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WIRED

While the spacecraft atop it will travel around the moon—the farthest from Earth a crew-capable craft will have ever gone—the rocket will also deploy a bunch of little CubeSats, including one called NEA Scout that will be propelled by a solar sail toward a …

Phys.Org

It is a fundamental magnitude, like mass and charge. Simply put, it is as if the particle had a magnet inside it that enabled it to interact, even while at rest, not only with the spins of other particles but also with external magnetic fields.

Phys.Org

Type-I ELM plasma instabilities can melt the walls of fusion devices. A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) and the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) found a way to get them under control.

WIRED

Now the DART team has an answer: It worked—even better than expected. “For the first time ever, humanity has changed the orbit of a planetary body,” said Lori Glaze, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA headquarters in Washington, at a press …

EarthSky

The craft experienced a malfunction in early September 2022, but now handlers say they’ve gotten CAPSTONE stabilized after they uploaded recovery software to the spacecraft. It should arrive in lunar orbit in November 2022 as part of the Artemis lunar …

Physics

Each year, APS recognizes outstanding achievement in research, education, and public service. This year’s fall award recipients, listed below, were selected from hundreds of nominees from across the physics community. APS congratulates them and …

KCRA Sacramento

The Milky Way galaxy has a graveyard of dead stars that stretches three times the height of the galaxy, according to new research. Astronomers found the ancient stellar remnants when they mapped this “galactic underworld” for the first time.

CNET

There’s some good news and some concerning news from Mars. First, the good news. NASA’s Perseverance rover drilled and collected its 14th rock sample on the red planet. Now the concerning news. There’s something going on with the rover’s sampling system …

KTLA

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, French scientists reported Monday. But if they existed, these simple life forms would have altered the …

KCRA Sacramento

Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, French scientists reported Monday. Advertisement. But if they existed, these simple life forms would have altered the atmosphere so …