Spacecraft navigation uses x-rays from dead stars
The remnants of a collapsed neutron star, called a pulsar, are magnetically charged and spinning anywhere from one rotation per ...
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UCF and NASA researchers design charged ‘power suits’ for electric vehicles and spacecraft
ORLANDO, March 7, 2022 – Like the charged power suit worn by Black Panther of Marvel Comics, UCF researchers have ...
Spacecraft enters the Sun’s corona for the first time in history
Cambridge, MASS. – A spacecraft launched by NASA has done what was once thought impossible. On April 28, the Parker ...
A Spacecraft Has “Touched” the Sun for the First Time
COLLEGE PARK, MD, December 14, 2021 — On April 28, 2021, at 0933 UT (3:33 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time), NASA’s ...
Tiny grains, severe damage: Hypervelocity dust impacts on a spacecraft produce plasma explosions and debris clouds
PITTSBURGH—The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, NASA’s newest and most ambitious effort to study the sun, has broken a lot of ...
Feeling the heat: Fusion reactors used to test spacecraft heat shields
PITTSBURGH—Spacecraft have long used heat shields for protection during entry into planetary atmospheres. Future missions to the outer solar system ...
To watch a comet form, a spacecraft could tag along for a journey toward the sun
Deep in the solar system, between Jupiter and Neptune, lurk thousands of small chunks of ice and rock. Occasionally, one ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft poised to launch Oct. 16
SAN ANTONIO — Oct. 12, 2021 — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is encapsulated in a protective fairing atop an Atlas V ...
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Protein supplement helps control Type 2 diabetes
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New survey illustrates challenges associated with healthcare environmental hygiene in facilities worldwide
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Body weight influences the chance of developing Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
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Discovery offers starting point for better gene-editing tools
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Scientists shine new light on role of Earth’s orbit in the fate of ancient ice sheets
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AI learns coral reef ‘song’