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Steve Rogerson looks at some of the recent news that may have missed the front page.

The Psyche mission, a journey to a metal asteroid, has been selected for flight under NASA’s Discovery Program, a series of lower-cost, highly focused robotic space missions that are exploring the solar system.Psyche includes prominent roles for Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) professors MariaZuber (leading the Gravity investigation), Richard Binzel (asteroid composition expert), and Benjamin Weiss (leading th...

For the first time, astronomers from MIT and elsewhere have observed a star pulsing in response to its orbiting planet.The star, which goes by the name HAT-P-2, is about 400 light years from Earth and is circled by a gas giant measuring eight times the mass of Jupiter — one of the most massive exoplanets known today. The planet, named HAT-P-2b, tracks its star in a highly eccentric orbit, flying extremely close to and around the star, then ...

element14 has extended the deadline of its global competition to discover how engineers can ‘Change the World’ with their design ideas. Entries will now be accepted on the competition website until 28th February 2017.

NEO Tech has announced that six Lithium-Ion Battery Orbital Replacement Units (ORUs) that it assembled for Aerojet Rocketdyne were launched into space for the International Space Station on 9thDecember 2016, with the first three successfully installed in the International Space Station 6thJanuary 2017.

A new technical guide has been announced from Resolve Optics, which provides an informative introduction to radiation resistant optics, their capabilities, areas of use and specifications of standard lenses available off-the-shelf.

In two studies, international teams of astronomers suggest that recent images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of two pulsars—Geminga and B0355+54—may help shine a light on the distinctive emission signatures of pulsars, as well as their often perplexing geometry.Pulsars are a type of neutron star that are born in supernova explosions when massive stars collapse.

The top 2 inches of topsoil on all of Earth’s landmasses contains an infinitesimal fraction of the planet’s water — less than one-thousandth of a percent. Yet because of its position at the interface between the land and the atmosphere, that tiny amount plays a crucial role in everything from agriculture to weather and climate, and even the spread of disease.

A new brochure providing an informative introduction to radiation resistant optics, their capabilities, areas of use and specifications of standard lenses available off-the-shelf, has been announced by Resolve Optics.Approaching 30 years, Resolve Optics has built a strong reputation for specialist lens design and manufacture of smaller production quantities of radiation-resistant (non-browning) lenses and optical products on time to strict qualit...

TT Electronics has announced that its sensors will be used in the NASA mission to the planet Mars in 2020. The robustness of the company’s Hall-effect sensors enables them to withstand the harsh environments found on Mars.The Hall-effect sensors from TT Electronics are key components in NASA’s new Mars 2020 Rover that will be landing on the surface of the red planet in 2021.