Unraveling a long-standing solar mystery: The extreme thinness of the sun's tachocline layer

Researchers are closer to unraveling a longstanding solar mystery surrounding the extreme thinness of the sun's tachocline layer of strong shearing motion—a region believed to be critical for creating ...

A new satellite wants to prove nuclear power can work in space without solar panels

BOHR's primary mission is to test a different kind of power source in orbit. The CubeSat is carrying City Labs' "NanoTritium" ...
New Atlas

World's first commercial nuclear-powered payload now in orbit

City Labs has launched the world's first commercial satellite carrying a nuclear-powered payload into orbit. Lofted atop a ...

Miami-based City Labs achieves a first for commercial nuclear power in space

Commercial nuclear-powered space missions face regulatory hurdles, and BOHR was the first commercial nuclear mission to pass ...

New Horizons watches the solar wind as it slows down

Where does the solar system end and interstellar space begin? That's a question scientists have been working to answer using ...