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How stony-iron meteorites form
Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. A scientific team has for the first time simulated the formation of a class of stony-iron meteorites, so-called...
Strange dismembered star cluster found at Galaxy's edge
Astronomers have found the remnant of strange dismembered globular cluster at the edge of the Milky Way, upending theories about how heavy elements formed in early stars.
Nasa Mars rover: Perseverance robot poised for launch
The one-tonne vehicle will search for signs of Martian life and prepare rocks to send home to Earth.
Meet Perseverance, JPL's newest Mars rover
NASA's newest Mars rover is called Perseverance, and it has already lived up to the name.
Plutonium-238 to help power perseverance on Mars
After its long journey to Mars beginning this summer, NASA's Perseverance rover will be powered across the planet's surface in part by plutonium produced at the Department of Energy's Oak...
Astronomers pinpoint the best place on Earth for a telescope: High on a frigid Antarctic plateau
au, could offer the clearest view on Earth of the stars at night, according to new research by an international team from China, Australia and the University of British Columbia...
How stony-iron meteorites form
Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) at the Technical University of...
Alaskan seismometers record the northern lights
Aaron Lojewski, who leads aurora sightseeing tours in Alaska, was lucky enough to photograph a "eruption" of brilliant pink light in the night skies one night in February.
South Korea to investigate case of defector raped by police
South Korea police are launching an investigation into the case of a local officer accused of raping a North Korean defector at least a dozen times.
Latvia becomes ESA Associate Member State
Latvia signed an Association Agreement with ESA on 30 June 2020.This Association Agreement between ESA and the Government of the Republic of Latvia, builds on the successful results achieved under...
An Antarctic ice dome may offer the world’s clearest views of the night sky
An observatory in the heart of Antarctica could have the world’s clearest views of the night sky. If an optical telescope were built on a tower a few stories tall in the...
Tear gas, fireworks mark 62nd night of protest in Portland
Federal police officers in Portland, Ore., confronted about 1,000 demonstrators late Tuesday and early Wednesday as protests endured for a 62nd consecutive night.
Discovered: Remnant of ancient globular cluster that's 'the last of its kind'
A team of astronomers including Carnegie's Ting Li and Alexander Ji discovered a stellar stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by the...
NASA's Perseverance Rover Will Carry First Spacesuit Materials to Mars
Portal origin URL: NASA's Perseverance Rover Will Carry First Spacesuit Materials to MarsPortal origin nid: 463154Published: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - 08:05Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: In a Q&A, spacesuit designer...
Latvia becomes ESA Associate Member State
Latvia signed an Association Agreement with ESA on 30 June 2020.This Association Agreement between ESA and the Government of the Republic of Latvia, builds on the successful results achieved under...
Study: A plunge in incoming sunlight may have triggered “Snowball Earths”
At least twice in Earth’s history, nearly the entire planet was encased in a sheet of snow and ice. These dramatic “Snowball Earth” events occurred in quick succession, somewhere around 700 million years...
Watch: Cameron Diaz on life with Benji Madden, daughter Raddix during lockdown
Cameron Diaz discussed her life at home with Benji Madden and their daughter, Raddix, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Miniature telescope demonstration focuses on sharpening view of distant objects in space
A recently deployed DARPA CubeSat seeks to demonstrate technology that could improve imaging of distant objects in space and allow powerful space telescopes to fit into small satellites. DARPA's Deformable...
Researchers discover triple-layered leading-edge of solar coronal mass ejections
In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal, Dr. MEI Zhixing in Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his colleagues reported a Magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) numerical study on...
With Perseverance and a little MOXIE, MIT is going to Mars
On July 30, a two-week window of opportunity opens for Perseverance—the newest Mars rover, forged in the spirit of human curiosity—to begin its journey toward the Red Planet with a...
Extended X-ray emission detected from the radio galaxy 4C 63.20
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, an international team of astronomers has conducted deep imaging observations of a high-redshift radio galaxy known as 4C 63.20. The observational campaign has revealed an...
Space dust fossils are providing a new window onto Earth’s past
by Caleb Davies To be a meteorite hunter means to search for the unutterably rare. On any given patch of land the size of Wales, an average of two olive-sized space...
Schoolgirls in India discover Earth-bound asteroid
Two teenage girls from India have discovered an Earth-bound asteroid by poring through images from a University of Hawaii telescope, an Indian space education institute said on Monday.
Meet Perseverance, JPL's newest Mars rover
Perseverance, NASA's newest Mars rover, is living up to its name. It has already survived a hurdle no previous rover has had to face: a global pandemic.
Explore how space supports daily life around the world
Did you know that ESA works with businesses, non-profit organisations and policy-makers to improve life on Earth? We have launched a new interactive tool that you can use to explore...
Flight over the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing site
Video: 00:01:47 This video shows Jezero crater, the landing site of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on the Red Planet, based on images from ESA’s Mars Express mission. The planned landing...
Studying radioactive aluminum in stellar systems unlocks formation secrets
An international team of astronomers including Stella Offner of the University of Texas at Austin has proposed a new method for the formation of aluminum-26 in star systems that are...
New evidence for fragmentation of energy release in solar flares
Type III radio bursts from the sun are signatures of energetic (∼1–100 keV) electrons, accelerated at the reconnection sites, propagating upward through the corona into the interplanetary medium along open...