A team led by Peng Zhou at Fudan University has built a radio-frequency communication system from atomically thin molybdenum ...

Space is tough on materials. Radiation, UV light, atomic oxygen and sharp temperature swings can degrade metals, polymers and coatings over time. This article looks at the current ways researchers are ...

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The fast-growing space economy is projected to surpass $1.8 trillion by 2035, and FIU is leading the way. From next-generation materials and antennas to space governance, FIU researchers are ...

This emerging field of space radiobiology has strong and perhaps unexpected links to the far better established discipline of ...

For decades, space has served as humanity’s most demanding testing laboratory, where only the most resilient technologies survive the vacuum, radiation and temperature extremes beyond Earth’s ...

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Space is unforgiving to electronics. Beyond Earth’s protective magnetic field, satellites are bombarded by ...

What processes other than water and energy could be responsible for creating life on other worlds? This is what a recent study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology hopes to address ...

The Sun unleashes a torrent of charged particles. Some of them slam into the Earth’s atmosphere, triggering breathtaking auroras in the night sky. But for equipment that’s orbiting our planet in outer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Billionaires make it seem that we have all the tech we need to settle on the moon and Mars. But the hard part of living in space ...