Asteroid Distant 'Flyby' Thursday
An asteroid, designated 1999 FN53, will safely pass more than 26 times the distance of Earth to the moon on May 14. To put it another way, at its closest point, the asteroid will get no closer than ... more
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NASA Airborne Mission to Focus on Polar Winds
NASA's DC-8 aircraft began a series of science flights based out of Keflavik, Iceland, on May 11 aimed at studying Arctic polar winds. The mission goals are to provide current wind data to preexisti ... more
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BAE Systems to construct new atmospheric sensor for NOAA's GeoXO satellites
Small aerosol particles proven critical in cloud formation
Spire Global to supply AI-Enhanced Weather Predictions to Financial Sector
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Mercury's core dynamo present early in planet's history
The Messenger spacecraft, which crash-landed into Mercury just a few days ago, found traces of magnetization in Mercury's crust, a new study reports.
The presence of residual magnetization pro ... more
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Auroras on Mars
One day, when humans go to Mars, they might find that, occasionally, the Red Planet has green skies. In late Dec. 2014, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft detected evidence of widespread auroras in Mars's nort ... more
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Probing the secrets of the universe inside a metal box
The Standard Model of particle physics, sometimes called "The Theory of Almost Everything," is the best set of equations to date that describes the universe's fundamental particles and how they inte ... more
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Italian astronaut shows how to use restroom on ISS online
An Italian European Space Agency astronaut shows millions how to use the toilet on International Space Station (ISS) through a video uploaded lately in a popular social website.
As astronaut S ... more
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Telescope-Laser Cannons to Clean Up Dangerous Space Junk
The low Earth orbit is filled with what amounts to an outer space junk yard, left behind by decades of discarded satellites, collisions, and debris. And now Operation Orbital Clean House is aiming t ... more
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