For investors looking for a return in the space industry, picking winners among startups, always a challenge, has become more complicated as the White House and Congress re-evaluate the federal government’s role in space.
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Some young suns are aligned with their planet-forming disks, others are born tilted
Researchers have found that a fair number of sun-like stars emerge with their rotational axis tilted with respect to their protoplanetary disks, the clouds of gas and dust from which solar systems are born.
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Europa’s Bizarre Hotspot: Scientists May Have Solved a Long-Standing Space Mystery
Europa’s surface chemistry hints at life-supporting conditions below. Lab tests reveal how peroxide forms in unexpected places. Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) carried out laboratory experiments to investigate the puzzling…
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Scientists Were Wrong: Apollo 16 Rocks Rewrite the Story of the Moon’s Exosphere
Where does the Moon’s exosphere originate? A study by TU Wien, based on analysis of actual lunar rock, shows that the impact of solar wind ions in eroding the Moon’s surface has been greatly overestimated. The Moon’s surface is constantly…
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Virgin Galactic slips schedule for commercial spaceplane service
WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic is pushing back slightly the beginning of commercial flights of its Delta-class suborbital spaceplanes next year as it deals with a manufacturing issue.
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You’re More Likely to Die From an Asteroid Than Rabies, Scientists Find : ScienceAlert
If you ever lie awake at night wondering just how likely you are to die from an asteroid impact within your lifetime, a new paper has you covered.
A team led by physicist Carrie Nugent of the Olin College of Engineering in the US has…
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4622-4623: Kicking Off (Earth) Year 14 With an Investigation of Veins
Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025.
Today was a very special day for Curiosity as the rover celebrated the start of a 14th year on…
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Radiation efficiency of electromagnetic wave modes from beam-generated solar radio sources
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Primordial rotating disk composed of at least 15 dense star-forming clumps at cosmic dawn
Laporte, N. et al. ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: a strongly lensed multiply imaged dusty system at z ≥ 6. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 505, 4838–4846 (2021).
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A young galaxy that consists of numerous star-forming clumps
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