Experiments in Space

A Rochester Institute of Technology professor is part of a small team of scientists contributing to NASA's new mission to explore the origins of the universe by performing the first near-infrared all-sky spectral survey. Assistant…

Measurements of gravitational waves from ~50 binary neutron stars over the next decade will definitively resolve an intense debate over how fast our universe is expanding, find an international team including UCL and Flatiron Institute…

Credit: NASA Queen Mary University of London has led a study which describes the first direct measurement of how energy is transferred from the chaotic electromagnetic fields in space to the particles that make up the solar wind, leading…

Credit: NASA The heaviest vehicle to successfully land on Mars is the Curiosity Rover at 1 metric ton, about 2,200 pounds. Sending more ambitious robotic missions to the surface of Mars, and eventually humans, will require landed payload…

UMD geologist Nicholas Schmerr and collaborators repurposed data from Mars rover's navigational instruments to learn about the geologic history of Gale Crater and Mount Sharp Apollo 17 astronauts drove a moon buggy across the lunar surface…

Watch how X-ray echoes, mapped by NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) revealed changes to the corona of black hole MAXI J1820+070. Scientists have charted the environment surrounding a stellar-mass black hole that…

Algorithm could help autonomous underwater vehicles explore risky but scientifically rewarding environments. We know far less about the Earth's oceans than we do about the surface of the moon or Mars. The sea floor is carved with expansive…

Credit: Kjell Henriksen Observatory/UNIS/F. Sigernes On Jan. 4, 2019, at 4:37 a.m. EST the CAPER-2 mission launched from the Andøya Space Center in Andenes, Norway, on a 4-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket. Reaching an apogee of 480…

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have used new space technology to predict droughts and increased bushfire risk up to five months in advance. ANU researcher Siyuan Tian said the team knew they needed to move into…

On earth, environmental protection has the primary goal of ensuring the availability of clean water and clean air for human beings in the future. Human interests usually take also precedent when it comes to protecting more developed…