The lifting body aircraft on Rogers Dry Lake, near what is now NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, include, from left, the X-24A, the M2-F3, and the HL-10. Credit: NASA NASA researchers are looking at the possibility of using a wingless, unpowered aircraft design from the 1960s to …
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Evan Anzalone, at lower left, principal investigator for the Lunar Node-1 demonstrator payload, monitors the LN-1 mission from the Lunar Utilization Control Area in the Huntsville Operations Support Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. LN-1 successfully tested an autonomous navigation and geo-positioning system that will make …
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A map of dark matter from 2021 using weak gravitational lensing data set. Credit: Dark Energy Survey. darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/. New research in Physical Review Letters (PRL) has proposed a novel method to detect light dark matter candidates using laser interferometry to measure the oscillatory electric fields generated by these candidates. Dark …
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Angular diameter distance as a function of redshift in CCC+TL and ΛCDM models. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal (2024). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1bc6 The current theoretical model for the composition of the universe is that it’s made of normal matter, dark energy and dark matter. A new University of Ottawa study challenges this. …
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The Large Magellanic cloud. Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/SMASH/D. Nidever (Montana State University) Image processing: Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin. A fresh look at red giant stars offers key insights into cosmic distance measurements and a way to measure the universe’s expansion with the highest accuracy. …
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Credit: BFA / Warner Bros Frank Herbert’s Dune is epic sci-fi storytelling with an environmental message at its heart. The novels and movies are set on the desert planet of Arrakis, which various characters dream of transforming into a greener world—much like some envision for Mars today. We investigated Arrakis …
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Discs giving birth to new planets, seen by the Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO/C. Ginski, A. Garufi, P.-G. Valegård et al. When we look out to the stars, it is typically not a yearning for the distant depths of outer space that drives us. When we are looking out there, …
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Protein fragments identified new types of extremophiles, which survive harsh environments on Earth, and could someday help astrobiologists identify alien life. Credit: Journal of Proteome Research (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00538 Perfectly adapted microorganisms live in extreme environments, from deep-sea trenches to mountaintops. Learning more about how these extremophiles survive in hostile …
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Credit: Pixabay from Pexels A new robot will be taking flight soon to test its ability to support biological and physical science experiments in microgravity. As one of NASA’s 2023 TechFlights selections, this compact robot will have a chance to fly on a commercial suborbital flight to see just how …
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Europe’s Ariane 6 launcher covers a broad range of commercial and institutional applications while dramatically decreasing the cost of launches compared to Ariane 5. Credit: ArianeGroup, European Space Agency With Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket now at its spaceport in French Guiana, the passengers it will launch to space are …
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