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NASA still working to figure out why Hubble's science instruments went dark NASA is still working to understand a glitch that took instruments on a venerable space observatory out of commission. On Oct. 25, the science instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope went into safe mode, according to a brief statement released that ...
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Astronauts have a taco taste test using first chile peppers grown in space After growing for four months, the peppers were harvested on Friday by NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei. Next, they were sanitized before the crew settled in to taste some of the red and green chiles and take surveys about the flavor and texture.
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James Webb: Hubble telescope successor faces 'two weeks of terror' Engineers like to describe the process of landing a rover on Mars as the "seven minutes of terror". That's how long it takes for a robot to come to a standing-stop at the surface of the Red Planet after entering the atmosphere faster than a rifle ...
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SpaceX Crew-3 launch delayed due to astronaut's medical issue From left are NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari and Tom Marshburn, along with European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer in front of a Falcon 9 rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX. The four astronauts of NASA and SpaceX's ...
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Rocky exoplanets are even stranger than we thought After studying the chemical composition of "polluted" white dwarfs, they have concluded that most rocky planets orbiting nearby stars are more diverse and exotic than previously thought, with types of rocks not found anywhere in our Solar System.
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New technique provides detailed information on nuclear material Whether soil contaminated with nuclear material or archaeological finds: Analyzing isotopes can help determining the age and origin of a sample very accurately. Researchers from Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ...
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Hunting for marine plastic with satellites Marine plastic litter was dumped into a realistic scale model of the Atlantic Ocean to test if space technologies would be able to detect it from orbit. The best estimate is that an average 10 million tons of plastic enter the ocean annually—equivalent ...
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Stargazers in Chile's Atacama Desert search for alien life and 'dark energy' Central to the race to peer into distant worlds is the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), a $1.8 billion complex being built at the Las Campanas observatory and which will have a resolution 10 times higher than the Hubble space telescope.
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Greenland's ice sheet is melting so fast, it's raising sea levels and creating global flood risk Greenland's ice sheet, the second biggest ice sheet in the world behind Antarctica, has melted so much in the past decade that global sea levels were raised one centimeter, and trends predict sea levels can rise nearly a foot higher by the end of the ...
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Apple Watch emergency call feature saves bicyclist struck by car AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. British cyclist Jay Dixon says he ...
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