For the first time in history, Chinese scientists have launched a rocketsonde—a rocket designed to perform weather observations in areas beyond the range of weather balloons—from an unmanned semi-submersible vehicle (USSV) ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 31, 2019
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Citizen science is a boon for researchers, providing reams of data about everything from animal species to distant galaxies.
Ecology
Jan 28, 2019
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Another NASA space telescope has shut down and halted science observations.
Astronomy
Oct 12, 2018
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NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument powered on and opened its cover to scan the Earth for the first time, resulting in a "first light" image of the Western Hemisphere in the ultraviolet. ...
Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2018
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), at Mars since 2006, put itself into a precautionary standby mode on Feb. 15 in response to sensing an unexpectedly low battery voltage.
Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2018
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Uncertainty surrounding the extent of future climate change could be dramatically reduced by studying year-on-year global temperature fluctuations, new research has shown.
Environment
Jan 17, 2018
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Scientists at the University of Sussex have disproved the existence of a specific type of axion - an important candidate 'dark matter' particle - across a wide range of its possible masses.
General Physics
Nov 15, 2017
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With the 2016 election now finished and Donald Trump confirmed as the president-elect of the United States, there are naturally some concerns about what this could means for the future of NASA. Given the administration's ...
Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2016
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We've already talked about how you're living at the center of the universe. Now, I'm not going to say that the whole universe revolves around you… but we both know it does. So does this mean that there's something special ...
Astronomy
Apr 4, 2016
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Space weather scientist Liz MacDonald has seen auroras more than five times in her life, but it was the aurora she didn't see that affected her the most.
Space Exploration
Mar 7, 2016
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