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  Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2017 To much fanfare, NASA scientists announced the discovery of seven potentially habitable exoplanets surrounding a nearby red dwarf in February. However, new analysis of TRAPPIST-1 suggests the star system hosts frequent stellar flares. Scientists suggest the flares could negate the possibility of life. TRAPPIST-1 is located 127 light-years away from Earth. It is a cool red dwarf, or M-dwarf. According to the latest observations from the Kepler space telescope's K2 mission, the star consistently ... read more |
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Spray-on memory could enable bendable digital storageDurham NC (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 USB flash drives are already common accessories in offices and college campuses. But thanks to the rise in printable electronics, digital storage devices like these may soon be everywhere - includin ... more  
Discovery of a source of fast magnetic reconnectionPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 Magnetic reconnection, a universal process that triggers solar flares and northern lights and can disrupt cell phone service and fusion experiments, occurs much faster than theory says that it shoul ... more  
Hubble's double galaxy gaze: Leda and NGC 4424Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 Some astronomical objects have endearing or quirky nicknames, inspired by mythology or their own appearance. Take, for example, the constellation of Orion (The Hunter), the Sombrero Galaxy, the Hors ... more  
Comet That Took a Century to Confirm Passes by EarthGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 03, 2017 On April 1, 2017, comet 41P will pass closer than it normally does to Earth, giving observers with binoculars or a telescope a special viewing opportunity. Comet hunters in the Northern Hemisphere s ... more |
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Mysterious cosmic explosion puzzles astronomersTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. This source likely comes from some sort of destructive event, but may b ... more  
NASA observations reshape basic plasma wave physicsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 When NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale - or MMS - mission was launched, the scientists knew it would answer questions fundamental to the nature of our universe - and MMS hasn't disappointed. A ... more 
Mysterious bursts of energy do come from outer spaceMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 Fast Radio Bursts present one of modern astronomy's greatest mysteries: what or who in the Universe is transmitting short bursts of radio energy across the cosmos? Manisha Caleb, a PhD candidate at ... more 
Viruses in the oceanic basementHonolulu HI (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 A team of scientists from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) showed for the first time that many novel viruses are present in the fluids circ ... more 
Satellite galaxies at edge of Milky Way coexist with dark matterRochester NY (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Research conducted by scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology rules out a challenge to the accepted standard model of the universe and theory of how galaxies form by shedding new light on a ... more 
Wispy remains of supernova explosion hide possible 'survivor'Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Of all the varieties of exploding stars, the ones called Type Ia are perhaps the most intriguing. Their predictable brightness lets astronomers measure the expansion of the universe, which led to th ... more |
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 Shadow of Gas Cloud Detected in Ancient Proto-Supercluster 
Reading between the lines of highly turbulent plasmasLondon, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Plasma, the ionised state of matter found in stars, is still not fully understood, largely due to its instability. Astrophysicists have long-since sought to develop models that can account for the t ... more 
Inventing Tools for Detecting Life Elsewhere with Future TelescopesPasadena CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Recently, astronomers announced the discovery that a star called TRAPPIST-1 is orbited by seven Earth-size planets. Three of the planets reside in the "habitable zone," the region around a star wher ... more 
Next Stop: A Trip Inside the Sun's AtmosphereBoston MA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Every so often the Sun emits an explosive burst of charged particles that makes its way to Earth and wreaks havoc on power grids, aircraft and satellite systems. When clouds of high-speed charged pa ... more 
Seeing the Whole Galaxy with a 'Second Eye on the Sky'Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Earlier this month, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) reached an important milestone by opening its "second eye on the sky" - a new instrument called the "APOGEE South spectrograph." This new inst ... more |
  Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2017 
New research suggests Neptune's transition from the inner to the outer solar system was relatively slow and steady. The clues to the nature of Neptune's ancient move were discovered in the Kuiper belt, a massive ring of space debris - mostly icy fragments - lying beyond Neptune's orbit.
Most of the millions of objects in the Kuiper belt are red in color, but a minority of objects are ... more Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Four unknown objects being investigated in Planet X  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2017New Horizons Halfway from Pluto to Next Flyby Target  Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 27, 2017ANU leads public search for Planet X |
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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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To much fanfare, NASA scientists announced the discovery of seven potentially habitable exoplanets surrounding a nearby red dwarf in February. However, new analysis of TRAPPIST-1 suggests the star system hosts frequent stellar flares. Scientists suggest the flares could negate the possibility of life.
TRAPPIST-1 is located 127 light-years away from Earth. It is a cool red dwarf, or M-dw ... more Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Inventing Tools for Detecting Life Elsewhere with Future Telescopes  Honolulu HI (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Viruses in the oceanic basement  Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Researchers uncover a potent genetic element in Earth's smallest life forms |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 
Solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into a frigid desert world, according to new results from NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission) spacecraft led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
"We've determined that most of the gas ever present in ... more Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Potential Mars Airplane Resumes Flight  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 31, 2017Prolific Mars Orbiter Completes 50,000 Orbits  Paris (ESA) Mar 29, 2017Final two ExoMars landing sites chosen |
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 Providence RI (SPX) Mar 30, 2017 
While orbiting the Moon in 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 photographed a strange geological feature - a bumpy, D-shaped depression about two miles long and a mile wide - that has fascinated planetary scientists ever since. Some have suggested that the feature, known as Ina, is evidence of a volcanic eruption Moon within the past 100 million years - a billion years or so after most volcanic activity ... more Paris (ESA) Mar 27, 2017Surviving the long dark night of the Moon  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 |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. This source likely comes from some sort of destructive event, but may be of a variety that scientists have never seen before.
