Starlink Satellites May Disrupt Detection Of Near-Earth Asteroids, Study Warns
There is growing concern among astronomers that Elon Musk's SpaceX satellites in low-Earth-orbit (LEO) may interfere with a ground-based detection system...
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Sinuous stellar jets meander lazily across a field of stars in new images. The gently curving stellar jets are the outflow from young stars, and astronomers suspect their sidewinding appearances are caused by the gravitational attraction of...
If you’ve dabbled in astrology or read your daily horoscope every now and again, chances are you’ve been focusing on your sun sign. The sun sign is most often associated as your “main” astrological sign, however, it’s not your only sign,...
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Mimas, Saturn's cryptic-looking moon, is awfully deceptive. The small moon is dominated by an 80-mile-wide crater, giving it the appearance of the grim Star Wars Death Star — a space station equipped with a planet-destroying weapon. But...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Refusal of the United States to issue an entry visa for Russian cosmonaut Nikolay Chub, who was to undergo training at the NASA space center, threatens his safety during his stay at the International Space Station (ISS), as well...
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On Mars, dust storm season has commenced.NASA's distant satellite, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, recently captured a sizable regional dust storm on the Red Planet, encompassing the area where the space agency's Perseverance rover is investigating...
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The James Webb Space Telescope was launched into outer space on 25 December 2021. It is hope that the telescope will help scientists explore the planets outside the solar system and scrutinise the early days of the universe.
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There's a giant camera orbiting Mars. It's attached to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and can spot things as small as a kitchen table (including robotic rovers). It's aptly called the High Resolution Imaging Experiment, or HIRISE. And it...
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Former SpaceX engineers are building self-driving, electric freight train cars, CNBC reported.
The LA-based startup, Parallel Systems, raised $50 million in a Series A funding round.
The system...
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Candy manufacturer Mars Wrigley announced Thursday it has rebranded its M&M's cartoon mascots.
The cartoon M&M's have been revised to promote...
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Data from the Cassini mission point to Mimas possibly having an interior ocean.
Related topics: Saturn, Moon, Cassini–Huygens Spacecarft
A study led by geophysicist Anne M. Hofmeister in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis proposes that imbalanced forces and torques in the Earth-moon-sun system drive circulation of the whole mantle.
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Carbon is critical to life, as far as we know. So anytime we detect a strong carbon signature somewhere like Mars, it could indicate biological activity.
Does a strong carbon signal in Martian rocks indicate biological processes of some...
Related topics: Mars Rover Curiosity, Mars
New Curtin University research has confirmed the frequency of asteroid collisions that formed impact craters on Mars has been consistent over the past 600 million years.
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A study led by geophysicist Anne M. Hofmeister proposes that imbalanced forces and torques in the Earth-moon-sun system drive circulation of the whole mantle. The new analysis provides an alternative to the hypothesis that the movement of tectonic...
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Planet Fitness Expands While Peloton Fades Into Darkness
COVID-19 crushed the gym industry, and many closed their doors over the last two years. People replaced gym memberships with daily rides on Peloton stationary bikes at home....
New Curtin University research has confirmed the frequency of asteroid collisions that formed impact craters on Mars has been consistent over the past 600 million years.
Related topics: Asteroids, Mars
It’s been over 50 years since any human set foot on the moon, but NASA has plans to change that. The agency’s Artemis program aims to send humans to explore the moon’s south pole in the next few years, using a brand new rocket and...
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Elon Musk’s Starlink is a divisive project. The satellite internet constellation aims to provide low-cost internet to remote locations, but it’s producing some alarming side effects. Here are the biggest problems posed by the SpaceX network,...
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Enlarge / If all goes well, this is how Lunar Resources' extractor could appear on the lunar surface in a few years. (credit: Lunar Resources)
In recent years, much has been said about mining water ice in shadowed craters at the Moon's...
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