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Water Ice Mystery Found at Martian Equator
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New research into old data suggests that ice may hide around Mars' equator. Here, the Red Planet is seen in a vivid Hubble view. Credit: Steve Lee (University of Colorado)/Jim Bell...
Sputnik's Beeping Legacy: Satellite's Simplicity Made It Iconic 60 Years Ago
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A Soviet technician works on Sputnik 1 before its launch in 1957. Credit: Sovfoto/UIG via Getty In October 1957, amateur radio operators monitored the first signal from a spacefaring...
The direct piezoelectric effect in the globular protein lysozyme
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ABSTRACT Here, we present experimental evidence of the direct piezoelectric effect in the globular protein, lysozyme. Piezoelectric materials are employed in many actuating and sensing...
3 Scientists Win Nobel in Physics for Detecting Gravitational Waves
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A computer simulation showing gravitational waves during a black-hole collision. The discovery has major implications for science. Credit: MPI for Gravitational Physics/W.Benger-Zib...
Blue Origin Engineer Talks Next Steps for New Shepard, New Glenn
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Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket and space capsule during a test flight. Credit: Blue Origin ATLANTA — Earlier this month, at the Dragon Con science-fiction and fantasy...
SpaceX to Phase Out Everything But Its Mars-Colonizing 'BFR' Rocket
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Artist’s illustration of SpaceX BFR spaceships on the moon. Credit: SpaceX Falcon Heavy , we hardly knew ye. SpaceX plans to eventually phase out the big rocket, which has yet to fly,...
Interstellar Ice Acts Like a Liquid in Ultraviolet Light
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Bubbles grew in the mixture of water-methanol-ammonia ice within seconds when the mixture was irradiated with ultraviolet light. Credit: Tachibana et al. When exposed to ultraviolet...
Hubble Spots Farthest-Ever Incoming Active Comet
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A new image reveals a distant newcomer to our solar system: the farthest active comet ever spotted, heading toward the sun for the first time. The Hubble Space Telescope captured a view of...
Elon Musk Wants Giant SpaceX Spaceship to Fly People to Mars by 2024
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SpaceX aims to launch its first cargo mission to Mars in 2022 and send people toward the Red Planet just two years after that. Those are just two of the highlights of the company's current...
NASA Delays Launch of $8.8 Billion James Webb Space Telescope to 2019
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Artist's illustration of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA The successor to NASA's famed Hubble Space Telescope won't get off the ground next year after all. NASA has...
Gravitational Waves Detected by 2 Observatories After Black Holes Collide
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An artist's depiction of two merging black holes. Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet) Gravitational-wave hunters have a new tool in their arsenal. The Virgo...
Eating Habits of Supermassive Black Holes May Define Galaxies
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New work suggests that the dark, donut-shaped clouds of gas and dust shrouding the black holes at the center of galaxies may not be the only feature responsible for the difference in the...
SpaceX's Elon Musk, Lockheed Martin Announcing Updated Mars Plans Tonight
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This iframe is not allowed Tonight (Sept. 28), SpaceX and Lockheed Martin will unveil their latest plans for getting people to Mars. Both companies will do so at the...
Grave of Europe's 1st Moon Orbiter Finally Found
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Discovery of SMART-1 impact site on high resolution Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images. The field is 50 metres wide (north is up). SMART-1 touched down from north to south at a grazing...
Scorching-Hot Mercury Has a Surprisingly Icy North Pole
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1. The pockmarked terrain of Mercury’s north pole harbors much more ice than scientists had expected. Credit: Head lab/ Brown University Mercury has much more ice scattered across its...
Ancient Lake On Mars Was Hospitable Enough To Support Life
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An illustration showing how the lake in the crater might have looked. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS An up-close view of Mars' rocky deposits by NASA's Curiosity...
Crescent Enceladus: Icy Saturn Moon Shines in Cassini Photo
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this shot of the Saturn moon Enceladus on March 29, 2017, from a distance of about 110,000 miles (180,000 kilometers). Image scale is 0.6 miles (1 km)...
Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts May Flash Every Second
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This artist's illustration shows part of the cosmic web, a filamentary structure of galaxies that extends across the entire sky. The bright-blue point sources shown here are the signals...
Cosmic Kittens: Saturn Features Get Feline Names
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Cassini scientists have nicknamed features of Saturn after cats. Credit: Space.com; Mattias Malmer/NASA If you know anything about Saturn, you probably know that it's a planet surrounded...
NFL Superstar Tom Brady Says Drinking A Lot Of Water Can Prevent Sunburn
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NFL quarterback Tom Brady suggested that water prevented sunburn in a book he released Tuesday and the internet dragged him for it. In his new book "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of...
Look Up and Wave! OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Probe Flies by Earth Today
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MORE Artist's impression of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft passing by Earth. The probe will map and study the asteroid Bennu before bringing a sample home. Credit:...
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