WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — After a decade of preparation and two years of active experiments in space, a facility that Purdue University and NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland designed, built and ...

On May 2, 2005, the Skylark sounding rocket launched on its 441st and final flight. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on ...

To live on the moon or Mars, humans will need heat and air conditioning that can operate long term in reduced gravity and temperatures hundreds of degrees above or below what we experience on Earth.

There are times and places in the universe that experiments cannot reach, and may never be able to reach. What exactly goes on inside black holes, and what happened in the first fractions of a second ...

Purdue University researchers are designing and building an experiment that will operate during a test flight of a new type of reusable rocket to be launched by aerospace company Blue Origin LLC. The ...

The seven-person also did studies in the areas of biomedicine while also upgrading data hardware.

Alessandro Grattoni and a couple colleagues from the Houston Methodist Research Institute were stationed at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida last year for the launch of the SpaceX CRS-7 ...

Physics is often about recognizing patterns, sometimes repeated across vastly different scales. For instance, moons orbit planets in the same way planets orbit stars, which in turn orbit the center of ...

Intuition says two or more jets of fluid should coalesce into a single stream of fluid, but that is not always the case. Velocity matters. Sunghwan Jung is a fan of the 19th Century born John William ...

Seismic kitchen roll: photograph showing paper towel being stretched between an anchor (bottom) and springs (top). (Courtesy: Tzortzopoulos et al. / Geophysical Research Letters) A seismic model based ...

I have the facts to back it up. You may think you know physics but I’m here to tell you, you don’t. Physics works differently to how you think it does. Our researchers and writers have turned their ...