From Hampton to Mars: How NASA Langley Helped Land on the Red Planet
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Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking 1 and 2 landers made the first successful landings on Mars, opening a new era in planetary exploration. Behind that achievement was a team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, whose steady leadership an...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:47 +0000
Chandrasekhar and the Limits of Physics, Part 1: Triumph
Reported by Universe Today
The story of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who as a teenager on an ocean voyage worked out that white dwarf stars have a maximum mass of 1.4 Suns. A tour of degeneracy pressure, the relativistic insight everyone else missed, and the number that would define ...
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:38 +0000
Our First View of the Surface of Mars
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“Touchdown, we have touchdown!” At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as they learned that the Viking 1 lander had survived its descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. Forty mi...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:38 +0000
The Case of the Sun's Missing Silver
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Astronomers have solved a decades old puzzle about the Sun's missing silver, not by finding something new, but by modelling something old far more accurately. A revised, more realistic model of the Sun's atmosphere reveals it actually contains 55 per cent ...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:15 +0000
The First Breath of Another World
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Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone for the very first time. It’s a milestone that brings us a step closer to answering whether life could exist beyond our Solar System. Predicted by a mathematic...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:58 +0000
Shaping the Emerald City
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The hills and basins of Seattle, Washington, have been sculpted by glaciers and modified by humans....
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:01 +0000