Experiments in Space

Researchers say they may have found proof of theorized axions, and possibly dark matter, around group of neutron starsCredit: D. Ducros; ESA/XMM-Newton, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO A new study, led by a theoretical physicist at the U.S.…

Extended mission expanded to explore Jovian rings, moons SAN ANTONIO -- Jan. 13, 2021 -- NASA has extended the Juno mission to explore Jupiter through September 2025, expanding the science goals to include the overall Jovian system, made…

Spacecraft detect giant flare in nearby galaxy, allowing localization in star forming regionCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona Apart from black holes, magnetars may…

Credit: university of science and technology of China Chinese scientists have established the world's first integrated quantum communication network, combining over 700 optical fibers on the ground with two ground-to-satellite…

Credit: NASA/ASU 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…

Mineralogy points to large, water-rich parent asteroid for carbonaceous chondrite meteoriteCredit: NASA/USRA/Lunar and Planetary Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Dec. 21, 2020 -- A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists has…

Credit: Photo by Mihai Daniel Nita 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…

Discovery provides more evidence that the Saturn moon could support life in its subsurface oceanCredit: SwRI SAN ANTONIO -- Dec. 16, 2020 -- Using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)…

Credit: © University of Bern, Illustration: Thibaut Roger Star-forming processes sometimes create mysterious astronomical objects called brown dwarfs, which are smaller and colder than stars, and can have masses and temperatures…

Researchers at Tokyo University of Science devise a new electrochemical technology to manufacture ammonia-based fertilizer from ureaCredit: Freepik In extreme environments, even the most ordinary tasks can seem like unsurmountable…

Astronomers confirm bound orbit for planet far from its star, showing that far-flung planets existCredit: NASA, ESA, M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble) Astronomers are still searching for a hypothetical "Planet Nine" in the distant reaches…

Credit: BioServe Space Technologies, University of Colorado Boulder 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…

UC Riverside-led team looks back to find life beyondCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech UC Riverside is leading one of the NASA Astrobiology Program's eight new research teams tackling questions about the evolution and origins of life on…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Eric T. Parker 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…

Credit: NASA/ESA/Bruce Balick/Martín Guerrero/Gerardo Ramos-Larios Stars are rather patient. They can live for billions of years, and they typically make slow transitions -- sometimes over many millions of years -- between the…

Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC 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…

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 After a year of preliminary design and several reviews, NASA…

Rutgers-led study sheds light on subsurface melting of thick ice billions of years agoCredit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. 3D rendered and colored by Lujendra Ojha The most habitable region for life on Mars would have been…

How do you cool a large telescope to absolute zero while flying it from a huge balloon at 130,000 feet?Credit: Nick Bellis WASHINGTON, December 1, 2020 -- Nearly all photons emitted after the Big Bang are now visible only at…

An international study led from the University of Turku, Finland, discovered phosphorus and fluorine in solid dust particles collected from a comet. The finding indicates that all the most important elements necessary for life may have…