Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on Mars
Reaction turns carbon dioxide into molecular oxygenCredit: Caltech Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators ...
Tag: Satellite Missions/Shuttles
A forest ‘glow’ reveals awakening from hibernation
Researchers use fluorescence as a proxy to track photosynthesis in evergreen forestsCredit: Troy Magney Winters in the northern hemisphere are ...
Meteor magnets in outer space
UCR-led study finds elusive giant planetsCredit: (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Astronomers believe planets like Jupiter shield us from space objects that would otherwise ...
Hubble spies curious galaxy moving a little closer
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Sargent et al. This Hubble image stars Messier 90, a beautiful spiral galaxy located roughly ...
18 Earth-sized exoplanets discovered
Scientists have used a new method to find small exoplanets, which previous surveys had overlookedCredit: NASA/JPL (Neptune), NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring ...
Three exocomets discovered around the star Beta Pictoris
Credit: Michaela Pink Just about a year after the launch of the NASA mission TESS, the first three comets orbiting ...
NAM 2019: First media announcement
Around 500 astronomers and space scientists will gather at Lancaster University, from 30 June - 4 July, for the Royal ...
Sedimentary, dear Johnson: Is NASA looking at the wrong rocks for clues to Martian life?
Scientists at the Swedish Museum of Natural History have begun compiling an atlas of fossils in volcanic rock, to guide ...
UTSA grows access to world-class observational labs for next gen astronomy students
Credit: Photo courtesy of UTSA The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) welcomes The University of Texas at ...
A late-night disco in the forest reveals tree performance
Credit: Jon Atherton In 2017, the group from the Optics of Photosynthesis Lab (OPL) developed a new method to measure ...
New research accurately predicts Australian wheat yield months before harvest
URBANA, Ill. - Topping the list of Australia's major crops, wheat is grown on more than half the country's cropland ...
World Economic Forum has announced the introduction of a Space Sustainability Rating
The World Economic Forum has announced the introduction of a Space Sustainability Rating (SSR) system to help tackle the problem ...
Particle telescope to probe makeup of cosmic rays and could improve cancer treatment
Credit: Christophe Royon LAWRENCE -- With a recent three-year, $1.4 million grant from NASA, a research team from the University ...
NRL tests sensor on-orbit the ISS to protect space-based assets
Credit: (NASA/Space Test Program-Houston 6) WASHINGTON -- Developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Plasma Physics Division, in conjunction with ...
Telescopes in space for even sharper images of black holes
Credit: F. Roelofs and M. Moscibrodzka, Radboud University Astronomers have just managed to take the first image of a black ...
Hubble spots a stunning spiral galaxy
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Ho et al. Few of the universe's residents are as iconic as the spiral galaxy. ...
Hubble astronomers assemble wide view of the evolving universe
Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), and G. Bacon (STScI) Astronomers have put together the largest ...
Pinpointing Gaia to map the Milky Way
ESO's VST helps determine the spacecraft's orbit to enable the most accurate map ever of more than a billion starsCredit: ...
Grant to provide computational modeling support for hypersonic vehicles
Purdue-affiliated HySonic Technologies LLC receives $140,000 grantCredit: (Purdue Research Foundation image/Hope Sale) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - HySonic Technologies LLC, which ...
Astronauts might soon grow SPACE tomatoes
Grant to UC Riverside could help put tiny tomato plants on the International Space StationCredit: Martha Orozco-Cárdenas/UCR Tiny tomato plants ...
