Japanese, Italian, US physicists reveal new measurements of high-energy cosmic rays
LSU researchers contribute to a discovery that adds a new wrinkle to our understanding of the origins of matter accelerated ...
Tag: Satellite Missions/Shuttles
The give and take of mega-flares from stars
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/K. Getman, et al; Infrared: NASA/JPL/Spitzer The long relationships between stars and the planets around them - ...
Dark matter is slowing the spin of the Milky Way’s galactic bar
The spin of the Milky Way's galactic bar, which is made up of billions of clustered stars, has slowed by ...
Which way does the solar wind blow?
Using supercomputers, researchers develop new software for improved space weather predictionCredit: Talwinder Singh, Mehmet S. Yalim, Nikolai V. Pogorelov, and ...
Largest aerospace society names Sandia researcher ‘Engineer of the Year’
'Jack-of-all-trades' improves future spacefaring calculationsCredit: Photo by Lonnie Anderson, courtesy Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Humberto "Tito" Silva III, ...
The dark matter particle explorer has measured high-precision cosmic ray helium energy spectrum
Credit: DAMPE Collaboration Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Collaboration directly observed a spectral softening of helium nuclei at about 34TeV ...
Magnetized threads weave spectacular galactic tapestry
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang; Radio: NRF/SARAO/MeerKAT Threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields are weaving a tapestry of energy at ...
NPS students tackle key challenges of the Mobile CubeSat Network
Credit: (U.S. Navy graphic by the NPS Office of University Communications) Four Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) students, representing the Navy ...
SMU professor receives NASA funding to study Active Galactic Nuclei
Credit: SMU (Southern Methodist University) DALLAS (SMU) - Krista Lynne Smith, an assistant professor of physics at SMU, has received ...
LAMOST helps Gaia achieve millimagnitude photometry precision
Credit: NIU Zexi The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) has helped Gaia achieve millimagnitude (mmag) precision in ...
New podcast to highlight science and natural history in Alaska
Credit: Vicki Daniels, Geophysical Institute The Alaska Science Pod was created to give voice to the people tackling big scientific ...
Not just for finding planets: Exoplanet-hunter TESS telescope spots bright gamma-ray burst
Credit: The Astrophysical Journal DALLAS (SMU) - NASA has a long tradition of unexpected discoveries, and the space program's TESS ...
Scientists don spacesuits to explore Hawaiian lava tubes as if they were on Mars
Credit: HI-SEAS MUNICH -- Imagine trying to pick up a pebble or scrape microbes off a cave wall in a ...
‘Smart shirt’ takes a trip to space for science
High-tech shirt non-intrusively monitors astronauts' health during spaceflightCredit: Canadian Space Agency/NASA A technology-packed tank top offers a simple, effective way ...