Backed by a two-year, $1 million grant from the federal government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the team is ...

Atomic oxygen, a highly reactive species prevalent in low Earth orbit (LEO), poses a persistent challenge to the durability of spacecraft materials. The erosive nature of atomic oxygen results in ...

UT Dallas awarded $1m DARPA grant to develop erosion- and drag-resistant materials for low Earth orbit spacecraft.

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A composite material could be the next-gen Whipple shield, keeping astronauts alive with greater certainty and fewer ...

This study is led by Associate Researcher Ding Tao and Professor Yao Tao, University of Science and Technology of China. The experiments were performed by Density functional theory calculation and ...

Previous estimates of molecular oxygen around the Jovian moon topped out at over 2,000 pounds being produced per second. A new measurement suggests it's way lower than that. When you purchase through ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Data from the Cassini-Huygens satellite showing oxygen ions in the atmosphere around Saturn’s rings suggests once again that molecular oxygen alone isn’t a reliable indicator of ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, together with international collaborators, have developed a new electron microscopy method that has enabled the first-ever imaging of vibrations, ...