On August 21st, a NASA-funded sounding rocket mission launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The goal of the mission was to test X-ray dete

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Students at the University of Arizona are trying to help astronomers as reflective satellites continue to fill our night skies. These students completed on

The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, launched on December 25, 2021, will soon become an operational observatory. The Webb is the successor to the Hu

April 12th marks the annual celebration of the International Day of Space Flight. In 2011, the General Assembly (GA) of the United Nations (UN) declared th

In a recent study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society astronomers analyzed the light from individual stars to understand how the

Some scientists dedicate their lives to hunting for meteorites, and may have to brave some harsh conditions to do so. An international team of research

NASA just released the first images and spectra of Mars taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The data was collected on September 5, 2022 and pro

Hydrides in the Galaxy (HyGAL) is a project whose goal is to characterize the interstellar medium in the Milky Way in order to better understand its evolut

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In a recent study published in Icarus, Alyssa Rhoden of the Southwest Research Institute and collaborators, present evidence that the innermost moon of Sat

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences journal, Christopher H. House of the Earth and Environmental Systems I

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During a press conference at this summer’s American Astronomical Society meeting, a team of researchers presented results from observations of a dead

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Scientists at Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated how small shocks of electricity may be used to disinfect water. If the technology they deve

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One day you might have a hearing aid implanted in your mouth. Researchers tested the efficiency of natural teeth and dental implants to conduct sound as an

A new study published in Nature Astronomy explains how the Southern Ring Nebula obtained its unique shape; the shape is a result of the “messy death

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In a recent study published in Nature Astronomy, an international team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to obtain an inve