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Astronomy Picture of the Day

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Satellite Events for Tonight

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Grants

Reported by NASA

*Notice* The Payment Management System (PMS) is currently experiencing issues affecting Federal Financial Report (FFR) generation. Impacted NASA grant recipients will not be considered noncompliant. NASA is working with PMS to resolve the issue. Updates wi...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:30 +0000

Establishing Crew Exposure Limits of Martian Dust

Reported by NASA

Background Human exploration of Mars will expose crews to a persistent, fine particulate environment whose physicochemical properties and health implications remain only partly understood. Because no samples of authentic Martian airborne dust have been ret...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:03 +0000

A New Compact Instrument Enables High-Fidelity Measurements of Energetic Particles on CubeSats

Reported by NASA

A team of NASA-sponsored scientists and engineers has developed a novel approach to observing high-energy particles in the near-Earth space environment, incorporating miniaturized sensors into a compact, multi-view particle detection instrument unlike any ...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:00 +0000

1st atmosphere detected on Earth-like, habitable-zone world

Reported by Space | EarthSky

Scientists have found an atmosphere on rocky exoplanet LHS 1140 b. It's the 1st atmosphere detected on a rocky world in the habitable zone of its star. The post 1st atmosphere detected on Earth-like, habitable-zone world first appeared on EarthSky....
  • By: Space | EarthSky
  • On: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:24 +0000

Why Maine’s Sandy Shorelines Turn Jagged

Reported by NASA

Differences in the underlying bedrock and how rivers distribute sediment make the coastlines west of Portland look unlike those northeast of the city....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:00 +0000

Researchers Narrow Down the Type of Meteorite that Killed the Dinosaurs

Reported by Universe Today

An international team of Earth scientists has narrowed down the class of impactor that caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. According to their findings, it was a rare type of rock that originated in the outer Solar System....
  • By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
  • On: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50 +0000