellite hardware in orbit
Credit: Image Courtesy of U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory engineers launched PRAM, the Photovoltaic Radio-frequency ...
Seeing the universe through new lenses
Images collected for dark energy telescope project reveal hundreds of new gravitational lens candidatesCredit: Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, Hubble ...
What’s Mars made of?
Researchers simulate the core of Mars to investigate its composition and originCredit: CC-0 Earth-based experiments on iron-sulfur alloys thought to ...
Hayabusa2 reveals more secrets from Ryugu
Ryugu's interaction with the sun changes what we know about asteroid historyCredit: © 2020 Morota et al. In February and ...
Graphene sets sail in microgravity
Credit: Dr. Santiago Jose Cartamil-Bueno Overseas exploration and trade during the Age of Discovery (15th-17th centuries) were possible by sail ...
Scientific machine learning paves way for rapid rocket engine design
Researchers from the Oden Institute are developing a faster modeling technique for rocket engine designers to test performance in different ...
Technique offers path for biomanufacturing medicines during space flights
Research simulating instrument aboard international space station nurtures E. coli bacteriaCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- An instrument currently ...
UC San Diego to advance stem cell therapies in new space station lab
UC San Diego and Space Tango receive NASA award to develop first dedicated stem cell research laboratory within the International ...