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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 During an almost two-week search, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission team activated the spacecraft's MapCam imager and scanned part of the surrounding space for elusive Earth-Trojan asteroids - objects that scientists believe may exist in one of the stable regions that co-orbits the sun with Earth. Although no Earth-Trojans were discovered, the spacecraft's camera operated flawlessly and demonstrated that it could image objects two magnitudes dimmer than originally expected. The spacecraft, currently on it ... read more |
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Invention May Give Spacecraft Improved Damage ReportKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 There are few ways for astronauts to know exactly when the outside of their spacecraft has been damaged, but that may change in the future with an invention that acts like a sensory skin to pick up ... more  
Surviving the long dark night of the MoonParis (ESA) Mar 27, 2017 Designers of future Moon missions and bases have to contend with a chilling challenge: how might their creations endure the fortnight-long lunar night? ESA has arrived at a low-cost way of surviving ... more 
Turning to Chemistry for New "Computing" ConceptsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 As the complexity and volume of global digital data grows, so too does the need for more capable and compact means of processing and storing data. To address this challenge, DARPA has announced its ... more  
Juno Spacecraft Set for Fifth Jupiter FlybyPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 27, 2017 NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its fifth flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops on Monday, March 27, at 1:52 a.m. PDT (4:52 a.m. EDT, 8:52 UTC). At the time of closest approach (called p ... more |
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UV background could provide clues to missing galaxiesDurham UK (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 Astronomers have developed a way to detect the ultraviolet (UV) background of the universe, which could help explain why there are so few small galaxies in the cosmos. UV radiation is invisible but ... more 
Hubble discovery of runaway star yields clues to breakup of multiple-star systemGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 As British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England's throne, a grouping of stars was waging its own contentious skirmish - a star wars far away in the Orion Ne ... more  
Finding the 'ghost particles' might be more challenging than what we thoughtSeoul, South Korea (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 Dubbed as "ghost particles," neutrinos have no electric charge and their masses are so tiny that they are difficult to observe. The sun, nuclear reactors, supernovae explosions create them, when the ... more 
ALMA's Ability to See a "Cosmic Hole" ConfirmedGarching, Germany (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) successfully imaged a radio "hole" around a galaxy cluster 4.8 billion light-years away. This is the highest resolution imag ... more 
Astronomers hazard a ride in a 'drifting carousel' to understand pulsating starsPerth, Australia (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 What sounds like a stomach-turning ride at an amusement park might hold the key to unravelling the mysterious mechanism that causes beams of radio waves to shoot out from pulsars - super-magnetic ro ... more 
Breaking the supermassive black hole speed limitLos Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 A new computer simulation helps explain the existence of puzzling supermassive black holes observed in the early universe. The simulation is based on a computer code used to understand the coupling ... more |
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 Tracing Aromatic Molecules in the Early Universe 
Giant magnetic fields in the universeBonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 Astronomers from Bonn and Tautenburg in Thuringia (Germany) used the 100-m radio telescope at Effelsberg to observe several galaxy clusters. At the edges of these large accumulations of dark matter, ... more 
ADATS could assist X-planes with large, super-fast data transmissionEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 A network and communication architecture that can more efficiently move data from research aircraft, while using half the bandwidth of traditional methods, could eventually also enable data collecti ... more 
New study maps space dust in 3-DBerkeley CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 Berkeley Lab-led research raises new questions about properties of dust in local and distant reaches of Milky Way. Consider that the Earth is just a giant cosmic dust bunny-a big bundle of debris am ... more 
The many faces of Rosetta's comet 67PPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2017 Images returned from the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission indicate that during its most recent trip through the inner solar system, the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was a very a ... more |
  Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 27, 2017  The Australian National University (ANU) is launching a search for a new major planet within our solar system, inviting anyone around the world with access to the Internet to help make the historic discovery.
Anyone who helps find the so-called Planet X will work with ANU astronomers to validate the discovery through the International Astronomical Union.
