With a new breakthrough, the high-performance polymer now could theoretically be used in any shape, size, or structure, and not just within the aerospace industry, say researchers. The same material can be found in scores of electronic devices, including cell phones and televisions.
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Telescopes with sensitive, high-speed, visible-light and infrared cameras flew aboard NASA WB-57F research aircraft to gather data during the total solar eclipse.
WASHINGTON — As Orbital ATK readies for its first scheduled Minotaur 4 launch from Cape Canaveral as soon as Aug. 25, a debate is flaring up again about whether the company should be able to use converted surplus intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) motors to launch commercial satellites. Rekindling the argument […]
Voting is now open to decide which message written by NASA fans will be sent to the Voyager 1 spacecraft. The two craft are billions of miles away, but for their 40th anniversary NASA is sending a message out to the Voyager 1 to carry on into the depths of […]
Archaeologists may have found some of the oldest wine in the world, just the tiniest bit left over on the inside of a clay jar from more than 5,000 years ago. A team of scientists chemically analyzed residue on an ancient piece of pottery from Italy, a large storage jar […]
WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched a long-delayed remote sensing satellite for the government of Taiwan Aug. 24, executing another first stage landing in the process. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 2:51 p.m. Eastern, at the beginning of a 42-minute […]
Researchers in the United States and South Korea have invented a new kind of yarn that can generate electricity when it is stretched or twisted, according to a new study. More Researchers in the United States and South Korea have invented a new kind of yarn that can generate electricity […]
The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) occurred about 250 million years ago and represents the Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event.