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NASA Provides Update on Recovery Efforts of Opportunity Rover

  Update on Opportunity Rover Recovery Efforts Updated at 4 p.m. PDT on Oct. 29, 2018 After a review of the progress of the listening campaign, NASA will continue its current strategy for attempting to make contact with the Opportunity rover for the foreseeable future. Winds could increase in the next few months at Opportunity’s […]

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NASA Launches a New Podcast ‘On a Mission’ to Mars

  NASA Launches a New Podcast to Mars NASA has a new mission to Mars, and it’s taking podcast listeners along for the ride. Launching today, the eight-episode series “On a Mission” follows the InSight lander as it travels hundreds of millions of miles and attempts to land on Mars on Nov. 26. “On a […]

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NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Retired Due to Insufficient Fuel

  NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope, Passes Planet-Hunting Torch After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations. NASA has decided to retire […]

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Archeologists Unearth 300000-Year-Old Stone Tools in Saudi Arabia, Providing New Insights into Earliest Hominin Migrations into the Arabian Peninsula

  Researchers from Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History have unearthed 300,000-year old stone tools in Saudi Arabia, providing new insights into earliest hominin migrations into the Arabian Peninsula. The study suggests that dispersal of hominin beyond Africa did not involve adaptations to environmental extremes, such as to arid and harsh deserts. […]

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NASA Uses Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) to Reveal Hurricane Willa’s Rainfall (Update: 26 October 2018) NASA has used its Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) data to calculate the amount of rainfall generated from Eastern Pacific Ocean’s Hurricane Willa. According to NASA, Tropical Depression 24E was formed on October 20, 2018, and it […]

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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Host a Pumpkin Carving Contest on October 29

  Here’s What Happens When NASA Has a Pumpkin-Carving Contest While it may not be your typical Halloween fare, a pumpkin held aloft by a parachute and an air blower is par for the course when engineers engage in a pumpkin carving contest at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Once a year at […]

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NASA Tests Parachute for Mars 2020 Mission

Mars 2020 Parachute a Go   In the early hours of Sept. 7, NASA broke a world record. Less than 2 minutes after the launch of a 58-foot-tall (17.7-meter) Black Brant IX sounding rocket, a payload separated and began its dive back through Earth’s atmosphere. When onboard sensors determined the payload had reached the appropriate […]

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Canadian Space Agency Invites Young Canadians to Participate in Creative Writing Contest

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is inviting people across Canada to write an “out-of-this-world space-themed children’s story” for children aged 3 to 8, and submit it to the agency. Canadians aged 9 years and above are eligible to participate in this contest. According to CSA, selected stories submitted by the people will be published on […]

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University of Toronto Working to Setup an Archeological Park in Amuq Valley in Turkey

Researchers at the University of Toronto (U of T) are currently working to establish an archeological park and a research center in Turkey. According to U of T, university archeologists are currently holding talks with Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The archeological park will be established at ell Tayinat site in Amuq Valley, located […]

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NASA’s InSight Will Study Mars While Standing Still

You don’t need wheels to explore Mars. After touching down in November, NASA’s InSight spacecraft will spread its solar panels, unfold a robotic arm … and stay put. Unlike the space agency’s rovers, InSight is a lander designed to study an entire planet from just one spot. This sedentary science allows InSight to detect geophysical […]

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Chandra X-ray Observatory Returns to Science Operations

Oct. 24 Update: On the evening of October 21, Chandra returned to science observations after the team successfully carried out a procedure to enable a new gyroscope configuration for the spacecraft. The team initiated a set of maneuvers to change the pointing and orientation of the spacecraft to confirm that the gyroscopes were behaving as […]

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NASA’s Juno Mission Detects Jupiter Wave Trains

Massive structures of moving air that appear like waves in Jupiter’s atmosphere were first detected by NASA’s Voyager missions during their flybys of the gas-giant world in 1979. The JunoCam camera aboard NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter has also imaged the atmosphere. JunoCam data has detected atmospheric wave trains, towering atmospheric structures that trail one […]

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NASA Invites Media to Learn About Urban Air Mobility

