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  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2018 In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface. These ice deposits are patchily distributed and could possibly be ancient. At the southern pole, most of the ice is concentrated at lunar craters, while the northern pole's ice is more widely, but sparsely spread. A team of scientists, led by Shuai Li of the University of Hawaii and Brown University and including Richard Elphic from NASA's Ames R ... read more |
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Chinese scientists intend to chase solar eclipse in spaceBeijing (XNA) Aug 20, 2018 Total solar eclipses formed by the moon shadowing the sun are spectacular opportunities for scientists to observe the sun's corona, but too short and rare to capture. So Chinese scientists hav ... more  
Sprawling galaxy cluster found hiding in plain sightBoston MA (SPX) Aug 20, 2018 MIT scientists have uncovered a sprawling new galaxy cluster hiding in plain sight. The cluster, which sits a mere 2.4 billion light years from Earth, is made up of hundreds of individual galaxies a ... more 
Magnetized Inflow Accreting to Center of Milky WayHilo HI (SPX) Aug 20, 2018 Is magnetic field an important guiding force for gas accreting to supermassive black hole (SMBH) - for example, the one that our Milky Way Galaxy hosts? The role of magnetic field in this subject is ... more 
Study of material surrounding distant stars shows Earth's ingredients 'pretty normal'Washington DC (SPX) Aug 20, 2018 The Earth's building blocks seem to be built from 'pretty normal' ingredients, according to researchers working with the world's most powerful telescopes. Scientists have measured the compositions o ... more |
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Under pressure, hydrogen offers a reflection of giant planet interiorsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 20, 2018 Lab-based mimicry allowed an international team of physicists including Carnegie's Alexander Goncharov to probe hydrogen under the conditions found in the interiors of giant planets - where experts ... more 
Hubble Paints Picture of the Evolving UniverseBaltimore MD (SPX) Aug 20, 2018 Astronomers using the ultraviolet vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have captured one of the largest panoramic views of the fire and fury of star birth in the distant universe. The field featu ... more 
Astronomers find far fewer galaxies than they expectedLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2018 University of California astronomers, including three from UCLA, have resolved a mystery about the early universe and its first galaxies. Astronomers have known that more than 12 billion years ago, ... more 
In neutron stars, protons may do the heavy liftingBoston MA (SPX) Aug 17, 2018 Neutron stars are the smallest, densest stars in the universe, born out of the gravitational collapse of extremely massive stars. True to their name, neutron stars are composed almost entirely of ne ... more  
MSU astronomers discovered supermassive black hole in an ultracompact dwarf galaxyMoscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 17, 2018 Fornax UCD3 is a part of a Fornax galaxy cluster and belongs to a very rare and unusual class of galaxies - ultracompact dwarfs. The mass of such dwarf galaxies reaches several dozen millions of sol ... more |
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Astronomers discover the most distant radio galaxy everAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 After nearly twenty years, the record of the most distant radio galaxy ever discovered has been broken. A team led by PhD student Aayush Saxena (Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands) has found a radi ... more  |
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Ultrahot planets have starlike atmospheresTempe AZ (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 Recent observations by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes of ultrahot Jupiter-like planets have perplexed theorists. The spectra of these planets have suggested they have exotic - and improb ... more 
Magnetic fields can quash zonal jets deep in gas giantsLivermore CA (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 Magnetic fields around a planet or the Sun can overpower the zonal jets that affect atmospheric circulation. New research by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist and a col ... more 
Elliptical EleganceMunich, Germany (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 A glittering host of galaxies populate this rich image taken with ESO's VLT Survey Telescope, a state-of-the-art 2.6-m telescope designed for surveying the sky in visible light. The features of the ... more 
Impact of a stellar intruder on our solar systemBonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 The solar system was formed from a protoplanetary disk consisting of gas and dust. Since the cumulative mass of all objects beyond Neptune is much smaller than expected and the bodies there have mos ... more 
The universe's rate of expansion is in dispute - and we may need new physics to solve itLondon, UK (The Conversation) Aug 09, 2018 Next time you eat a blueberry (or chocolate chip) muffin consider what happened to the blueberries in the batter as it was baked. The blueberries started off all squished together, but as the muffin ... more |
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 
Scientists from Australia and the United States have helped to solve the mystery underlying Jupiter's coloured bands in a new study on the interaction between atmospheres and magnetic fields.
