Space/Planetary Science

Micropropulsion system that provides robust, efficient option, reduces contamination risks is presented at IEEE Pulsed Power and Plasma Science ConferenceCredit: Purdue University/Alexey Shashurin WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Finding inexpensive…

Silica aerogel could warm the Martian surface similar to the way greenhouse gasses keep Earth warmCredit: Harvard SEAS People have long dreamed of re-shaping the Martian climate to make it livable for humans. Carl Sagan was the…

Credit: (US Naval Research Laboratory) WASHINGTON -- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's updated tropical cyclone prediction software becomes operational just before the first tropical system of the season to reach the U.S. makes…

Space automation, robots, reusable space systems, propulsion, battery technology win awards The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has announced the winners of technical excellence awards to be presented during the…

Chunlei Liang and Volker J. Sorger received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and EngineersCredit: The George Washington University President Trump has named two George Washington University professors winners of the…

Credit: Zac Cooper/University of Washington In recent years, the idea of life on other planets has become less far-fetched. NASA announced June 27 that it will send a vehicle to Saturn's icy moon, Titan, a celestial body known to harbor…

Astronomers report first observations of a 'circumplanetary disk'Credit: A. Isella, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)) Using Earth's most powerful array of radio telescopes, astronomers have made the first observations of a…

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) A. Isella; ESO Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first-ever observations of a circumplanetary disk, the planet-girding belt of dust and gas that…

UMD physicist for Apollo experiment gets chance to send next gen version to moonCredit: Doug Currie, University of Maryland COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- In 1969, University of Maryland physicist Doug Currie helped design three…

Credit: Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, S. Bianchi (Università degli Studi Roma Tre University), A. Laor (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology), and M. Chiaberge (ESA, STScI, and JHU); illustration: NASA, ESA, and A.... As if black holes…