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Next Generation Ion Engines Will Be Extremely Powerful
1+ day ago —...Glenn Research Center (GRC) have been busy developing a next-generation... ...by luminaries like Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Oberth – two... ...A SEP system was also part of the design for a Deep Space Transport... ...Through a Space Act Agreement (SAA), Northrop Grumman is conducting...
Japan's Lunar Lander Survives its Third Lunar Night
1+ day ago —...Space travel and exploration was never going to be easy.... ...The Japanese Space Agencyâs SLIM lunar lander was only supposed... ...Just a few days ago on Wednesday 24 January, JAXA, the Japanese Aerospace... ...Exploration Agency announced it had survived a third night on the...
Black Holes Can Halt Star Formation in Massive Galaxies
1+ day ago —...A recent survey by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals... ...The team, led by Dr Rebecca Davies from Swinburne University first... ...JPL A team of astronomers using the JWST have found that, over 90...
Here's Why We Should Put a Gravitational Wave Observatory on the Moon
2+ day ago —...limit the effectiveness of Earth-based detectors.... ...But the Earth is warm and seismically noisy, and that will always... ...The lead author is Parameswaran Ajith, a physicist/astrophysicist... ...Ajith is also a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration....
TESS Finds its First Rogue Planet
3+ day ago —...One of the satellites hunting for them is TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet... ...Astronomers using TESS think they are made a rather surprising discovery... ...The team published their findings recently in the Astrophysical Journal... ...all give false indications but thankfully the team led by Michelle Kunimoto...
There are Four Ways to Build with Regolith on the Moon
3+ day ago —...the Tsinghua University has conducted a review of possible techniques... ...A paper published in the journal Engineering by Professor Feng from...
See the Southern Ring Nebula in 3D
4+ day ago —...observed by the James Webb Space Telescope.... ...The Southern Ring Nebula, or NGC 3132, was one of the first objects... ...Professor Joel Kastner from the RIT School of Physics and Astronomy... ...Why does the Southern Ring Nebula have two offset rings?...
Purple Bacteria -- Not Green Plants -- Might Be the Strongest Indication of Life
4+ day ago —..., a postdoctoral associate at the Carl Sagan Institute (CSI... ...the Royal Astronomical Society: According to NASA’s Exoplanet Archive... ...Lisa Kaltenegger, CSI director and associate professor of astronomy... ...at Cornell University, in a press release from Cornell....
Hubble Has Accidentally Discovered Over a Thousand Asteroids
4+ day ago —...(JPL), the Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, the University... ...the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Autonomous University... ...’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared... ...Once the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has accumulated a large...