"The Chandra telescope," notes Kavli IPMU Principal Investigator Ken'ichi Nomoto, "is designed to detect X-ray emissions from very hot regi ... more London, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Explaining the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy  London, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Reading between the lines of highly turbulent plasmas  Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Mysterious bursts of energy do come from outer space |
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 Durham NC (SPX) Mar 29, 2017 
Drought and reduced seasonal flooding of wetlands and farm fields threaten a globally important stopover site for tens of thousands of migratory shorebirds in California's Sacramento Valley, a new Duke University-led study shows.
The researchers' analysis of historical biweekly NASA Landsat satellite images of the valley reveals that flooded habitat near the peak time of spring migration h ... more Boston MA (SPX) Mar 30, 2017Night lights, big data  Mito, Japan (AFP) April 1, 2017Japan counts down to cherry blossom fever  Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Monitoring pollen using an aircraft |
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 London, Canada (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 
For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the "wrong" way around the sun has been playing a cosmic game of chicken with giant Jupiter and with about 6,000 other asteroids sharing the giant planet's space, says a report published in the latest issue of Nature.
The asteroid, nicknamed Bee-Zed, is the only one in this solar system that's known both to have an opposite, retrograde orb ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 03, 2017Comet That Took a Century to Confirm Passes by Earth  Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 29, 2017A Trojan in Retreat  Littleton CO (SPX) Mar 29, 2017ExoTerra to become first privately owned space company to fly to an asteroid |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
Magnetic reconnection, a universal process that triggers solar flares and northern lights and can disrupt cell phone service and fusion experiments, occurs much faster than theory says that it should. Now researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Germany's Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics have discovered a source of the speed-up in ... more Boston MA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Next Stop: A Trip Inside the Sun's Atmosphere  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 02, 2017Waves on sun give NASA new insight into space weather forecasting  Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Mar 28, 2017Sunrise 2: A Second Look At The Sun |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Mar 31, 2017 
Yuanwang space tracking ships, which follows the progress of satellites and other space-bound craft, will carry out 19 maritime space monitoring missions in 2017, according to the maritime satellite measurement and control authority on Wednesday.
Yuanwang-5 left port Wednesday and Yuanwang-6 started its journey Monday.
Yuanwang-7 and the rocket transporting fleet will set sail in Apr ... more Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing  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 |
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Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 04, 2017
A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. This source likely comes from some sort of destructive event, but may be of a variety that scientists have never seen before.
"The Chandra telescope," notes Kavli IPMU Principal Investigator Ken'ichi Nomoto, "is designed to detect X-ray emissions from very hot regi ... moreLondon, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Explaining the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy London, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Reading between the lines of highly turbulent plasmas Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Mysterious bursts of energy do come from outer space |
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 Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
The Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE) team, based in Griffith's Environmental Futures Research Institute, together with Indonesian colleagues, have shed new light on 'Ice Age' human culture and symbolism in a paper published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The study was co-led by Associate Professor Adam Brumm, an Australian Researc ... more Onna, Japan (SPX) Apr 02, 2017Parallel computation provides deeper insight into brain function  Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2017Scientists predict children's reading abilities using DNA variants  Washington (UPI) Mar 27, 2017Bigger brains help primates cope with conflict |
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 Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Apr 04, 2017  The final test of the Emergency Egress System (EES) was conducted recently, signifying the completion of another United Launch Alliance (ULA) milestone supporting NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The EES was developed in support of Boeing's Starliner crew capsule and is a means of rapid egress for astronauts in case of an anomaly.
"ULA is absolutely focused on the safety of the crews we wil ... more Houston TX (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Spacewalkers Connect Adapter for Commercial Crew Vehicles  Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017Robot Fedor to Guide Russia's Federation Spacecraft in Maiden Flight - Roscosmos  College Park MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2017CRESST Signs $87M Cooperative Agreement with NASA Goddard |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Apr 02, 2017 
In 2011, researchers observed something that should be impossible - a massive bloom of phytoplankton growing under Arctic sea ice in conditions that should have been far too dark for anything requiring photosynthesis to survive. So, how was this bloom possible?
Using mathematical modeling, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) found ... more Utrecht, Netherlands (SPX) Apr 04, 20171997 was 'tipping point' for ice caps around Greenland's edges  Bristol, UK (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Microbes on ice sheets produce bioreactive carbon that is exported to downstream ecosystems  Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Poor outlook for biodiversity in Antarctica |
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 Manchester, UK (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development of making membranes capable of sieving common salts has been achieved. New research demonstrates the real-world potential of providing clean drinking water for millions of people who struggle to access adequate clean water sources.
Th ... more Lawrence KS (SPX) Mar 31, 2017'Weather whiplash' triggered by changing climate will degrade Midwest's drinking water  Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Apr 02, 2017Unrestricted fishing technology threaten the future of seafood  Cannes, France (AFP) April 2, 2017Blockbuster nature series catches dynamite fishermen on film |
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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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