If there were any skepticism on whether the world has entered a new space race, dueling lunar-bound liftoffs coming next month could be the smoking gun. NASA will try again to send up its first Artemis mission on Nov. 14 and Japanese commercial company ispace will shoot for a launch between Nov. 9 and 15 at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Paul Byrne, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is a science collaborator for a prototype aerial robotic balloon, or aerobot, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Near Space Corp.
Pioneering research at Washington University helped people understand the fundamental role of gut microbes in human health and disease. Now a community of local scientists is learning more about the diverse microbial systems that support animals, plants and ecosystems.
China has become the third country to discover a new mineral on the moon. It found a phosphate in crystal form, which it named Changesite-(Y), in lunar samples it collected in 2020.
Physicists from Washington University in St. Louis are developing a new experiment as part of NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers Program. Brian Rauch in Arts & Sciences is leading the effort, which will investigate the origins of heavy elements in the universe and has a $20 million cost cap.