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Apollo moon rocks reveal lunar magnetic field was briefly stronger than Earth’s Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, University…
The Language of Contact How we think intersects with the language we think in. Consider the verb in classical Greek,…
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Martian volcanoes could be hiding massive glaciers under a blanket of ash When we think of ice on Mars, we…
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Searidge implements digital control tower at Vigo Airport, Spain Searidge Technologies has announced the successful implementation of Spain’s first fully…
Hubble identifies a near-invisible galaxy that may be 99% dark matter In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies…
Astronomers may have just found one of the missing links in galaxy evolution A team of 48 astronomers from 14…
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What cold-water geysers on Earth reveal about the habitability of ocean worlds In the eastern Utah desert, carbon-dioxide-saturated water bubbles,…
The balloon mission raising the bar for exoplanet science The atmospheres of exoplanets have been a focal point of the…
Astronomers trace a star’s three-year infrared glow to black hole birth In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared…
Sophie Adenot, the second French woman to fly to space When she was growing up, Sophie Adenot plastered her childhood…
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Guarding the guardians Good institutions are social technologies that scale trust from personal relations to entire nations. How do they…
UK space firm Skyrora explores buying assets of struggling rival Orbex British company Skyrora, which designs and builds rockets to…
UK space firm Skyrora explores buying assets of struggling rival Orbex British company Skyrora, which designs and builds rockets to…
Vaisala to upgrade runway visual range systems at seven Greek airports Vaisala will supply Runway Visual Range systems to seven…
Unseen planet or brown dwarf may have hidden ‘rare’ fading star One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed…
A Relativistic Explanation for the Dearth of Circumbinary Planets Planets orbiting two stars have been found, but not all that…
NASA selects two Earth System Explorers missions Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and…
Image: Strong solar flare This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare…
The ‘Little red dots’ observed by Webb were direct-collapse black holes The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to…
A giant star is changing before our eyes and astronomers are watching in real time For decades, astronomers have been…
The dirty afterlife of a dead satellite Sometimes we humans get ahead of ourselves. We embark on grand engineering experiments…
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How selfish are we? An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of…
NASA Langley makes final preparations for Artemis II mission to launch around the moon When Apollo 17 astronauts returned from…
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Shelter from the Storm The approaching storm will almost certainly cause power outages that will make it impossible to post…
flydubai, AWS announce cloud and AI collaboration flydubai and AWS have announced a collaboration that will see the Dubai-based airline…
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NASA researchers probe tangled magnetospheres of merging neutron stars New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with…
Burning satellites in the stratosphere: Emerging questions for climate The sky is getting crowded. In the last few years, the…
Inside, the valley sings Where does the mind go in solitary confinement? An evocative animation exploring three individual experiences –…
DevvStream and partners plan integrated platform to grow US SAF supply DevvStream, Southern Energy Renewables (Southern), and XCF Global have…
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Holography: Shaping a Diffractive Sail One result of the Breakthrough Starshot effort has been an intense examination of sail stability…
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What is the universe made of? Experts weigh in on the mysterious force that shapes our cosmic history As the…
Chandra catalog now contains 1.3 million X-ray detections across the sky Like a recording artist who has had a long…
Halley’s Comet wrongly named: 11th-century English monk predates British astronomer The British astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was not, after…
Comebacks, curveballs, and countdowns Artemis II rolls out to the launchpad, two troubled space missions return safely to Earth, and…
From lunar nights to Martian dust storms: Why batteries struggle in space Space agencies are no longer talking about visiting…
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NASA head Isaacman tempers Artemis praise with ideas on the program’s future Even as NASA celebrated the rollout of the…
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The 2025 Airport Technology Excellence Awards Winners Announced! The Airport Technology Excellence Awards 2025 Winners have been announced! Download our full 50+…
New NASA Artemis payloads to study moon’s terrain, radiation, history NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three new science investigations…
SunRISE SmallSats ace tests, moving closer to launch When the six tiny spacecraft of NASA’s SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space…
Cellular Cosmic Isolation: When the Universe Seeds Life but Civilizations Stay Silent So many answers to the Fermi question have…
Improving astronaut fitness for deep space missions As we prepare for missions beyond Earth orbit, one crucial challenge remains: keeping…
Experiments bring Enceladus’ subsurface ocean into the lab Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical…
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Astronomer uses ‘China Sky Eye’ to reveal binary origin of fast radio bursts An international team of astronomers, including researchers…
The shape of time In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for…
Hidden magma oceans could shield rocky exoplanets from harmful radiation Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths,…
SpaceX launch sets record turnaround from Cape Canaveral pad SpaceX is starting to get the ball rolling on its Florida…
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From a new flagship space telescope to lunar exploration, global cooperation will make 2026 an exciting year for space In…
Pandora: Exoplanets at Multiple Wavelengths Sometimes we forget how overloaded our observatories are, both in space and on the ground….
A vision for industry on the Moon Credits: Michael Nayak / Air University Press Air University Press, the academic publisher…
Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found For 21 years,…
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X-ray spectra provide sharpest image to date of a rapidly spinning black hole The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM),…
Cold neutral gas in early universe prompts rethink of galaxy cluster evolution A small group of young researchers at the…
On cloud nine This week: a new celestial object and some hopeful news for NASA. Go to Source Author: The…
Red tape on a blue planet All our laws and rules to protect coral reefs now stand in the way…
The electrifying science behind Martian dust Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its…
NASA cancels spacewalk due to medical issue and may bring the crew back early NASA canceled its first spacewalk of…
Thales to upgrade Panama AAC air traffic control centre Thales is set to upgrade Panama’s Civil Aviation Authority (AAC) air…
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