The stratosphere is no longer empty. High-altitude platform and suborbital spaceplane operations are booming, yet our management of “near-space” remains stuck in the last century. We cannot afford to postpone solutions until after a…
Category: 2. Space
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A Hidden Heat Source on Uranus Just Changed What We Know About Planets
Uranus isn’t as cold as it seems — scientists found it’s still leaking ancient heat. Scientists have discovered that Uranus gives off more heat than it takes in from the Sun, revealing that the planet still holds onto internal heat left…
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Astronomers Just Caught a Giant Baby Planet Sculpting Spirals in Space
Astronomers may have captured the rare moment of a planet forming around a young star, HD 135344B, 440 light-years away. Using the powerful ERIS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, they spotted a potential planet embedded in the disc’s…
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China adds new satellites to Guowang constellation, eyes accelerated launch rate
HELSINKI — China launched new Guowang satellites Sunday, expanding its LEO broadband network as part of a growing effort to build a sovereign space internet.
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Methane on a 3000°C Planet? Webb Just Shattered Expectations
Exciting new findings reveal that WASP-121b, a blazing-hot giant planet, may have formed far from its star in a colder, ice-rich region—before migrating inward to its current extreme orbit. Chemical fingerprints point to a frigid birthplace:…
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Melissa John Champions Environmental Stewardship at White Sands
For Melissa John, protecting the environment is her way of contributing to space exploration while preserving the Earth we call home.
As the sustainability program lead at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico, John…
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Just Doing What Management Told Me To Do
Keith’s note: To those who like to minimize layoffs at NASA and its contractor workforce: I did not come out of retirement to help my extended family just to listen to you rationalize this massive hit on NASA as a “routine” or “voluntary”…
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Apache Point Observatory Follow-up of ACcelerating Candidate ExopLanet Host Stars (APO ACCELS): Ages for 166 Accelerating Stars in the Northern Hemisphere
Directly imaged substellar companions with well-constrained ages and masses serve as vital empirical benchmarks for planet formation and evolution models. Potential benchmark companions can be identified from astrometric accelerations of their…
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Secular Resonances in Planet-hosting Binary Stars. I. General Theory
Motivated by the diversity of circumstellar planets in binary stars and the strong effects of the secular resonances of Jupiter and Saturn on the formation and architecture of the inner solar system, we have launched an expansive project on…
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Exoplanet Classification Through Vision Transformers with Temporal Image Analysis
The classification of exoplanets has been a longstanding challenge in astronomy, requiring significant computational and observational resources. Traditional methods demand substantial effort, time, and cost, highlighting the need for advanced…
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