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Solar wind particles likely source of water locked inside lunar soilsAnn Arbor MI (SPX) Oct 15, 2012 The most likely source of the water locked inside soils on the moon's surface is the constant stream of charged particles from the sun known as the solar wind, a University of Michigan researcher and his colleagues have concluded. Over the last five years, spacecraft observations and new lab measurements of Apollo lunar samples have overturned the long-held belief that the moon is bone-dry. In 2009, NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing satellite, known as LCROSS, slammed into a perman ... read more |
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  Early-Earth cells modeled to show how first life forms might have packaged RNA Researchers at Penn State University have developed a chemical model that mimics a possible step in the formation of cellular life on Earth four-billion years ago. Using large "macromolecules" ... more | .. |
  Applied physics as art In Harvard's Pierce Hall, the surface of a small germanium-coated gold sheet shines vividly in crimson. A centimeter to the right, where the same metallic coating is literally only about 20 atoms th ... more | .. |
 Making a layer cake with atomic precision In a report published in Nature Physics, a group led Dr Leonid Ponomarenko and Nobel prize-winner Professor Andre Geim has assembled individual atomic layers on top of each other in a desired sequen ... more | .. |
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 Russia to launch lunar mission in 2015 Russia would launch a lunar mission in 2015, a space research association head said Friday. The goal of the unmanned moon landing mission was to prove that the country is able to land on other ... more | .. |
 Moon water could have solar source: study Scientists on Sunday said they had found water molecules in samples of lunar soil, and their unusual signature points to the Sun as the indirect source. ... more | .. |
  X-raying colliding stellar winds Ground- and space-based observations, including studies by ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory, have provided unique insights into a star system dominated by two Galactic giants. The region und ... more | .. |
  The Orionid Meteor Shower Usually, waking up before sunrise is a good way to get a head start on the day. On Oct. 21st, waking up early could stop you in your tracks. Blame Halley's Comet. Every year in mid-to-late Oct ... more |
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China launches international association to boost global access to deep space research
Planet secures 240 million euro satellite services contract with German government
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 X-ray Satellites Monitor the Clashing Winds of a Colossal Binary The hottest and most massive stars don't live long enough to disperse throughout the galaxy. Instead, they can be found near the clouds of gas and dust where they formed - and where they will explod ... more | .. |
 When Galaxies Eat Galaxies They Get Denser Using gravitational "lenses" in space, University of Utah astronomers discovered that the centers of the biggest galaxies are growing denser + evidence of repeated collisions and mergers by massive ... more | .. |
 X-Raying Stellar Winds in a High-Speed Collision Two massive stars racing in orbit around each other have had their colliding stellar winds X-rayed for the first time, thanks to the combined efforts of ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Swift space teles ... more | .. |
  Lost asteroid rediscovered with a little help from ESA A potentially hazardous asteroid once found but then lost has been rediscovered and its orbit confirmed by a determined amateur astronomer working with ESA's space hazards programme. The half-kilome ... more |
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 How to Hunt a Space Rock Peter Willis and his team of researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., had a problem. Actually, more like they had a solution that needed a problem. Confused? Let's let Pe ... more | .. |
 Russian moon mission said funded, ready Russia's proposed moon missions have been fully funded and the first is planned for 2015, a space industry official says. ... more | .. |
  Focus on space debris: Envisat Space debris came into focus last week at the International Astronautical Congress in Naples, Italy. Envisat, ESA's largest Earth observation satellite, ended its mission last spring and was a subje ... more | .. |
 A Planetary Nebula Gallery This gallery shows four planetary nebulas from the first systematic survey of such objects in the solar neighborhood made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The planetary nebulas shown here are ... more |
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Consortium plans global shift toward net negative carbon economy
Six satellites launched for ICEYE as constellation expansion gains momentum
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  Earth sunblock only needed if planet warms easily An increasing number of scientists are studying ways to temporarily reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the earth to potentially stave off some of the worst effects of climate change. Becau ... more | .. |
  Nearby Super-Earth Likely a Diamond Planet New research led by Yale University scientists suggests that a rocky planet twice Earth's size orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet. "This is our first glimpse of a rocky world with a fu ... more | .. |
 First Evidence of Dynamo Generation in an Asteroid About 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was little more than a tenuous disk of gas and dust. In the span of merely 10 million years, this soup evolved to form today's massive, complex planets. ... more | .. |
 Rover designed to drill for moon ice U.S. scientists say they've built a full-size prototype of a solar-powered robot designed to search for potentially rich deposits of water ice on the moon. ... more |
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 Extending Einstein's theory beyond light speed University of Adelaide applied mathematicians have extended Einstein's theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light. Einstein's theory holds that nothing could move faster than the ... more | .. |
 Curious About Life: Interview with Michael Meyer The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ... more | .. |
  Bouncing on Titan ESA's Huygens probe bounced, slid and wobbled its way to rest in the 10 seconds after touching down on Saturn's moon, Titan, in January 2005, a new analysis reveals. The findings provide novel insig ... more | .. |
 Sweeping X-Ray Imaging Survey Of Dying Stars Is 'Uncharted Territory' The death throes of dying stars are the focus of a sweeping new survey using NASA's Chandra X-ray satellite observatory. More than two dozen astronomers have aligned their research goals to us ... more |
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The Secrets Of A Dying Star Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a totally unexpected spiral structure in the material around the old star R Sculptoris. This is the first ti ... more | .. |
A Planetary Nebula Gallery From Chandra This gallery shows four planetary nebulas from the first systematic survey of such objects in the solar neighborhood made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The planetary nebulas shown her ... more | .. |
 Getting NASA's SDO into Focus From Sept. 6 to Sept. 29, 2012, NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) moved into its semi-annual eclipse season, a time when Earth blocks the telescope's view of the sun for a period of time each d ... more | .. |
 Sun Spits Out A Coronal Mass Ejection At 11:24 p.m. EDT on Oct. 4, 2012, the sun unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME). Not to be confused with a solar flare, which is a burst of light and radiation, CMEs are a phenomenon that c ... more |
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 Giant black holes lurking in survey data Scientists at the University of Cambridge have used cutting-edge infrared surveys of the sky to discover a new population of enormous, rapidly growing supermassive black holes in the early Universe. ... more | .. |
 Large water reservoirs at the dawn of stellar birth ESA's Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapour to fill Earth's oceans more than 2000 times over, in a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing into a new Sun-like s ... more | .. |
 The Helix Nebula: Bigger in Death than Life A dying star is refusing to go quietly into the night, as seen in this combined infrared and ultraviolet view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), which NAS ... more | .. |
 Southampton researchers explain how pulsars slow down with age Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a model which explains how the spin of a pulsar slows down as the star gets older. A pulsar is a highly magnetised rotating neutron ... more |
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