Cosmic Nomads: NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Could Find 400 Earth-Mass Rogue Planets (scitechdaily.com)
New research conducted by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets, or worlds that drift through space untethered to a star, significantly outnumber planets that orbit stars. The results indicate that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled for launch
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In new space race, scientists propose geoarchaeology can aid in preserving space heritage (phys.org)
As a new space race heats up, two researchers from the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas and their colleagues have proposed a new scientific subfield: planetary geoarchaeology, the study of how cultural and natural processes on Earth's moon, on Mars and across the solar system may be altering, preserving or...
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Booster 9 on the pad (twitter.com)
Its believed Booster 9 and Starship 28 will be the next combination to fly
Researchers find ancient, high-energy impacts could have fueled Venus volcanism (phys.org)
A Southwest Research Institute-led team has modeled the early impact history of Venus to explain how Earth's sister planet has maintained a youthful surface despite lacking plate tectonics. The team compared the early collision histories of the two bodies and determined that Venus likely experienced higher-speed, higher-energy...
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China to launch moon astronauts' new spacecraft for 1st time in 2027 or 2028 (www.space.com)
The nation is aiming for a crewed lunar landing by 2030.
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An ancient river is helping NASA's Perseverance Mars rover do its work (phys.org)
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover sealed the tube containing its 20th rock core sample on June 23 (the 832nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission), and the mission's science team is excited about its potential. That's because this sample was drilled by the rover from an outcrop composed of tiny chunks of other rocks that were...
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Gravitational Gluttony: How Galactic Mergers Bring Hidden Supermassive Black Holes to Life (scitechdaily.com)
New research led by Newcastle University and published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has revealed that supermassive black holes obscured by dust are more likely to grow and release tremendous amounts of energy when they are inside galaxies that are expected to collide with a neighboring galaxy.
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NASA starts building ice-hunting Moon rover (arstechnica.com)
VIPER is NASA’s first rover that needs headlights.
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Launch, rinse, repeat ♻️ Electron is another step closer to becoming the first reusable small rocket. (twitter.com)
#space #rocketlab
An ancient red giant star created a rare 'bipolar' nebula as it died (photo) (www.space.com)
The jug-like structure is a rare and short-lived double-lobed planetary nebula.
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World's biggest radio telescope could tease out secrets of dark matter, universe's 1st galaxies (www.space.com)
Studying the hydrogen fingerprint from just after the Big Bang could allow researchers to kill 'two birds with one stone!'
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Scientists Detect Intriguing New Signals of Organic Molecules on Mars (www.sciencealert.com)
Materials found in the rocks of Mars' Jezero Crater suggest that organic matter may be widespread across the red planet.
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How scientists decide if they've actually found signals of alien life (www.popsci.com)
You'll need to rule out human noise or other Earth-bound sources, which is to say eliminating the ‘confounders.' A control sample helps, too.
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Some details on @blueorigin HLS & cislunar transporter, provided by @LMSpace (twitter.com)
Some details on @blueorigin...
Looks like we can increase Raptor thrust by ~20% to reach 9000 tons (20 million lbs) of force at sea level (twitter.com)
Tweet by Elon, this has big implications for HLS as it affects the number of refuelling flights needed.
Water worlds in the galaxy could be 100 times more common than once thought (mashable.com)
A new study increases the odds of finding the 'origins of life' in the Milky Way.
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Watch Rocket Lab launch 7 satellites, return booster to Earth today (www.space.com)
Rocket Lab will launch seven satellites to orbit today (July 14) on a mission that will also feature a booster recovery, and you can watch the action live....
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Stars found hidden in huge cloud wrapped around the Milky Way (archive.is)
The Magellanic stream is a cloud of dust and gas that wraps around our galaxy. It has long been thought to host stars, but they have never been seen until now
Reinventing cosmology: uOttawa research puts age of universe at 26.7 — not 13.7 — billion years (www.eurekalert.org)
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How microbial protein is shaping food production on Earth and in space (www.euronews.com)
Finnish foodtech firm Solar Foods makes microbial protein using just hydrogen, CO2 and electricity. Could it help astronauts get to Mars?
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Good news for the alien life hunt: Buried oceans may be common on icy exoplanets (www.space.com)
'This significantly increases the chances of finding environments where life could, in theory, develop.'
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'Like a mirror': Astronomers identify most reflective exoplanet (phys.org)
A scorching hot world where metal clouds rain drops of titanium is the most reflective planet ever observed outside of our Solar System, astronomers said on Monday.
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Huge granite 'body' on far side of the moon offers clues to ancient lunar volcanoes (www.space.com)
Cooled magma deposits have been discovered under a lunar volcano that likely erupted 3.5 billion years ago.
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James Webb telescope detects the earliest strand in the 'cosmic web' ever seen (www.space.com)
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a clump of ancient galaxies that may be the oldest strand of the "cosmic web" ever detected.
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