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 ...
Tag: Satellite Missions/Shuttles
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...