Satellite Missions/Shuttles

When you get sick, a doctor or hospital is typically right down the road, a couple hours away at most. But what if the nearest one was 34 million miles and eight months away? George Mias, Michigan State University biochemistry and…

Credit: Background image from NASA/JPL-Caltech One of the last acts of NASA's Cassini spacecraft before its death plunge into Saturn's hydrogen and helium atmosphere was to coast between the planet and its rings and let them tug it…

The number of asteroids colliding with the Earth and moon has increased by up to 3 times over the past 290 million years, according to a major new study involving the University of Southampton The number of asteroids colliding with the…

Earth, moon experienced similar spike in bombardment over the last 300 million yearsCredit: Credit: NASA/LRO/USGS/University of Toronto SAN ANTONIO -- January 17, 2019 -- Using images and thermal data collected by NASA's Lunar…

JAXA Epsilon-4 to launch with experimental Earth sensor and star tracker developed by Tokyo TechCredit: Yoichi Yatsu Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have developed a low-cost star tracker and Earth sensor made…

WASHINGTON -- An image from the international Cassini spacecraft provides evidence of rainfall on the north pole of Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons. The rainfall would be the first indication of the start of a summer season in…

Credit: European Space Agency - D. Ducros, 2013 How old are each of the stars in our roughly 13-billion-year-old galaxy? A new technique for understanding the star-forming history of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail makes it possible…

ANN ARBOR--Long ago in a galaxy far, far away, fewer galaxies were born than expected--and that could create new questions for galaxy physics, according to a new University of Michigan study. The study examined the satellite galaxies of…

Credit: NASA/Roscosmos EVANSTON, Ill. --- Microbes stranded in the International Space Station (ISS) are just trying to survive, man. A new Northwestern University study has found that -- despite its seemingly harsh conditions -- the ISS…

Measurements indicate a dense, gaseous, 'sub-Neptune' world, three times the size of Earth NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered a third small planet outside our solar system, scientists announced this week at…