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Exoplanet-hunting telescope to begin search for another Earth in 2026
An artist’s impression of the European Space Agency’s PLATO spacecraft. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab, Attribution (CC BY…
July 2024 Transformer of the Month: Brooke Weborg
This is how colleagues describe Brooke Weborg, machine learning data scientist and engineer at NASA. Weborg…
Observations detect a nearby hypervelocity stellar/substellar object
Forward modeling of the Keck/NIRES spectrum of J1249+3621 in the 1.10–1.19 µm (left), and 1.235–1.28 µm…
ESA – Heart of Hertz 2.0
The latest addition to ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands, the Hertz 2.0 building, stands more…
Swarming Satellites Could Autonomous Characterize an Asteroid
An asteroid’s size, shape, and rotational speed are clues to its internal properties and potential resources…
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Evidence for intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri
Omega Centauri is the largest and brightest globular cluster in our sky. A new study of…
ESA – Heart of Hertz 2.0
The latest addition to ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands, the Hertz 2.0 building, stands more…
NASA cans lunar rover after spending $450 million building it
NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) assembled inside the cleanroom at the agency’s Johnson Space…