Space

Space travel doesn’t affect the strength of heart muscle cells, study finds Person exercising on a treadmill inside a space station module, secured by a harness, with another person visible floating in the background.

Space travel doesn’t affect the strength of heart muscle cells, study finds

UChicago-led research on cells from mice that had been on the International Space Station for more than a month suggests astronaut hearts can withstand longer trips

A new study reveals why the moon has a (very thin) atmosphere Surface of the moon

A new study reveals why the moon has a (very thin) atmosphere

University of Chicago, MIT scientists make new breakthrough in decades-long puzzle

NASA’s Webb telescope peers into the boundary between day and night on a distant world Artist's illustration of the atmosphere of a reddish planet that is half in shadow

NASA’s Webb telescope peers into the boundary between day and night on a distant world

Researchers glimpse strange conditions on a ‘tidally locked’ planet

NASA selects UChicago undergraduates’ proposal to build a ‘nano-satellite’ Artist's illustration of a rectangular box floating in space with the curve of the earth visible below. It is emitting a red laser beam

NASA selects UChicago undergraduates’ proposal to build a ‘nano-satellite’

Student-designed CubeSat aims to increase speed, security of space-to-ground communications

XRISM satellite launches to study the universe in different colors of X-rays Artist illustration of a tubular spacecraft in space, with wings extending out from both sides

XRISM satellite launches to study the universe in different colors of X-rays

Data to reveal flows of matter and energy close to black holes, elemental makeup of the universe

NASA selects UChicago scientist to analyze extraterrestrial samples from Martian moon Artist concept of the MMX mission to Phobos

NASA selects UChicago scientist to analyze extraterrestrial samples from Martian moon

In Q&A, Prof. Nicolas Dauphas discusses what we can learn from mission to Phobos

NASA’s new flagship telescope just released its beautiful first images of the universe NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula

NASA’s new flagship telescope just released its beautiful first images of the universe

Nebulas, galaxy clusters among first batch of images from James Webb Space Telescope, successor to Hubble

Dust collected from a speeding asteroid analyzed with massive accelerator Argonne physicist Jiyong Zhao

Dust collected from a speeding asteroid analyzed with massive accelerator

Argonne, UChicago scientists among the first to study asteroid fragments from Hayabusa2 spacecraft

Born at UChicago, startup helps prevent satellite collisions in space A satellite in orbit above blue sky and clouds

Born at UChicago, startup helps prevent satellite collisions in space

New telescope reveals most detailed images of sun’s surface Bubbles and cracks image of the sun surface

New telescope reveals most detailed images of sun’s surface

Inouye Solar Telescope to play critical role in better understanding sun, space weather