NASA is preparing to send a unisex toilet to the ISS

NASA is preparing to send a unisex toilet to the International Space Station (ISS) that better accommodates female astronauts.  A recurring problem with microgravity toilets is they’d been designed predominantly with men in mind, due to the historically higher proportion of male astronauts.  The new toilet, called the ‘universal waste management system’ (UWMS), is designed to … Read more

NASA’s New Horizons travels 4.3 billion miles to perform the first ‘parallax’ experiment

A galaxy far, far away! NASA’s New Horizons travels 4.3 billion miles to perform the first interstellar ‘parallax’ experiment that shows stars are positioned differently in space than when viewed from Earth NASA’s New Horizons performed the first  interstellar ‘parallax’ experiment It snapped images 4.3 billion miles from Earth of Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 Due … Read more

Astronauts create ‘exotic’ fifth state of matter on the International Space Station

A fifth state of matter, known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), has been created in the microgravity of the International Space Station for the first time.  This exotic and rare form of matter is only produced when a gas of boson like particles are cooled to temperatures just above absolute zero (about -459.67F).  Creating the … Read more