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Mercury's Shrinkage Exceeds Expectations
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (449+ words) WASHINGTON — Mercury's surface is riddled with wrinkles, evidence of a once-larger planet that has shrunk over time. A new study finds that Mercury may have contracted 10% to 30% more than previously thought — a loss of nearly 12 miles (19 kilometers) of total diameter…...
Mercury Is Shrinking More Than We Thought
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (483+ words) Mercury as seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft in 2008. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington via NASA Image and Video Library. Mercury's surface is riddled with wrinkles, evidence of a once-larger planet that has shrunk…...
Mercury Shrunk Over 10 Kilometers in History
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (401+ words) Previous studies may have underestimated how much Mercury has contracted as the planet cooled over billions of years because its rough surface hides some of the geological evidence. The surface of Mercury is filled with craters, ridges, and steep cliffs....
NASA's Chandra Unveils Mysterious X-Ray Objects
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (277+ words) Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have seen before. Astronomers suggest these newly spotted objects in other galaxies may help solve not one, but two long-standing questions in astrophysics....
J??lich Backs European Satellite for Space Photosynthesis
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (223+ words) The successful launch not only marks the start of the scientific validation of the satellite data - for the scientific community, the real work is only just beginning: the freely available FLEX data must be evaluated and made accessible for new…...
Rising Over Louisiana
1+ week, 4+ day ago (222+ words) Mirage News On Aug. 28, 2026 (the evening of Aug. 27 in some time zones), the Moon passed into Earth's shadow, creating a deep partial lunar eclipse. At the moment of greatest eclipse, 12:13 a.m. EDT, 96.3% of the Moon's disk was immersed in Earth's umbra-the…...
Helping NASA See Universe In New Light
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1228+ words) When NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope begins transmitting images from a million miles away in outer space, few people back on Earth will be more eager to see them than Rebecca Borrelli '12 (PhD). She is one of dozens of…...
Lindsey Jacobson Leads Earth Science Foresight
2+ week, 4+ day ago (393+ words) Lindsey Jacobson's work helps NASA anticipate those disruptions before they happen and gives senior leaders options for managing them. "The way we do Earth science is changing." Jacobson and the NESSIE team support the Earth science satellite portfolio - dozens of…...
NASA's B777 Gets New Coat Of Paint
3+ week, 5+ day ago (138+ words) Mirage News The B777, set to begin operations from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia in 2027, will be a unique flying laboratory with global reach enabling data collection for NASA projects to include sensor development, satellite sensor calibration, data product…...