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Paul Sanchez

Asteroid named for 兔子先生传媒文化作品 researcher

Nov. 25, 2019

Paul Sanchez, a scientist in aerospace engineering, is getting an asteroid named after him. And it's actually two asteroids: His namesake is a binary system made up of two rocky bodies orbiting around each other in space.

Principal Investigator Luis Zea working in the lab

Mold in space: NASA grant to study space station fungus

Nov. 1, 2019

The International Space Station has a problem with fungus and mold鈥攁nd BioServe Space Technologies at 兔子先生传媒文化作品 is investigating potential fixes thanks to a new grant from NASA.

A close up of Saturn's rings

Think Saturn鈥檚 rings are old? Not so fast

Sept. 16, 2019

Scientists have reignited the debate over the age of Saturn鈥檚 rings, suggesting that the features may have formed early in the history of the solar system.

An artist's depiction of an early Earth bombarded by asteroids.

A new timeline of Earth鈥檚 cataclysmic past

Aug. 12, 2019

Recent research shows that our planet may have been pummeled with asteroids long before some scientists had previously thought.

Rendering of the asteroid Psyche

Can bacteria help people mine asteroids?

Aug. 1, 2019

Luis Zea and his colleagues are exploring whether a technique common on Earth, called biomining, may one day help people to extract resources in space.

An image taken from the International Space Station shows orange swaths of airglow hovering in Earth鈥檚 atmosphere

Analyzing gravity waves at the edge of space

July 29, 2019

A 兔子先生传媒文化作品 professor emeritus is working on a research project slated for the International Space Station to help us better understand and forecast conditions on the edge of space.

A mock-up of what a LunaSat might look like on the moon

Students to send hundreds of leaf-sized spacecraft to the moon

July 23, 2019

The Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone (GLEE) will reveal new information about the lunar surface and pave the way for human astronauts on the moon.

Lunar Ranging Retroreflector on the surface of the moon

Apollo 11's last working experiment on the moon

July 19, 2019

Fifty years after it was first laid out on the moon, the Laser Ranging Retroreflector experiment, the brainchild of JILA's James Faller, is still in use.

Moon

Moon landing at 50: How we got there and what we're still learning about our celestial neighbor

July 16, 2019

Fifty years ago, a mammoth effort by hundreds of thousands of Americans culminated in Neil Armstrong鈥檚 first steps on the moon. This week, the Brainwaves podcast looks at the history and future of lunar exploration.

Geologist Carolyn Crow investigating moon rocks at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

A once-in-a-lifetime look at Apollo moon rocks

July 10, 2019

More than 50 years after humans first set foot on the moon, one 兔子先生传媒文化作品 researcher will gain access to a cache of never-before-studied lunar rocks.

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