ANU astrophysicist Dr. Brad T ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 27, 2017Juno Spacecraft Set for Fifth Jupiter Flyby  Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Scientists make the case to restore Pluto's planet status  Paris (ESA) Mar 17, 2017ESA's Jupiter mission moves off the drawing board |
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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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Newly formed stars are surrounded by a disc of dense gas and dust. This is called the protoplanetary disc, as material sticks together within it to form planets. Stars of different shapes and sizes are all born in huge star-forming regions. Scientists know that when a protoplanetary disc around a relatively small star is very close to a massive star, the larger star can evaporate parts of the pr ... more Tallahassee FL (SPX) Mar 16, 2017Fossil or inorganic structure? Scientists dig into early life forms  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2017Gigantic Jupiter-type planet reveals insights into how planets evolve  Utrecht, Netherlands (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Operation of ancient biological clock uncovered |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017 
New NASA research reveals that the giant Martian volcano Arsia Mons produced one new lava flow at its summit every 1 to 3 million years during the final peak of activity. The last volcanic activity there ceased about 50 million years ago - around the time of Earth's Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, when large numbers of our planet's plant and animal species (including dinosaurs) went extinct. ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2017Breaks observed in Curiosity rover wheel treads  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 27, 2017Mars dust storm west of Opportunity starting to abate  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day |
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Designers of future Moon missions and bases have to contend with a chilling challenge: how might their creations endure the fortnight-long lunar night? ESA has arrived at a low-cost way of surviving.
During prolonged night, when the surface is lit only by blue Earthlight, temperatures dip below -170+ C. Some locations at higher latitudes have shorter nights, though others have much longer ... more Bengaluru, India (IANS) Mar 17, 2017Team Indus To Send Seven Experiments To The Moon Including Three From India  Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Sun Devils working for a chance to induce photosynthesis on our lunar neighbor  Washington (UPI) Mar 10, 2017NASA finds missing LRO, Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiters |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2017
A UC Riverside-led team of astronomers have taken us a step closer to better understand the formation and destruction mechanisms of dust molecules in the distant universe. A molecule found in car engine exhaust fumes that is thought to have contributed to the origin of life on Earth has made astronomers heavily underestimate the amount of stars that were forming in the early Universe, a Universi ... more Washington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2017With astronomy rewind, citizen scientists will bring zombie astrophotos back to life  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Hubble discovery of runaway star yields clues to breakup of multiple-star system  Perth, Australia (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Astronomers hazard a ride in a 'drifting carousel' to understand pulsating stars |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2017 
One of our planet's few exposed lava lakes is changing, and artificial intelligence is helping NASA understand how. On January 21, a fissure opened at the top of Ethiopia's Erta Ale volcano - one of the few in the world with an active lava lake in its caldera. Volcanologists sent out requests for NASA's Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) spacecraft to image the eruption, which was large enough to begin re ... more Beijing (XNA) Mar 27, 2017China to launch new weather satellite in second half of 2017  Paris (ESA) Mar 23, 2017Unravelling Earth's magnetic field  Paris (ESA) Mar 21, 2017Beautiful science with astronaut aurora |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2017 
Dwarf planet Ceres may be hundreds of millions of miles from Jupiter, and even farther from Saturn, but the tremendous influence of gravity from these gas giants has an appreciable effect on Ceres' orientation. In a new study, researchers from NASA's Dawn mission calculate that the axial tilt of Ceres - the angle at which it spins as it journeys around the sun - varies widely over the course of ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 27, 2017OSIRIS-REx asteroid search tests instruments, science team  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2017The many faces of Rosetta's comet 67P  Paris (ESA) Mar 22, 2017Collapsing cliff reveals comet's interior |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 
For 15 days starting on March 7, 2017, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, returned visible light images of a yolk-like spotless sun.
This is the longest stretch of spotlessness since the last solar minimum in April 2010, indicating the solar cycle is marching on toward the next minimum, which scientists predict will occur between 2019-2020.
