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Manoa HI (SPX) Nov 16, 2023
On the surface of many of the icy moons in our solar system, scientists have documented strike-slip faults, those that occur when fault walls in the ground's crust move past one another sideways, as is the case at the San Andreas fault in California. Two recently published studies led by University of Hawai'i at Manoa earth and space scientists document and reveal the mechanisms behind these geo
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2023
The remotely operated facility aboard the International Space Station has created another tool that researchers can use to probe the fundamental nature of the world around us. For the first time in space, scientists have produced a quantum gas containing two types of atoms. Accomplished with NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory aboard the International Space Station, the achievement marks another step to
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 16, 2023
In a groundbreaking move for space agriculture, Israeli agro-tech firm GreenOnyx has successfully launched its innovative Wanna Greens product into orbit. The launch, executed on November 9, 2023, aboard a SpaceX rocket bound for the International Space Station (ISS), marks the first instance of duckweed (Wolffia) being sent to space, heralding a new chapter in sustainable space food sources.
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 16, 2023
NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) telescope has captured the first polarized X-ray imagery of the supernova remnant SN 1006. The new results expand scientists' understanding of the relationship between magnetic fields and the flow of high-energy particles from exploding stars. "Magnetic fields are extremely difficult to measure, but IXPE provides an efficient way for us to p
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 16, 2023
The first data from the InSight mission made it possible to determine the internal structure of Mars in a series of papers from the scientific team published in the summer of 2021. However, since then, the analysis of new data generated by a powerful meteorite impact that occurred on September 18 2021, questioned the first estimates of the internal structure of
Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 31, 2023
More than 4 billion years ago, when the Solar System was still young and the Earth was still growing, a giant object the size of Mars crashed into the Earth. The biggest piece that broke off of the early Earth formed our Moon. But precisely when this happened has remained a mystery. In a new study in the journal Geochemical Perspectives Letters, researchers used crystals brought back from the Mo
Washington (AFP) Nov 15, 2023
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday authorized SpaceX to carry out its second launch of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, after a first attempt in April ended in a spectacular explosion. In a statement, the FAA said Elon Musk's company had now "met all safety, environmental, policy and financial responsibility requirements" following the mishap that marred
Paris (AFP) Nov 15, 2023
The boss of European satellite operator Eutelsat knows her task will not be easy: to forge a competitor to Elon Musk's Starlink and provide superfast internet from space. "We have a lot of customers who want us to get there quickly," Eva Berneke told AFP in an interview. "They tell us they took Starlink because there wasn't anyone else. But they want competition too. Nobody wants a monop
Scientists suspect there's ice hiding on the moon, and a host of missions from the US and beyond are searching for it
The stark landscape of the Moon as viewed by the Apollo 12 astronauts on their return to Earth. Credit: NASA / The Planetary Society

Building a space station on the moon might seem like something out of a science fiction movie, but each new lunar mission is bringing that idea closer to reality. Scientists are homing in on potential lunar ice reservoirs in permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs. These are key to setting up any sort of sustainable lunar infrastructure.

In late August 2023, India's Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down on the lunar surface in the south polar region, which scientists suspect may harbor ice. This landing marked a not only for India but for the scientific community at large.

How NASA's Roman Space Telescope will chronicle the active cosmos
Roman Space Telescope. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will pair space-based observations with a broad field of view to unveil the dynamic cosmos in ways that have never been possible before.

"Roman will work in tandem with NASA observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, which are designed to zoom in on rare transient objects once they've been identified, but seldom if ever discover them," said Julie McEnery, Roman's senior project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

"Roman's much larger field of view will reveal many such objects that were previously unknown. And since we've never had an observatory like this scanning the cosmos before, we could even find entirely new classes of objects and events."

The mission's High Latitude Time-Domain Survey is well-designed to discover a particular type of exploding star that astronomers can use to trace the evolution of the universe and probe possible explanations for its accelerated expansion.

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