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NASA's Kepler Mission Awarded Mission ExtensionMoffett Field, CA (SPX) Apr 05, 2012 NASA's Kepler mission has been approved for extension through fiscal year 2016 based on a recommendation from the agencys Senior Review of its operating missions. The extension provides four additional years to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone - the region in a planetary system where liquid water could exist on the surface of an orbiting planet - around sun-like stars in our galaxy. "Kepler has revolutionized our understanding of exoplanets and the study of stellar seismology an ... read more |
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  New SCUBA-2 camera reveals wild youth of the universe A team of astronomers from the UK, Canada and the Netherlands have commenced a revolutionary new study of cosmic star-formation history, looking back in time to when the universe was still in its li ... more | .. |
  Cassini makes simultaneous measurements of Saturn's nightside aurora and electric current system Since the NASA / ESA Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, astronomers and space scientists have been able to study the ringed planet and its moons in great detail. Now, for the firs ... more | .. |
 Milky Way image reveals detail of a billion stars More than one billion stars in the Milky Way can be seen together in detail for the first time in an image captured by an international team of astronomers. Scientists created the colour picture by ... more | .. |
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 Mapping Galaxy Formation in Dual Mode A team of astronomers led by David Sobral (Leiden Observatory and Royal Observatory of Edinburgh) has explored the synergies between the Subaru Telescope and the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope ( ... more | .. |
 NASA's SOFIA Captures Image of Dying, Outflowing Star Researchers using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured an infrared image of the last exhalations of a dying sun-like star. The object observed by SOFIA, plan ... more | .. |
 Observing the galaxy distribution when the universe was half its current age At the UK-Germany National Astronomy Meeting NAM2012, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) team announced the most accurate measurement yet of the distribution of galaxies between five ... more | .. |
  CODITA: measuring the cosmic dust swept up by the Earth CODITA has received a EUR 2.5 million grant from the European Research Council to investigate the dust input over the next 5 years. The international team, led by Professor Plane, is made up of 11 s ... more |
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Airbus to develop advanced PAZ-2 radar satellites for Spanish defence and civil operations
Rocket Lab partners with Bollinger Shipyards to transform Neutron sea recovery platform
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 New isotope measurement could alter history of early solar system The early days of our solar system might look quite different than previously thought, according to research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory published in Science ... more | .. |
 The dark heart of a cosmic collision Two of ESA's space observatories have combined to create a multi-wavelength view of violent events taking place within the giant galaxy of Centaurus A. The new observations strengthen the view that ... more | .. |
 Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower, a new study finds. The findings, which relied on ultraviolet observat ... more | .. |
  In the Beginning ... Was the Beaker? In the beginning ... but how do you begin? That question has long perplexed scientists in fields from cosmology to anthropology. Fortunately, researchers at the Office of Science's Brookhaven Nation ... more |
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 A planetary system from the early Universe A group of European astronomers has discovered an ancient planetary system that is likely to be a survivor from one of the earliest cosmic eras, 13 billion years ago. The system consists of th ... more | .. |
  Met Office to Provide Space Weather Warnings for Planet Earth and Forecasts for Exoplanets The UK Met Office's weather and climate model is being adapted to help understand space weather at Earth and the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars. Two teams of scientists presented their ... more | .. |
  Earth's Other Moons Earth usually has more than one moon, according to a team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Our 2,000-mile-diameter M ... more | .. |
 Solar Eruptions Cause Sunquakes A study led by UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory has shown for the first time that sunquakes can be produced during eruptions of magnetic field and charged particles, as the immense magnetic st ... more |
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ICEYE satellite data accelerates flood relief in southern Brazil
Massive Boulders Ejected During DART Mission Complicate Future Asteroid Deflection Efforts
Peatland restoration shows measurable climate benefits in under a decade | .. |
 Supersonic snowballs in hell how comets interact with the Sun's atmosphere Since the 1980s astronomers have seen thousands of comets falling towards the Sun, most of them too small to survive a close approach, let alone to re-emerge. Until recently no such objects had been ... more | .. |
 Huge tornadoes discovered on the Sun Solar tornadoes several times as wide as the Earth can be generated in the solar atmosphere, say researchers in the UK. A solar tornado was discovered using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly telescop ... more | .. |
 Discovery of an 'alien earth' imminent? The first planet that can be considered a true "alien Earth" will probably be discovered in the next two years, a NASA scientist says. ... more | .. |
 Fermi Observations of Dwarf Galaxies Provide New Insights on Dark Matter There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars a ... more |
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 Dawn Marks 205 Years Of Humans Watching Vesta Vesta is spending the 205th anniversary of its discovery by treating Dawn to more spectacular vistas. When Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers first spotted Vesta, he could hardly have imagined that th ... more | .. |
  Clocking an accelerating universe: First results from BOSS Some six billion light years ago, almost halfway from now back to the big bang, the universe was undergoing an elemental change. Held back until then by the mutual gravitational attraction of all th ... more | .. |
 Comet Wild2: First Evidence of Space Weathering The traditional picture of comets as cold, icy, unchanging bodies throughout their history is being reappraised in the light of analyses of dust grains from Comet Wild2. A team led by the Univ ... more | .. |
 Getting to Know the Goldilocks Planet NASA's Kepler spacecraft is discovering a veritable avalanche of alien worlds. Recent finds include planets with double suns, massive "super-Earths" and "hot Jupiters," and a miniature solar system. ... more |
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Tens of millions of tons of nanoplastics detected adrift in North Atlantic
Drone swarm explores turbulent airflows near wind turbines
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 The role of physics in the sinking of the Titanic A century on from the sinking of the Titanic, science writer Richard Corfield takes a look at the cascade of events that led to the demise of the 'unsinkable' ship, taking into account the maths and ... more | .. |
 UC San Diego Physicists Find Patterns in New State of Matter Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter. In a paper published in the March 29 issue of the journal ... more | .. |
 Icy Moons through Cassini's Eyes These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus, Janus and Dione were taken on March 27 and 28, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini passed Enceladus first on March 27, coming ... more | .. |
 A Star Explodes, Turns Inside-Out A new X-ray study of the remains of an exploded star indicates that the supernova that disrupted the massive star may have turned it inside out in the process. Using very long observations of Cassio ... more |
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 How Deep Must Life Hide to be Safe on Europa? Considered one of the best potential sources for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, Europa may hide life in the ocean deep beneath the moon's icy crust. Some organisms could even travel to t ... more | .. |
 How the Equatorial Ridge on Saturn's Moon Iapetus Formed Saturn's moon Iapetus is one of the most unusual moons in our solar system. Perhaps the most bizarre feature of Iapetus is its equatorial ridge, a 20-km (12.4-mi) high, 200-km (124-mi) wide mountain ... more | .. |
Sofia Captures Images Of The Planetary Nebula M2-9 Researchers using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured infrared images of the last exhalations of a dying Sun-like star. The object observed by SOFIA, ... more | .. |
 How quantum physics could make 'The Matrix' more efficient Researchers have discovered a new way in which computers based on quantum physics could beat the performance of classical computers. The work, by researchers based in Singapore and the UK, implies t ... more |
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