With a clever design, researchers have solved eddy-current damping in macroscopic levitating systems, paving the way for a ...

This September, IMAP — a one-ton NASA spacecraft carrying 10 unique instruments — will launch into space to collect and interpret particles from the Sun and from exploded stars billions of miles ...

There is huge promise in AI to transform spacecraft design. From near real-time performance calculations that enable broader design space exploration, to generative algorithms using mission ...

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves ...

Jacob Payne, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, ...

AUTOMATED HIGH-FIDELITY CUSTOM SATELLITE BUS STRUCTURAL DESIGN – ACHIEVED! Proteus Space™ (“Proteus”), an industry pioneer in rapid custom satellite bus solutions, has just redefined the future of ...

Silicides—alloys of silicon and metals long used in microelectronics—are now being explored again for quantum hardware. But their use faces a critical challenge: achieving phase purity, since some ...

The Experimental Astronomy and Space Physics research group at Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology (LoCSST) is led by professors Supriya Chakrabarti, Timothy Cook and Christopher Mendillo.

Firing a gun in space plays out very differently from that on Earth due to some bizarre physics. Here's everything that occurs when you pull the trigger.

The Earth is constantly receiving space signals that contain vital information about extremely energetic phenomena. Among the most peculiar are brief pulses of extremely high-energy radio waves, known ...