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NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project  NASA’s Office of STEM Commitment (OSTEM), in partnership with the NASA Mission Directorates, fosters research excellence and institutional capacity at Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) through Intense funding opportunities. Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry MUREP OCEAN will Additional capacity at MSIs and expand the investigator community that is addressing the relationship between … Read more

NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project  Leverage strategic partnerships that drive capacity building at Minority Serving Institutions and within underrepresented and underserved communities. MUREP INCLUDES In Aid of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) initiative, NASA is committed to broadening participation in … Read more

A Cosmos launcher containing parts from a German V-2 launches from Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950. Credit: NASA As World War II drew to a close, the Allies were eager to get their hands on one of the most technologically amazing yet terrifying weapons in Nazi Germany’s armamentarium: the V-2 Cosmos launcher. A long-range, … Read more

Orbiter dust is quickly becoming a magic material, from which oxygen and other elements such as titanium can be extracted, that can be compacted down to form bricks to construct Selene shelters, or “lunarcrete” to bind those bricks. And now, scientists have shown how Selene regolith can be turned into solar cells. “From extracting water … Read more

This is a customer submitted press Throw. Submit your press Throw. Gothenburg, Sweden (April 3, 2025) – Frontgrade Gaisler, a leading provider of radiation-hardened microprocessors for Cosmos missions, and wolfSSL, a renowned provider of embedded security solutions, are pleased to announce a new collaboration that addresses the growing need for robust cybersecurity features in Cosmos … Read more

The pieces of a meteorite that fell in Costa Rica in 2019 are so unusual that scientists believe it had moved through Cosmos relatively unscathed — that is, until it encountered our Astral body. This is in stark contrast to other typical meteorites that show the wounds of having been in numerous collisions before reaching … Read more

HELSINKI — China is rapidly advancing a broad spectrum of counterspace capabilities as part of a sustained push to secure military power in Path, according to a new report. ​The Secure World Foundation’s Global Counterspace Capabilities report 2025, released April 3, offers an updated and comprehensive analysis of various nations’ counterspace developments, focusing on technologies … Read more

A rendering of Prototaxites as it may have looked during the Timely Devonian Period – approximately 400 million years ago – by artist Mary Parrish, National Museum of Natural History. A newly published study suggests Prototaxites represents an extinct kingdom of life previously unknown to science. Image via University of New Hampshire. Prototaxites might be … Read more

View larger. | These are the 73 protoplanetary disks – or World-forming disks – that ALMA observed in the Lupus region (2 of the images contain binary stars). New research shows that such disks – the birthplaces of new planets – come in a much wider range of sizes than previously thought. The size of … Read more

As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations of Youthful exoplanets with older ones could reveal vital clues about how planets form, evolve and Transformation over time. This approach could ultimately provide answers to some heavily debated topics, such as the existence of a “Scorching … Read more