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June 10, 2018
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June 10, 2018

May the Forest Be With You: GEDI Moves Toward Launch to Space Station

May 4, 2018 — GEDI (pronounced like 'Jedi,' of Star Wars fame) is a first-of-its-kind laser instrument designed to map the world's forests in 3-D from space. These measurements will help fill in ... read more

Recent Work Challenges View of Early Mars, Picturing a Warm Desert With Occasional Rain

May 2, 2018 — The climate of early Mars is a subject of debate. A recent study suggests that the early Martian surface may not have been dominated by ice, but instead it may have been modestly warm and prone to ... read more

Microbes Living in a Toxic Volcanic Lake Could Hold Clues to Possible Life on Mars

May 2, 2018 — Researchers have discovered microbes living in one of the harshest environments on Earth. Their findings could guide scientists looking for signs of ancient life on ... read more

A Yellowstone Guide to Life on Mars

Apr. 25, 2018 — A geology student is helping NASA determine whether life existed on other planets. He is helping find a marker for ancient bacterial life on Mars. The research could help scientists put to rest one ... read more

Magma Ocean May Be Responsible for the Moon's Early Magnetic Field

Apr. 25, 2018 — Around four billion years ago, the moon had a magnetic field that was about as strong as Earth's magnetic field is today. How the moon, with a much smaller core than Earth's, could have had ... read more

Clear as Mud: Desiccation Cracks Help Reveal the Shape of Water on Mars

Apr. 19, 2018 — As Curiosity rover marches across Mars, the red planet's watery past comes into clearer ... read more

NASA Planet Hunter on Its Way to Orbit

Apr. 19, 2018 — NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched on the first-of-its-kind mission to find worlds beyond our solar system, including some that could support life. Researchers will use ... read more

Optimizing Space Travel Efficiency

Apr. 18, 2018 — Sending a human into space and doing it efficiently presents a galaxy of challenges. Scientists have explored ways to integrate the logistics of space travel by looking at a campaign of lunar ... read more

Meteorite Diamonds Tell of a Lost Planet

Apr. 18, 2018 — Scientists have examined a slice from a meteorite that contains large diamonds formed at high pressure. The study shows that the parent body from which the meteorite came was a planetary embryo of a ... read more

Martian Moons Model Indicates Formation Following Large Impact

Apr. 18, 2018 — Scientists posit a violent birth of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, but on a much smaller scale than the giant impact thought to have resulted in the Earth-moon system. Their work shows ... read more

Pluto's Largest Moon, Charon, Gets Its First Official Feature Names

Apr. 12, 2018 — Legendary explorers and visionaries, real and fictitious, are among those immortalized by the IAU in the first set of official surface-feature names for Pluto's largest moon, ... read more

Artificial Intelligence Helps Predict Likelihood of Life on Other Worlds

Apr. 4, 2018 — Developments in artificial intelligence may help us to predict the probability of life on other planets. The study uses artificial neural networks (ANNs) to classify planets into five types, ... read more

Is There Life Adrift in the Clouds of Venus?

Mar. 30, 2018 — In the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists have turned over all sorts of rocks. Mars, for example, has geological features that suggest it once had -- and still has -- subsurface liquid ... read more

Elon Musk's Vision to Colonize Mars Updated in New Space

Mar. 26, 2018 — In a new article, Elon Musk, CEO and Lead Designer at SpaceX, presents the updated design for the Big Falcon Rocket, the powerful rocket intended to propel a newly modified space vehicle to the ... read more

Mars' Oceans Formed Early, Possibly Aided by Massive Volcanic Eruptions

Mar. 19, 2018 — A new theory about how oceans and volcanoes interacted during the early history of Mars supports the idea that liquid water was once abundant and may still exist underground. Geophysicists propose ... read more

Space Radiation More Hazardous: Implication Sfor Astronauts and Satellites

Mar. 15, 2018 — It might sound like something from a science fiction plot - astronauts traveling into deep space being bombarded by cosmic rays - but radiation exposure is science fact. As future missions look to ... read more

Three NASA Satellites Recreate Solar Eruption in 3-D

Mar. 9, 2018 — Scientists have developed a model that simulates how shocks following coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, propagate from the sun -- an effort made possible only by combining data from three different ... read more

Mineralogy of Potential Lunar Exploration Site

Feb. 28, 2018 — Scientists have long wanted to retrieve rock samples from the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin, and a new study could be helpful in locating an ideal landing ... read more

The Moon Formed Inside a Vaporized Earth Synestia

Feb. 28, 2018 — A new explanation for the Moon's origin has it forming inside the Earth when our planet was a seething, spinning cloud of vaporized rock, called a synestia. The new model resolves several ... read more

The Ideal Settlement Site on Mars? Hotspots, If You Asked a Crop

Feb. 27, 2018 — Selecting the perfect landing site will be essential for the successful establishment of the first Mars colony. Growing food crops will be one of the key tasks for the astronauts. Scientists have ... read more
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