NASA wants to know how the launch industry’s chic new rocket fuel explodes

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined ...
cerebral-overload

How NASA is Collecting Explosion Data for Next Generation Rockets

Commercial launch providers continue to advance propulsion technology with a renewed focus on liquid oxygen and methane ...
EDN

New NASA finds refute old research: Alaska not releasing unusually high rates of methane

In the last few decades, temperature increases in Alaska have been linked with unsually high rates of methane being released into the atmosphere. But recently, a new NASA analysis of airborne data ...
Phys.org

Methane gas found on dwarf planet Makemake

A Southwest Research Institute-led team has reported the first detection of gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This discovery makes Makemake only ...
The Debrief

NASA Experiments Challenge the Idea of Life in Titan’s Methane Lakes

New lab experiments explore whether or not certain rudimentary lifeforms could exist in the hydrocarbon lakes and seas of ...
The Chemical Engineer

Turkmenistan remains ‘hotspot’ for methane emissions, according to satellite data

GLOBAL methane emissions from the oil and gas sector remain dominated by plumes from Turkmenistan, according to satellite ...