Bubble with titanium trigger titanic explosions
Credit: NASA/CXC/RIKEN/T. Sato et al.; NuSTAR: NASA/NuSTAR Scientists have found fragments of titanium blasting out of a famous supernova. This ...
Tag: Satellite Missions/Shuttles
Georgia Tech shares $15M from NASA to advance deep space exploration
New Space Technology Research Institute brings together multiple universities to tackle the challenges associated with electric propulsion ground testingCredit: Christopher ...
Marine animals inspire new approaches to structural topology optimization
Credit: Candler Hobbs, Georgia Tech A mollusk and shrimp are two unlikely marine animals that are playing a very important ...
Stanford researchers use AI to empower environmental regulators
Credit: Nina Brooks Like superheroes capable of seeing through obstacles, environmental regulators may soon wield the power of all-seeing eyes ...
Measuring neutron star squeezability
NICER collaboration, NASA astronaut reveal size of most massive neutron star, highlight Space Station scienceCredit: NASA / Walt Feimer A ...
Peering through the clouds of Earth’s ‘Evil Twin’ surprises NRL sky watchers
Credit: Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists were ...
A European project to develop electrodeless plasma thrusters
Credit: ERC-ZARATHUSTRA project Plasma thrusters consume less propellant than chemical combustion rockets, allowing for longer, more ambitious and economical missions. ...
Artificial intelligence for space
Credit: (Image: Hakan Kayal / University of Wuerzburg) Suddenly, circular holes were visible on the surface of Mars that were ...
Skoltech studies collective behavior of nanosatellites
Credit: Skoltech Scientists from the Skoltech Space Center (SSC) have developed nanosatellite interaction algorithms for scientific measurements using a tetrahedral ...
City, University of London consortium wins highly competitive ESA funding
Credit: City, University of London Funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), City, University of London will be spearheading the ...
New research shows that Mars did not dry up all at once
Mars had dry and wet eras and dried up for good 3 billion years agoCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/CNES/CNRS/LANL/IRAP/IAS/LPGN LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April ...
SwRI’s 100-kg small satellite platform added to NASA’s RDSO catalog
SwSP-100 now available through the $6 billion Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV contractCredit: SwRI SAN ANTONIO -- April 6, 2021 -- ...
Mapping North Carolina’s ghost forests from 430 miles up
Rising seas and inland-surging seawater are leaving behind the debris of dying forests. Now, 35 years of satellite images capture ...
First X-rays from Uranus discovered
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the ...