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A six-year research partnership between the University and SES will be funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund's Industrial Partnership Block Grant programme. Esch-sur-Alzette, 9 July 2020 - The Luxembourg National Research Fund…

New form of melanin has ability to protect human tissue from X-rays during medical treatment, spaceflightCredit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill.-- Packing for outer space? Here's one thing you won't want to forget.…

3D printed fractal structures with closely spaced voids dissipate shockwaves five times better than solid cubesCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory Tiny, 3D printed cubes of plastic, with intricate fractal voids built into them,…

Without care, Lost in Space could mean Lost in Translation LAWRENCE -- It lacks the drama of a shape-shifting alien creature, but another threat looms over the prospect of generations-long, interstellar space travel: Explorers arriving on…

Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University What started out as a hunt for ice lurking in polar lunar craters turned into an unexpected finding that could help clear some muddy history about the Moon's formation. Team members of…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Measurements from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of…

Australian researchers will lead development of the next generation of space suits in a major international collaboration with NASA, the European Space Agency and leading universities. Credit: ESA An $844,000 Australian Space…

CODEX designed to determine age of rocks on Mars, the Moon without having to return samples Credit: Tom Whitaker, SwRI SAN ANTONIO -- June 29, 2020 -- Southwest Research Institute scientists have increased the speed and…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Sometimes nicknames turn out to be closer to reality than you might imagine. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a striking image of a fledgling star's unseen,…

Aerospace student joins 'exceptional group of women' Credit: UT Arlington A doctoral student in aerospace engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington is one of 35 Amelia Earhart Fellows for 2020. Katiyayni (Kati)…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center For more than a decade, astronomers have searched for planets orbiting AU Microscopii, a nearby star still surrounded by a disk of debris left over from its formation. Now…

The discovery gives scientists a front seat to the earliest stages of planet formation Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Understanding how planets form is one of the main challenges scientists face when placing our…

Discovery offers unique opportunity to gain insight into how planets form and migrate in a solar system's early days New research published today in Nature reports the discovery of a planet about the size of Neptune orbiting an…

SwRI also developing ion instrument to study electrodynamics in the polar cuspsCredit: NASA/Jamie Adkins SAN ANTONIO -- June 22, 2020 -- NASA has approved the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites…

Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Kastner (RIT) As nuclear fusion engines, most stars live placid lives for hundreds of millions to billions of years. But near the end of their lives they can turn into crazy whirligigs, puffing off shells and…

An increase in space launches requires the development of a method to clear space debris which could collide with valuable equipment; one plausible method of achieving this through the use of a tug vehicle requires a successful connection…

New research examines the effect of rotation and other variables in the applications of 'aerogravity assisted' manoeuvres to obtain an energy boost for space craft In a recent paper published in EPJ Special Topics, Jhonathan O. Murcia…

Results show the shifting outer heliosphere in great detailCredit: Credits: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Conceptual Imaging Lab Far, far beyond the orbits of the planets lie the hazy contours of the magnetic bubble in…

SpIRIT to launch in 2022Credit: University of Melbourne Science and engineering researchers at the University of Melbourne have been awarded a $3.95 million Australian Government grant to help develop cutting edge space capabilities in…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center On June 15, 2020, a citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO -- the 4,000th comet discovery in the spacecraft's…