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  Washington (AFP) Aug 15, 2017 NASA is seeking suggestions from the public for a message to beam far, far out into space to the probe Voyager 1 in time for the 40th anniversary of its launch. The US space agency wants input via Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and other social media, and the public will vote on what short message we on earth should send to the intrepid, overachieving little space traveler. NASA said on its website that people have until August 15 to make submissions of a maximum of 60 characters. NASA, its Je ... read more |
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Exotic quantum states made from lightBonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 Light particles (photons) occur as tiny, indivisible portions. Many thousands of these light portions can be merged to form a single super-photon if they are sufficiently concentrated and cooled. Th ... more  
Tidally locked exoplanets may be more common than previously thoughtSeattle WA (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 Many exoplanets to be found by coming high-powered telescopes will probably be tidally locked - with one side permanently facing their host star - according to new research by astronomer Rory Barnes ... more  
Studying the sun's atmosphere with the total solar eclipse of 2017Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 A total solar eclipse happens somewhere on Earth about once every 18 months. But because Earth's surface is mostly ocean, most eclipses are visible over land for only a short time, if at all. The to ... more 
Day to night and back again: Earth's ionosphere during the total solar eclipseGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 On Aug. 21, 2017, the Moon will slide in front of the Sun and for a brief moment, day will melt into a dusky night. Moving across the country, the Moon's shadow will block the Sun's light, and weath ... more |
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Solar eclipses baffle, captivate humans throughout historyWashington (UPI) Aug 15, 2017 On August 21, a wide swath of the United States will witness a total solar eclipse, and the rest of the country will see at least a partial eclipse. ... more  
Lunar dynamo's lifetime extended by at least 1 billion yearsBoston MA (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 New evidence from ancient lunar rocks suggests that an active dynamo once churned within the molten metallic core of the moon, generating a magnetic field that lasted at least 1 billion years longer ... more  
Cassini to begin final five orbits around SaturnPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017 NASA's Cassini spacecraft will enter new territory in its final mission phase, the Grand Finale, as it prepares to embark on a set of ultra-close passes through Saturn's upper atmosphere with its fi ... more 
Moon's magnetic field lasted far longer than once believedNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 The moon's magnetic field lasted 1 billion to 2.5 billion years longer than once thought - a finding with important implications for habitability on other moons and planets throughout the universe, ... more  
Asteroid 2012 TC4 will fly past Earth in October 2017Paris (ESA) Aug 14, 2017 A small asteroid flying past Earth on 12 October will provide scientists with a valuable opportunity to learn more about its orbit and composition. The campaign will exercise the international netwo ... more 
Cassini Prepares to Say Goodbye to a True TitanPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017 Mere weeks away from its dramatic, mission-ending plunge into Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has a hectic schedule, orbiting the planet every week in its Grand Finale. On a few orbits, Saturn's l ... more |
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 New mission going to the space station to explore mysteries of 'cosmic rain'  
High resolution without particle acceleratorJena, Germany (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 A visit to the optometrist often involves optical coherence tomography. This imaging process uses infrared radiation to penetrate the layers of the retina and examine it more closely in three dimens ... more 
How to watch this weekend's Perseid meteor showerWashington (UPI) Aug 11, 2017 Skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will be treated to a show of shooting stars on Friday and Saturday night as the Perseid meteor shower peaks over the weekend. ... more 
Asteroid to shave past Earth on Oct 12: ESAParis (AFP) Aug 10, 2017 A house-sized asteroid will shave past our planet on October 12, far inside the Moon's orbit but without posing any threat, astronomers said Thursday. ... more 
TRAPPIST-1 twice as old as our solar systemWashington (UPI) Aug 11, 2017 Astronomers have narrowed in on a more precise estimate of the TRAPPIST-1 system. ... more |
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  Edinburgh UK (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 
Scientists have helped solve the mystery of what lies beneath the surface of Neptune - the most distant planet in our solar system.
A new study sheds light on the chemical make-up of the planet, which lies around 4.5 billion kilometres from the sun.
