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Kangaroo Island Shows Burn Scars On One Third of the Land Mass
Kangaroo Island, off the coast of Australia, has not been immune to the devastating bushfires that…
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/07/2020
No science operations; crew off-duty. Systems: SpX-19 Unberth/Release: The SpX-19 Dragon vehicle was robotically released from…
David Content Hopes to Answer the Big Questions with WFIRST
David Content, Payload Project Manager for WFIRST, hopes to answer the question “Are We Alone?” …
NASA Planet Hunter Finds its 1st Earth-size Habitable-zone World
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable…
Surprise! TESS Shows Ancient North Star Undergoes Eclipses
NASA’s TESS satellite has shown that the bright star Alpha Draconis and its fainter, previously known…
NASA’s TESS Mission Uncovers Its 1st World With Two Stars
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has found its first circumbinary planet, a world orbiting two stars.…
NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World
The planet, TOI 700d, is the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting…
The Next Step in Testing Rockets to Take Humanity to the Moon
On Jan.1, 2020, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted: “Making progress! The massive @NASA_SLS core stage is…
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/06/2020
Rodent Research-19 (RR-19): The crew transferred the remaining subjects into the Dragon capsule. Mighty Mice in…