On March 15, 2024, near the peak of the current solar cycle, the sun produced a solar flare and an accompanying coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive explosion of gas and magnetic energy that carries with it large amounts ...
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004. Fixing the thrusters required creativity ...
Space Exploration
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Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus's surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research based on data gathered more than 30 years ago by NASA's Magellan mission.
Space Exploration
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Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary structures without having to land on the surface.
Astronomy
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Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have, for the first time, found evidence for cloud convection in the northern hemisphere of Titan, Saturn's moon.
Astrobiology
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Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous detections of its gaseous form, water vapor, and its presence in our own solar system.
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A team of planetary scientists has developed a promising new way to peer beneath the dusty surface of Mars and other planetary bodies.
Planetary Sciences
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A study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modeling the universe's most extreme events: the collisions of black holes and neutron stars. This research, led by Professor Jan Plefka at Humboldt University ...
Astronomy
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An international planet hunt spearheaded by Monash University researchers has discovered evidence of five new baby planets, so young they are still growing.
Astronomy
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When I first started working with integral field spectroscopic (IFU) data, I was struck by how much complexity was being averaged out or masked by traditional processing techniques. Most segmentation methods in astronomy—especially ...
