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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Collects Significant Amount of Asteroid

Oct. 23, 2020 — Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission team received on Thursday, Oct. 22, images that confirm the spacecraft has collected more than ...

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Magnetic Fields on the Moon Are the Remnant of an Ancient Core Dynamo

Oct. 15, 2020 — A long discussed theory about the local magnetic spots of the moon suggests that they are the result of magnetization processes caused by impacts of massive bodies on the ...

Moon's Magnetic Crust Research Sees Scientists Debunk Long-Held Theory

Oct. 7, 2020 — New international research into the Moon provides scientists with insights as to how and why its crust is magnetized, essentially 'debunking' one of the previous longstanding ...

Looking for Pieces of Venus? Try the Moon

Oct. 7, 2020 — A growing body of research suggests the planet Venus may have had an Earth-like environment billions of years ago, with water and a thin ...

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First Measurements of Radiation Levels on the Moon

Sep. 26, 2020 — In the coming years and decades, various nations want to explore the moon, and plan to send astronauts there again for this purpose. But on our inhospitable satellite, space radiation poses a ...

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Comet Discovered to Have Its Own Northern Lights

Sep. 21, 2020 — Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has its own far-ultraviolet aurora, data reveal. It is the first time such electromagnetic emissions in the far-ultraviolet have been ...

Modern Theory from Ancient Impacts

Sep. 16, 2020 — It is generally accepted that the inner region of the early solar system was subject to an intense period of meteoric bombardment referred to as the late heavy bombardment. However, researchers have ...

Study Shows Difficulty in Finding Evidence of Life on Mars

Sep. 15, 2020 — While scientists are eager to study the red planet's soils for signs of life, researchers must ponder a considerable new challenge: Acidic fluids - which once flowed on the Martian surface - may have ...

Sand-Sized Meteoroids Are Peppering Asteroid Bennu

Sep. 9, 2020 — A new study posits that the major particle ejections off the near-Earth asteroid Bennu may be the consequence of impacts by small, sand-sized particles called meteoroids onto its surface as the ...

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Has Earth's Oxygen Rusted the Moon for Billions of Years?

Sep. 2, 2020 — To the surprise of many planetary scientists, the oxidized iron mineral hematite has been discovered at high latitudes on ...

Researchers Develop Dustbuster for the Moon

Aug. 31, 2020 — A new solution to the problem of spring cleaning on the moon: Why not zap away the grime using a beam of ...

Sleep Duration, Efficiency and Structure Change in Space

Aug. 26, 2020 — It's hard to get a good night's sleep in space. An evaluation of astronauts serving on the Mir space station found that they experienced shorter sleep durations, more wakefulness, and changes in the ...

Sustained Planetwide Storms May Have Filled Lakes, Rivers on Ancient Mars

Aug. 19, 2020 — A new study is helping scientists piece together the ancient climate of Mars by revealing how much rainfall and snowmelt filled its lake beds and river valleys 3.5 billion to 4 billion years ...

The Most Sensitive Instrument in the Search for Life Beyond Earth

Aug. 19, 2020 — Researchers have developed the highly sensitive ORIGIN instrument, which can provide proof of the smallest amounts of traces of life, for future space missions. The instrument may be used on missions ...