Organic Chemistry: Why study it? What can it teach us about finding life beyond Earth?

Universe Today has recently had the privilege of investigating a myriad of scientific disciplines, including impact craters, planetary…

NASA to Host a Pair of Briefings for Starliner Crew Flight

NASA will host two media opportunities on Thursday, April 25, in preparation for the agency’s Boeing…

NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed

Dragonfly is being designed and built under the direction of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory…

Comet Geyser: Perseverance’s 24th Rock Core

The presence of carbonate within the Comet Geyser sample suggests that water, carbon dioxide, and chemical…

Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria Found on ISS Mutating to Become Functionally Distinct

In a new scientific paper funded by an Ames Space Biology grant, Principal Investigator Dr. Kasthuri…

Spaceflight Atrophy Studied with Machine Learning

Background: Even intense exercise by astronauts cannot compensate for muscle atrophy caused by microgravity. Atrophy occurs,…

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye … for Now

The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly…

BioNutrients Flight Experiments – NASA

On-demand nutrient production system for long-duration missions When astronauts embark on long space missions, they’ll need…

A Clinical Decision Support System for Earth-independent Medical Operations

Deep space exploration requires a paradigm shift in astronaut medical support toward Earth-independent medical operations. Currently,…

A solar neighborhood census, thanks to NASA citizen science

This artist’s concept by citizen scientist William Pendrill shows, at left, a cool brown dwarf called…