Skip to main content

Tag NASA

Small, cool and sulfurous exoplanet may help write recipe for planetary formation

June 10, 2024

UW–Madison astronomers and their collaborators hope the discovery of one exoplanet's sulfurous atmosphere will advance our understanding of how planets forms.

UW–Madison engineers mark 3D printing milestone in race to in-space manufacturing

May 20, 2024

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have taken a step toward in-space manufacturing of replacement electronic components by successfully 3D printing RAM device units in zero gravity for the first time.

Earth-sized planet discovered in ‘our solar backyard’

January 12, 2024

A team of astronomers have discovered a planet closer and younger than any other Earth-sized world yet identified. It’s a remarkably hot world whose proximity to our own planet and to a star like our sun mark it as a unique opportunity to study how planets evolve.

New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets

September 19, 2023

A team led by scientists at UW–Madison has exploited those limitations of chemical combinations to write a cookbook with hundreds of recipes that have the potential to give rise to life.

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly speaks at UW on his Year in Space

October 12, 2022

Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly spoke to a nearly full house at Memorial Union on Oct. 4 about his year in space, one day reaching the red planet and the importance of endurance through adversity.

Decades of work at UW–Madison underpin discovery of corona protecting Milky Way’s neighboring galaxies

October 6, 2022

Astronomers at UW–Madison used light from quasars across 28 galaxies to illuminate a corona of warm gases mediating a trail of gaseous debris left by the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way.

One-minute data from UW helps NASA detect wildfires faster

September 28, 2022

Researchers at UW–Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center are delivering up-to-the minute satellite data to NASA to assist efforts tracking and monitoring wildfires.