The sun goes through a natural 11-y ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017NASA Satellites Ready When Stars and Planets Align  Ithaca NY (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Cornell's FOTON studies 'space weather' to improve satellite communication  Bath, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2017New research on northern lights will improve satellite navigation accuracy |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017 
Chinese state media is reporting that the country's space program has developed a craft capable of both landing on the moon and flying in low-Earth orbit.
The new spacecraft is claimed to be able to accommodate multiple astronauts, according to spaceship engineer Zhang Bainian, who Science and Technology Daily cited as comparing the forthcoming ship to the Orion craft currently in developm ... more Wenchang, China (XNA) Mar 13, 2017Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft  Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes  Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2017Riding an asteroid: China's next space goal |
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Riverside CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2017
A UC Riverside-led team of astronomers have taken us a step closer to better understand the formation and destruction mechanisms of dust molecules in the distant universe. A molecule found in car engine exhaust fumes that is thought to have contributed to the origin of life on Earth has made astronomers heavily underestimate the amount of stars that were forming in the early Universe, a Universi ... moreWashington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2017With astronomy rewind, citizen scientists will bring zombie astrophotos back to life Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Hubble discovery of runaway star yields clues to breakup of multiple-star system Perth, Australia (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Astronomers hazard a ride in a 'drifting carousel' to understand pulsating stars |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 
The evolution of bipedalism in fossil humans can be detected using a key feature of the skull - a claim that was previously contested but now has been further validated by researchers at Stony Brook University and The University of Texas at Austin.
Compared with other primates, the large hole at the base of the human skull where the spinal cord passes through, known as the foramen magnum, ... more University Park PA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Nose form was shaped by climate  Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Human skull and bipedalism evolved side-by-side  Tanjung Gusta, Indonesia (AFP) March 17, 2017Indonesian tribes gather amid push to protect homelands |
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A hybrid computing system developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is the enabling technology behind an ambitious experiment testing a relative navigation and autonomous docking capability known as Raven.
Developed by the Satellite Servicing Projects Division, or SSPD, the carry-on luggage-sized module was launched February 19 aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraf ... more Washington (AFP) March 21, 2017Trump, NASA and a rare consensus: mission to Mars  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2017COBALT Flight Demonstrations Fuse Technologies to Gain Precision Landing Results  Miami (AFP) March 24, 2017Spacewalking French, US astronauts begin upgrade to orbiting lab |
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 Chicago (AFP) March 25, 2017 
For the last decade, American photographer James Balog has been on a mission to document climate change through his camera lens.
His effort has taken him to the farthest reaches of the world, from Antarctica to the northern ends of Greenland, where he has captured the movements and melts of immense glaciers.
The results of his work were on display at Chicago's Museum of Science and Indus ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 23, 2017Researchers ponder conundrum of disappearing Arctic caribou  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Sea ice extent sinks to record lows at both poles  Seattle WA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017How to conserve polar bears and maintain subsistence harvest |
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 Exeter, UK (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 
Important microscopic creatures which produce half of the oxygen in the atmosphere can rapidly adapt to global warming, new research suggests. Phytoplankton, which also act as an essential food supply for fish, can increase the rate at which they take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen while in warmer water temperatures, a long-running experiment shows.
Monitoring of one species, a green ... more Dehradun, India (AFP) March 21, 2017India grants sacred rivers status of 'legal persons'  Brussels (AFP) March 26, 2017Brexit plunges EU fishing into troubled waters  Indianapolis IN (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Study of non-rainfall water in Namib Desert reveals unexpected origins |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 01, 2017 
Mammalian cells are optimally adapted to gravity. But what happens in the microgravity environment of space if the earth's pull disappears? Previously, many experiments exhibited cell changes - after hours or even days in zero gravity. Astronauts, however, returned to Earth without any severe health problems after long missions in space, which begs the question as to how capable cells are of ada ... more Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 22, 2017'Gravitational noise' interferes with determining distant sources  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 |
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