SwRI-led Lucy mission completes critical design review
NASA mission to the Trojan asteroids enters construction phaseCredit: NASA/Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Oct. 21, 2019 -- The ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope clears critical sunshield deployment testing
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn The sunshield for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed a test critical to preparing the observatory ...
University of Hawaii team unravels origin, chemical makeup of Titan’s dunes
Credit: University of Hawaii A team led by a University of Hawaii at Manoa chemistry professor and researcher has been ...
Stormy cluster weather could unleash black hole power and explain lack of cosmic cooling
Credit: Hubble and Chandra Image: NASA, ESA, CXC, STScI, and B. McNamara (University of Waterloo); Very Large Array Telescope Image: ...
Assembler robots make large structures from little pieces
Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlementsCredit: Image courtesy of Benjamin Jenett Today's ...
Heron survey fishes out detail in ghostly galaxy outskirts
Credit: R. Michael Rich, UCLA / Prof. P. Duc / Astronomy & Astrophysics Astronomers have completed the largest survey to ...
Going against the flow around a supermassive black hole
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), V. Impellizzeri; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello At the center of a galaxy called NGC 1068, a supermassive black ...
Analysis of Galileo’s Jupiter entry probe reveals gaps in heat shield modeling
Data from the probe's 1995 fireball has continued to confound those studying the mission. New simulations and faster computers point ...
Black holes stunt growth of dwarf galaxies
UC Riverside astronomers find large-scale winds associated with active black holes in small galaxies suppress star formationCredit: HST/NASA/ESA. RIVERSIDE, Calif. ...
The American Physical Society announces Historic Sites for 2019
The Historic Sites initiative recognizes landmarks significant to physics history across the United States.Credit: Adler Planetarium COLLEGE PARK, MD, October ...
Luciano Rezzolla awarded prestigious honorary professorship
The Goethe University physics professor to be Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Dublin Trinity CollegeCredit: Jürgen Lecher, Goethe University "The ...
NRL launches space weather instrument on NASA satellite
Credit: NASA WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) instrument aboard NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite will deliver ...
Radiation detector with the lowest noise in the world boosts quantum work
The nanoscale radiation detector is a hundred times faster than its predecessors, and can function without interruptionCredit: Roope Kokkoniemi/Aalto University ...
New research sheds light on the ages of lunar ice deposits
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon's south ...
Milky Way raids intergalactic ‘bank accounts,’ Hubble study finds
Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Player (STScI) Our Milky Way is a frugal galaxy. Supernovas and violent stellar winds blow ...
Technology to use hot air balloons for rocket launches competes in a startup battlefield
Credit: Michael Hepfer/Leo Aerospace WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Leo Aerospace, a Purdue University-affiliated startup looking to launch rockets with the ...
The Milky Way kidnapped several tiny galaxies from its neighbor
UC Riverside-led research shows our galaxy is undergoing a massive merger with its largest satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic CloudCredit: ...
Pressure runs high at edge of solar system
Credit: NASA/IBEX/Adler Planetarium Out at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high. This pressure, the force plasma, magnetic ...
Exploring mysteries of the universe
Engineering Prof. Swati Singh uses quantum systems to study astrophysical phenomenaCredit: Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson From gravitational waves to ...
Artemis, meet ARTEMIS: Pursuing Sun science at the moon
Credit: E. Masongsong, UCLA EPSS By 2024, NASA will land astronauts, including the first woman and next man, on the ...
