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July 24, 2023

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Giant Swirling Waves at Edge of Jupiter's Magnetosphere

A team has found that NASA's Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter frequently encounters giant swirling waves at the boundary between the solar wind and Jupiter's magnetosphere. The waves are an important process for transferring energy and mass from the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emitted ...

Satellite Security Lags Decades Behind the State of the Art

Researchers have tested the software of three satellites. And they found many standard security mechanisms ...

Long Missions, Frequent Travel Take a Toll on Astronauts' Brains

观察人类大脑的反应来研究traveling outside Earth's gravity suggests frequent flyers should wait three years after longer missions to allow the physiological changes in their brains to ...

Using Photosynthesis for Martian Occupation -- While Making Space Travel More Sustainable

Researchers are working on sustainable technology to harvest solar power in space -- which could supplement life support systems on the Moon and ...
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Upsurge in Rocket Launches Could Impact the Ozone Layer

Researchers have summarized the threats that future rocket launches would pose to Earth's protective ozone ...

How a 3 Cm Glass Sphere Could Help Scientists Understand Space Weather

Space weather can interfere with spaceflight and the operation of satellites, but the phenomenon is very difficult to study on Earth because of the difference in gravity. Researchers effectively ...

Physicists Confirm Effective Wave Growth Theory in Space

Physicists have used spacecraft data to confirm an important theory of plasma physics that improves our understanding of space ...

NASA's Webb Telescope Reveals Links Between Galaxies Near and Far

A new analysis of distant galaxies imaged by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows that they are extremely young and share some remarkable similarities to 'green peas,' a rare class ...

Space Solar Power Technology Demo Launched Into Orbit

The launch represents the first in-situ test of the technology to harvest solar energy in space and transmit it to ...

Webb Space Telescope Reveals Previously Shrouded Newborn Stars

Astronomers took a 'deep dive' into one of the first images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and were rewarded with a surprising discovery: telltale signs of two dozen previously ...

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Watching Water Droplets Merge on the International Space Station

Researchers design and analyze droplet experiments that were done on the International Space Station. The researchers sent four different surfaces with various roughness properties to the station, ...

First Ultraviolet Imaging of Sun's Middle Corona

Researchers have discovered web-like plasma structures in the Sun's middle corona. The researchers describe their innovative new observation method, imaging the middled corona in ultraviolet ...

Antihelium Nuclei as Messengers from the Depths of the Galaxy

How are galaxies born, and what holds them together? Astronomers assume that dark matter plays an essential role. However, as yet it has not been possible to prove directly that dark matter exists. A ...

Deep-Space Optical Communication Demonstration Project Forges Ahead

Scientists have demonstrated new laser systems for deep-space optical ...

Peekaboo! Tiny, Hidden Galaxy Provides a Peek Into the Past

Peeking out from behind the glare of a bright foreground star, astronomers have uncovered the most extraordinary example yet of a nearby galaxy with characteristics that are more like galaxies in the ...

Trial by Wind: Testing the Heat Resistance of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Ultra-High-Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites

Carbon fiber-reinforced ultra-high-temperature ceramic (UHTC) matrix composites are extensively used in space shuttles and high-speed vehicles. However, these composites suffer from a lack of ...

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Liftoff! NASA's Artemis I Mega Rocket Launches Orion to Moon

Following a successful launch of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, the agency's Orion spacecraft is on its way to the Moon as part of the Artemis ...

Improving the Performance of Electrodeless Plasma Thrusters for Space Propulsion

Space missions already use electric propulsion devices, where electromagnetic fields are utilized to generate the thrust of spacecraft. One such electrodeless device, which harnesses radio frequency ...

Hubble Captures Three Faces of Evolving Supernova in Early Universe

Three different moments in a far-off supernova explosion were captured in a single snapshot by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The star exploded more than 11 billion years ago, when the universe ...

NASA's MAVEN Observes Martian Light Show Caused by Major Solar Storm

For the first time in its eight years orbiting Mars, NASA's MAVEN mission witnessed two different types of ultraviolet aurorae simultaneously, the result of solar storms that began on Aug. ...

NASA Laser Project Benefits Animal Researchers

NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission can provide valuable information about the world's forests for wildlife ...

NASA's Webb Takes Star-Filled Portrait of Pillars of Creation

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape -- the iconic Pillars of Creation -- where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The ...

International Space Station Experiments Reveal Risks for Future Human Space Flights

A long-term experiment aboard the International Space Station has tested the effect of space radiation on mouse embryonic stem cells. Their findings will contribute to helping scientists better ...

NASA's Swift, Fermi Missions Detect Exceptional Cosmic Blast

Astronomers around the world are captivated by an unusually bright and long-lasting pulse of high-energy radiation that swept over Earth Sunday, Oct. 9. The emission came from a gamma-ray burst (GRB) ...

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