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Space refers to the science and study of Earth, the atmosphere, and outer space – specifically, the research, design, and technology behind spacecraft and the latest innovations in the study of the void between celestial bodies.
Blame It on Jupiter: Venus Might Have Been Habitable Without Its Influence
Missions to Mars have been planned since the 1950s, when the concept of life on Mars first seemed to captivate the…
Auroral Beads Precede Space Substorms
Auroras, the disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by solar wind, are one of the most beautiful and easily…
Citizen Scientists Help Astronomers Find 100 Cool Brown Dwarfs
The power of many is increasingly being harnessed as scientists and citizen scientists work together to collect…
ICs Blast Off Onboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission
Renesas has announced that more than 20 of its radiation-hardened (rad-hard) integrated circuits (ICs) were onboard…
Researchers Measure 2017 Solar Flare’s Magnetic Fields
The Carrington Event of 1859 that disrupted telegraph communications globally is both the world’s best known solar…
Colliding Star May Have Caused Black Hole’s Corona to Disappear
Black holes, the regions in spacetime where gravity is so strong nothing can escape, have fascinated astronomers…
SpaceX Rocket Reusability Dream Gets One Step Closer to Reality
SpaceX’s rocket reusability program was first announced in 2011, with a successful landing and recovery of a first…
Newborn Particles Interact with Electromagnetic Fields to Create Pulsars
Pulsars, the radiation pulses emitted by rotating neutron stars at very regular intervals, have very strong…
Bayesian Statistics Can Tell Us How Extraterrestrial Life Might Evolve
While humans have been wondering whether we are alone in the universe since antiquity, our fascination with…
Dark Matter Signals Might be Present in Particle Detector Data
Dark matter, first proposed by Lord Kelvin in 1884 and named by Henri Poincaré in 1906, is undetectable by current…