06 June 2016
Galaxies guilty of 'wasting' precious planet building material
... of the list for galactic re-use in star and planet formation, however in a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder, researchers have discovered that galaxies are in fact very wasteful and most of the material needed...
06 January 2017
NASA selects three new missions to study the early solar system and energetic X-rays from black holes
... opportunity,” said Harold F. Levison, principal investigator of the Lucy mission from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. “Because the Trojans are remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets, they hold...
07 April 2017
Astronauts can zip to safety with new Emergency Egress System (EES) from ULA
... for it to become free. Boeing and ULA have already demonstrated the EES to willing participants on a zipline spanning Colorado’s Royal Gorge, but soon crew and staff will get the chance to test out the facilities...
26 January 2018
NASA launches GOLD to study Earth-space boundary
...," said Richard Eastes, GOLD principal investigator at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. "That's where GOLD comes in: For the first time, the mission gives us the big picture...
02 February 2018
How a year in space affects your body
...” the ends of chromosomes against deterioration. These typically decrease in length as a person ages. However, Susan Bailey of Colorado State University and her team who studied Scott’s telomeres reported that his significantly increased in average...
26 February 2018
More water on the Moon than previously thought
... always seems to be present," said Joshua Bandfield, a senior research scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and lead author of the new study published in Nature Geoscience. "The presence of water doesn't appear to depend...
