Analysis finds gender equity among star scientists improving, but big challenges remainCredit: ASTRO 3D Ensuring research opportunities for indigenous, disabled and LGBTQ astronomers is essential if Australian research is to succeed in…
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Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Shortly after NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission's science team revealed that the asteroid could be active, or…
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Cameras aboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured close-up shots of material being ejected from the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. The images offer a detailed look at small-scale mass loss events on an active asteroid,…
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HZDR scientists want to use quantum mechanics to trigger the fusion of atomic nucleiCredit: DESY Nuclear physics usually involves high energies, as illustrated by experiments to master controlled nuclear fusion. One of the problems…
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Credit: ESA / ATG medialab CHEOPS (short for CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) consists of a space telescope developed and assembled by the University of Bern, in collaboration with the University of Geneva (UNIGE), and…
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Technology 'squeezes' out quantum noise so more gravitational wave signals can be detectedCredit: Image: Maggie Tse Just a year ago, the National Science Foundation-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or…
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ANN ARBOR--Our closest-ever look inside the sun's corona has unveiled an unexpectedly chaotic world that includes rogue plasma waves, flipping magnetic fields and distant solar winds under the thrall of the sun's rotation, according to…
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The first evidence of a giant planet orbiting a dead white dwarf star has been found in the form of a disc of gas formed from its evaporating atmosphereCredit: Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick First indirect…
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Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is just days away from selecting the site where the spacecraft will snag a sample from asteroid Bennu. After a lengthy and challenging process, the team is…
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Credit: NASA The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, which has flown closer to the Sun than any mission before, has found new evidence of the origins of the solar wind. NASA's Parker Solar Probe was launched in August 2018. Its first results…
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Close encounter with sun's corona reveals switchbacks that may accelerate wind particlesCredit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL A year ago, NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any satellite in history, collecting a spectacular…
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ESO observations indicate the Neptune-like exoplanet is evaporatingCredit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Researchers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have, for the first time, found evidence of a giant planet associated with a white dwarf star. The…
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Changing the future of Alzheimer's Disease. Utilizing crystals to produce drugs for kidney stones and malaria. Understanding previously unobserved functions of our universe. And pioneering the evolution of wound care.... view more …
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Data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) reveal start-to-finish sequence of an outburst from comet 46P/WirtanenCredit: Farnham et al./NASA University of Maryland astronomers have made the most complete and detailed…
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Unraveling this surprising discrepancy could reveal new details about the planet formation processCredit: Image is by MarioProtIV, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Pasadena, CA-- A surprising analysis of the composition of gas…
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