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  • The effect of compositional fluctuations in a liquid Fe–O alloy on the nucleation of Earth’s inner core

    The effect of compositional fluctuations in a liquid Fe–O alloy on the nucleation of Earth’s inner core

    We use Classical Nucleation Theory16 (CNT) as a theoretical framework for quantitatively analysing compositional fluctuations in supercooled liquids and evaluating the average time a system will take to freeze for a given (delta T). Molecular…

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  • Astronomers Identify Promising Habitable Zone Candidates

    Astronomers Identify Promising Habitable Zone Candidates

    How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an…

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  • Liberatech Space to offer custom Earth-observation products for commodity, energy and environmental monitoring

    Liberatech Space to offer custom Earth-observation products for commodity, energy and environmental monitoring

    SAN FRANCISCO – While working in finance years ago, Yasunori Yamazaki traveled to mines to conduct due diligence. Later, as Axelspace chief business officer and Astroscale head of brand management, he considered how satellites could…

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  • A Fiery Mineral Found in an Icy Asteroid Baffles Scientists

    A Fiery Mineral Found in an Icy Asteroid Baffles Scientists

    A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings—conditions Ryugu was never thought to experience. The surprise find hints that the asteroid either endured unexpected…

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  • Cambrian Works Announces Upcoming GigRouter Launch to the International Space Station

    Cambrian Works Announces Upcoming GigRouter Launch to the International Space Station

    LOS GATOS, CA– Cambrian Works, an innovator in technological connections between Earth and space, is proud to announce their GigRouter flight unit is ready for launch aboard Aegis Aerospace’s MISSE-21 carrier. With this launch to kick…

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  • Astronomers Find Universe’s “Missing” Matter

    Astronomers Find Universe’s “Missing” Matter

    A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers have identified a massive filament of hot gas connecting four galaxy clusters. With a mass roughly ten times greater…

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  • Triple Suns & a Hidden Planet Factory: Hubble’s Dazzling Peek Inside a Blue Nebula

    Triple Suns & a Hidden Planet Factory: Hubble’s Dazzling Peek Inside a Blue Nebula

    Bathed in scattered starlight, this glowing blue nebula in the Taurus Molecular Cloud cradles a trio of young stars—HP Tau, G2, and G3—and a newly forming protostar cloaked in a planet-building disc. Captured by Hubble, this scene reveals a…

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  • NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,155 27 June 2025 (Space Life Science Research Results)

    NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,155 27 June 2025 (Space Life Science Research Results)

    Keith Cowing

    Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams,…

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  • NASA Awards Electrical Utility Services Contract for Kennedy

    NASA Awards Electrical Utility Services Contract for Kennedy

    NASA has awarded a task order to Florida Power and Light of Juno Beach, Florida, to provide electric distribution utility service at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

    This is a fixed-price task order with an estimated value of $70…

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