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NASA delivers science instrument to JAXA’s Martian Moons mission

U.S. and Japanese team members gather around and discuss the gamma-ray spectrometer portion of the MEGANE instrument during its development at Johns Hopkins APL. Credit: NASA/JAXA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman On March 14, NASA handed over its gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer instrument to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) for integration onto …

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Could Earth life survive on a red dwarf planet?

This artist’s illustration shows planets orbiting a red dwarf star. Many red dwarfs have planets in their habitable zones, but red dwarf flaring might mean those zones aren’t habitable at all. New research explores the idea. Credit: NASA Even though exoplanet science has advanced significantly in the last decade or …

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