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  Toronto, Canada (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 A team of astronomers has observed the magnetic field of a galaxy five billion light-years from Earth. The galaxy is the most distant in which a coherent magnetic field has been observed and provides important insight into how magnetism in the Universe formed and evolved. The observation shows a magnetic field of a similar strength and configuration to that seen in our own Milky Way Galaxy, even though the distant galaxy is five billion years younger than ours. This is evidence that galactic magne ... read more |
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Astronomers Let Gaseous Discs Tiltand Shrink in Virtual Wind TunnelAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 A team of Dutch astronomers, led by Thomas Wijnen (Radboud University), has managed to tilt and shrink gaseous discs, in which planets form, in a virtual wind tunnel. The research helps for example ... more  
NASA's Lunar mission captures solar eclipse as seen from the moonGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 During the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, captured an image of the Moon's shadow over a large region of the United States, centered just north of Nashvi ... more  
Granting weightless wishesParis (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 ESA this week helped to provide children with disabilities the opportunity to experience weightlessness and lunar gravity on aircraft flights. Eight children from five ESA member states - UK, ... more  
Saturn Plunge Nears for Cassini SpacecraftPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 30, 2017 NASA's Cassini spacecraft is 18 days from its mission-ending dive into the atmosphere of Saturn. Its fateful plunge on Sept. 15 is a foregone conclusion - an April 22 gravitational kick from Saturn' ... more |
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Kepler satellite discovers variability in the Seven SistersLondon, UK (SPX) Aug 28, 2017 The Seven Sisters, as they were known to the ancient Greeks, are now known to modern astronomers as the Pleiades star cluster - a set of stars which are visible to the naked eye and have been studie ... more  
Forty years on, Voyager still hurtles through spaceMiami (AFP) Aug 27, 2017 Are we alone? ... more 
Black hole models contradicted by hands-on tests at Sandia's Z machineAlbuquerque NM (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 A long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes in space has been contradicted by hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine. Z, the m ... more
NASA Announces Cassini End-of-Mission ActivitiesPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 28, 2017 On Sept. 15, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will complete its remarkable story of exploration with an intentional plunge into Saturn's atmosphere, ending its mission after nearly 20 years in space. News ... more  
NASA's asteroid sample return mission successfully adjusts courseTucson AZ (SPX) Aug 28, 2017 NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft fired its thrusters to position itself on the correct course for its upcoming Earth flyby. The spacecraft, which is on a two-year outbound journey to asteroid Bennu, suc ... more 
Phoenicid meteor shower from dead comet arises again after 58 yearsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 28, 2017 The Phoenicid meteor shower (named after the constellation Phoenix) was discovered by the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition on December 5, 1956, during their voyage in the Indian Ocean. H ... more |
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 Charleston C-17 flies on "dark side of the moon" 
Best ever image of a star's surface and atmosphereMunich, Germany (ESO) Aug 24, 2017 To the unaided eye the famous, bright star Antares shines with a strong red tint in the heart of the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion. It is a huge and comparatively cool red supergiant star ... more  
45th Space Wing supports successful Minotaur IV ORS-5 launchCape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Aug 26, 2017 The 45th Space Wing supported Orbital ATK's successful Minotaur IV rocket launch carrying the United States Air Force's Operationally Responsive Space 5 satellite Aug. 26, 2017, at 2:04 a.m. from Sp ... more 
New insights into fundamental mechanisms for optical control of magnetic memoryBerlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 This is an important clue for our theoretical understanding of optically controlled magnetic data storage media. The findings are published at August 25th in the journal Scientific Reports. Th ... more  
A New Search for Extrasolar Planets from the Arecibo ObservatoryArecibo PR (SPX) Jul 17, 2017 The National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory and the Planetary Habitability Laboratory of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo joined the Red Dots project using the ESO's exoplanet-hunt ... more |
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  Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2017 
In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons - amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a flight over the distant worlds' icy terrain might be like.
