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Europe announces new satellite constellation to track human-made greenhouse gas emissions

The new mission, announced by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Union's Earth-monitoring program Copernicus during the U.N Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow on Tuesday (Nov 2), will rely on a dedicated constellation of satellites.

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 ...

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.

James Webb: Hubble telescope successor faces 'two weeks of terror'

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BBC News

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 ...

Satellite monitoring of Greenland ice melting highlights global flood risk

Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to become more frequent and intense over the past 40 years, raising sea levels and flood risk worldwide, finds new research involving UCL academics. Over the past decade alone, ...

SpaceX Crew-3 launch delayed due to astronaut's medical issue

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CNET

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Vast patches of glassy rock in Chilean desert likely created by ancient exploding comet

Deposits of dark silicate glass are strewn across a 75-kilometer corridor in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. New research shows that those glasses were likely formed by the heat of an ancient comet exploding above the surface.