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Lab Uses Microgravity Environment to Develop Better Spacecraft

Lab Uses Microgravity Environment to Develop Better Spacecraft

by MaryBeth DiDonna

The Air Force Research Laboratory's new Deployable Structures Lab tests scientific equipment before it's launched into space

Project Profile: Integrated Space Stem Cell Orbital Research

by MaryBeth DiDonna

What Will a Lab on Mars Be Like?

What Will a Lab on Mars Be Like?

by Rachel Muenz

A purple star with solar flares around it

Researchers Discover the Universe's Oldest Stars Circling the Milky Way

by Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The three stars are estimated to have formed 12 to 13 billion years ago

An artist’s rendition of Saturn’s moon Enceladus shown as a white sphere with a slice cut out revealing the internal layers to depict hydrothermal activity on the seafloor and cracks in the moon’s icy crust with vapor from the watery interior being ejected into space in plumes

Signs of Life Detectable in Single Ice Grain Emitted from Extraterrestrial Moons

by University of Washington

Cutting-edge analysis of individual ice grains unveils potential for detecting microbial encasement within ice plumes

Computer image of Venus in space

Mysterious Missing Component in the Clouds of Venus Revealed

by University of Cambridge

Researchers may have identified the component in Venusian clouds that explains their color and splotchiness

Image of Saturns moon, Titan

Titan’s ‘Magic Islands’ Likely Honeycombed Hydrocarbon Icebergs

by American Geophysical Union

On the ground, accumulated chunks may calve like glaciers at the edges of the moon’s methane lakes

Computer image of someone walking on Mars

Research Takes Us a Step Closer to Sustaining Human Life on the Red Planet

by University of Sussex

Scientists create transformative nanomaterials with potential for clean energy production

Blue stars and nebula in space

New Red Galaxies Turn Out to Be Already Known Blue Galaxies

by National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Extremely red objects have been shown to be similar to blue-excess dust obscured galaxies

Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex image

NASA’s Webb Identifies Tiniest Free-Floating Brown Dwarf

by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Researchers chose to study the IC 348 star cluster located 1,000 light-years away

Images of distant galaxies

Ghostlike Dusty Galaxy Reappears in James Webb Space Telescope Image

by University of Texas at Austin

Researchers detect a galaxy that's busy forming new stars, but is hard to see

Computer image of exoplanets in space

Scientists Discover Rare 6-Planet System That Moves in Strange Synchrony

by University of Chicago

Study led by UChicago astronomer may tell us about how planets form

Image of light exploding outward in space

‘Amaterasu’ Particle: A New Cosmic Mystery

by Osaka Metropolitan University

Unknown extremely energetic particle from space detected and named after Japanese myth