Space : Science World Report

Apr 08, 2019 09:35 AM EDT

Rocket fuel that's cleaner, safer and still full of energy

Research published this week in Science Advances shows that it may be possible to create rocket fuel that is much cleaner and safer than the hypergolic fuels that are commonly used today.

Apr 06, 2019 11:40 AM EDT

Heavy metal planet fragment survives destruction from dead star

A fragment of a planet that has survived the death of its star has been discovered by University of Warwick astronomers in a disc of debris formed from destroyed planets, which the star ultimately consumes.

Mar 27, 2019 08:33 AM EDT

GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging

Cutting-edge VLTI instrument reveals details of a storm-wracked exoplanet using optical interferometry

Mar 25, 2019 10:07 AM EDT

Jupiter's unknown journey revealed

It is known that gas giants around other stars are often located very near their sun. According to accepted theory, these gas planets were formed far away and subsequently migrated to an orbit closer to the star.

Mar 21, 2019 10:11 AM EDT

Giant X-ray 'chimneys' are exhaust vents for vast energies produced at Milky Way's center

Study co-authored by UCLA astronomer provides close look at what might be happening in other, more energetic galaxies

Mar 20, 2019 09:45 AM EDT

Mitigating the loss of satellite data by using CubeSat remote sensing technology

Advanced infrared and microwave sounding systems, usually onboard traditional polar-orbiting satellites, provide atmospheric sounding information critical for nowcasting and weather forecasting through data assimilation in numerical weather prediction models. This means weather forecasts have become...

Mar 20, 2019 09:41 AM EDT

The rise and fall of Ziggy star formation and the rich dust from ancient stars

Researchers have detected a radio signal from abundant interstellar dust in MACS0416_Y1, a galaxy 13.2 billion light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. Standard models can't explain this much dust in a galaxy this young, forcing us to rethink the history of star formation. Researchers now thi...

Mar 20, 2019 09:10 AM EDT

NASA's Fermi Satellite clocks 'cannonball' pulsar speeding through space

Astronomers found a pulsar hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles an hour -- so fast it could travel the distance between Earth and the Moon in just 6 minutes. The discovery was made using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very La...

Mar 19, 2019 09:31 AM EDT

Carbon monoxide detectors could warn of extraterrestrial life

For some distant worlds, carbon monoxide may actually be compatible with a robust microbial biosphere

Mar 18, 2019 10:32 AM EDT

Dormant viruses activate during spaceflight -- NASA investigates

The stress of spaceflight gives viruses a holiday from immune surveillance, putting future deep-space missions in jeopardy

Mar 16, 2019 09:55 AM EDT

Martian meteorites land at Army lab

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (March 13, 2019) -- NASA officials say that some rare and distinct meteorites found on Earth were actually blasted off Mars by a large impact event. One such rock from the red planet made its way to an Army laboratory recently for a special X-ray look inside.

Mar 15, 2019 09:42 AM EDT

Bernese Mars camera CaSSIS returns spectacular images

ExoMars is a space mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) in cooperation with the Russian space agency Roskosmos. ExoMars stands for exobiology on Mars: for the first time since the 1970s, active research is being conducted into life on Mars.