Did Asteroids Invent Gum Billions of Years Ago?
Reported by Universe Today
What is “gum”? Most people have probably never considered this question, and might answer something like a chewy material you can put in your mouth. But, to a scientist they might answer something like “nitrogen-rich polymeric sheets”, because prec...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Sat, 06 Dec 2025 11:51 +0000
Invention Challenge Brings Student Engineers to NASA JPL
Reported by NASA
Now in its 26th year, the event brings teams of middle and high school students to the lab to compete with home-built contraptions. Teenagers wielding power tools and plywood demonstrated their engineering prowess at the annual Invention Challenge at NASA...
- By: NASA
- On: Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:05 +0000
Dust In A Telescope's Eye Could Blind It To Earth 2.0
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Hot exozodiacal dust can thwart our efforts to detect exoplanets. It causes what's called coronagraphic leakage, which confuses the light signals from distant stars. The Habitable Worlds Observatory will face this obstacle, and new research sheds light on ...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:47 +0000
China Outlines Future Plans in New Video, Including Finding Earth 2.0
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A video that appeared on CGTN's Hot Take details four missions that China will be sending to space in the coming years, including a survey telescope that will search for Earth 2.0....
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:01 +0000
NASA Wins Second Emmy Award for 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Broadcast
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NASA’s broadcast of the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse has won an Emmy Award for Excellence in Production Technology. At the 76th Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards on Dec. 4, in New York City, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences anno...
- By: NASA
- On: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:56 +0000
Historic May 2024 Gannon Solar Storm Compressed Earth’s Plasmasphere
Reported by Universe Today
A powerful geomagnetic superstorm is a once a generation event, happening once every 20-25 years. Such an event transpired on the night of May 10/11, 2024, when an intense solar storm slammed into the Earth’s protective magnetic sheath. Now, a recent stu...
- By: David Dickinson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/david-dickinson)
- On: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:05 +0000