Experiments in Space

Grover Swartzlander earns Phase II award from NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program Scientists have been floating designs for solar sails to propel spacecraft for decades, but a new approach being developed by a Rochester Institute of…

Mars greenhouse design provides food and exercise for astronautsCredit: Image courtesy of: Thayer School of Engineering HANOVER, N.H. - April 25, 2019 - A team from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering that designed a greenhouse for…

The recently-discovered atmospheric glow is both like typical auroras and distinct from them, new research findsCredit: Rocky Raybell. WASHINGTON--The celestial phenomenon known as STEVE is likely caused by a combination of…

Credit: NASA, ESA, Adam Riess, and Palomar Digitized Sky Survey New measurements from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the Universe is expanding about 9% faster than expected based on its trajectory seen shortly after…

Credit: NASA DURHAM, N.H.-- Researchers at the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center find that "speed bumps" in space, which can slow down satellites orbiting closer to Earth, are more complex than originally thought. "We…

Vacuum Extinguish Method (VEM): A fire extinguisher in space environmentsCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. A research team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Toyohashi…

Credit: Antonio Genova WASHINGTON--Scientists have long known that Earth and Mercury have metallic cores. Like Earth, Mercury's outer core is composed of liquid metal, but there have only been hints that Mercury's innermost core…

Orbiting a nearby star, the new planet is the smallest identified so far by the TESS mission NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered its first Earth-sized exoplanet. The planet, named HD 21749c, is the smallest…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar…

UC San Diego team looked at how microgravity and other factors altered fluid pressure in brainCredit: UC San Diego As part of the unprecedented NASA Twin study, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine examined…