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NASA picked the RadPC last week as one of 12 science and technology payloads that will be sent to the moon in 2020 or 2021

Every April, we get to witness a spectacular light show in the night sky.

Like turning lemons into lemonade, a Montana State University research team hopes to turn the radiation of outer space into a cybersecurity tool that could protect sensitive data transmitted by satellites.

By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Another NASA space telescope has shut down and halted science observations.
Less than a week after the Hubble Space Telescope went offline, the Chandra X-ray Observatory did the same thing...

Dr. Willie Thomas of Family Vision Care in Missoula isn't mincing his words about Monday's solar eclipse. Don't look at it without the proper eye protection, or permanent damage could occur.

The entire country will be taking a pause on Monday, August 21, as a total solar eclipse will be visible across a broad swath of the United States, and partially in western Montana.

A NASA higher education program called the Montana Space Grant Consortium will be conducting two separate experiments in conjunction with the highly anticipated solar eclipse on August 21.

Scott Whittenberg, UM Vice President for Research and Creative Scholarship, as well as Dean of the graduate school announced this week that the institution set a new research funding record for the third year in a row.

The five local companies submitted specific proposals for projects that would “support the development of technologies in the areas of aeronautics, science, human exploration and operations, and space technology.”

Two comets that will safely fly past Earth today and tomorrow may have more in common than their intriguingly similar orbits. They may be twins of a sort.