Satellite Missions/Shuttles

Satellites reveal fluctuation in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and releases from the Yangtze River An estimated 8 million tons of plastic trash enters the ocean each year, and most of it is battered by sun and waves into…

Researchers explain the design of the relay communication satellite that enabled us to peek at the hidden face of the moonCredit: Space: Science & Technology Because of a phenomenon called gravitational locking, the Moon always faces…

The Uttarakhand region of India experienced a humanitarian tragedy on Feb. 7, 2021, when a wall of debris and water barreled down the Ronti Gad, Rishiganga and Dhauliganga river valleys. The event began when a wedge of rock carrying a…

Curtin University researchers have helped uncover the 4-billion-year-old story of a lunar sample brought from the moon to Earth, by the manned Apollo 17 mission more than 50 years agoCredit: Curtin University Curtin University researchers…

Signatures of Space Shuttle, Falcon 9 rocket stages heard by international nuclear test monitoring systemCredit: Patrick Hupe and Christoph Pilger, German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources WASHINGTON--After their…

New UArizona research finds that the target asteroid of NASA's Psyche mission may not be as metallic or dense as previously predicted The widely studied metallic asteroid known as 16 Psyche was long thought to be the exposed iron core of a…

The three-year, $240,000 grant will be used to investigate how to make solar power conversion more resilient and tolerant to space-related radiationCredit: Daniel Miller, The University of Toledo A team of engineers in The University of…

A catalyst that destroys perchlorate in water could clean Martian soil A team led by UC Riverside engineers has developed a catalyst to remove a dangerous chemical from water on Earth that could also make Martian soil safer for agriculture…

Credit: China Meteorological Administration Since the era of meteorological satellites began in the 1950s, continuous remote sensing instrument improvements have elevated Earth science and have significantly increased available…

Credit: Princeton University Lauren Dreier was paging through a 19th century book by the German architect Gottfried Semper when she spotted some intriguing patterns inspired by lace. A professional artist and designer who often…

Using supercomputers, researchers develop new software for improved space weather predictionCredit: Talwinder Singh, Mehmet S. Yalim, Nikolai V. Pogorelov, and Nat Gopalswamy The surface of the sun churns with energy and frequently…

'Jack-of-all-trades' improves future spacefaring calculationsCredit: Photo by Lonnie Anderson, courtesy Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Humberto "Tito" Silva III, a Sandia National Laboratories researcher, has been…

Lancaster University researchers are developing new artificial intelligence systems that could help to predict and warn of flooding Lancaster University researchers are developing new artificial intelligence systems that could help to…

Credit: DAMPE Collaboration Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Collaboration directly observed a spectral softening of helium nuclei at about 34TeV for the first time. This work was based on measurements data of the helium…

Credit: Alain Bucio/Air Squared Inc., ZERO-G (www.gozerog.com), Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Astronauts have been going to space since 1961, but they still don't have a refrigerator to use for keeping food cold on long…

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang; Radio: NRF/SARAO/MeerKAT Threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields are weaving a tapestry of energy at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. A new image of this new cosmic…

Solar wind imaging satellites one step closer to 2023 launch SAN ANTONIO -- May 24, 2021 -- On May 20, 2021, the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission achieved an important milestone, passing NASA's Preliminary…

Leicester space scientists will join a group of global experts investigating fundamental questions about our Universe, after being granted time to use the most advanced observatory ever built. A total of 286 scientific targets identified…

First study of timing of extreme space weather events reveals clear pattern Planned missions to return humans to the Moon need to hurry up to avoid hitting one of the busiest periods for extreme space weather, according to scientists…

Credit: Lionel Clermont / Centre Spatial de Liège / Université de Liège A team of researchers at the Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL) of the University of Liège has just developed a method to identify the contributors and origins of…