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Space debris: How dead satellites could be poisoning our atmosphere – Aerospace Global News
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Radio waves in the early universe may finally reveal dark matter
Long before the first stars appeared, the Universe was silent. No galaxies. No light. Just vast stretches of hydrogen gas and something mysterious shaping everything we now see – dark matter.
A team at Tel Aviv University has tried something…
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Could we blast space debris out of harm’s way with ion beams?
A new space debris removal project aims to blast hazardous junk out of harm’s way from a distance, without the need for physical contact.
Called ALBATOR, the 3.9 million Euro ($4.6 million USD) early-stage concept is examining non-kinetic methods…
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Experiment Reveals What Is Truly Burrowing Beneath Mars’s Dunes Each Spring : ScienceAlert
Strange, sinuous gullies etched into the dunes of Mars are finally giving up their secrets.
These gouges, new experiments reveal, are carved by the explosive sublimation of dry ice, burrowing down the slopes like a mole and blasting away sand…
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Moth-Inspired Drone Can Locate and Hover Around a Light Source
A flapping-wing drone developed by researchers at the University of Cincinnati can locate and hover around a moving light source like a moth.
Moth-Inspired Drone

Moth-like drone that navigates using an extremum-seeking feedback system;… Continue Reading
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Weird symmetry between Earth’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres appears to be breaking
Years ago, scientists noted something odd: Earth’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres reflect nearly the same amount of sunlight back into space. The reason why this symmetry is odd is because the Northern Hemisphere has more land, cities,
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New possible volcanic exomoon orbiting searing hot exoplanet
View larger. | In this image from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft – captured in 1997 – an active volcano erupts on the limb, or edge, of Jupiter’s moon Io. If it’s real, the nearly discovered volcanic exomoon – some 700 light-years away –… Continue Reading
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Hidden ring-fault system driving unrest beneath Italy’s Campi Flegrei
A powerful artificial intelligence model developed by Stanford University and Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) has revealed a sharply defined ring-fault system beneath the Campi Flegrei volcanic region near…
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‘No spacecraft would survive’: Europe simulates catastrophic solar storm to warn of real risks
Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left unscathed in the exercise.
The European Space Agency (ESA) staged the exercise at its mission control center in Darmstadt,…
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