Developed by Kyoto University researchers and the Japanese timber company Sumitomo Forestry, LignoStat -- the satellite is ...

Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST F.5) solicits proposals for graduate ...

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 ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is reviving technology abandoned four decades ago to help keep its groundbreaking space ...

NASA's Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it's making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...

Scientists in Japan constructed the first satellite made of wood by blending age-old woodworking techniques with rocket science.

With an Election Day docking, the cargo ship will deliver 3 tons of supplies and equipment, including an unusual wooden ...

NASA’s Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is set to launch to the International Space Station to explore new details about ...

China's Shenzhou-18 crew returns to Earth Nov. 4 (UPI ... starting a handover from the current crew already on the orbiting ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

Satellite data has enabled researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop a new way to measure ocean depth. The technique, which uses imagery captured by the Landsat program, works ...

NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft re-entered and burned up in Earth’s ...