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Cyprus aims for Mars with X-Ray rock dating instrument
Tiny Cyprus aims to join the global space exploration drive by developing a compact, X-Ray instrument capable of dating Martian soil and rock samples relatively accurately to potentially reveal more about the Red Planet's ...
Space Exploration
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Astronomers provide 'field guide' to exoplanets known as hot Jupiters
Hot Jupiters—giant gas planets that race around their host stars in extremely tight orbits—have become a little bit less mysterious thanks to a new study combining theoretical modeling with observations by the Hubble ...
Astronomy
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What happens when a meteor hits the atmosphere?
In the heavens above, it's raining dirt.
Astronomy
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A radical shift to link soot formation and interstellar evolution
Unusual reaction pathways to hydrocarbon clusters could bring a paradigm shift to the understanding of soot and interstellar chemistry.
Astrobiology
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New galaxy images reveal a fitful start to the Universe
New images have revealed detailed clues about how the first stars and structures were formed in the Universe and suggest the formation of the Galaxy got off to a fitful start.
Astronomy
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Researchers call for armchair astronomers to help find unknown hidden worlds
Astronomers at the University of Warwick have joined partners around the world in launching a new online initiative, calling for volunteers to come forward and help to search for extrasolar planets.
Astronomy
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Mining the moon's water will require a massive infrastructure investment, but should we?
We live in a world in which momentous decisions are made by people often without forethought. But some things are predictable, including that if you continually consume a finite resource without recycling, it will eventually ...
Space Exploration
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Ten mysteries of Venus
The surface of Venus is completely inhospitable for life: barren, dry, crushed under an atmosphere about 90 times the pressure of Earth's and roasted by temperatures two times hotter than an oven. But was it always that way? ...
Planetary Sciences
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NEID spectrometer lights up path to exoplanet exploration
A new NASA instrument will look for planets by detecting subtle wobbles from their parent stars. To prepare, it will study the sun.
Astronomy
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South Korea launches first domestic space rocket but mission fails
South Korea launched its first domestically developed space rocket on Thursday but failed to put its dummy payload into orbit, a setback in the country's attempts to join the ranks of advanced space-faring nations.
Space Exploration
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NASA challenges K-12 students to design moon-digging robots
NASA seeks young engineers to help design a new robot concept for an excavation mission on the Moon. The Lunabotics Junior Contest is open to K-12 students in U.S. public and private schools, as well as home-schoolers.
Space Exploration
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Astronomers discover twin sub-Neptune exoplanets orbiting nearby star
By analyzing the data from the TESS-Keck Survey (TKS), an international team of astronomers reports the detection of two almost identically sized sub-Neptune exoplanets orbiting a nearby star. The newly found alien worlds, ...
Astronomers detect signs of an atmosphere stripped from a planet in a giant impact
Young planetary systems generally experience extreme growing pains, as infant bodies collide and fuse to form progressively larger planets. In our own solar system, the Earth and moon are thought to be products of this type ...
Astronomy
Oct 20, 2021
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Boeing aims for unmanned Starliner test flight in first half of 2022
Boeing is aiming for a test flight of its unmanned CST-100 Starliner capsule in the first half of next year and a potential launch of its crewed spacecraft at the end of 2022, company officials said Tuesday.
Space Exploration
Oct 20, 2021
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Studying the edge of the sun's magnetic bubble
Our corner of the universe, the solar system, is nestled inside the Milky Way galaxy, home to more than 100 billion stars. The solar system is encased in a bubble called the heliosphere, which separates us from the vast galaxy ...
Space Exploration
Oct 20, 2021
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New study probes X-ray bursts from low-mass X-ray binaries
An international research team has performed a new measurement of an important astrophysical reaction, 22Mg(α, p)25Al, providing essential experimental data for understanding the light curve of X-ray bursts and the astrophysical ...
Astronomy
Oct 20, 2021
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Simulating chaotic interactions of three black holes
Dutch student Arend Moerman (Leiden University, the Netherlands) has defended his thesis research on the simulation of chaotic interactions of three black holes. The simulations, which he carried out together with researchers ...
Astronomy
Oct 20, 2021
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Image: Auroras viewed from orbit
Auroras make for great Halloween décor over Earth, though ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet snapped these green smoky swirls of plasma from the International Space Station in August. Also pictured are the Soyuz MS-18 "Yuri Gagarin" ...
Space Exploration
Oct 20, 2021
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Why extraterrestrial intelligence is more likely to be artificial than biological
Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? It's a question that has been debated for centuries, if not millenia. But it is only recently that we've had an actual chance of finding out, with initiatives such as Seti ...
Astrobiology
Oct 19, 2021
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X-ray Pulsar XTE J1946+274 investigated with NuSTAR
Using NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft, Russian astronomers have investigated a transient X-ray pulsar known as XTE J1946+274. Results of the study, presented in a paper published October 11 ...
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