It is rare when we highlight a celestial event (or events) that involves the zodiacal constellation of Cancer the Crab. In Greek mythology, Cancer was summoned to distract Hercules when he was battling the multiheaded Hydra the Serpent. The crab was crushed by Hercules’ foot, but to reward his effort Hera placed it among the … Read more
Flying Your Name to Jupiter on NASA’s Icy Moon Explorer More than 2.6 million people around the world joined NASA’s Message in a Bottle campaign, a first-of-its-kind initiative that invited people to sign their names to a special message traveling 1.8 billion miles on the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Europa Clipper launched on Oct. 14, 2024, on a mission to explore Jupiter’s ocean moon … Read more
April was an exciting month at the SETI Institute, full of discoveries that push the boundaries of our understanding of life beyond Earth. Dr. Nathalie Cabrol shared her thoughts on the curious gas signatures detected on exoplanet K2-18b — clues that could hint at alien biology, or at least tell us more about the conditions … Read more
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