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Habitable worlds: Better than Earth? Scientists wonder

Reported by Space | EarthSky

Some scientists think there are more habitable worlds than Earth out there. What are they like? And how might we find them? The post Habitable worlds: Better than Earth? Scientists wonder first appeared on EarthSky....
  • By: Space | EarthSky
  • On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:15 +0000

How a Johnson Mentor Shapes the Next Generation of NASA Talent 

Reported by NASA

When Rice University student Malvika Bhardwaj asked her mentor Daniel Cohen, a Guidance, Navigation & Control (GN&C) engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, whether he had time to keep teaching interns with his busy workload, he answered, “You...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:07 +0000

APOD: 2026 October 27 – Noctilucent Clouds over Sweden

Reported by NASA

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 27 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating univer...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:05 +0000

A-81 Reaches South Georgia

Reported by NASA

The Antarctic iceberg made a relatively quick exit from the Weddell Sea, only to slow at the edge of a remote island’s underwater shelf....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:00 +0000

Asymmetric space waves map pressure on Earth's magnetic shield

Reported by Universe Today

The Earth’s magnetic field is responsible for shielding us from harmful space weather, including solar radiation from the Sun but also cosmic rays originating from outside our solar system. Cosmic rays can include deep space supernovas, so the magnetic f...
  • By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
  • On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 01:19 +0000

NASA’s Perseverance Views Dust at Neretva Vallis

Reported by NASA

Description This 360-degree look at Neretva Vallis within Mars’ Jezero Crater was stitched together using 217 images acquired by the rover’s Mastcam-Z on May 20, 2024, the 1,155th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. While it is a wind-swept dusty ...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:48 +0000