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: Satellite Missions/Shuttles
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 -- ...
Mapping North Carolina’s ghost forests from 430 miles up
Rising seas and inland-surging seawater are leaving behind the debris of dying forests. Now, 35 years of satellite images capture ...
First X-rays from Uranus discovered
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the ...
New study finds satellites contribute significant light pollution to night skies
Credit: Andreas Möller Scientists reported new research results today suggesting that artificial objects in orbit around the Earth are brightening ...
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 ...
The case of the cloudy filters: Solving the mystery of the degrading sunlight detectors
Credit: Andrew Jones/LASP More than 150 years ago, the Sun blasted Earth with a massive cloud of hot charged particles. ...
Missing baryons found in far-out reaches of galactic halos
Berkeley Lab physicists play key role in studies that solve a cosmological mysteryCredit: NASA Researchers have channeled the universe's earliest ...
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 ...
HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory discovers origin of highest-energy cosmic rays in the galaxy
Photon origins tracked to Cygnus OB2 star-forming regionCredit: TeV: Binita Hona (HAWC Collaboration), IR: Hora et. al, Spitzer's Growing Legacy, ...
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 ...
Gigantic jet spied from black hole in early universe
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/JPL/T. Connor; Optical: Gemini/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Infrared: W.M. Keck Observatory; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss Astronomers have discovered evidence for an extraordinarily long ...
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, ...