WASHINGTON — The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) in a 55-2 vote advanced its draft of the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with key policy provisions that formalize Pentagon procurement of commercial…
Category: 2. Space
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4597-4599: Wide Open Spaces
Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator, Framework
Earth planning date: Friday, July 11, 2025
Imagine this vista as the view out your office window to start your workday. Your natural tendency would be to…
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2.35-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Found in Africa Rewrites Lunar History
A rare lunar meteorite found in Africa sheds new light on hidden volcanic processes that shaped the Moon long after its surface was thought to have cooled. A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in…
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NASA’s DART Mission Deflected an Asteroid – But Unleashed a Swarm of Space Boulders
Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission carried three times more momentum than the spacecraft. This discovery offers valuable new insights for improving future…
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Earth Could Be in a Massive Cosmic Bubble That’s Warping the Universe, Astrophysicists Reveal
A cosmic void could be distorting how we see the universe expand. Sound from the Big Bang may hold the clues. According to astronomers, Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be located within a vast, low-density region of…
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Solar wind erosion of lunar regolith is suppressed by surface morphology and regolith properties
Pieters, C. M. & Noble, S. K. Space weathering on airless bodies. J. Geophys. Res.: Planets 121, 1865 (2016).
Hapke, B. Space weathering from Mercury to the asteroid belt. J. Geophys. Res.:…
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A network of velocity-coherent filaments formed by supersonic turbulence in a very-high-velocity H i cloud
Kalberla, P. M. W. & Kerp, J. The H i distribution of the Milky Way. Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 47, 27–61 (2009).
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McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Stanimirović, S. & Rybarczyk, D. R….
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A spectroscopist’s view of the evolving story of exoplanet K2-18 b
Tsiaras, A., Waldmann, I. P., Tinetti, G., Tennyson, J. & Yurchenko, S. N. Water vapour in the atmosphere of the habitable-zone eight-Earth-mass planet K2 18b. Nat. Astron. 3, 1086–1091 (2019).
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Support from satellite services grows to 18% of UK GDP
TAMPA, Fla. — New research released by the UK Space Agency underscores the country’s growing reliance on satellite technologies, which supported industries accounting for about 18% of national gross domestic product (GDP) based on…
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