Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the presence of two new moons around the distant planet Pluto. The moons were first discovered by Hubble in May 2005, but the Pluto Companion Search team probed even deeper into the Pluto system with Hubble on Feb. 15.
Lee Anne Willson, a University Professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University, studies the stars that produce the kind of dust collected by NASA's stardust mission.
Perhaps edging closer to finding planets that harbor life, astronomers have discovered the smallest planet yet identified outside our solar system.
Nearly seven years after setting off in pursuit of comet Wild 2, the Stardust return capsule streaked across the night sky of the Western United States early today, making a soft parachute landing in the Utah desert southwest of Salt Lake City.
Astronomy laser helps scientists see 10 times better than before. Astronomers are using this laser to find new objects in our solar system and study new objects in the Milky Way galaxy never before seen.
Call it the Bermuda Triangle of our Milky Way Galaxy: a tiny patch of sky that has been known for years to be the source of the mysterious blasts of X-rays and gamma rays. Now, a team of astronomers has solved the mystery by identifying one of the most massive star clusters in the galaxy.
Scientists witness the initial steps toward planet formation in the famous Orion Nebula.
By stretching the capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to the limit, astronomers have photographed the close companion of Polaris for the first time. This sequence of images shows that the North Star, Polaris is really a triple star system.
The Stardust spacecraft on Jan. 15 is scheduled to return a capsule, with particles collected from comet Wild 2, by parachute to the Utah desert; the end of the seven-year space mission will be just the beginning of scientists' work to unlock secrets of the solar system's origins.
The Crab Nebula is a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years ago in 1054, as did, almost certainly, Native Americans.
From finding spacecraft leaks to the latest in nanotechnology, Iowa State University scientists are working on 17 research projects for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
An ultrasound training program for non-physicians gives astronauts and sports trainers the tools to assess injuries using real-time remote assistance from medical experts. The National Space Biomedical Research Institute has developed a training method that four International Space Station crews have trained with.
Understanding the effects of near-zero gravity on the body's immune response is the purpose of new space hardware being tested by scientists and engineers at UAB's Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering.
The dilemma of being forced to reduce cargo weight by combining edible food and workable equipment for a space flight is being put to a group of Ball State University students and Australian sixth graders.
A bike-like centrifuge that creates artificial gravity may help astronauts combat muscle atrophy in space. Researchers are researching whether resistance-training exercise under artificial gravity conditions greater than or equal to Earth gravity (1g) produce the same kind of muscle responses that occur when a person performs weight training on Earth.
Information from space could mitigate the threat that hurricanes, rain and flood waters present to millions of people worldwide.
Five years after breaking ground on a South African mountaintop near the edge of the Kalahari desert, astronomers today released the first images captured by the Southern African Large Telescope, now the equal of the world's largest optical telescope and a prized window to the night skies of the southern hemisphere.
Sid Clements, a physics professor at Appalachian State University, is part of a 12-member team of scientists across the United States working on a NASA project to keep space dust from obstructing solar panels and other equipment.
A versatile technology that can spot cracks in space shuttle foam, while also offering the potential to see biological agents through a sealed envelope and detect tumors without harmful radiation, will be the focus of a full-day symposium at the 230th national meeting of the American Chemical Society.
The University of California, San Diego and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center have conducted the first successful system test of a new 10-Gigabit per second (Gbps) Ethernet optical path connecting the two institutions roughly 3,000 miles apart.
As NASA prepares for Discovery astronauts to return home, two engineers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are working to get the spaceflight program back on solid ground.
NASA researchers quarrel over how to network outer space.
On the long space trip from Earth to Mars "the crew won't be able to get by with a bag lunch and Portapotty," says Arthur Teixeira, a professor of agricultural and biological engineering. Teixeira presented a plan for how NASA could deal with waste deposal during such a voyage.
The University of Arkansas is creating a center to test the durability of high-tech, high-speed fiber-optic communication devices made for the extreme environments faced by military and space flight equipment, thanks to an award from a local company that makes the devices.
A bed-rest study with female participants will help scientists understand changes to the immune response and decreased resistance to infection in space.
On July 4th, the University of Maryland-led NASA mission known as Deep Impact will get its one and only shot at its target, comet Tempel 1. Astronomer Michael A'Hearn and his mission colleagues anticipate a hit on the comet that will knock out some of its "stuffing" for all the world to see.
Undergraduates of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Class of 2005 are already making their mark to help shape the future in cancer research, nanotechnology, astronomy, and environmental science.
NASA and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston will use a new human centrifuge to explore artificial gravity as a way to counter the physiologic effects of extended weightlessness for future space exploration.
Sandia National Laboratories recently conducted a series of tests to help NASA understand the fatigue on the space shuttle caused during rollout from the Kennedy Space Center assembly building to the launch pad -- a four-mile trip.
Mathematics professor at Clarkson University tackles problems that range from saving rocket fuel in space to compressing computer data files to creating analogies between the spread of biological and computer viruses.
A team of Ball State University researchers is working with an international group of scientists in France this spring investigating the ability of women to withstand the rigors of lengthy space missions.
Just as astronomers want to understand the atmospheres of planets and moons, so engineers want atmospheric knowledge of worlds they create that are the size of pinheads, their "skies" capped by tiny glass bubbles.
What happens when a galaxy falls in with the wrong crowd? The irregular galaxy NGC 1427A is a spectacular example of the resulting stellar rumble. This Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys image was taken in January 2003.
From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities -- and serious problems.
A team of astronomers has proposed a third way -- involving neither a shuttle flight nor a robotic repair mission -- to keep Hubble science flowing.
A portable imaging device currently in development will produce clear, highly detailed pictures of bone and tissue, helping physicians manage bone health in space and on Earth.
University of Arizona scientists, working on one of the most stunning robotic space missions ever attempted, head for Germany next week. Their experiments ride on the Huygens probe to Saturn's giat moon, Titan, part of the four-year NASA/European Space Agency/Italian Space Agency Cassini Huygens mission to the Saturn system.
If all goes as planned, Deep Impact will become the first mission to slam into a comet, giving astronomers worldwide something far better than any other fireworks show on July 4, 2005-the first look inside a comet at the most primitive material left in the solar system.
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