Satellite Missions/Shuttles

New method for early flutter detection will help in the development of safer and more eco-friendly turbines in aircraftCredit: Tokyo University of Science Despite humanity's remarkable engineering prowess, sometimes completely unexpected…

Credit: © ESA Eight months after the space telescope CHEOPS started its journey into space, the first scientific publication using data from CHEOPS has been issued. CHEOPS is the first ESA mission dedicated to…

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…

International team of researchers finds the region has become greener as warmer air and soil temperatures lead to increased plant growthCredit: Logan Berner, Northern Arizona University As Arctic summers warm, Earth's northern…

Scientists analyze sunquakes to pinpoint flare energy source, perhaps predict flare severityCredit: UC Berkeley graphic by Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas Solar flares are violent explosions on the sun that fling out high-energy charged…

Spacecraft DAPPER will study "dark ages" of the universe in radio wavesCredit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Sophia Dagnello The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has joined a new NASA space mission to the far side of the Moon to…

ESA's Rosetta mission discovers unique aurora at Comet 67P/Churyumov-GerasimenkoCredit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 21, 2020 -- Data from Southwest Research Institute-led instruments aboard ESA's Rosetta spacecraft have…

Credit: NASA Federal funding of new technology is crucial for astronomy, according to results of a study released Sept. 21 in the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments and Systems. The study tracked the…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio In a paper published today in Nature Astronomy, researchers report the first ever clear images of nanojets -- bright thin lights that travel perpendicular to…

Monitoring global animal migration from space - this is now possible for international animal behaviour researchers. ICARUS, the animal tracking system in space, successfully completed its test phase on the International Space Station…

New CME forecasting method shows value of including imaging cameras on future NASA missionsCredit: University of Reading Solar storm analysis carried out by an army of citizen scientists has helped researchers devise a new and more…

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL team This latest image of Jupiter, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on Aug. 25, 2020, was captured…

UC San Diego engineer Boris Kramer is part of a team that will develop software to forecast space storms.Credit: NASA In August 1859, a massive solar storm knocked out the global telegraph system. Some telegraph operators were hit…

Credit: ESA 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…

ITHACA, N.Y. - When stars like our sun die, all that remains is an exposed core - a white dwarf. A planet orbiting a white dwarf presents a promising opportunity to determine if life can survive the death of its star, according to Cornell…

Credit: University of Kansas / KU News Service LAWRENCE -- A University of Kansas astronomer played a key role on the team that today announced the first-ever discovery of a planet orbiting a white dwarf. The finding, published in…

Stellar chemical compositions used as proxy for potentially habitable systemsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 16, 2020 -- A Southwest Research Institute scientist has identified stellar phosphorus as a probable marker…

OpenET will provide easily accessible satellite-based water data to help build a resilient future for agricultureCredit: OpenET (SACRAMENTO, CA -- Sept. 15, 2020) The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), NASA, the Desert Research…

A planet observed crossing in front of, or transiting, a low-mass star has been determined to be about the size of Jupiter. While hundreds of Jupiter-sized planets have been discovered orbiting larger sun-like stars, it is rare to see…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have discovered that there may be a missing ingredient in our cosmic recipe of how dark matter behaves. They have uncovered a discrepancy between the theoretical models of how dark…