Extremely low temperatures on planets like Neptune - called ice giants - mean that chemicals on these distant worlds exist in a frozen s ... more Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2017New Horizons Video Soars over Pluto's Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2017Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot  Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 13, 2017New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 
Many exoplanets to be found by coming high-powered telescopes will probably be tidally locked - with one side permanently facing their host star - according to new research by astronomer Rory Barnes of the University of Washington.
Barnes, a UW assistant professor of astronomy and astrobiology, arrived at the finding by questioning the long-held assumption that only those stars that are mu ... moreWashington (UPI) Aug 11, 2017TRAPPIST-1 twice as old as our solar system  Washington (UPI) Aug 15, 2017Deep-sea animals eating plastic fibers from clothing  Arecibo PR (SPX) Jul 17, 2017A New Search for Extrasolar Planets from the Arecibo Observatory |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017 
Wispy, early-season clouds resembling Earth's ice-crystal cirrus clouds move across the Martian sky in some new image sequences from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
These clouds are the most clearly visible so far from Curiosity, which landed five years ago this month about five degrees south of Mars' equator. Clouds moving in the Martian sky have been observed previously by Curiosity and oth ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017Opportunity takes in the panoramic view while crossing some rocky terrain  Paris (ESA) Aug 14, 2017Preserving the stress of volcanic uprise on Mars  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2017For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 
New evidence from ancient lunar rocks suggests that an active dynamo once churned within the molten metallic core of the moon, generating a magnetic field that lasted at least 1 billion years longer than previously thought. Dynamos are natural generators of magnetic fields around terrestrial bodies, and are powered by the churning of conducting fluids within many stars and planets.
In a pa ... moreNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Moon's magnetic field lasted far longer than once believed  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 09, 2017Astronauts to bring asteroid back into lunar orbit  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 09, 2017NASA studies tethered CubeSat mission to study Lunar swirls |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 
Light particles (photons) occur as tiny, indivisible portions. Many thousands of these light portions can be merged to form a single super-photon if they are sufficiently concentrated and cooled. The individual particles merge with each other, making them indistinguishable.
Researchers call this a photonic Bose-Einstein condensate. It has long been known that normal atoms form such condens ... more Livermore CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2017Scientists probe the conditions of stellar interiors to measure nuclear reactions  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 14, 2017New mission going to the space station to explore mysteries of 'cosmic rain'  Pune, India (SPX) Jul 14, 2017Vast new super cluster of galaxies named Saraswati |
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 
MetOp-C is the third and final satellite of the first generation of MetOp polar-orbiting meteorological satellites.
The payload module of MetOp-C, developed and built by Airbus in Germany, was delivered to Toulouse after it completed a series of tests at ESTEC, the technical centre of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
The satellite, weighing in at four to ... more Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2017Ozone treaty taking a bite out of US greenhouse gas emissions  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Successful filming of fastest aurora flickering  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Teledyne Brown Engineering and Oakman Aerospace, Inc. to partner on MUSES Platform |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 
The huge nearly 400-meter wide asteroid Apophis is still on a list of hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs), regarded as a potential threat to our planet. However, new calculations made by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientist, show that Apophis' odds of Earth impact are lower than previously estimated.
"We cannot yet exclude the possibility that it could impact our planet, but we ... moreParis (AFP) Aug 10, 2017Asteroid to shave past Earth on Oct 12: ESA Washington (UPI) Aug 11, 2017How to watch this weekend's Perseid meteor shower Paris (ESA) Aug 14, 2017Asteroid 2012 TC4 will fly past Earth in October 2017 |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 
A total solar eclipse happens somewhere on Earth about once every 18 months. But because Earth's surface is mostly ocean, most eclipses are visible over land for only a short time, if at all. The total solar eclipse of Aug. 21, 2017, is different - its path stretches over land for nearly 90 minutes, giving scientists an unprecedented opportunity to make scientific measurements from the ground. ... moreWashington (UPI) Aug 15, 2017Solar eclipses baffle, captivate humans throughout history  Paris (SPX) Aug 09, 2017The sun's core makes a complete rotation in one week  Newark NJ (SPX) Aug 14, 2017An NJIT researcher throws a global ham radio 'party' to study the eclipse |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017 
China has a clear plan to provide sea launches for commercial payloads to be carried by Long March rockets, according to an aerospace official.
