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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 18, 2017 New tracking data confirms that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aced its first Deep Space Maneuver (DSM-1) on Dec. 28, 2016. The engine burn sets up the spacecraft for an Earth gravity assist this fall as it continues its two-year journey to the asteroid Bennu. The large maneuver was the first using OSIRIS-REx's main engines and resulted in a 964 miles per hour (431 meters per second) change in the vehicle's velocity utilizing 780 pounds (354 kilograms) of fuel. Tracking data from the Deep Spac ... read more |
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Presumed young star turns out to be a galactic senior citizen49 Lib, a relatively bright star in the southern sky, is twelve billion years old rather than just 2.3 billion. For many decades, researchers were stumped by conflicting data pertaining to this cele ... more 
Galaxy murder mysteryIt's the big astrophysical whodunnit. Across the Universe, galaxies are being killed and the question scientists want answered is, what's killing them? New research published by a global team ... more  
ALMA starts observing the sunNew images taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have revealed otherwise invisible details of our Sun, including a new view of the dark, contorted centre of a s ... more  
Seeing the quantum future literallyScientists at the University of Sydney have demonstrated the ability to "see" the future of quantum systems, and used that knowledge to preempt their demise, in a major achievement that could help b ... more |
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Astrophysicists Discover Dimming of Binary StarA team of University of Notre Dame astrophysicists led by Peter Garnavich, professor of physics, has observed the unexplained fading of an interacting binary star, one of the first discoveries using ... more 
Astronomy prof, student predict explosion that will change the night skyCalvin College professor Larry Molnar and his students along with colleagues from Apache Point Observatory (Karen Kinemuchi) and the University of Wyoming (Henry Kobulnicky) are predicting a change ... more  
Catching Cassini's callThis week, ESA deep-space radio dishes on two continents are listening for signals from the international Cassini spacecraft, now on its final tour of Saturn. ESA's sensitive tracking antennas at Ne ... more  
Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on moon, dead at 82US astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon, died Monday at age 82, NASA and his family announced. ... more 
Our galaxy's black hole is spewing out planet-size 'spitballs'Every few thousand years, an unlucky star wanders too close to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The black hole's powerful gravity rips the star apart, sending a long streamer of gas wh ... more |
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The moon is older than scientists thoughtA UCLA-led research team reports that the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old, or 40 million to 140 million years older than scientists previously thought. The findings - based on an analysis of ... more 
A dozen and one neutron starsWith the help of tens of thousands of volunteers the distributed computing project Einstein@Home discovers 13 new gamma-ray pulsars An analysis that would have taken more than a thousand years ... more |
  
The instrument at Lowell Observatory used by Clyde Tombaugh to discover Pluto will soon undergo renovation. The year-long project, set to begin on January 12, will include restoration of both the historic telescope and the wooden dome that houses it. While the telescope will be removed from the dome during this work, the dome will be open from time to time for public tours as work allows.
... more Flying observatory makes observations of Jupiter previously only possible from space How a moon slows the decay of Pluto's atmosphere York U research identifies icy ridges on Pluto |
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Breakthrough Listen, the 10-year, $100-million astronomical search for intelligent life beyond Earth launched in 2015 by Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking, has announced its first observations using the Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia.
Parkes joins the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, USA, and the Automated Planet Finder (APF) at Lick Ob ... more Search for ET underway with Parkes Radio Telescope Breakthrough Listen to Search for Intelligent Life Around Tabby's Star New bacteria groups, and stunning diversity, discovered underground |
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Researchers have invented a range of instruments from giant telescopes to rovers to search for life in outer space, but so far, these efforts have yielded no definitive evidence that it exists beyond Earth. Now scientists have developed a new tool that can look for signs of life with 10,000 times more sensitivity than instruments carried on previous spaceflight missions. Their report appears in ... more Could dark streaks in Venusian clouds be microbial life VLT to Search for Planets in Alpha Centauri System Hubble detects 'exocomets' taking the plunge into a young star |
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The crew has been selected, and research studies confirmed for the 2017 mission of the University of Hawai?i at Manoa's Hawai?i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS).
At approximately 3:30 p.m. on January 19, 2017, six astronaut-like crewmembers will enter a geodesic dome atop Mauna Loa on the island of Hawai?i as part of an eight-month research study of human behavior and perf ... more Mars Rover Curiosity Examines Possible Mud Cracks Opportunity Continues Its Journey South Along Crater Rim New Year yields interesting bright soil for Opportunity rover |
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A UCLA-led research team reports that the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old, or 40 million to 140 million years older than scientists previously thought. The findings - based on an analysis of minerals from the moon called zircons that were brought back to Earth by the Apollo 14 mission in 1971 - are published Jan. 11 in the journal Science Advances.
