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NASA Calls for Instruments, Technologies for Delivery to the Moon

NASA Calls for Instruments, Technologies for Delivery to the Moon
Oct 19, 2018

NASA has announced a call for Lunar Surface Instrument and Technology Payloads that will fly to the Moon on commercial lunar landers
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Superflares From Young Red Dwarf Stars Imperil Planets
Oct 19, 2018

Violent outbursts of seething gas from young red dwarf stars may make conditions uninhabitable on fledgling planets.
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Kes 75: Milky Way’s Youngest Pulsar Exposes Secrets of Star’s Demise
Oct 19, 2018

Scientists have confirmed the identity of the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way galaxy using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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Life on the floor of the Arctic Ocean, with rigor and in detail
Oct 18, 2018

Study provides new data on distribution of marine communities in the deep, dark, cold.
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Life on the floor of the Arctic Ocean, with rigor and in detail - Astrobiology Magazine

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Astronomers find a cosmic Titan in the early universe - Astrobiology Magazine

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An international team of astronomers has discovered a titanic structure in the early Universe, just two billion years after the Big Bang.

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New study supports survival of microbes and organic compounds in space - Astrobiology Magazine

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Environmental data collected from an exposure panel exposed to the space environment for one year suggests that microbes and organic compounds present in the exposure panel would be able to survive, s...

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