Keith’s note: A preprint was posted on Wednesday 3 Dec 2025 titled “Voyager 1 Data Reveals Signatures of the Local Gas and Cosmic-Ray Source Distributions“ which refers to “recent Voyager […]
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New SMD Astrophysics Division Director
Welcoming NASA Science’s New Astrophysics Division Director Dr. Mark Clampin, Thomas Zurbuchen “I am pleased to announce that I have made a selection to permanently fill the critical position of […]
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The Breakthrough Listen Exotica Catalog
One Of Everything: The Breakthrough Listen Exotica Catalog “We present Breakthrough Listen’s “Exotica” Catalog as the centerpiece of our efforts to expand the diversity of targets surveyed in the Search […]
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AMS Has Found Something
AMS-02: Shining light on elusive dark matter, ESA “The findings hint at a new phenomenon but it is unknown whether the positron ratio comes from dark energy particles colliding with […]
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Software and Hardware Glitches on Fermi?
Space telescope to get software fix, Nature “Long-standing but little-publicized software problems, and insufficient memory in one of the detectors, have clouded the vision of the world’s leading -ray telescope […]
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Webb: A No-win Scenario in Astrophysics?
Space science caught in a Webb, Space Review “Speaking at a workshop on suborbital research held last Wednesday at NASA Goddard, Webster Cash, an astronomer at the University of Colorado, […]
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Webb Stifles Future Space Science Funding
Telescope debacle devours NASA funds, Florida Today “Alan Boss, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington who chairs NASA’s independent advisory committee on astronomy research, worries the […]
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Einstein Was Right
NASA’s Gravity Probe B Confirms Two Einstein Space-Time Theories “NASA’s Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which the […]