An experiment on board the ISS tested the use of microorganisms to mine asteroids in the microgravity environment.
A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.
Thermal controls within the sealed payload kept the chamber near 30 °C, allowing the pupa to complete metamorphosis. The ...
A butterfly completed metamorphosis about 400 kilometres above Earth’s surface. It emerged from its chrysalis aboard China’s ...
An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has ...
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Space mining without heavy machines? Microbes harvest metals from meteorites aboard space station
If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be ...
According to Space.com and Cornell University, NASA astronauts conducted a microbe-based meteorite mining experiment aboard the International Space Station to study mineral extraction in microgravity.
On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...
Wringing out clues that could change everything.
The EGGS-2 spaceflight evaluated SpaceLab Mk 2 from Frontier Space, examining temperature regulation, and sample protection, in orbit to advance pharmaceutical and biological studies beyond Earth.
A University of Southern Queensland-led space agriculture experiment is set to launch plants to the International Space Station as part of research to test their growth in outer space.
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