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  Sheffield UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 Evidence of planetary debris surrounding a double sun in a Star Wars-like system has been found by a team of researchers including scientists from the University of Sheffield. The study, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, has found the remains of shattered asteroids orbiting a double sun consisting of a white dwarf star and a brown dwarf star roughly 1,000 light-years away in a system called SDSS 1557. The debris appears to be rocky and suggesting that terrestrial planets, such as Ta ... read more |
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Stars Regularly Ripped Apart by Black HolesSheffield UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 Astronomers based at the University of Sheffield have found evidence that stars are ripped apart by supermassive black holes 100 times more often than previously thought. Until now, such stell ... more  
Dawn of a New Era for Supernova 1987ACharlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 Three decades ago, astronomers spotted one of the brightest exploding stars in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova, called Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), blazed with the power of 100 million sun ... more  
Rare 'Ring of Fire' eclipse to cross Southern HemisphereWashington (UPI) Feb 25, 2017 The sky above parts of Earth's Southern Hemisphere will be illuminated Sunday in a "ring of fire" during the first solar eclipse of 2017, NASA said. ... more  
Surprising Dunes on Comet ChuryParis, France (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 Surprising images from the Rosetta spacecraft show the presence of dune-like patterns on the surface of comet Chury. Researchers at the Laboratoire de Physique et Mecanique des Milieux Heterogenes ( ... more |
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First trace of differences between matter and 'ordinary' antimatterCracow, Poland (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 The world around us is mainly constructed of baryons, particles composed of three quarks. Why are there no antibaryons, since just after the Big Bang, matter and antimatter came into being in exactl ... more 
Does Pluto Have The Ingredients For Life?Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 Pluto has long been viewed as a distant, cold and mostly dead world, but the first spacecraft to pass by it last year revealed many surprises about this distant dwarf planet. Data from the New Horiz ... more 
From rocks in Colorado, evidence of a 'chaotic solar system'Madison WI (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 Plumbing a 90 million-year-old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University has found evidence confirming a c ... more 
NSF to Fund a Nationwide Effort to Capture the EclipseTucson AZ (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 The National Science Foundation to provide critical funding to nationwide eclipse data-gathering effort. The Citizen Continental America Telescopic Eclipse project, or Citizen CATE for short, will b ... more 
Spitzer reveals largest batch of earth-size, habitable-zone planets around single starPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2017 NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around ... more 
Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven PlanetsMunich, Germany (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away. Using ground and space telescopes, including ESO's Very Large Telescope, the planets were all detected as they ... more |
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Excited reports of 'habitable planets' need to come back down to EarthSantiago, Chile (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 In 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked, "Where are they?" as a kind of lament about the lack of observational evidence for alien intelligence in our universe. Today, the question is still as ... more
From Rocks, Evidence of a 'Chaotic Solar System'Madison WI (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 Plumbing a 90 million-year-old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University has found evidence confirming a c ... more 
Experiments call origin of Earth's iron into questionAustin TX (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 New research from The University of Texas at Austin reveals that the Earth's unique iron composition isn't linked to the formation of the planet's core, calling into question a prevailing theory abo ... more 
Ancient microbes push limits of what life can survive on Earth, and offWashington DC (Sputnik) Feb 22, 2017 NASA has revived a bunch of very odd microbial creatures from a slumber of tens of thousands of years - and what they've discovered about how tenacious and strange life can be could mean space explo ... more |
  Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2017 
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, which has been in orbit around the gas giant since July 4, 2016, will remain in its current 53-day orbit for the remainder of the mission. This will allow Juno to accomplish its science goals, while avoiding the risk of a previously-planned engine firing that would have reduced the spacecraft's orbital period to 14 days.