Wonder no more. Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer s ... more 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  Edinburgh UK (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Scientists probe Neptune's depths to reveal secrets of icy planets |
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The National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory and the Planetary Habitability Laboratory of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo joined the Red Dots project using the ESO's exoplanet-hunter in the search for new planets around our nearest stars.
This new collaboration will simultaneously observe in both the optical and radio spectrum Barnard's Star, a popular star in the science ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2017Gulf of Mexico tube worm is one of the longest-living animals in the world  Garching, Germany (SPX) Jul 14, 2017Molecular Outflow Launched Beyond Disk Around Young Star  Exeter UK (SPX) Aug 28, 2017Scientists take first snapshots of a molecular propeller that runs at 100 degrees Celsius |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 
Earlier this month, radio dishes from three deep-space networks combined to catch faint 'survival' whispers from one of ESA's Mars orbiters, underlining the value of international collaboration for exploring the Red Planet.
For the first time ever, deep-space ground stations from ESA, NASA and Russia's Roscosmos joined together, on 13 August, to receive ultra-faint signals from ESA's ExoMa ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 28, 2017Opportunity staying put for a bit to image valley  Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 29, 2017NASA's Next Mars Mission to Investigate Interior of Red Planet  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2017For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 22, 2017 
The European Space Agency (ESA) invites members of the science community in Europe to propose ideas for research that could be performed on the Deep Space Gateway, a crewed spaceship in lunar vicinity.
The Deep Space Gateway is a strategic platform that is being prepared by the International Space Station partner agencies to be humanity's next step beyond Low-Earth Orbit and out into the S ... more San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2017Analysis of a 'rusty' lunar rock suggests the moon's interior is dry  Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 21, 2017Roscosmos Approves Luna-25 Space Station Model in Moon Exploration Project  New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Moon's magnetic field lasted far longer than once believed |
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With the help of a gigantic cosmic lens, astronomers have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy nearly five billion light-years away. The achievement is giving them important new clues about a problem at the frontiers of cosmology - the nature and origin of the magnetic fields that play an important role in how galaxies develop over time.
The scientists used the National Science Foundati ... moreAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 29, 2017Astronomers Let Gaseous Discs Tiltand Shrink in Virtual Wind Tunnel  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 29, 2017Proposed Astrophysics Mission to Conduct the First Infrared Spectral Survey of the Entire Sky Munich, Germany (ESO) Aug 24, 2017Best ever image of a star's surface and atmosphere |
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Wallops Island, VA (SPX) Aug 24, 2017
A NASA rocket mission to study disturbances in the upper atmosphere that interfere with communication and technology systems will form night-time white artificial clouds visible by residents of the Republic of the Marshall Islands during two rocket flights to occur between August 29 and September 9.
The Waves and Instabilities from a Neutral Dynamo, o ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2017Russian scientists invent device allowing them to sense kilometers into Earth  Rochester NY (SPX) Aug 28, 2017Man-made fossil methane emission levels larger than previously believed  Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2017Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows |
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft fired its thrusters to position itself on the correct course for its upcoming Earth flyby. The spacecraft, which is on a two-year outbound journey to asteroid Bennu, successfully performed a precision course adjustment on Wednesday to prepare for the gravity slingshot on Sept. 22.
This trajectory correction maneuver was the first to use the spacecraft's Attitud ... moreTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 28, 2017Phoenicid meteor shower from dead comet arises again after 58 years  Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 22, 2017Dino-killing asteroid could have thrust Earth into 2 years of darkness  Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2017Large asteroid to safely pass Earth on September 1 |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 
During the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, captured an image of the Moon's shadow over a large region of the United States, centered just north of Nashville, Tennessee.
As LRO crossed the lunar south pole heading north at 3,579 mph (1,600 meters per second), the shadow of the Moon was racing across the United States at 1,500 mph (670 meters per ... more Joint Base Charleston SC (AFNS) Aug 28, 2017Charleston C-17 flies on "dark side of the moon"  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 17, 2017NASA, ESA spacecraft track solar storm through space  Paris (ESA) Aug 21, 2017ESA's Proba-3 will create artificial solar eclipses |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017 
Beijing and Moscow may sign an agreement this October on joint space exploration, to be carried out in 2018-2022, Chinese media reported.
