Clues to Martian life found in Chilean desert
A trial NASA rover mission in the Mars-like Atacama desert has successfully recovered subterranean organisms -- strange, scattered, salt-resistant bacteria ...
Tag: Satellite Missions/Shuttles
UTA grants to enhance nation’s only university-based, arc-heated, hypersonic wind tunnel
Like the windCredit: UT Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington's new arc-heated, hypersonic wind tunnel, one of just a ...
Researchers create ultra-lightweight ceramic material that withstands extreme temperatures
UCLA-led team develops highly durable aerogel that could ultimately be an upgrade for insulation on spacecraft UCLA researchers and collaborators ...
China's regulations unsuccessful in curbing methane emissions
China, already the world's leading emitter of human-caused greenhouse gases, continues to pump increasing amounts of climate-changing methane into the ...
Prolonged spaceflight could weaken astronauts' immune systems
NASA hopes to send humans to Mars by 2030 on a round-trip mission that could take up to three years ...
Keeping astronauts healthy during deep space missions
When you get sick, a doctor or hospital is typically right down the road, a couple hours away at most. ...
Space microbes aren't so alien after all
Genetic evidence shows bacteria on the International Space Station are adapting to survive, not to harmCredit: NASA/Roscosmos EVANSTON, Ill. --- ...
Eating your veggies, even in space
Researchers are developing the self-contained planters that will allow astronauts to grow food in spaceCredit: Silje Wolff, NTNU Social Research ...
Why Tehran is sinking dangerously
Satellite data show over-extraction of water threatens Iranian capitalCredit: Mahmud Haghshenas Haghighi and Mahdi Motagh, GFZ Iran has a water ...