New insights into how Mars became uninhabitable
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 08, 2024
NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life - with evidence for widespread liquid water on the surface - to a surface that is inhospitable to terrestrial life as we know it.
Although the surface of Mars is frigid and hostile to life today, NASA's robotic explorers at
NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life - with evidence for widespread liquid water on the surface - to a surface that is inhospitable to terrestrial life as we know it.
Although the surface of Mars is frigid and hostile to life today, NASA's robotic explorers at NASA wants to send humans to Mars in the 2030s
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Williamsburg VA (SPX) Oct 08, 2024
NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035. The trip will take about six to seven months each way and will cover up to 250 million miles (402 million kilometers) each way. The astronauts may spend as many as 500 days on the planet's surface before returning to Earth.
NASA's Artemis program plans to return humans to the Moon this decade to prac
NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035. The trip will take about six to seven months each way and will cover up to 250 million miles (402 million kilometers) each way. The astronauts may spend as many as 500 days on the planet's surface before returning to Earth.
NASA's Artemis program plans to return humans to the Moon this decade to prac Anti-dust shield advancements in China's lunar exploration efforts
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 10, 2024
China has entered the critical phase of its manned lunar exploration program, aiming for a manned lunar landing by 2030. A significant challenge that researchers face in this endeavor is the management of lunar dust, which poses considerable risks to the equipment and astronauts on the lunar surface.
Researchers from Xidian University have developed a promising anti-dust shield solution us
China has entered the critical phase of its manned lunar exploration program, aiming for a manned lunar landing by 2030. A significant challenge that researchers face in this endeavor is the management of lunar dust, which poses considerable risks to the equipment and astronauts on the lunar surface.
Researchers from Xidian University have developed a promising anti-dust shield solution us NASA seeks logistics designs for Artemis moon missions
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Washington DC (UPI) Oct 8, 2024
Private industry in the United States will have an opportunity to provide NASA with designs for a lander and vehicle that will help supply future Artemis missions to the moon.
NASA in September announced its request for proposals for lunar vehicle designs to overcome deficiencies in its lunar mobility and provide logistics that are needed to support planned missions to the moon's surfac
Private industry in the United States will have an opportunity to provide NASA with designs for a lander and vehicle that will help supply future Artemis missions to the moon.
NASA in September announced its request for proposals for lunar vehicle designs to overcome deficiencies in its lunar mobility and provide logistics that are needed to support planned missions to the moon's surfac Hubble watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot behave like a stress ball
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2024
Astronomers have observed Jupiter's legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises - especially when NASA's Hubble Space Telescope takes a close-up look at it.
Hubble's new observations of the famous red storm, collected 90 days between December 2023 to March 2024, reveal that the GRS is not as stable
Astronomers have observed Jupiter's legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises - especially when NASA's Hubble Space Telescope takes a close-up look at it.
Hubble's new observations of the famous red storm, collected 90 days between December 2023 to March 2024, reveal that the GRS is not as stable SwRI's UVS Instrument on Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft Passes Critical In-Flight Test
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 10, 2024
As the European Space Agency's (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft completed its gravity assist maneuver around the Earth and Moon in August, the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) instrument successfully captured ultraviolet emissions from both celestial bodies. This event marked an important milestone in validating the instrument's performanc
As the European Space Agency's (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft completed its gravity assist maneuver around the Earth and Moon in August, the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) instrument successfully captured ultraviolet emissions from both celestial bodies. This event marked an important milestone in validating the instrument's performanc NASA's Hubble, New Horizons team up for a simultaneous look at Uranus
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2024
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very different viewpoints. The results inform future plans to study like types of planets around other stars.
Astronomers used Uranus as a proxy for similar planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets,
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very different viewpoints. The results inform future plans to study like types of planets around other stars.
Astronomers used Uranus as a proxy for similar planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets, Europa Clipper will investigate whether an icy moon of Jupiter can support life
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Reading UK (SPX) Oct 07, 2024
Discovering extraterrestrial life would be one of the most profound scientific and philosophical revelations that our species has ever made. But such a big discovery won't come easy. Our starting point is to first search other worlds for signs of habitability, that is, the potential for life to exist.
Nasa is doing just that: launching a spacecraft on October 10 to Europa, a moon of Jupite
Discovering extraterrestrial life would be one of the most profound scientific and philosophical revelations that our species has ever made. But such a big discovery won't come easy. Our starting point is to first search other worlds for signs of habitability, that is, the potential for life to exist.
