Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...

A large team of researchers working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Collaboration, which has been analyzing eleven years' ...

Nick Hague and Suni Williams spent six hours working on NICER, AMS and other equipment outside the International Space ...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...

Eden Prairie-raised Mark Stole is working on one of NASA’s last shuttle launches BY ALEX HALL ahall@swpub.com Not many people can say they truly get to live their childhood dream. But for ...

This future spacewalk will tackle maintenance on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, an “unfixable” dark matter instrument from 2011 which astronauts succeeded in fixing in 2023. The instrument ...

Hague and Williams will "patch light leaks in the NICER X-ray telescope, then ready the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer for future upgrades," NASA officials wrote in a Jan. 15 blog post. Related ...

At the time of writing, Williams and ISS crewmate, Nick Hague, are conducting NASA’s first spacewalk in over a year. The pair are scheduled to spend roughly 6.5 hours in the vacuum of space, where ...

Nasa astronaut Suni Williams, one of two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station, has completed her first spacewalk since arriving.

Additionally, the pair will check access areas and connector tools that will be used for future maintenance work on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle physics experiment module mounted on ...