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Building a giant catcher’s mitt on the moon

Members of the space exploration community are always coming up with novel ideas to solve problems that they view as holding back humanity’s expansion into the cosmos. One such problem that has become more noticeable of late, due to the failure of several powered lunar landers, is the difficulty of landing on the moon.

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Ready for space travel? GENESTAR can track how space affects your health

As the number of space travelers is increasing through commercial missions, it becomes more important to understand how space affects the human body.

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NASA’s Mars Perseverance snaps a selfie as a Martian dust devil blows by

The latest selfie by NASA’s Perseverance rover at Mars has captured an unexpected guest: a Martian dust devil.

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Scientists discover how solar events affect the velocity of helium pickup ions

Southwest Research Institute scientists have discovered how solar activity affects the velocity distribution and evolution of helium pickup ions.

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From way back to the future: Space-time ripples modeled in new study

Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) second year Ph.D. scholarship student Sebenele (Sebe) Thwala, working with supervisors Dr. Chris Stevens and Prof Jörg Frauendiener, has been modeling how gravitational waves interact across the universe from the distant past to the far future.

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Unveiling the secrets of planet formation in environments of high UV radiation

The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, according to a new study by an international collaboration led by Penn State astronomers.

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Astronomers take first step toward multicolor black hole observations with Event Horizon Telescope

An international team of astronomers has successfully demonstrated a new technique to observe especially faint black holes by correcting for atmospheric effects on Earth. The technique, called “frequency phase transfer (FPT),” can now be implemented at observatories participating in the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), making the global array more sensitive than ever before.

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A CubeSat propulsion system to visit near Earth objects

In recent years, humanity has visited several near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), including Ryugu (Hayabusa2) and Didymos (DART). However, we will need more frequent missions to start gathering more helpful information about this class of over 37,000 space rocks. CubeSats have off-the-shelf components and a relatively small size, making them a potentially good candidate for such an […]

Could black holes be growing inside stars—silently and forever?

When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and forming a cosmic monster that eats everything around it. But what if black holes didn’t always begin with a bang? What if, instead, they started quietly—growing inside stars, which still appear alive from the outside, […]

‘Cosmic joust’: Astronomers observe pair of galaxies in deep-space battle

Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense radiation. Their results, published in Nature, show that this radiation dampens the wounded galaxy’s ability to form new stars.

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For galaxies forming stars, it’s not about how much gas there is but where you find it

Researchers at the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) made the discovery about galaxies by studying the gas distribution that helps create stars.

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Earth observation scientists need you to help spot clouds from space

Space enthusiasts and families across the U.K. will have the chance to contribute directly to climate science through an upgraded cloud-spotting project launched today.

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Einstein Probe detects a peculiar X-ray transient

An international team of astronomers using the Einstein Probe reports the discovery of a new peculiar fast-evolving X-transient. The newfound transient exhibits an unprecedented long-lasting X-ray emission. The finding was detailed in a paper published May 12 on the arXiv preprint server.

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The sun up close: Observations with new VTT camera technology deliver 8K image resolution

Large and complex sunspot groups characterize the surface of the dynamic sun during its activity cycle. A new camera system at the Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT) at the Observatorio del Teide on Tenerife uses image restoration methods to capture small structures in active areas.

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Image: Sunset at Mars’s Gusev Crater in 2005

On May 19th, 2005, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars.

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