A popular theme in the movies is that of an incoming asteroid that could extinguish life on the planet, and our heroes are launched into space to blow it up. But incoming asteroids may be harder to break than scientists previously ...
Space Exploration
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New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observations made decades ago. The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles ...
Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2018
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By developing a new method for measuring isotopic ratios of water and carbon dioxide remotely, scientists have found that the water in Saturn's rings and satellites is unexpectedly like water on the Earth, except on Saturn's ...
Space Exploration
Dec 3, 2018
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Engineers and scientists gathered around a screen in an operations room at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., eager to lay their eyes on the first data from NASA's STEREO spacecraft. It was January 2007, and ...
Space Exploration
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Evgenij Zubko of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), in collaboration with international team members, has developed a comprehensive model to explain the results of the recent photometric study of the comet Schwassmann-Wachmann ...
Space Exploration
Oct 18, 2018
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A recently published study led by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology reveals Ganymede, an icy moon of Jupiter, appears to have undergone complex periods of geologic ...
Space Exploration
Oct 10, 2018
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Investigating the earliest and least-known phases of the history of the solar system, when the young sun was still enveloped by a disk of gas and dust in which the planets began to form, is probably one of the most complex ...
Space Exploration
Oct 8, 2018
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The University of Central Florida is selling Martian dirt, $20 a kilogram plus shipping.
Space Exploration
Sep 29, 2018
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The long, bright streaks that reach out from craters on the moon are actually much longer than they appear, according to research published in the journal Icarus.
Space Exploration
Sep 11, 2018
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The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid, according to new research from the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Space Exploration
Sep 7, 2018
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