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Jupiter Has No Surface. Here's How That's Actually Possible.
The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There's nothing to walk ...
First satellite made of wood launched into space
Developed by Kyoto University researchers and the Japanese timber company Sumitomo Forestry, LignoStat -- the satellite is ...
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Amendment 63: FINESST: SMD’s Graduate Student Research, Final Text and Due Date Released.
Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST F.5) solicits proposals for graduate ...
The first wooden satellite launched into space
In a first for the world, scientists launched a satellite made from wood into space. As it orbits the planet from some 250 ...
World’s first wooden satellite shares material with samurai sword sheaths
asked Koji Murata, a Kyoto University professor of forest and biomaterials science ... the ISS, NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plan to deploy the LignoSat in December for a six ...
Scientists have figured out why Martian soil is so crusty
On November 26, 2018, NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) mission ...
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Americans were on the Moon but footage may have been filmed in advance — Russian cosmonaut
Sergey Prokopyev pointed out that the fact that US astronauts did land on the Moon "is confirmed by automatic probes and cannot be subjected to doubt" ...
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Successfully Revives Antique Transmitter Last Used in 1981 to Prolong its Historic Mission
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is reviving technology abandoned four decades ago to help keep its groundbreaking space ...
Still kickin' since the '70s: NASA's Voyager mission keeps exploring
NASA's Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it's making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...
Japanese Scientists Bet on an Ancient Material for Their New Satellite: Wood
Scientists in Japan constructed the first satellite made of wood by blending age-old woodworking techniques with rocket science.
World's first wooden satellite, developed in Japan, heads to space
Constructed from honoki wood, LignoSat will orbit Earth for six months, testing the material's durability ... Doi's team ...
Mystery as four NASA astronauts are rushed to hospital without explanation after returning from space
After spending more than 200 days on the International Space Station, a crew of four astronauts was recently hospitalized following a return to Earth on SpaceX's Dragon capsule.