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A Look at the Sun's Dusty Environment

Dec. 10, 2020 — Scientists say that how dust moves and transforms around the sun may give them new insights to how Earth and its neighboring planets formed more than 4.5 billion years ...

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New Superhighway System Discovered in the Solar System

Dec. 9, 2020 — Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network to travel through the Solar System much faster than was previously possible. Such routes can drive comets and asteroids ...

Image-Based Navigation Could Help Spacecraft Safely Land on the Moon

Dec. 7, 2020 — Engineers have demonstrated how a series of lunar images can be used to infer the direction that a spacecraft is moving. This technique, sometimes called visual odometry, allows navigation ...

Voyager Spacecraft Detect New Type of Solar Electron Burst

Dec. 3, 2020 — The Voyager spacecraft continue to make discoveries even as they travel through interstellar space. In a new study, physicists report on the Voyagers' detection of cosmic ray electrons associated ...

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Aluminium Alloy Research Could Benefit Manned Space Missions

Dec. 7, 2020 — Manned space missions in spacecraft made of aluminium that is light yet resistant to radiation could be a step ...

Experiments Unravelling the Mystery of Mars' Moon Phobos

Nov. 30, 2020 — There is no weather in space - but there is weathering: Celestial bodies are bombarded by high energy particles. On the Mars moon Phobos, the situation is complicated: It is hit by particles from the ...

Space Travel Can Adversely Impact Energy Production in a Cell

Nov. 25, 2020 — Studies of both mice and humans who have traveled into space reveal that critical parts of a cell's energy production machinery, the mitochondria, can be made dysfunctional due to changes in gravity, ...

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts Headed to International Space Station

Nov. 16, 2020 — An international crew of astronauts is en route to the International Space Station following a successful launch on the first NASA-certified commercial human spacecraft ...

Escape from Mars: How Water Fled the Red Planet

Nov. 12, 2020 — Mars once had oceans but is now bone-dry, leaving many to wonder how the water was lost. Researchers have discovered a surprisingly large amount of water in the upper atmosphere of Mars, where it is ...

Prototype Fuel Gauge for Orbit

Nov. 12, 2020 — Liquids aren't as well behaved in space as they are on Earth. Inside a spacecraft, microgravity allows liquids to freely slosh and float about. This behavior has made fuel quantity in satellites ...

Mining Rocks in Orbit Could Aid Deep Space Exploration

Nov. 10, 2020 — The first mining experiments conducted in space could pave the way for new technologies to help humans explore and establish settlements on distant worlds, a study ...

Microbial Space Travel on a Molecular Scale

Nov. 4, 2020 — Galactic cosmic and solar UV radiation, extreme vacuum, temperature fluctuations: how can microbes exposed to these challenges in space survive? Scientists investigated how the space-surviving ...

New Remote Sensing Technique Could Bring Key Planetary Mineral Into Focus

Nov. 2, 2020 — The mineral olivine, thought to be a major component inside all planetary bodies, holds secrets about the early formation of the solar system, and a team of researchers has a new way to study it ...

Asteroid's Scars Tell Stories of Its Past

Oct. 30, 2020 — Asteroid Bennu only recently migrated into Earth's neighborhood, according to a detailed analysis of impact marks on boulders on its surface. The report provides a new benchmark for understanding the ...