Satellite Missions/Shuttles

Credit: NASA/IBEX/Adler Planetarium Out at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high. This pressure, the force plasma, magnetic fields and particles like ions, cosmic rays and electrons exert on one another when they…

Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Player (STScI) Our Milky Way is a frugal galaxy. Supernovas and violent stellar winds blow gas out of the galactic disk, but that gas falls back onto the galaxy to form new generations of stars. In an…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon's south pole has helped to renew interest in exploring the lunar surface, but no one is…

Although the mapping of aboveground biomass is now possible with satellite remote sensing, these maps still have to be calibrated and validated using on-site data gathered by researchers across the world. IIASA contributed to the…

Credit: Michael Hepfer/Leo Aerospace WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Leo Aerospace, a Purdue University-affiliated startup looking to launch rockets with the help of hot air balloons, has taken to the technology battlefield to receive…

Credit: NASA WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) instrument aboard NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite will deliver unprecedented information to help scientists investigate how both terrestrial…

The nanoscale radiation detector is a hundred times faster than its predecessors, and can function without interruptionCredit: Roope Kokkoniemi/Aalto University Researchers from Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of…

Credit: University of Illinois Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Lara Waldrop, assistant professor electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been selected by NASA to lead…

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Joe Nuth loves dust. Among astronomers, that puts him in a minority. "The traditional astronomers -- the people looking at galaxies and stars -- they hate dust," said Nuth, a planetary scientist at…

Their initial discovery had seemed like a contradiction because most other polymer fibres embrittle in the cold. But after many years of working on the problem, the group of researchers have discovered that silk's cryogenic toughness is…