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Category: 2. Space
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A New Alloy is Enabling Ultra-Stable Structures Needed for Exoplanet Discovery
A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space telescopes that future NASA missions require to search for habitable worlds.
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Introduction of EU Space Act marks start of debate on regulations
WASHINGTON — The European Union has unveiled a long-anticipated space law, but details of how its space sustainability and other provisions will be implemented could take years to work out.
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Ames Science Directorate’s Stars of the Month: July 2025
The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Sigrid Reinsch, Lori Munar, Kevin Sims, and Matthew Fladeland. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit,…
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Citizen scientists spot rare exploding star in real-time
Previously described as playing astronomical ‘spot the difference,’ Kilonova Seekers asks the public to compare the latest images of a section of night sky to an image of the same section of space taken on previous nights. Their goal – to spot…
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Space Cargo of Human Remains And Cannabis Lost at Sea Following Mission Failure : ScienceAlert
We’ve sent some pretty interesting payloads to space since the first satellite (Sputnik 1) launched on October 4th, 1957. As access to space has increased, thanks largely to the commercial space industry, so too have the types of payloads we…
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Natural experiments from Earth Hour reveal urban night sky being drastically lit up by few decorative buildings
Observing location
All sky conditions and night sky brightness (NSB) were monitored on the roof of the Hong Kong Space Museum ((22.29^{circ }) N, (114.17^{circ }) E) located in Tsim Sha Tsui (TST), Kowloon, Hong Kong. TST represents one of…
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Missing interstellar sulfur in inventories of polysulfanes and molecular octasulfur crowns
Infrared spectroscopy
The deposited and processed ices were characterized using FTIR spectroscopy to identify functional groups. In the neat ices, a combination of symmetric and antisymmetric stretching modes of S–H bonds (v1 and v3) gives a…
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