Proposed SwRI/UNH mission LEAPs forward
NASA selected LargE Area burst Polarimeter mission for further developmentCredit: Southwest Research Institute/University of New Hampshire SAN ANTONIO -- April ...
Tag: Experiments in Space
Innovative technologies for satellites
Credit: (Picture: Chair of Computer Science VIII / University of Würzburg) Some satellites are only slightly larger than a milk ...
New technique looks for dark matter traces in dark places
Study knocks down some theories for the origin of a mysterious light signature that has puzzled physicists for yearsCredit: Zosia ...
BU astrophysicist and collaborators reveal a new model of our heliosphere
Credit: Image courtesy of Opher, et. al The heliosphere, despite its name, is not actually a sphere. Space physicists have ...
Producing human tissue in space
Credit: NASA On 6 March at 11:50 PM EST, the International Space Station resupply mission Space X CRS-20 took off ...
Lunar lasers and cosmic crops: NASA funds UArizona space exploration missions
NASA funding will support UArizona teams working on ways to harvest water and produce crops in space.Credit: NASA Many things ...
Astronomy student discovers 17 new planets, including Earth-sized world
Credit: Michelle Kunimoto University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, ...
Want to catch a photon? Start by silencing the sun
Quantum breakthrough uses light's quirky properties to boost 3D imaging, paving the way for enhanced performance in self-driving cars, medical ...
NRL-built camera provides view into sun’s polar regions
Credit: (Image Courtesy of ESA/ATG Medialab) WASHINGTON -- The Solar Orbiter mission will use a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-designed and ...
Astronomers reveal rare double nucleus in nearby ‘Cocoon Galaxy’
Credit: Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - The so-called "Cocoon Galaxy" not only has a unique shape, ...
NSF CAREER Award supports astronomer’s quest to further understand the universe
Research led by Laura Sales will shed light on the dark matter content of dwarf galaxiesCredit: Stan Lim, UC Riverside. ...
UNH researchers find clues to how hazardous space radiation begins
Credit: NASA DURHAM, N.H.-- Scientists at the University of New Hampshire have unlocked one of the mysteries of how particles ...
How’s the weather up there? WVU engineer aims to enhance space weather forecasting
Credit: NASA Usually, the Earth's magnetic field shields us from the misadventures of our nearest star, the mighty sun. But ...
Final images from Cassini spacecraft
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/A. Bader (Lancaster University). Researchers are busy analysing some of the final data sent back from the ...