WASHINGTON — The bipartisan co-chairs of a congressional caucus have criticized proposed cuts in NASA’s science programs, marking the first Republican opposition in Congress to the plans.
In an April 15 statement, the co-chairs of the…
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Sols 4511-4512: Low energy after a big weekend?
Written by Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center
Earth planning date: Monday, April 14, 2025
We all know the feeling: it’s Monday morning after a big weekend and you’re coming into the week…
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Sols 4509-4510: A weekend of long drives
Written by Abigail Fraeman, Planetary Geologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Earth planning date: Friday, April 11, 2025
Curiosity is continuing to book it to the potential boxwork structures. The rover drove over 50…
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Polycyclic aromatics in the Chang’E 5 lunar soils
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First crustal magnetic anomaly estimates from the magnetometer observations of the Korea pathfinder lunar orbiter
Kim, E. The first space exploration mission of Korea: Korea pathfinder lunar orbiter (Danuri) in 1814–1815 (2022).
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Direct evidence of a major merger in the Perseus cluster
Edge, A. C. et al. An X-ray flux-limited sample of clusters of galaxies: evidence for evolution of the luminosity function. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 245, 559 (1990).
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Rocket Factory Augsburg replaces CEO
WASHINGTON — German launch vehicle startup Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has replaced its chief executive as it works towards a second chance for its first launch.
In an April 11 statement not widely publicized by the company, RFA…
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Hotter Than Venus: The Sub-Neptune TOI-270 d
What can sub-Neptunes, which are exoplanets whose size is between Earth and Neptune, teach astronomers about exoplanet formation and evolution? This is what a recent study accepted to The Astrophysical Journal…
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Space Command headquarters battle reignites
WASHINGTON — The years-long political tug-of-war over the permanent home of U.S. Space Command headquarters has flared up again, with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) claiming the Trump administration is…
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FAST Drift Scan Survey for H i Intensity Mapping. II. Stacking-based Beam Construction of the 19-feed Array at 1.4 GHz
Neutral hydrogen (H i) intensity mapping (IM) presents great promise for future cosmological large-scale structure surveys. However, a major challenge for H i IM cosmological studies is to accurately subtract the foreground contamination. An…
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