NASA Mission to Study Space Weather Impacts of Earth’s Atmosphere
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NASA selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earth’s atmosphere influence the space environment and help improve prediction capabilities for impacts on crucial technology, such as GPS and low Earth orbit satellites, a...
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:33 +0000
Plutonium in Earth Rocks Signals Long-ago Cosmic Collision
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A small lump of rock pulled up from the Pacific Ocean seafloor in 1976 is giving scientists new clues about an ancient cosmic event. More than a hundred million years ago, two neutron stars collided. The resulting energetic kilonova sent a rain of long-liv...
- By: Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cc-petersen)
- On: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:51 +0000
NASA Awards Contract for Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition
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NASA has selected eight new companies and will acquire new data products from six existing Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition contract holders to expand the range of commercial satellite data available to researchers, civil agencies, and decision-makers...
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:13 +0000
From Suriname to Space: Rohit Goeptar Shares His Journey to NASA
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Rohit Goeptar was born into a poor family in Suriname, South America, the kind where both parents work three jobs and they still can only provide food and shelter for their family. At around age six, his family moved to California to start a new life....
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:06 +0000
What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 4: Black Hole Sun
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Switch off fusion and, for ten thousand years, nothing happens. Then the Sun begins a slow, strange death: shrinking, briefly brightening, and coasting on gravitational heat for tens of millions of years. And the neutrinos give the whole thing away in just...
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:04 +0000
Desert Field Test With NASA Advanced Rover Prototype
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Description A prototype four-wheel rover developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory with advanced mobility and robotic autonomy capabilities trundled across the Colorado Desert near Plaster City, California, during a field test in March 2026. Called E...
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:29 +0000