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UrduWith less than a year to launch, NASA’s Lucy mission’s third and final scientific instrument has been integrated onto the spacecraft. The spacecraft, which will be the first to explore the Trojan asteroids—a population of small bodies that share an…
Tag: EXPERIMENTS IN SPACE
Astronomers offer possible explanation for elusive dark-matter-free galaxies
UC Riverside-led study finds extreme tidal mass loss in dwarf galaxies formed in a simulation
NASA mission to test technology for satellite swarms
Carnegie Mellon’s Zac Manchester leads three-satellite experiment
Mystery of Martian glaciers revealed
Research shows Mars had as many as six to 20 ice ages during the past 300-800 million years
Study: X-Rays surrounding ‘Magnificent 7’ may be traces of sought-after particle
Researchers say they may have found proof of theorized axions, and possibly dark matter, around group of neutron stars
NASA’s first mission to the Trojan asteroids integrates its second scientific instrument
NASA’s Lucy mission is one step closer to launch as L’TES, the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer, has been successfully integrated on to the spacecraft. “Having two of the three instruments integrated onto the spacecraft is an exciting milestone,” said Donya…
SwRI-led team finds meteoric evidence for a previously unknown asteroid
Mineralogy points to large, water-rich parent asteroid for carbonaceous chondrite meteorite
How scientists are using declassified military photographs to analyse historical ecological change
Researchers are using?Cold?War spy satellite images to explore changes in the environment, including deforestation in Romania, marmot decline in Kazakhstan and ecological damage from bombs in Vietnam.? Ecologists have harnessed new advances in image processing?to?improve analysis of declassified US military…
SwRI models point to a potentially diverse metabolic menu at Enceladus
Discovery provides more evidence that the Saturn moon could support life in its subsurface ocean
A pair of lonely planet-like objects born like stars
Star-forming processes sometimes create mysterious astronomical objects called brown dwarfs, which are smaller and colder than stars, and can have masses and temperatures down to those of exoplanets in the most extreme cases. Just like stars, brown dwarfs often wander…
Exoplanet around distant star resembles reputed ‘Planet Nine’ in our solar system
Astronomers confirm bound orbit for planet far from its star, showing that far-flung planets exist
Spiders in space: without gravity, light becomes key to orientation
Humans have taken spiders into space more than once to study the importance of gravity to their web-building. What originally began as a somewhat unsuccessful PR experiment for high school students has yielded the surprising insight that light plays a…
Using Earth’s history to inform the search for life on exoplanets
UC Riverside-led team looks back to find life beyond
Asteroid Ryugu dust delivered to earth; NASA astrobiologists prepare to probe it
On Dec. 6 local time (Dec. 5 in the United States), Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 dropped a capsule to the ground of the Australian Outback from about 120 miles (or 200 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. Inside that capsule is some of…
Gaia: astronomers to release most accurate data ever for nearly two billion stars
On 3 December an international team of astronomers will announce the most detailed ever catalogue of the stars in a huge swathe of our Milky Way galaxy. The measurements of stellar positions, movement, brightness and colours are in the third…
Planetary scientist named key partner on NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission
Christopher Edwards joins multi-institutional team led by Caltech to design and build instrumentation for satellite to study the Moon’s water cycle and make critical basemaps
Scientists solve big limitation of stratospheric balloon payloads
How do you cool a large telescope to absolute zero while flying it from a huge balloon at 130,000 feet?
