Space
- NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine recorded a special video for the aerospace graduation ceremony, offering congratulations to graduates.
- Working entirely via Zoom, remote desktop connections and webcams, a ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· team is constructing and programming a satellite none of its members can currently touch. Welcome to designing a CubeSat during the coronavirus pandemic.
- Astronaut ice cream—the crunchy, freeze-dried, pale imitation of the real thing—may have met its match: The International Space Station is getting a real freezer.
- A new space mission will serve as the next phase in a long-running effort to take the temperature of the sun.
- A new spacecraft could become NASA's nose in space, sniffing out the environments beyond Earth's solar system that might host planets with thick atmospheres.
- How can winds at Earth's surface influence the orbits of satellites in space? What makes a planet habitable? These are some of the questions two new NASA-funded efforts will tackle at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·.
- This week, NASA announced that it has given the green light to Libera, a new space mission that will record how much energy leaves our planet’s atmosphere.
- The Hubble Space Telescope is helping find new ways to combat gender bias, which could have implications for other business sectors.
- Gregory Whiting and his research group are preparing for the thrill of a lifetime: two parabolic flights, each expected to provide around 10 minutes of reduced gravity to test and model how 3D printing of functional materials works in lunar gravity.
- Scientists have finally scaled the equivalent of the Rocky Mountain range in space.