Nasa is doing just that: launching a spacecraft on October 10 to Europa, a moon of Jupite Astronomers explore water-rich atmosphere of exoplanet GJ 9827 d
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2024
A recent international study led by Canadian researchers has unveiled new findings about GJ 9827 d, an exoplanet orbiting the star GJ 9827, located about 98 light-years away in the constellation Pisces. Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have found that this planet's atmosphere contains a high concentration of heavier molecules, including water vapor, suggesting it
A recent international study led by Canadian researchers has unveiled new findings about GJ 9827 d, an exoplanet orbiting the star GJ 9827, located about 98 light-years away in the constellation Pisces. Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have found that this planet's atmosphere contains a high concentration of heavier molecules, including water vapor, suggesting it Astrophysicist takes 'supermassive' leap in the study of black holes
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Coral Gables FL (SPX) Oct 09, 2024
A picture of the Andromeda galaxy on the cover of an encyclopedia started it all. Nico Cappelluti was only 7 years old, but after seeing that image of the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, curiosity got the best of him, and he knew astronomy would be his calling.
So he convinced his father to buy him an amateur telescope, and from the backyard of his home in Rimini, Italy, he would us
A picture of the Andromeda galaxy on the cover of an encyclopedia started it all. Nico Cappelluti was only 7 years old, but after seeing that image of the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, curiosity got the best of him, and he knew astronomy would be his calling.
So he convinced his father to buy him an amateur telescope, and from the backyard of his home in Rimini, Italy, he would us Black Hole Devours Star, Slams Remnants Into Another
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 10, 2024
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, alongside several other telescopes, has uncovered a rare cosmic phenomenon-a black hole destroying a star and using the resulting debris to batter another celestial object nearby.
In 2019, astronomers first detected the event when a star ventured too close to a black hole, resulting in the star's destruction by the black hole's gravitational forces. The st
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, alongside several other telescopes, has uncovered a rare cosmic phenomenon-a black hole destroying a star and using the resulting debris to batter another celestial object nearby.
In 2019, astronomers first detected the event when a star ventured too close to a black hole, resulting in the star's destruction by the black hole's gravitational forces. The st Getting closer to understanding giant planet formation around M-dwarf stars
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 09, 2024
The discovery of a giant planet orbiting the M-dwarf star TOI-6383A has offered fresh insights into the formation of giant planets around these cool, low-mass stars. TOI-6383A, less than half the mass and radius of the Sun, forms a binary system with an even cooler companion star. The newly discovered planet, with a mass and radius comparable to other known giant planets, raises important questi
The discovery of a giant planet orbiting the M-dwarf star TOI-6383A has offered fresh insights into the formation of giant planets around these cool, low-mass stars. TOI-6383A, less than half the mass and radius of the Sun, forms a binary system with an even cooler companion star. The newly discovered planet, with a mass and radius comparable to other known giant planets, raises important questi Main reflector installed for 40-meter radio telescope in Shigatse
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 10, 2024
The main reflector for the 40-meter-aperture radio telescope's antenna system was successfully installed on Monday in Shigatse, located in the Xizang autonomous region of Southwest China, according to CCTV News.
This telescope is a collaborative project between the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the 39th Research Institute of China Electr
The main reflector for the 40-meter-aperture radio telescope's antenna system was successfully installed on Monday in Shigatse, located in the Xizang autonomous region of Southwest China, according to CCTV News.
This telescope is a collaborative project between the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the 39th Research Institute of China Electr US forecasts severe solar storm starting Thursday
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Washington (AFP) Oct 9, 2024
A massive ball of plasma and accompanying magnetic field ejected from the Sun is expected to strike Earth on Thursday morning, potentially triggering auroras as far south as Alabama, according to US forecasters.
It comes as the Sun approaches - or is possibly at - the peak of its 11-year cycle, when activity is heightened.
In May, the planet experienced its most powerful geomagnetic s
A massive ball of plasma and accompanying magnetic field ejected from the Sun is expected to strike Earth on Thursday morning, potentially triggering auroras as far south as Alabama, according to US forecasters.
It comes as the Sun approaches - or is possibly at - the peak of its 11-year cycle, when activity is heightened.
In May, the planet experienced its most powerful geomagnetic s XDLINX Space Labs secures $7 million in seed funding led by Ashish Kacholia
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 10, 2024
XDLINX Space Labs, a key player in India's space technology sector, has successfully raised $7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Ashish Kacholia of Lucky Investments, with additional support from E2MC, Mana Ventures, and a prominent family office. The funds will be used to drive XDLINX's mission of advancing satellite technology and innovating affordable space solutions.
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XDLINX Space Labs, a key player in India's space technology sector, has successfully raised $7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Ashish Kacholia of Lucky Investments, with additional support from E2MC, Mana Ventures, and a prominent family office. The funds will be used to drive XDLINX's mission of advancing satellite technology and innovating affordable space solutions.
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