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Joseph Shavit
Aug 17, 2021
NASA Tests 3D Moon Dust Printer on the ISS in preparation for Mars mission
Designed to build landing pads, roads, and even homes, it could help humans become an interplanetary species.
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![NASA facility in Ohio named for native son Neil Armstrong](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e914e2_2a316f0039804db095374fd80d0a872d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_292,h_219,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/e914e2_2a316f0039804db095374fd80d0a872d~mv2.webp)
Joshua Shavit
Aug 15, 2021
NASA facility in Ohio named for native son Neil Armstrong
A NASA research facility in Ohio has been renamed after astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.
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Joshua Shavit
Aug 14, 2021
NASA and UM program protects the Earth from space storms
The last major space weather event struck the Earth in 1859. Smaller, but still significant, space weather events occur regularly.
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Joshua Shavit
Aug 10, 2021
First-time hi-res topography of asteroid Psyche taken using thermal imaging
The study's Psyche findings are a step toward resolving the mystery of the origin of this unusual object
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Joshua Shavit
Aug 10, 2021
Solving solar puzzle could help save Earth from planet-wide blackouts
Scientists have solved a long-standing mystery about the Sun that could help astronomers predict space weather and geomagnetic storms
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Joshua Shavit
Aug 9, 2021
Scientists uncover what lies beneath the far side of the moon
A new technique for processing lunar radar data has allowed scientists to see what lies beneath the surface of the moon in detail.
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Joseph Shavit
Aug 9, 2021
There are 10,000 Quintillion reasons for NASA to travel to asteroid 16 Psyche
NASA is planning a mission up to an asteroid that is hurtling around in our solar system, and it could be a seriously lucrative mission.
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Joshua Shavit
Aug 9, 2021
Unparalleled bounty of oscillating red giant stars detected
The researchers detected the stars, whose rhythms arise from internal sound waves and provide the opening chords of a symphonic exploration
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Joseph Shavit
Aug 7, 2021
For the first time ever, astronomers capture images of the beginning of a supernova
In a world-first, astronomers have captured the first moments of a supernova—the explosive death of stars—in detail never-before-seen.
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Joseph Shavit
Aug 2, 2021
The universe likely has trillions of planets made primarily of diamonds, scientists confirm
As missions like NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, TESS and Kepler continue to provide insights into the properties of exoplanets
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Joshua Shavit
Aug 1, 2021
Rocks on Earth hint at the possibility of more hidden water on Mars
A combination of a once-debunked 19th-century identification of a water-carrying iron mineral and the fact that these rocks are extremely...
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Joshua Shavit
Jul 31, 2021
York University planetary scientist puts Mars lake theory on ice with new study
For years scientists have been debating what might lay under the Martian planet’s south polar cap and initially attributed it to water.
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Joseph Shavit
Jul 29, 2021
First detection of light from behind a black hole proves Einstein right
Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away
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Joseph Shavit
Jul 28, 2021
For the first time, evidence found for water on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede
For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
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Joseph Shavit
Jul 27, 2021
Comet or asteroid: What killed the dinosaurs and where did it come from?
It forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. The Chicxulub impactor left behind a crater off the coast
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Joseph Shavit
Jul 27, 2021
Galileo Project revolutionizes search for alien life through Artificial Intelligence
A new open data nonprofit scientific initiative by Avi Loeb will use a network of telescopes, cameras and computers to scan for alien life
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Joseph Shavit
Jul 26, 2021
Researchers develop mini radar to scan the moon for water and habitable tunnels
A miniature device that scans deep below ground is being developed to identify ice deposits and hollow lava tubes on the moon for settlement
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Joseph Shavit
Jul 26, 2021
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Selected to Launch NASA Probe to Europa
NASA predicts that beneath Jupiter's icy moon Europa lies a salty ocean with more water than all of Earth's oceans combined.
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Joseph Shavit
Jul 25, 2021
There may be realistic ways to create wormholes in space!
Nobody knew that the existence of a black hole could prove to be real someday. Wormholes, just like black holes, are a mathematical...
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Joseph Shavit
Jul 24, 2021
Astrophysicist outlines plans for the gravitational wave observatory on the moon
Vanderbilt astrophysicist has led a series of studies that make the first case for a gravitational wave infrastructure on the moon.
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