Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s CODEX (Coronal Diagnostic Experiment) investigation have successfully evaluated the instrument’s first images, revealing the speed and temperature of material flowing out from the Sun. These images, shared at a press event Tuesday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, illustrate the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, is not a homogenous, steady flow of material, but an area with sputtering gusts of hot plasma. These images will help scientists improve their understanding of how the Sun impacts Earth and our technology in space.

A team of Rice engineering students has designed an innovative space exercise harness that won this year's Technology Collaboration Center’s Wearables Workshop and University Challenge. Their design answered a challenge posed by the HumanWorks Lab and Life Science Labs at NASA and Johnson Space Center.

Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter’s unique viewing angle will change our understanding of the Sun’s magnetic field, the solar cycle and the workings of space weather.

A research paper by scientists at Peking University Third Hospital proposed a parameter-adjustable photobiomodulation (PBM) therapy apparatus to screen for the optimal PBM parameters for treating ischemic stroke and preventing post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI).

The new research paper, published on May. 6 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, provide a PBM therapy apparatus with custom parameters. By evaluating the treatment effect, we identified that 755 nm was the optimal light wavelength for ischemic stroke in rats with transient middle cerebral artery occlusion/reperfusion.

Two BeiDou-3 satellites, once plagued by puzzling orbit errors, are now operating with newfound precision thanks to a breakthrough modeling strategy. 

For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back in time over 13 billion years to get a clearer picture of one of the least understood epochs in the history of the universe, the Cosmic Dawn.