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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2017 Scientists have long thought that Ceres may have a very weak, transient atmosphere, but mysteries lingered about its origin and why it's not always present. Now, researchers suggest that this temporary atmosphere appears to be related to the behavior of the Sun, rather than Ceres' proximity to the Sun. The study was conducted by scientists from NASA's Dawn mission and others who previously identified water vapor at Ceres using other observatories. "We think the occurrence of Ceres' transient atmos ... read more |
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Rosetta's intimate portrait of a comet: read all about itParis (ESA) Apr 07, 2017 Rosetta's pioneering mission to explore a comet in unprecedented detail completed operations last year. As the science continues, members of the public, as well as scientists, can freely access hund ... more  
Possible Venus twin discovered around dim starMountain View CA (SPX) Apr 07, 2017 Astronomers using NASA's Kepler space telescope have found a planet 219 light-years away that seems to be a close relative to Venus. This newly discovered world is only slightly larger than Earth an ... more 
Atmosphere around super-earth detectedHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Apr 07, 2017 Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around the super-Earth GJ 1132b. This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around a low-mass super-Earth, in terms of radius and mass the most Earth-lik ... more 
Exoplanet mission gets ticket to rideParis (ESA) Apr 07, 2017 A Soyuz rocket operated by Arianespace from Europe's spaceport in Kourou will boost ESA's upcoming exoplanet satellite into space. CHEOPS will share the ride into space with another payload, w ... more |
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NASA's Cassini probe of Saturn prepares for last plungeMiami (AFP) April 5, 2017 NASA's unmanned Cassini spacecraft is preparing for its final plunge into Saturn later this year, after two decades of helping Earth-bound scientists make new discoveries about the sixth planet from the Sun and its mysterious rings. ... more  
Citizen scientist photographs space station space debris from EarthWashington (UPI) Apr 6, 2017 Marco Langbroek is a satellite tracker. But occasionally, his photographs spot chunks of space debris, too. ... more 
Norway joins US Strategic Command space data sharing programWashington (UPI) Apr 6, 2017 The U.S. Strategic Command is to share space situational services and data with Norwegian government agencies under a memorandum of understanding. ... more 
Inside Arctic ice lies a frozen rainforest of microorganismsWashington (UPI) Apr 6, 2017 Vast Arctic landscapes may appear to be desolate, barren places, but take a look through a microscope and you'll see thriving ecosystems. The top few meters of ice are home to an estimated hundred million billion trillion (or 10 to the power of 29) microorganisms. ... more 
European conference on space debris risks and mitigationParis (ESA) Apr 06, 2017 The 7th European Conference on Space Debris, to be held 18-21 April at ESA's Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, will provide a unique Space Debris User Portal The 7th European Con ... more
Russia Opens 1st Ground Station to Monitor Orbital Debris in BrazilRio De Janeiro (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017 Russia's first ground station of the Automated Warning System on Hazardous Situations in Outer Space (ASPOS OKP) aimed at monitoring orbital debris was opened in Brazil, a spokesman of the Roscosmos ... more |
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Researchers uncover a potent genetic element in Earth's smallest life formsSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 It's the stuff of science fiction, though there's nothing fiction about it: Researchers have discovered a multitude of previously unidentified microorganisms possess a genetic element that enables t ... more 
TRAPPIST-1 flares threaten possibility of habitability on surrounding exoplanetsWashington (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. ... 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 |
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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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 07, 2017Hubble takes close-up portrait of Jupiter  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 |
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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 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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Vast Arctic landscapes may appear to be desolate, barren places, but take a look through a microscope and you'll see thriving ecosystems. The top few meters of ice are home to an estimated hundred million billion trillion (or 10 to the power of 29) microorganisms.
That's why Joseph Cook, a researcher at the University of Sheffield in the U.K., describes it as a frozen rainforest. "I thi ... more Paris (ESA) Apr 07, 2017Exoplanet mission gets ticket to ride  Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2017TRAPPIST-1 flares threaten possibility of habitability on surrounding exoplanets  Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Apr 07, 2017Atmosphere around super-earth detected |
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Russia is a fundamental partner in the joint project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos space corporation ExoMars, Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Roberto Battiston told Sputnik.