"Juno is healthy, its science instrum ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2017Europa Flyby Mission Moves into Design Phase  Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 10, 2017NASA receives science report on Europa lander concept  Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 03, 2017New Horizons Refines Course for Next Flyby |
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 New York NY (SPX) Nov 09, 2016 
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 Parkes, Australia (SPX) Nov 09, 2016Search for ET underway with Parkes Radio Telescope  Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2016Breakthrough Listen to Search for Intelligent Life Around Tabby's Star  Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2016New bacteria groups, and stunning diversity, discovered underground |
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Pluto has long been viewed as a distant, cold and mostly dead world, but the first spacecraft to pass by it last year revealed many surprises about this distant dwarf planet. Data from the New Horizons flyby finished downloading to Earth in October, and while it will take many years for scientists to complete their inventory and model the results, early studies offer intriguing hints of its comp ... more Sheffield UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2017Evidence of Star Wars-like Planetary System  Madison WI (SPX) Feb 22, 2017From Rocks, Evidence of a 'Chaotic Solar System'  Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2017 
Opportunity is located on the rim of Endeavour crater, about to leave the rim and get back on the plains of Meridiani.
The rover is not leaving the crater, just setting up for faster progress south along the rim toward the next major scientific objective, the gully now less than a kilometer away.
Opportunity completed the last in-situ (contact) measurements on Sol 4638 (Feb. 9, 2017) ... more Miami (AFP) Feb 25, 2017NASA mulls putting astronauts on deep space test flight  Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Feb 27, 2017More Earth-like than moon-like  Dublin, Ireland (UPI) Feb 15, 2017Scientists say Mars valley was flooded with water not long ago |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 17, 2017 
ISRO has started a series of ground tests for testing the performance of sensors and actuators for soft landing of the Lander on the lunar surface.
India Space Research Organization (ISRO) has selected Russian company JSC Isotope for supply of Radionuclide curium-244 (Cm-244) that enables sources to determine chemical composition of any rocks and soils.
"Supplied by JSC Isotope sourc ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 01, 2017Complete Lunar-cy: The Earth Has Sprayed the Moon With Oxygen for Billennia  Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 01, 2017Private Space Race Heats Up, Moon Landing Expected in Late 2017  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2017LunaH-Map CubeSat to map the Moon's water deposits |
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Plumbing a 90 million-year-old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University has found evidence confirming a critical theory of how the planets in our solar system behave in their orbits around the sun.
The finding, published Feb. 23, 2017 in the journal Nature, is important because it provides the firs ... more Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) Feb 24, 2017NASA to blast James Webb Space Telescope with 'earsplitting' noise  Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 27, 2017Dawn of a New Era for Supernova 1987A  Austin TX (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Experiments call origin of Earth's iron into question |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
The Earth's core consists mostly of a huge ball of liquid metal lying at 3000 km beneath its surface, surrounded by a mantle of hot rock. Notably, at such great depths, both the core and mantle are subject to extremely high pressures and temperatures.
Furthermore, research indicates that the slow creeping flow of hot buoyant rocks - moving several centimeters per year - carries heat away f ... more San Francisco CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2017MDA to Acquire DigitalGlobe  Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 27, 2017Sentinel-2B satellite ready for launch from Kourou  Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 17, 2017NASA to launch sequel to successful Lightning Study Mission |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
Surprising images from the Rosetta spacecraft show the presence of dune-like patterns on the surface of comet Chury. Researchers at the Laboratoire de Physique et Mecanique des Milieux Heterogenes (CNRS/ESPCI Paris/UPMC/Universite Paris Diderot) studied the available images and modeled the outgassing of vapor to try to explain the phenomenon.
They show that the strong pressure difference b ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2017Dawn discovers evidence for organic material on Ceres  Albuquerque NM (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Origin of spooky meteor noises reappraised by researchers  Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (SPX) Feb 22, 2017New data about 2 distant asteroids give a clue to the possible 'Planet Nine' |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
The National Science Foundation to provide critical funding to nationwide eclipse data-gathering effort. The Citizen Continental America Telescopic Eclipse project, or Citizen CATE for short, will be deploying at least 56 identical telescopes across the path of totality thanks to the financial backing of the National Science Foundation.
