A dusty lab in the sky
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Joe Nuth loves dust. Among astronomers, that puts him in a minority. "The traditional astronomers -- the people ...
Tag: Satellite Missions/Shuttles
Scientists of the Samara Polytech sinter lunar soil in a microwave
Making bricks from a lunar soil simulator takes 40 minutesCredit: @SamaraPolytech A team of scientists led by an engineer, candidate ...
Teams of mobile 3D printing robots could fix bridges on Earth and build them to Mars
Credit: NYU Tandon BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - Commercial 3D printing -- or additive manufacturing (AM) -- ...
Early warning signals heralded fatal collapse of Krakatau volcano
GFZ Potsdam researchers reconstruct the flank collapse event that triggered a tsunami which killed 430 people in December 2018 - ...
SwRI team designs two-dimensional radar reflector to measure subtle ground movement
Technology now available to support infrastructure monitoring, climate, military applicationsCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 30, 2019 -- ...
Bridge between quantum mechanics and general relativity still possible
Credit: provided by University of Science and Technology of China Quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity form the ...
New SwRI study argues that Saturn’s rings are actually not young
Research of Cassini data suggests icy rings are as old as the solar system itselfCredit: NASA SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. ...
New space discovery sheds light on how planets form
A young planet and a bright star offer glimpses into the past and futureCredit: Elisabeth Newton HANOVER, N.H. - July ...
Three Mars rovers set to blast off in 2020
Since ancient times, the Red Planet has captured the imaginations of scientists, writers and the general public. In July 2020, ...
Red wine’s resveratrol could help Mars explorers stay strong, says Harvard study
Nutraceuticals that preserve muscle in reduced gravity will support long-term space missions Mars is about 9 months from Earth with ...
Gaia starts mapping the galactic bar in the Milky Way
Credit: StarHorse team. Visualisation: Arman Khalatyan Credit background image in the beginning of the video: NASA/Caltech/R. Hurt The second release ...
New measurement of universe’s expansion rate is ‘stuck in the middle’
Red giant stars observed by Hubble Space Telescope used to make an entirely new measurement of how fast the universe ...
New Hubble constant measurement adds to mystery of universe’s expansion rate
Credit: NASA, ESA, W. Freedman (University of Chicago), ESO, and the Digitized Sky Survey Astronomers have made a new measurement ...
New safer, inexpensive way to propel small satellites
Micropropulsion system that provides robust, efficient option, reduces contamination risks is presented at IEEE Pulsed Power and Plasma Science ConferenceCredit: ...