Sophisticated spacecraft often run on shockingly outdated computing systems: consider that the Perseverance rover runs on a PowerPC 750, the processor famous for running on iMacs in the late 1990s.

A potential crewed mission to Mars would require us to solve a number of problems, including how to protect astronauts against the devastating effects of energetic charged particles from Solar and ...

In a recent article in Scientific Reports, researchers investigated the potential of graphene-based nanocomposites, specifically graphene/acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) composites, as effective ...

Recently, Dr. HUO Zhipeng and his student CHEN Zuoyang from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences developed novel PbWO 4 filler-reinforced B 4 C/HDPE composites with ...

Through the Technology in Space Prize, two startups will receive more than $650,000 in total funding and the ability to leverage the ISS National Lab to advance their R&D BOSTON, April 11, 2025 ...

As the rapid development of aerospace and nuclear industries, higher requirements are raised for the service life of detectors and the safety of staff. Gamma ray with extremely short wavelength and ...

Arkansas Nuclear One is identifying opportunities to create and deploy technologies that achieve breakthrough for the plant and ultimately, the entire Entergy fleet. An innovative shielding design ...

The planet Mars is calling to us. At least, that is the impression one gets when examining all the planned and proposed missions to the Red Planet in the coming decade. With so many space agencies ...

Human missions to Mars are edging closer to reality, but the physics of deep space is not cooperating. Outside Earth’s magnetic cocoon, astronauts would be bombarded by high‑energy particles that can ...

Warnings are mounting over the structural integrity of the radiation shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, with ...