The NSF is providing the largest contribution for the ... more Washington (UPI) Feb 25, 2017Rare 'Ring of Fire' eclipse to cross Southern Hemisphere  Paris (ESA) Feb 17, 2017Setting Sun on Space Station Solar research  Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Feb 08, 2017What happened to the sun over 7,000 years ago? |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 21, 2017 
China plans to launch Shijian-13, its first high-throughput communications satellite, in April, the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Friday.
The 4.6-tonne satellite, with a message capacity of more than 20 GB, will be carried into orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, according to the CAST.
An increase in satellite throughput will provide better access to the Internet ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 15, 2017Chinese cargo spacecraft set for liftoff in April  Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2017China looks to Mars, Jupiter exploration Beijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2017China's first cargo spacecraft to leave factory |
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Madison WI (SPX) Feb 24, 2017
Plumbing a 90 million-year-old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University has found evidence confirming a critical theory of how the planets in our solar system behave in their orbits around the sun.
The finding, published Feb. 23, 2017 in the journal Nature, is important because it provides the firs ... moreGreenbelt, Md. (UPI) Feb 24, 2017NASA to blast James Webb Space Telescope with 'earsplitting' noise Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 27, 2017Dawn of a New Era for Supernova 1987A Austin TX (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Experiments call origin of Earth's iron into question |
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 New York (UPI) Feb 24, 2017 
Newly discovered rock art in France suggests the origins pointillism, the painting technique made popular by Georges Seurat and Vincent Van Gogh, can be traced back more than 35,000 years to the Upper Paleolithic.
Most art historians date the birth of pointillist techniques to the 1880s, but 16 engraved limestone blocks in France's Vézère Valley suggest the technique was being used by ... more Boston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Tiny fibers open new windows into the brain  Aztec, N.M. (UPI) Feb 21, 2017New evidence highlights maternal hierarchy of Pueblo Bonito  Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Feb 17, 2017Flat-footed fighters |
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 
Research at the University of Hawai?i at Manoa could play a major role in NASA's goal to travel to Mars in the 2030s, including what the astronauts could eat during that historic mission.
A trip to Mars and back is estimated to take about two and half years, and ideally, their diet would be healthy while requiring minimal effort and energy. UH Manoa mechanical engineering student Aleca Bor ... more Gabreski ANGB NY (SPX) Feb 27, 2017Guardsmen to test space capsule recovery systems  Moscow (AFP) Feb 24, 2017Russian cargo ship docks with space station  Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 21, 2017Mystery surrounds return of Pentagon's secretive X-37B spaceplane |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
A simple rule can accurately predict when Earth's climate warms out of an ice age, according to new research led by UCL. In a new study published in Nature, researchers from UCL (University College London), University of Cambridge and University of Louvain have combined existing ideas to solve the problem of which solar energy peaks in the last 2.6 million years led to the melting of the ice she ... more Norwich, UK (SPX) Feb 21, 2017Local weather impacts melting of one of Antarctica's fastest-retreating glaciers  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 17, 2017New pathway for Greenland meltwater to reach ocean identified  Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2017Descent into a Frozen Underworld |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 
Incentive-based solutions offer significant hope for addressing the myriad environmental challenges facing the world's oceans - that's the central message a leading marine ecologist delivered in Boston during a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Jane Lubchenco, a distinguished professor in the Oregon State University College of Sc ... more Exeter, UK (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Basking sharks seek out winter sun  Paris (AFP) Feb 20, 2017Small ponds have outsized impact on global warming: study  Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 20, 2017Cash-strapped Rio de Janeiro to privatize water utility |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 
Our Galaxy's gravitational field limits the accuracy of astrometric observations of distant objects. This is most clearly appeared for objects that are visually located behind the central regions of the Galaxy and the Galactic plane, where the deviation can be up to several dozen microarcseconds.
And, more importantly, the effect of this gravitational "noise" cannot be removed. This means ... more Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 17, 2017New method uses heat flow to levitate variety of objects  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2017Increasing the sensitivity of next-generation gravitational wave detectors  Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 10, 2017New laser technology from Hannover enables more sensitive gravitational-wave detectors |
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