Curiosity Blog, Sols 4941-4947: (Pin)Stripes on the Fourth of July
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Written by Deborah Padgett, MSL Operations Product Ground System Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Thursday, July 2, 2026 Curiosity spent the week leading up to the Fourth of July holiday approaching a geologic boundary b...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:04 +0000
Researchers Prove Black Theory in a Laboratory Setting
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Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center have demonstrated a new approach to wave amplification through interaction with rotating bodies. Rather than mechanically rotating matter, however, the team engineered a radi...
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:08 +0000
Rebooting a Spacecraft, 140 Million Kilometres From Home.
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Engineers have just upgraded the software running a spacecraft 140 million kilometres away, then held their breath through two full reboots with an eight minute delay on every command. The prize for getting it right is a close up look at an asteroid humani...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:30 +0000
NASA Study Points to Smoother Air Taxi Rides
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No one wants to get into an uncomfortable aircraft. NASA research could help the emerging industry of air taxis —small, vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft meant for short trips — understand the relationship between comfort and willingness to fly. Th...
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- On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:46 +0000
Chemistry Reveals the Origins of an Interstellar Comet
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Somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy is an old star that has lost one of its comets. By some quirk of orbital mechanics, that frozen nucleus of ice and dust got kicked out of its home system and into a long and winding trajectory across space. It entered our ...
- By: Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cc-petersen)
- On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:00 +0000
How the SKA Will Use Fast Radio Bursts to Decode the Universe
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There are parts of the universe that are extremely hard to see, even for our most advanced telescopes. Gas and dust don’t emit any light, and are only visible by the light that they happen to block from stars and galaxies. Magnetic fields are even harder...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:29 +0000