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High-Speed Flight Project Overview

Reported by NASA

What We do The High-Speed Flight (HSF) project develops technologies that make high-speed, airbreathing, commercial flight possible from Mach 1 to Mach 5 and above. HSF creates tools, technologies, and knowledge that will help eliminate today’s techn...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:05 +0000

Illinois and UChicago Physicists Develop a New Method for Measuring Cosmic Expansion

Reported by Universe Today

A team of astrophysicists, cosmologists, and physicists has developed a novel way to compute the Hubble constant using gravitational waves. As our capability to observe gravitational waves improves in the future, this new method could be used to make even ...
  • By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
  • On: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:03 +0000

What Goes On Inside A Massive Star Before It Explodes As A Supernova?

Reported by Universe Today

When people think of supernova explosions, they're most-often thinking of Type II core-collapse supernovae, where a massive star becomes a red supergiant before collapsing on itself and exploding. New research uncovers what's going on inside the star befor...
  • By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
  • On: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:58 +0000

NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie Project Releases Full Data on 2024 Solar Eclipse

Reported by Universe Today

On April 8, 2024, volunteers participating in NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie citizen science project all around the United States hurried to photograph the solar eclipse with the latest, greatest equipment, capturing groundbreaking images of the Sun’s corona...
  • By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
  • On: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:26 +0000

About Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP)

Reported by NASA

NASA’s Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP) studies, evaluates, and develops technologies and capabilities for new aircraft systems and explores far-future concepts for revolutionary air travel improvements. AAVP develops technologies for all flight regi...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:00 +0000

Introducing the 'Interplanetary Habitable Zone'

Reported by Universe Today

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the “Goldilocks Zone” around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool on a rocky planet’s surface - a good approximation...
  • By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
  • On: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:32 +0000