Tang Yagang, vice head of the aerospace division of the No.1 institute of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC), said that the technology is not difficult and a sea launch platform can be built based on modifying 10,000-ton ... more Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2017Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit  Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Space Program: From Setback, to Manned Flights, to the Moon  Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Rocket Fizzles Out, Puts Other Launches on Hold |
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 16, 2017
Light particles (photons) occur as tiny, indivisible portions. Many thousands of these light portions can be merged to form a single super-photon if they are sufficiently concentrated and cooled. The individual particles merge with each other, making them indistinguishable.
Researchers call this a photonic Bose-Einstein condensate. It has long been known that normal atoms form such condens ... moreLivermore CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2017Scientists probe the conditions of stellar interiors to measure nuclear reactions Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 14, 2017New mission going to the space station to explore mysteries of 'cosmic rain' Pune, India (SPX) Jul 14, 2017Vast new super cluster of galaxies named Saraswati |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 
The discovery in Kenya of a remarkably complete fossil ape skull reveals what the common ancestor of all living apes and humans may have looked like. The find, announced in the scientific journal Nature on August 10th, belongs to an infant that lived about 13 million years ago. The research was done by an international team led by Isaiah Nengo of Stony Brook University-affiliated Turkana Basin I ... more Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Aug 16, 2017Arrival of modern humans in Southeast Asia questioned  Washington (UPI) Aug 9, 2017Ancient infant skull yields insights into human-ape lineage  Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Aug 09, 2017New look at archaic DNA rewrites human evolution story |
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 Miami (AFP) Aug 14, 2017 
SpaceX on Monday blasted off its unmanned Dragon cargo ship toward the International Space Station, carrying a host of science experiments and the most powerful computer ever sent into orbit.
"Three, two, one, and liftoff," a SpaceX commentator said as the white Falcon 9 rocket climbed into the blue sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida at 12:31 pm (1631 GMT).
Three minutes after launch, the ... more Washington (AFP) Aug 15, 2017NASA: let's say something to Voyager 1 on 40th anniversary of launch  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Disruptioneering: Streamlining the Process of Scientific Discovery  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2017NASA Offers Space Station as Catalyst for Discovery in Washington |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 
A new study by scientists at Portland State University and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder has found that the effects of climate change, which are apparent in other parts of the Antarctic continent, are not yet observed for glaciers in the western Ross Sea coast.
Published online ahead of print for the journal Geology, the study found tha ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 09, 2017Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctic polar desert  Newcastle UK (SPX) Aug 09, 2017Researchers crack the 'Karakoram anomaly'  Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 07, 2017Alaska's North Slope snow-free season is lengthening |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017 
This past week marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of a revolutionary ocean research vessel - a space "ship." As the NASA/CNES Topex-Poseidon satellite ascended into orbit, it ushered in a new era of oceanography with the first highly accurate, global measurements of sea levels.
That mission and its three successors, all named Jason, have continuously mapped global ocean currents and ... more Cape Cod MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2017New technique offers clues to measure the deoxygenation of the ocean  Hagatna, Guam (AFP) Aug 14, 2017Guam leader backs 'punch in the nose' for Pyongyang  Quito (AFP) Aug 15, 2017Chinese fishers held in Ecuador over endangered sharks |
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 Bozeman MT (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 
A Montana State University gravitational physicist has received funding for a research project that aims to answer fundamental questions about the universe.
NASA awarded $750,000 to Nicolas Yunes for his project "Exploring Extreme Gravity: Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves." Yunes is a founding member of the MSU eXtreme Gravity Institute, known as XGI, and an associate pro ... more Hull UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017First look at gravitational dance that drives stellar formation  Warwick UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017Telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves launched  Hannover, Germany (SPX) Jun 28, 2017LISA Gravitational-Wave Observatory Selected as ESA L3 Mission |
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