ExoMars is the first project in the history of collaboration between the European Union and Russia that aims to search for life on Mars. The project started with the launch of a Ru ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 31, 2017New MAVEN findings reveal how Mars' atmosphere was lost to space  Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Potential Mars Airplane Resumes Flight  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 31, 2017Prolific Mars Orbiter Completes 50,000 Orbits |
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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, 2017Reading between the lines of highly turbulent plasmas  Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Mysterious bursts of energy do come from outer space  Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Seeing the Whole Galaxy with a 'Second Eye on the Sky' |
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
Aerosols are collections of fine particles, either biological or of other types, in suspension in a gaseous medium. They play a major role in cloud formation and therefore have a strong impact on climate models. They are however extremely hard to study due to the small size and immense variety of their constituent particles.
But researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerlan ... more Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Monitoring pollen using an aircraft  Paris (AFP) April 4, 2017How Britain became an island  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 30, 2017NASA spacecraft investigate clues in radiation belts |
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Rosetta's pioneering mission to explore a comet in unprecedented detail completed operations last year. As the science continues, members of the public, as well as scientists, can freely access hundreds of papers that reveal the comet's secrets. A special issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society is the latest journal to provide this service.
On 30 September 2016, after a ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2017Ceres' temporary atmosphere linked to solar activity  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 03, 2017Comet That Took a Century to Confirm Passes by Earth  London, Canada (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Wrong-way asteroid plays 'chicken' with Jupiter |
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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, 2017Reading between the lines of highly turbulent plasmas Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Mysterious bursts of energy do come from outer space Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Seeing the Whole Galaxy with a 'Second Eye on the Sky' |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 6, 2017 
Married couples tend to look alike for several reasons. One of them, new research shows, is the simple fact that married couples with common ancestry tend to share similar genes.
According to the study, published this week in the journal PLOS Genetics, the genetic similarities are enough to bias genome studies.
Researchers analyzed the genomes of three generations of Caucasian co ... more Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Researchers uncover prehistoric art and ornaments from Indonesian 'Ice Age'  Miami (AFP) April 5, 2017Great apes know when people are wrong: study  Onna, Japan (SPX) Apr 02, 2017Parallel computation provides deeper insight into brain function |
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 Washington (AFP) April 6, 2017 
US flags worldwide were ordered flown at half-staff on Thursday as astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, was laid to rest with military honors.
Glenn died in December 2016 at the age of 95, after a long career that included serving as a Marine fighter pilot, a NASA astronaut and a US senator.
His five-hour solo orbit around Earth in 1962 established Glenn as an America ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017Russia, Europe, US Should Work Together on Space Exploration - German Agency  Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Apr 04, 2017United Launch Alliance Completes Crew Emergency Egress System  Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017Robot Fedor to Guide Russia's Federation Spacecraft in Maiden Flight - Roscosmos |
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 Bristol, UK (SPX) Apr 04, 2017
Glaciers and ice sheets have recently been considered significant sources of organic carbon and provide nutrients to downstream marine ecosystems. However, the exact origin and bioreactivity of the dissolved organic carbon from glacier surfaces are not fully understood.
A team from the Bristol Glaciology Centre - based at the University of Bristol - has found that microbial activity at the ... more Bristol, UK (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Microbial colonizers of Arctic soils are sensitive to future climate change  Columbus OH (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Some of Greenland's coastal ice will be permanently lost by 2100  Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Climate seesaw at the end of the last glacial phase |
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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 Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Where the Jordan stops flowing  Washington (UPI) Apr 5, 2017L3 Technologies acquires autonomous underwater robot manufacturer  Lawrence KS (SPX) Mar 31, 2017'Weather whiplash' triggered by changing climate will degrade Midwest's drinking water |
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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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