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NASA prepares long duration Antarctic balloon campaign to probe neutrinos and dark matter
9+ mon, 6+ day ago (453+ words) Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 NASA's Scientific Balloon Program is returning to Antarctica for a new long-duration campaign featuring two zero-pressure balloon launches from a site near the U.S. National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice Shelf. The flights…...
The Architecture of a Gutted Pipeline: What a 47% Science Cut Actually Dismantles at NASA
5+ mon, 6+ day ago (1006+ words) The White House proposed a fiscal year 2027 NASA budget of $18.8 billion, representing a reduction from what Congress approved for the agency just months earlier. The Science Mission Directorate would absorb significant cuts under the proposal. If enacted, it would represent…...
Rocket re-entry pollution measured in atmosphere for first time
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (505+ words) German team managed to measure the pollution the rocket's upper stage emitted in our planet's...hours of February 19, 2025, the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket was tumbling back to Earth when it exploded into...particular, the scientists wanted to…...
A dark rock picked off the gravel plains of Oman turned out to be a piece of Mars, blasted off the planet by an impact. It now rides aboard Perseverance as a calibration target, back on the world it came from
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (467+ words) A meteorite that fell to Earth from Mars now helps calibrate instruments on a rover exploring the Red Planet—a cosmic round trip that took 300,000 years. By Space Daily Editorial Team Published August 11, 2026 · How we edit In 1999, out on the…...
The stripes on Perseverance's parachute were mostly there so engineers could see how the canopy was oriented, but the pattern also hid a message in binary, and the internet decoded it within hours of the landing — a motto, and a set of coordinates pointing at a spot on Earth
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (436+ words) NASA engineers hid a secret message in the Perseverance rover's parachute stripes—one that amateur codebreakers cracked before the dust had settled on Mars....
Astrobotic's Chakram Burn Marks the Moment RDREs Stop Being a Science Project
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Mercury is shrinking — as its iron core slowly cools, the whole planet has contracted by up to seven kilometres, wrinkling its surface into cliffs hundreds of miles long
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (349+ words) Mercury carries the record of planetary cooling across its surface. Long, curving cliffs cut through craters and plains because the small planet lost internal...
For decades the heavy rocks that carve trails across a Death Valley lakebed were never seen moving, until cameras caught them gliding on thin rafts of melting ice pushed by a light wind
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (52+ words) On Racetrack Playa, stones heavy enough to need two hands leave grooves in the dried mud as if they walk. A weather station, fifteen GPS-fitted rocks and a set of time-lapse cameras finally recorded the cause, and it was almost…...
Sentinel 6B begins sea level mapping campaign
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (715+ words) Washington DC (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Sentinel-6B has begun returning its first ocean measurements, providing initial maps of sea level across a wide area of the U.S. East Coast and the Atlantic Ocean after its November launch. The U.S.-European mission is designed to…...
Deep beneath the ocean floor lies a strange form of ice that can literally catch fire — frozen crystals packed with methane, hiding enormous stores of gas inside what looks like ordinary ice.
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (259+ words) Scientists are racing to unlock an energy source that could power civilization for centuries—or accelerate climate catastrophe if it escapes. Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere beneath the seafloor of nearly every continent right now, there’s a layer of…...