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. Unlike Earth, Jupiter has no solid surface - it is a gaseous planet, consisting mostly of hydrogen and helium.
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 Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia (SPX) Aug 17, 2018 
The importance of the finding is that the organic acid is much more difficult to obtain than other organic molecules found in protoplanetary discs before. If methanol is obtained from carbon monoxide on the surface of dust particles under stellar radiation, then formic acid requires more complex reactions, which are not possible without active processes of organic synthesis.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 17, 2018 
NASA's Opportunity rover has been silent since June 10, when a planet-encircling dust storm cut off solar power for the nearly-15-year-old rover. Now that scientists think the global dust storm is "decaying" - meaning more dust is falling out of the atmosphere than is being raised back into it - skies might soon clear enough for the solar-powered rover to recharge and attempt to "phone home." ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2018 
In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface. These ice deposits are patchily distributed and could possibly be ancient. At the southern pole, most of the ice is concentrated at lunar craters, while the northern pole's ice is more widely, but sparsely spread.
A team of scientists, le ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2018 
University of California astronomers, including three from UCLA, have resolved a mystery about the early universe and its first galaxies. Astronomers have known that more than 12 billion years ago, about 1 billion years after the Big Bang, the gas in deep space was, on average, much more opaque than it is now in some regions, although the opacity varied widely from place to place. But they weren ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 19, 2018 
A satellite designed to measure Earth's global wind patterns is set to be hoisted into orbit Tuesday from the Arianespace launch site in French Guiana.
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Aeolus mission - named for the guardian of wind in Greek mythology - promises to improve short-term weather forecasting and our understanding of manmade climate change.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 14, 2018 
The detection of "mini-moons" - small asteroids temporarily captured in orbit around Earth - will vastly improve our scientific understanding of asteroids and the Earth-Moon system, says a new review published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science. These small and fast-moving visitors have so-far evaded detection by existing technology, with only one confirmed mini-moon discovery to date. ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Aug 20, 2018 
Just two days after launch on Aug. 11, 2018, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA's Parker Solar Probe achieved several planned milestones toward full commissioning and operations, announced mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, or APL, in Laurel, Maryland.
On Aug. 13, the high-gain antenna, which Parker Solar Probe uses to communicate high- ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 17, 2018 
China's moon lander and rover for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land on the far side of the moon this year, was unveiled Wednesday.
Images displayed at Wednesday's press conference showed the rover was a rectangular box with two foldable solar panels and six wheels. It is 1.5 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1.1 meters high.
Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China's lun ... more |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2018
University of California astronomers, including three from UCLA, have resolved a mystery about the early universe and its first galaxies. Astronomers have known that more than 12 billion years ago, about 1 billion years after the Big Bang, the gas in deep space was, on average, much more opaque than it is now in some regions, although the opacity varied widely from place to place. But they weren ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 15, 2018 
Until recent, war was almost exclusively the dominion of men. But why?
A new mathematical model developed by researchers at the University of St. Andrews suggests men may have taken on war-waging duties as a matter of happenstance - by chance.
Researchers have previously argued that because males are on average bigger and stronger than females, they were better proportioned for ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2018 
Dealing with trash is a challenge wherever people work and live, and space is no exception. Astronauts produce a couple of pounds of trash per crew member per day. To better manage this, NASA is developing a new trash processing system to demonstrate on the International Space Station.
This work is critical for potential future missions traveling farther from Earth, to the Moon and Mars, a ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 15, 2018  A glacial lake burst in a remote part of northwestern China last week, prompting evacuations of mountain residents and a warning from Greenpeace that climate change could trigger similar events.
The lake burst its banks on Friday, sending some 35 million cubic metres of water rushing through central Xinjiang province, according to China's official Xinhua news agency.
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 Storrs CT (SPX) Aug 21, 2018 
Currently, more than 300 million people around the world rely on desalinated water for part or all of their daily needs. That demand will only grow with larger populations and improved standards of living around the world.
Accessing the oceans for drinking water, however, requires desalination technologies that are complicated and expensive. The most commonly used technology for desalinati ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Aug 09, 2018 
An everyday occurrence spotted when we turn on the tap to brush our teeth has baffled engineers for centuries - why does the water splay when it hits the sink before it heads down the plughole?
Famous inventor and painter Leonardo da Vinci documented the phenomenon, now known as a hydraulic jump, back in the 1500s. Hydraulic jumps are harmless in our household sinks but they can cause viol ... more |
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