Technicians at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, have completed applying thermal protection system material to the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket…
Category: Astronomy
NASA, Boeing Provide Update on Starliner Flight Test Readiness
NASA and Boeing completed a joint Crew Flight Test checkpoint review May 25 ahead of the first flight of Starliner with astronauts to the International Space Station. During the checkpoint,…
All known planet-hosting, three-star systems in a single catalog
Triple-stellar systems have two stars orbiting one another with a third orbiting the pair. Now we have a catalog containing all known three-star systems that also host planets around them.…
The search for habitable planets expands
A University of Michigan astronomer and his team suggest a new way to expand the search for habitable planets that considers a zone not previously considered: the space between the…
Black Holes Ring, Physicists Listen Closely
Rendered image showing gravitational waves around a binary neutron star, one of the final stages of it becoming a black hole. Image credit: LIGO/Caltech Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity…
NASA’s UFO task force meets on May 31 and you can watch it live online for free
NASA will hold a historic public meeting on UFOs this week and you can watch it all live online in a free webcast. The agency will hold a meeting of…
Researchers find new exoplanet, potentially covered in volcanoes
An international team of astronomers, including a key researcher from McMaster, has discovered a unique Earth-sized exoplanet that may be carpeted with volcanoes. LP 791-18 d, illustrated here, is an…
Remarkably small and distant galaxy found in Early Universe
Galaxy is the smallest ever discovered at this distance—around 500 million years after the Big Bang. Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and using first-of-their-kind observations from the James Webb Space Telescope,…
Understanding boiling for better nuclear industry and space missions
PhD candidate at MIT Florian Chavagnat seeks to answer fundamental questions about heat transfer in boiling that will shape the success of nuclear power plants — and extended missions in…
10-Month Voyage Proves Solar Cell Material Survives, Thrives in Space
Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown was hoping to see anything but mustard yellow. When the NASA research electrical engineer clicked open the photo of a small solar cell material sample – a…