The moon's age has been a hotly d ... more Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on moon, dead at 82 New map of the Moon under creation in China How the Moons That Came Before Collided to Form the Moon |
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The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth, well outside the Milky Way's spiral disk. New research by Harvard astronomers shows that half of those stars might have been ripped from another galaxy: the Sagittarius dwarf. Moreover, they are members of a lengthy stream of stars extending one million light-years across space, or 10 times the width of o ... more Astrophysicists Discover Dimming of Binary Star Astronomy prof, student predict explosion that will change the night sky A dozen and one neutron stars |
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Some of us may be easing ourselves gently into the New Year, but for the team readying Sentinel-2B for liftoff on 7 March it's full steam ahead. On 5 January, the satellite was shipped from ESA's site in the Netherlands - where it had been undergoing testing since June - and arrived safe and sound in French Guiana the following day.
The Sentinel-2 mission is designed as two satellites work ... more China receives imagery from high-resolution remote sensing satellites Study tracks 'memory' of soil moisture SAGE III to Provide Highly Accurate Measurements of Atmospheric Gases |
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Discovered in 1852 by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis, Psyche is one of the ten most-massive asteroids in the asteroid belt. Although Psyche is thought to be a world made of metal, scientists have recently found the presence of water on this minor planet. The new findings which baffled researchers, could be confirmed and further studied by a newly announced NASA mission to this small sol ... more Asteroid sleuths go back to the future Asteroid buzzes Earth Successful Deep Space Maneuver for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft |
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A groundbreaking new optical device, developed at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) to correct images of the Sun distorted by multiple layers of atmospheric turbulence, is providing scientists with the most precisely detailed, real-time pictures to date of solar activity occurring across vast stretches of the star's surface.
The observatory's 1.6-meter New Solar Telescope can now pr ... more ALMA starts observing the sun NASA moon data provides more accurate 2017 eclipse path Moore Foundation provides libraries with a millione solar-eclipse viewers |
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China's first cargo spacecraft will leave the factory, according to the website of China's manned space mission.
A review meeting was convened last Thursday, during which officials and experts unanimously concluded that the Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft had met all the requirements to leave the factory.
The take-off weight of Tianzhou-1 is 13 tonnes and it can ship material of up to si ... more China launches commercial rocket mission Kuaizhou-1A China Space Plan to Develop "Strength and Size" Beijing's space program soars in 2016 |
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The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth, well outside the Milky Way's spiral disk. New research by Harvard astronomers shows that half of those stars might have been ripped from another galaxy: the Sagittarius dwarf. Moreover, they are members of a lengthy stream of stars extending one million light-years across space, or 10 times the width of o ... moreAstrophysicists Discover Dimming of Binary StarAstronomy prof, student predict explosion that will change the night skyA dozen and one neutron stars |
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According to new research out of Brown University, fast and slow talkers deliver information at the same rate.
An analysis of 2,400 annotated telephone conversations and 40 interviews - comprising the speech patterns of 398 people - showed faster talkers dilute important information with unnecessary verbiage.
Researchers measured the rate of information delivered by all speaker ... more Research sheds new light on high-altitude settlement in Tibet Baboons produce vocalizations comparable to vowels A research framework for tracing human migration events after 'out of Africa' origins |
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French astronaut Thomas Pesquet floated into space on his first-ever spacewalk Friday, and helped install three new, refrigerator-sized lithium-ion batteries to upgrade the power system at the International Space Station.
Wearing a white spacesuit with the French flag emblazoned on one shoulder, Pesquet and US astronaut Shane Kimbrough switched on their spacesuits' internal battery power to ... more 'Hidden Figures' soars in second week atop box office The dust never settles on the Space Station Real time imaging and transcriptome analysis of medaka aboard space station |
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  A British research station on an ice shelf in Antarctica is being relocated and shut down over the winter because of fears it could float off on an iceberg, the British Antarctic Survey said on Monday.
Sixteen people who were due to stay during the Antarctic winter between March and November will now be moved out, the BAS said in a statement.
The Halley VI station, which is made up of ei ... more Arctic shrews, parasites indicate climate change effect on ecosystems Climate change shows in shrinking Antarctic snows French satellite spots Antarctic caravan |
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As global fish stocks continue sinking to alarmingly low levels, a joint study by marine fisheries experts from within and outside of China concluded that the country's most recent fisheries conservation plan can achieve a true paradigm shift in marine fisheries management - but only if the Chinese government embraces major institutional reform.
The researchers, led by Stanford University' ... more Sparton Corporation, Ultra Electronics to produce sonobuoys Affordable water in the US: A burgeoning crisis Profitable coral reef fisheries require light fishing |
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China is working to set up the world's highest altitude gravitational wave telescopes in Tibet Autonomous Region to detect the faintest echoes resonating from the universe, which may reveal more about the Big Bang.
Construction has started for the first telescope, code-named Ngari No.1, 30 km south of Shiquanhe Town in Ngari Prefecture, said Yao Yongqiang, chief researcher with the Nationa ... more MIT researchers reveal new technique for measuring gravity A population of neutron stars can generate gravitational waves continuously LISA Pathfinder's pioneering mission continues |
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