PASADENA, California, Nov. 15 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: A new study could explain the 'missing' exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres and shrinking. In a new study using NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers find evidence of a possible cause: The cores of these planets are pushing away their atmospheres from the inside out. Exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) co  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology issued the following report on Nov. 14, 2023, (No. 8497) entitled "New NIST Acquisition System for Reading Charpy Machine Encoders." The report was written by Enrico Lucon, John S. Quintavalle and Damian Lauria. Here are excerpts: * * * Abstract A new acquisition system was developed at NIST for reading angle values from the digital encoders of the three Charpy reference machines  more