An asteroid will just miss us in 2029: Scientists are making the most of a rare opportunity
To be clear: The asteroid is not going to hit us.
Astronomy
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High-gain antenna for NASA's Roman mission clears environmental tests
Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have finished testing the high-gain antenna for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. When it launches by May 2027, this NASA observatory will help ...
Space Exploration
Feb 7, 2023
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Astronomers prepare to launch LuSEE night, a test observatory on the far side of the moon
Astronomers have not yet been able to map large portions of the radio emissions from our universe because of interference from the Earth itself. A team of astronomers hopes to change that, beginning with the LuSEE Night mission ...
Astronomy
Jan 31, 2023
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Nine new and exotic creatures for the pulsar zoo
Researchers using MeerKAT in South Africa have discovered nine millisecond pulsars, most of them in rare and sometimes unusual binary systems, as the first result of a targeted survey. An international team with significant ...
Astronomy
Jan 26, 2023
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January launch planned for Rocket Lab's Electron
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility will support the launch of Rocket Lab U.S.'s first Electron rocket from Virginia at 6 p.m. EST, Monday, Jan. 23.
Planetary Sciences
Jan 13, 2023
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Research student helps build radio source catalog
Bailee Wolf, a student at The Ohio State University, has a tool to better process radio data, and it could help future spacecraft navigate through the solar system.
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2023
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Research site will bounce radio signal off asteroid in NASA experiment
An experiment to bounce a radio signal off an asteroid on Dec. 27 will serve as a test for probing a larger asteroid that in 2029 will pass closer to Earth than the many geostationary satellites that orbit our planet.
Planetary Sciences
Dec 22, 2022
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Photonic chip with record-breaking radio frequency dynamic range
Researchers at the University of Twente have developed a revolutionary programmable integrated microwave photonic filter with a record-breaking dynamic range. This represents a major breakthrough in the integration of functionality ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 22, 2022
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High-speed, high-sensitivity terahertz detection using graphene transistor
On the electromagnetic spectrum, which comprises everything from radio waves to X-rays and gamma rays, there exists a deadzone where conventional electronic devices can hardly operate. This deadzone is occupied by terahertz ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 15, 2022
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Researchers create ultracold triatomic gas of high phase-space density
Recently, a research team led by Prof. Pan Jianwei and Prof. Zhao Bo from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), used adiabatic magneto-association to create an ...
Condensed Matter
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