Chemical physicist to collaborate on NASA-funded study of Saturn’s moon Titan
Findings will contribute to NASA’s mission to Titan in 2026
Experimenting in space to help prevent mudslides here on Earth
What can the International Space Station teach us about mudslides here on Earth? Here is the connection: UC San Diego engineers are trying to better understand the role gravity plays in mudslides. That is why in 18 months, they will…
SwRI scientists expand space instrument’s capabilities
Researchers add second dating technique to prototype spaceflight instrument
Preparing for a human mission to Mars
New Rochelle, NY, November 12, 2020–Future human missions to Mars depend on field research in an environment similar to that of Mars. It will enable the evaluation of operational concepts and optimization of strategies. The goals and results of the…
Heat and dust help launch Martian water into space, scientists find
Scientists using an instrument aboard NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, spacecraft have discovered that water vapor near the surface of the Red Planet is lofted higher into the atmosphere than anyone expected was possible. There, it is…
SwRI scientist studies tiny craters on Bennu boulders to understand asteroid’s age
Scientists inferred Bennu’s sojourn in the inner Solar System at 1.75 million years
Mining rocks in orbit could aid deep space exploration
The first mining experiments conducted in space could pave the way for new technologies to help humans explore and establish settlements on distant worlds, a study suggests. Tests performed by astronauts on the International Space Station suggest that bacteria can…
NASA deems SwRI-developed satellites healthy, extends CYGNSS mission
Hurricane wind monitoring mission will continue through 2023
Tel Aviv University builds and plans to launch a small satellite into orbit
The nanosatellite, entirely designed and assembled on the University campus, will measure cosmic radiation around the earth
Asteroid Ryugu shaken by Hayabusa2’s impactor
The artificial impactor disturbed boulders within a 30m radius from the center of the impact crater- providing important insight into asteroids’ resurfacing processes
Tiny moon shadows may harbor hidden stores of ice
Hidden pockets of water could be much more common on the surface of the moon than scientists once suspected, according to new research led by the University of Colorado Boulder. In some cases, these tiny patches of ice might exist…
OSIRIS-REx TAGs surface of asteroid Bennu
Captured on Oct. 20, 2020 during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million…
FEFU scientists helped design a new type of ceramics for laser applications
Material scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) joined an international team of researchers to develop new nanocomposite ceramics (Ho3+:Y2O3-MgO) that can be employed in high-capacity laser systems operating in the medium infrared range (IR) of 2-6 micrometers. These lasers…
Australian research shows NASA’s James Webb telescopes will reveal hidden galaxies
Blinding glare of quasars can be overcome
SwRI planetary scientist to fly aboard NASA-funded commercial space flight
Suborbital flight to support two ‘human-tended’ experiments
Two SwRI experiments fly aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket
Asteroid sampling technology, tapered liquid acquisition device tested in low gravity
A new look at sunspots
Helping NASA scientists understand major flares and life around other stars
Planetary astronomer co-authors studies of asteroid as member of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission
Mission’s science team publishes findings characterizing asteroid’s surface in advance of sample collection event
SwRI scientists study the rugged surface of near-Earth asteroid Bennu
New papers outline what NASA’s OSIRIS-REx will collect from asteroid surface
Aerodynamicists reveal link between fish scales and aircraft drag
City, University of London’s Professor Christoph Bruecker and his team have transferred the idea of fish scales to arrays of bio-inspired scales which are capable of producing a streaky flow that could reduce skin friction drag by more than 25 percent.
NASA’s TESS creates a cosmic vista of the northern sky
Familiar stars shine, nebulae glow, and nearby galaxies tantalize in a new panorama of the northern sky assembled from 208 pictures captured by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The planet hunter imaged about 75% of the sky in a…
On the trail of causes of radiation events during space flight
Scientists have made significant progress in understanding the sources of radiation events that could impact human space-flight operations.
On the trail of causes of radiation events during space flight
Lessons from conjunction observations with ISS detectors and the Arase satellite
Scientists precisely measure total amount of matter in the universe
UC Riverside-led team’s technique relied on determining the mass of galaxy clusters
First measurements of radiation levels on the moon
In the coming years and decades, various nations want to explore the moon, and plan to send astronauts there again for this purpose. But on our inhospitable satellite, space radiation poses a significant risk. The Apollo astronauts carried so-called dosimeters…
Can ripples on the sun help predict solar flares?
Scientists analyze sunquakes to pinpoint flare energy source, perhaps predict flare severity
SwRI instruments aboard Rosetta help detect unexpected ultraviolet aurora at a comet
ESA’s Rosetta mission discovers unique aurora at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Back to space: in 2024 Politecnico di Milano will take part to the first planetary defense mission
After contributing to Rosetta Mission, in 2024 Politecnico di Milano will be back to deep space. That year ESA, the European Space Agency, will launch the Hera spacecraft towards binary asteroid Didymos, the smallest ever visited object by a space…
Device could help detect signs of extraterrestrial life
Although Earth is uniquely situated in the solar system to support creatures that call it home, different forms of life could have once existed, or might still exist, on other planets. But finding traces of past or current lifeforms on…
SwRI scientist searches for stellar phosphorus to find potentially habitable exoplanets
Stellar chemical compositions used as proxy for potentially habitable systems
SwRI-led study indicates sand-sized meteoroids are peppering asteroid Bennu
Research uses data from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission
The story of a cosmological experiment
The dark energy survey
Where rocks come alive: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx observes an asteroid in action
It’s 5 o’clock somewhere – and while here on Earth, “happy hour” is commonly associated with winding down and the optional cold beverage, that’s when things get going on Bennu, the destination asteroid of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. In a special…