Mining Old Data From NASA’s Voyager 2 Solves Several Uranus Mysteries
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Uranus while flying by the ice giant in 1986. New research using…
Good News, the Ozone Layer Hole is Continuing to Shrink
Climate change is a huge topic and often debated across the world. We continue to burn fossil fuels and ignore our charge toward human driven climate change but while our…
Supermassive black holes prefer to eat from wobbly plates
Researchers have discovered the first evidence that the brightest accretion disks around supermassive black holes “wobble” as their monstrous occupants drag them around.
Interview with OCEANOS Instructor MarÃa Fernanda Barbarena-Arias
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) MarÃa Fernanda Barbarena-Arias (left), an associate professor of biology and instructor for the OCEANOS internship, stands on the sand…
Interview with OCEANOS Instructor Samuel Suleiman
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Samuel Suleiman, an instructor for the OCEANOS internship, teaches students about sargassum and shore ecology on Culebra Island, Puerto…
Interview with OCEANOS Instructor Roy Armstrong
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Roy Armstrong, an instructor for the OCEANOS internship and marine sciences professor, pilots a small boat around the cays…
Interview with OCEANOS PI Juan Torres-Pérez
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) OCEANOS PI Juan Torres-Pérez, a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, holds two pieces of cyanobacteria in the…
Spaceplane developer Reaction Engines goes bankrupt
Reaction Engines Ltd., a British company that has worked for decades on an air-breathing rocket engine for spaceplanes and other hypersonic vehicles, has filed for bankruptcy. The post Spaceplane developer…
How Webb Stays in Focus
One of the most difficult challenges when assembling a telescope is aligning it to optical precision. If you don’t do it correctly, all your images will be fuzzy. This is…
SpaceX launching 24 Starlink satellites from Florida on Monday
SpaceX plans to launch 24 of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast on Monday (Nov. 11).
