Credit: ESA-Remedia A downward view of ESA’s rock-strewn recreation of the Red Planet, is designed to put prototype planetary rovers through their paces. Officially part of the Planetary Robotics Laboratory…
Category: Space
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…
How do you recognize the atmosphere of extraterrestrial lava worlds?
An artist’s conception of star scorching its nearby exoplanet. New research shows that aging red giant stars, far from destroying life, could warm frozen worlds into habitable homes. Credit: ESO/L.…
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…
NASA Harnesses US Navy Spinning Device to Simulate Spaceflight
A view of the cockpit of the Kraken, a device that can be configured to disorient those strapped inside. The parallel tracks on the left and right allow the cockpit…
Global team to simulate message from extraterrestrial intelligence to Earth
L-R (clockwise): The Allen Telescope Array, Green Bank Telescope and Medecina Radio Astronomical Station. Credit: Allen Telescope Array: Joe MarfiaGreen Bank Telescope: Jay YoungMedecina Radio Astronomical Station: Medecina Radio Astronomical…
Juice’s RIME antenna breaks free: Jupiter’s explorations to go on with fewer troubles
More than three weeks after efforts began to deploy Juice’s ice-penetrating Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) antenna, the 16-metre-long boom has finally escaped its mounting bracket. Illustration of the…
Private mission carrying Saudi astronauts launches to ISS
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Axiom Mission 2 astronauts, including two from Saudi Arabia, lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 21, 2023, bound…
First radio detection of Type Ia supernova explosion captured by e-MERLIN telescope at Jodrell Bank
After decades of trying, astronomers have found the origin of a Type Ia supernova explosion using radio emissions, thanks to the e-MERLIN telescope network based at Jodrell Bank, The University of Manchester. Lovell…
Private mission carrying first Saudi astronauts to visit ISS set for launch
Ax-2 crew members Peggy Whitson (far left), Rayyanah Barnawi, John Shoffner and Ali Al-Qarni took part in training ahead of their expected journey to the International Space Station. A private…