The deal would cover five areas, including lunar and deep space exploration, satellite systems, space debris research and Earth remote sensing, CGTN broadcaster reported on Sunday.
Xu Yansong, the head of the International Cooperation Department of ... more Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017ESA and Chinese astronauts train together  Beijing (XNA) Aug 28, 2017To boldly go where no startup has gone before  Beijing (XNA) Aug 14, 2017China's satellite sends unbreakable cipher from space |
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Charlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 29, 2017
With the help of a gigantic cosmic lens, astronomers have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy nearly five billion light-years away. The achievement is giving them important new clues about a problem at the frontiers of cosmology - the nature and origin of the magnetic fields that play an important role in how galaxies develop over time.
The scientists used the National Science Foundati ... moreAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 29, 2017Astronomers Let Gaseous Discs Tiltand Shrink in Virtual Wind Tunnel Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 29, 2017Proposed Astrophysics Mission to Conduct the First Infrared Spectral Survey of the Entire Sky Munich, Germany (ESO) Aug 24, 2017Best ever image of a star's surface and atmosphere |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2017 
The ability to read the intentions and aggressive potential of strangers gets betters with age - or at least stabilizes.
Many think of street smarts - the ability to navigate the risks of urban life - as an attribute that diminishes as people age. But when researchers measured the ability of people to identify and interpret the aggressive potential of others, they found 80-year-olds ... more Davis CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2017Farming, cheese, chewing changed human skull shape  Lund, Sweden (SPX) Aug 22, 2017Both chimpanzees and humans spontaneously imitate each other's actions  Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2017Research reveals how neurons communicate |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017 
A representative from the Mission Control Center told Sputnik that the International Space Station has increased its average altitude by about 1,970 feet after an orbit adjustment maneuver.
The International Space Station (ISS) has increased its average altitude by about 1,970 feet after an orbit adjustment maneuver using Progress MS-06 cargo spacecraft engines, a representative from the M ... more Hampton VA (SPX) Aug 24, 2017Setting the Spaceplane Stage Miami (AFP) Aug 27, 2017Forty years on, Voyager still hurtles through space  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 28, 2017NASA should continue large strategic missions to maintain leadership in space |
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 Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 
Temperatures in the Arctic are currently climbing two to three times faster than the global average. The result - and, thanks to feedback effects, also the cause - is dwindling sea ice. In a study published in the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo- and climate researchers at the Alfred-Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI) show that, in the course of ... more (UPI) Aug 29, 2017Climate change pushed songbirds from Bahamas in the wake of the last ice age  Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Aug 23, 2017Satellite photos reveal gigantic outburst floods  Oslo, Norway (SPX) Aug 23, 2017Methane hydrate is not a smoking gun in the Arctic Ocean |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2017 
The Navy announced Monday it is developing technology for the wireless underwater recharging of unmanned undersea vehicles at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific.
Current UUVs used for reconnaissance, mine hunting, and other tasks need to be recharged manually at either port or ship. Underwater charging stations would allow the craft to stay on station for much longer per ... more (UPI) Aug 29, 2017Decoding coral DNA could help save reefs from extinction  Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2017Oil and water can mix under the right conditions, scientists say  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 30, 2017Caspian Sea evaporating as temperatures rise |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 
ESA this week helped to provide children with disabilities the opportunity to experience weightlessness and lunar gravity on aircraft flights.
Eight children from five ESA member states - UK, France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy -boarded the converted Airbus A310 in Bordeaux, France on 24 August as part of the Kid's Weightless Dreams campaign organised by Novespace and Reves de Gosse.
... more Bozeman MT (SPX) Jul 26, 2017MSU gravitational physicist receives NASA award to explore extreme gravity and the universe  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 |
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