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NASA Hosts 2026 Review on Advanced Composite Manufacturing

Reported by NASA

NASA’s Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project brought together its full team of Advanced Composites Consortium partners for a 2026 spring review at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. ...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:36 +0000

Even Without A Magnetosphere, Mars Can Still Deflect Some Solar Wind

Reported by Universe Today

New research shows how unmagnetized worlds like Mars can still deflect some of the Sun's solar wind. Unlike magnetospheres that form around planet's like Earth, this effect takes place in Mars' ionosphere. It's called the Zwan-Wolf effect, and it's not cle...
  • By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
  • On: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:09 +0000

NASA-Funded Study Shows Wildfire Smoke’s Hidden Ozone Toll

Reported by NASA

Over the last decade, wildfires have worsened ground-level ozone pollution across much of the contiguous United States, creating unhealthy air far from active flames....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:01 +0000

The Unexpected Brightness 'Gap' in an Ancient Globular Cluster

Reported by Universe Today

Scientists using the Euclid space telescope found a red-dwarf brightness “gap” in the population of a globular cluster—an ancient, crowded collection of stars. A similar gap was detected by the Gaia observatory in nearby stellar populations, but it h...
  • By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
  • On: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:23 +0000

Colorful, Chaotic Jupiter

Reported by NASA

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere during its 61st close flyby of the giant planet on May 12, 2024. Citizen scientist Gary Eason made this image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument, ...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:58 +0000

Cosmic Tryst: Venus Meets Jupiter at Dusk

Reported by Universe Today

It’s a familiar annual question, that we’re already hearing as we enter into June. “What are those two bright objects in the west?” They’re none other than the two brightest planets in the sky, Jupiter and Venus. Keep an eye on the dusk sky over ...
  • By: David Dickinson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/david-dickinson)
  • On: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:06 +0000