DOE announces $95 million for small business research and development grants
86 grants will support scientific innovation U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry today announced that the Department of Energy will award ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
Asteroids help scientists to measure the diameters of faraway stars
New technique doubles resolution of angular size measurementsCredit: DESY, Lucid Berlin Using the unique capabilities of telescopes specialised on cosmic ...
Australia launches multi-billion smart satellite revolution
Credit: Video by Sasa Sefer Australia has today announced the biggest investment in space R&D in the country's history, with ...
Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow
Wormholes can exist -- but don't pack your bags just yet, said Harvard physicist presenting at the 2019 APS April ...
‘Snowball chamber’ helps researchers use supercooled water to search for dark matter
Thanks to a little inspiration from the Disney movie 'Frozen,' researchers discover a new property of supercooled waterCredit: Joshua E. ...
DIY gravitational waves with ‘BlackHoles@Home’
Effort led by West Virginia University researchers seeks to recruit public to advance computational research on gravitational waves emerging from ...
DOE’s Science Graduate Student Research Program selects 70 students to pursue research at DOE labs
The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science has selected 70 graduate students from across the nation for its 2018 ...
Hubble peers at cosmic blue bauble
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Piotto et al. Globular clusters are inherently beautiful objects, but the subject of this NASA/ESA ...
NASA Twins Study offers new insight on how a human’s body responds to spaceflight
Credit: John Eisele/Colorado State University When NASA decided to study identical twin astronauts -- one remaining on Earth while the ...
NASA Twins Study: A year in space has little effect on gut microbiome
A year in space seems to have a small but significant, transient effect on the gut microbiome, according to a ...
International astronomers reveal first image of event horizon of super-massive black hole
UMass Amherst research delegation is in Washington, D.C., for announcementCredit: INAOE/UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Today, in coordinated press conferences ...
Astronomers capture first image of a black hole
National Science Foundation and Event Horizon Telescope contribute to paradigm-shifting observations of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of ...
UTSA tapped by NASA to help build homes on the moon and Mars
Credit: Photo courtesy of UTSA (San Antonio, Apr. 10, 2019) -- The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has ...
First ever image of a black hole: A CNRS researcher had simulated it as early as 1979
The first real image of a black hole, obtained by the international network of EHT telescopes and published on April ...
New model accurately predicts harmful space weather
Predicting 'killer' electrons in the Earth's outer radiation belt protects spacecraftCredit: NASA's Conceptual Image Lab/Walt Feimer LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April ...
Physics tip sheet: APS April Meeting
Press tips for the upcoming 2019 American Physical Society April Meeting in Denver -- a major international meeting featuring advances ...
Life could be evolving right now on nearest exoplanets
ITHACA, N.Y. - Rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting our closest stars could host life, according to a new study that raises ...
NASA launches two rockets studying auroras
Credit: NASA/Lee Wingfield NASA successfully launched the Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment or AZURE mission on April 5 from the ...
Three K-12 educators win AIAA Foundation Educator Achievement Awards
Honored for efforts to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics educationCredit: n/a Three K-12 educators from across the United States ...
New NASA-funded program to train K-12 students in STEM fields
Outreach components include public lectures, parent nights, and telescope viewing opportunitiesCredit: Mobasher lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - NASA has ...
