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Why will it take Europe's JUICE spacecraft 8 years to get to Jupiter?

Set to blast off on Thursday (April 13), the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will embark on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, with the spacecraft estimated to arrive at the gas giant in July 2031. The European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft will make ...

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A magnetic field on a nearby Earth-sized exoplanet?

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So scientists are always on the lookout for magnetic fields when they study distant exoplanets, or worlds orbiting other stars. Earlier this month (April 3, 2023), researchers found the first tentative evidence for a rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet with a ...

Rollable 'membrane mirrors' could pave way for bigger, more powerful space telescopes

A scientist says it may be possible to create low-cost foldable telescope mirrors that are more than twice the size of those onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), whose giant iconic golden honeycomb mirror is the largest ever sent to space.

Earth's core seems to be surrounded by enigmatic layer, geologists say

For decades, scientists have debated the nature and origin of what some experts consider the most anomalous and enigmatic layer of Earth's deep interior: the boundary between its scorching hot liquid outer core and the solid mantle that surrounds it.

Historic nebula seen like never before with Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

On Feb. 22, 1971, a sounding rocket lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia, with specialized sensors aimed at the Crab Nebula, a bright cosmic object 6,500 light-years away. In those days, before recovering physical tapes from the experiment, ...

Seas have drastically risen along southern US coast in past decade

Scientists have documented an abnormal and dramatic surge in sea levels along the U.S. gulf and southeastern coastlines since about 2010, raising new questions about whether New Orleans, Miami, Houston and other coastal communities might be even more ...

How exploring Hawaiian caves helps NASA search for life on Mars

In August 2019, Chloe Fishman crawled into a cave beneath the largest active volcano on the planet. Along with scientists from NASA and other institutions, she had come to Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano to study the microscopic life-forms that could ...

'Snowball Earth' might have been slushball

Researchers found evidence that Earth was not completely frozen solid during the Marinoan ice age 635 million years ago. Shallow, mid-latitude seas remained ice free, perhaps helping life persist. Credit: Michael Miller.

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This new nonprofit organization will go beyond advocating for protecting off-world heritage sites and contemplate the ethics around some activities in space that are not fully covered in existing international law. Buzz Aldrin Apollo ...

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Brookhaven National Lab names first female director

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Brookhaven National Laboratory officials on Monday named JoAnne Hewett, a theoretical physicist known for studies of hidden space and time dimensions, as the Upton facility's next director — setting her up to be the first woman in that role in the ...