What Will Plants Be Like on Alien Worlds?
Duffy and Haworth speculate that on remote planets, communities of purple bacteria could swell in black sulfurous oceans, or spread in films around local sources of hydrogen sulfide. If they …
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How NASA Is Protecting Its Precious Asteroid Bennu Sample
The NASA recovery team began by taking samples of the desert ground and atmosphere where the capsule landed. Then they gingerly loaded it onto a helicopter and transported it to …
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Bring Asteroid Pieces Back to Earth
Seven years after it left for the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is returning with a celestial souvenir. On the morning of Sunday, September 24, as it passes by …
ISRO’s Aditya L1 ‘STEPS’ Up Study Of Energetic Particles In Solar Wind
Home Technology ISRO’s Aditya L1 ‘STEPS’ Up Study Of Energetic Particles In Solar Wind The STEPS devices, part of the ASPEX payload aboard the Aditya L1 spacecraft has begun the …
A Pair of Sun Probes Just Got Closer to Solving a Solar Enigma
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The blazing surface of the sun froths with an extremely hot electrically charged gas called plasma. The temperature at the edge of this cosmic furnace runs at about 5,500 degrees …
Science: Nasa says more science and less stigma are needed to understand UFOs
CAPE CANAVERAL: Nasa said on Thursday that the study of UFOs will require new scientific techniques, including advanced satellites as well as a shift in how unidentified flying objects are …
NASA Didn’t Find Aliens—but if You See Any UFOs, Holler
Seventy-six years after the infamous Roswell incident, when a high-altitude balloon—or something—crashed in southeastern New Mexico, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has now officially weighed in on …
Astronaut Rubio sets record for longest US space trip
By Jackie Wattles | CNN Astronaut Frank Rubio has now been in low-Earth orbit for more than 355 days, breaking the record for the longest space mission by a US …
A New Map of the Universe, Painted With Cosmic Neutrinos
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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Of the 100 trillion neutrinos that pass through you every second, most come from the sun or Earth’s atmosphere. But …
FAA orders dozens of changes before next SpaceX Starship launch attempt
The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday ordered SpaceX to make numerous changes to its infrastructure and process before being allowed to launch another rocket after its last attempt destroyed its …