NASA is inviting media to attend a two-day Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge Industry Day beginning at 8 a.m. PDT Thursday, Nov. 1, at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront. The event is sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate’s (ARMD). Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is defined as a safe and efficient system for passenger and cargo […]

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NASA to Host Briefing on November Mars InSight Landing

NASA’s upcoming landing of the first-ever mission to study the heart of Mars will be the topic of a media briefing at 1:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 31 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The briefing will air live on NASA Television, the agency’s website and the NASA InSight Facebook page. Did you know you can […]

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Rocky? Habitable? Sizing up a Galaxy of Planets

The planets so far discovered across the Milky Way are a motley, teeming multitude: hot Jupiters, gas giants, small, rocky worlds and mysterious planets larger than Earth and smaller than Neptune. As we prepare to add many thousands more to the thousands found already, the search goes on for evidence of life – and for […]

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NASA Shares Image of Perfectly Rectangular Iceberg in Antarctica

  American Space Agency NASA has shared an image of a nearly perfect rectangular iceberg floating just off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The almost perfect 90-degree angles of this slab of ice may puzzle many people, making them think that this geometrical shape was deliberately carved with a gigantic chainsaw. It is […]

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Australian Researchers Capture Footage of a Bulbous, Red, Headless Chicken in Deep Seas Near East Antarctica

  Researchers from Australia’s Department of the Environment and Energy have spotted on camera a rarely seen sea cucumber (Enypniastes eximia) that looks like a bulbous, red, headless chicken. This weird marine creature was spotted in the in Southern Ocean waters off East Antarctica. Researchers are surprised about the location of the discovery as the […]

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ESA and JAXA Send BepiColombo Spacecraft to Mercury

  In a joint mission, Europe and Japan have successfully sent a spacecraft into Mercury’s orbit. The spacecraft named BepiColombo was sent atop Ariane 5 rocket launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou at 01:45:28 GMT on 20 October. According to the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), the spacecraft is now travelling […]

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Lunar Meteorite, Found in Northwest Africa, Sold for More than $600,000

  A lunar meteorite that was found last year in northwest Africa has been sold for US$612,500, according to the Associated Press. The chunk of moon weighed 12 pounds (5.5 Kg), and composed of six fragments (largest fragment weighing about 6 pounds). It was discovered in Mauritania in northwest Africa, and unofficially called the “The […]

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Mysterious Metal Object that Crashed into Californian Farm was the Fuel tank of Iridium Satellite Number 70

The mystery of strange, metal object that was found on a California farm has finally been solved. On October 18, a walnut farmer in Southern California discovered a weird, large metal object in his orchard. The farm is located south of Hanford, about half an hour south of Fresno. According to the farmer, this object […]

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University of Alberta Scientists Help Identify the World’s Smallest Tylosaurus Specimen

University of Alberta (UA) paleontologists have helped identify the fossil of an ancient baby sea monster discovered in Kansas, United States. According to researchers, this fossil is about 85 million years old, and belongs to a newborn Tylosaurus that died shortly after its birth. At the time of its death, it had not developed the […]

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NASA Astronaut Nick Hague Describes How Capsule was Ripped Away from the Failed Soyuz Rocket

After returning to the United States following last week’s aborted launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket, NASA astronaut Nick Hague shared the details of the incident to the Associated Press in an interview. The astronaut described what actually happened after failure of Soyuz rocket forced the capsule to fly away from the failing rocket at speeds […]

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NASA’s Latest News in August 2018

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Starts Asteroid Operations Campaign (Update: 24 August 2018) NASA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) was launched on September 8m 2016, and last week the probe captured the first glimpse of asteroid Bennu from a distance of about 1.4 million miles while beginning its final approach toward […]

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Over 1,000 War Rockets of 18th Century Indian Ruler Tipu Sultan Unearthed

Archeologists from the Indian Department of Archaeology have unearthed over 1,000 war rockets of 18th Century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan in India. These rockets are about 250–270 years’ old and were discovered from the silt of an abandoned well in a village named Nagara in Shivamogga region of Karnataka. The village is located about 385 […]