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Astronomer Lunine appointed chief scientist of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell News Service· 2 days agoPlanetary scientist Jonathan I. Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and...
NASA Celebrates Successful PREFIRE Climate Mission Launch
ExtremeTech· 16 hours agoPREFIRE—short for Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment—will use the North and South Poles as windows into Earth's "energy budget," or how our planet manages ...
Liftoff for PREFIRE and Ice! Rocket Lab Launches Second Polar Heat CubeSat
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoThis mission is aimed at understanding Earth’s heat loss to space from polar regions. Each of the...
Scientists Just Used Cold Hard Logic to Disprove the Existence of Spock's Homeworld IRL
IGN Videogames· 7 days agoIn an ironic twist, a team of scientists have used cold hard logic to disprove the existence of a planet that was once suspected to orbit the real-world star that plays host ...
What is the 3-body problem, and is it really unsolvable?
LiveScience· 2 days agoAll of these things have something in common: They must contend with the "three-body problem." The...
New energy source powers subsea robots indefinitely
Tech Xplore· 3 days agoWhen it comes to mapping new territory, NASA's record swamps Lewis and Clark's. And the space agency doesn't only chart other stars and planets—a vantage...
Tweaked Formula on Alien Intelligence Hints That We're Truly Alone in the Galaxy
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThis week at the Gizmodo science desk, deputy editor George Dvorsky reported on a modification to...
NASA Launches Second Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth’s Poles
NASA· 3 days agoEDT, June 4). Data from these two shoebox-size cube satellites, or CubeSats, will better predict how...
Mars is more prone to devastating asteroid impacts than we thought, new study hints
LiveScience· 6 days agoMars may face more than twice as many close encounters with potentially dangerous asteroids as Earth...
Mapping Earth’s Waterways From Space: How SWOT Transforms Flood Forecasting
SciTechDaily· 5 days agoThe SWOT satellite, a collaborative effort between NASA and CNES, is revolutionizing flood...