NRL, Southwest Research Institute to add PUNCH to NASA’s solar mission
Credit: Graphic courtesy of PUNCH Team/Southwest Research Institute WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers partnered with Southwest Research Institute ...
Tag: Satellite Missions/Shuttles
Magnetic field model with simpler means
GFZ researcher wins $20,000 prize in ideas competition to improve the global magnetic field model GFZ scientist Jürgen Matzka is ...
Comet interceptor: ESA selects new mission to an ancient world
The Comet Interceptor space mission led by UCL has been selected as the first €150M mission for the European Space ...
NASA’s Webb Sunshield undergoes rocket fitting, more testing
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's spacecraft element, which consists of the observatory's spacecraft bus and the sunshield, ...
UCF is part of NASA Cassini mission that reveals new details about Saturn’s rings
Researchers are offering glimpses into the nature and composition of Saturn's legendary rings by using data from some of the ...
Meteors help Martian clouds form
How did the Red Planet get all of its clouds? CU Boulder researchers may have discovered the secret: just add ...
Satellite observations improve earthquake monitoring, response
Credit: Image courtesy of the UI Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Researchers at the University of Iowa and the ...
Hubble sets sights on an explosive galaxy
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Crenshaw and O. Fox When massive stars die at the end of their short lives, ...
UTMB researchers learned how to better combat muscle loss during space flights
GALVESTON, Texas - A new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has further documented how muscles ...
NASA’s Fermi mission reveals its highest-energy gamma-ray bursts
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center For 10 years, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has scanned the sky for gamma-ray ...
Saturn’s moon Mimas, a snowplough in the planet’s rings
Credit: Cassini, Dante, Baillié and Noyelles The Solar System's second largest planet both in mass and size, Saturn is best ...
Technique pulls interstellar magnetic fields within easy reach
MADISON, Wis. -- A new, more accessible and much cheaper approach to surveying the topology and strength of interstellar magnetic ...
Mature galaxy mesmerizes in new Hubble view
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Walsh This striking image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera ...
Antarctic glacier named after GFZ satellite mission ‘GRACE’
Special recognition of the contribution to the study of Earth's ice mass dynamicsCredit: GoogleEarth; Data: SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, ...
NICER’s night moves trace the X-ray sky
Credit: NASA/NICER In this image, numerous sweeping arcs seem to congregate at various bright regions. You may wonder: What is ...
LED device could increase memory retention among astronauts
Credit: The University of Texas at Arlington Hanli Liu, a professor of bioengineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, ...
Ocean and space exploration blend at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography
Credit: Erin Ranney/Ocean Exploration Trust KINGSTON, R.I. -- May 29, 2019 -- Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from ...
Graphene to enable future space exploration
EU-funded 'Graphene Flagship' project completes zero-gravity experimentsCredit: Graphene Flagship Researchers embark on zero-gravity parabolic flights to test novel graphene-based thermal ...
The ‘Forbidden’ planet has been found in the ‘Neptunian Desert’
Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A Neptunian planet has been found in what should be a 'Neptunian Desert' by telescopes ...
Paula S. Bontempi selected as Fellow of The Oceanography Society
For her vision of what satellite-based ocean ecology could be, and tireless efforts to bring that vision to fruition in ...
