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  Tampa FL (SPX) Sep 15, 2017 After 20 years in space, NASA's famed Cassini spacecraft made its final death plunge into Saturn on Friday, ending a storied mission that scientists say taught us nearly everything we know about Saturn today and transformed the way we think about life elsewhere in the solar system. Cassini, an international project that cost $3.9 billion and included scientists from 27 nations, disintegrated as it dove into Saturn's atmosphere at a speed of 75,000 miles (120,700 kilometers) per hour. "The si ... read more |
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The return of the comet-like exoplanetGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 15, 2017 Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, also members of the PlanetS National Centre of Competence in Research, have been working on a joint project with the universities of B ... more 
New prediction of a detection wavelength for searching phototrophs on exoplanetsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 13, 2017 M-dwarfs or red dwarfs are small (0.5-0.1 solar-masses) and cool ( ~3000 Kelvin) stars, and are abundant in universe. The Sun-like stars have been attracting most attention as a plausible target for ... more 
Teledyne e2v contract to supply light detectors for PLATO planet-hunting spacecraftChelmsford UK (SPX) Sep 15, 2017 The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Teledyne e2v a 42M euro ($47M) contract to produce high-end Charge Coupled Device (CCD) visible-light detectors for the PLATO (Planetary Transits and Osci ... more  
Study shows star formation influenced by environmental conditionsWashington (UPI) Sep 15, 2017 Scientists at Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have determined that new star formation is influenced by local environmental conditions. ... more |
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Air Force activates new satellites for tracking space objectsWashington (UPI) Sep 15, 2017 The 1st Space Operations Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, has activated two satellites as part of their Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program. ... more 
Cassini Spacecraft Demise Is Bittersweet for PSI's HansenTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 15, 2017 When the Cassini spacecraft ends its mission Friday morning, melting and breaking apart in Saturn's atmosphere, Candy Hansen will be filled with sadness as well as satisfaction. Hansen, a Seni ... more
Hubble observes pitch black planetMunich, Germany (SPX) Sep 15, 2017 Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black. This discovery sheds new light on the atmospheric composition ... more  
NASA-funded research at USC provides evidence of ground-ice on asteroidsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 14, 2017 Research at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering has revealed new evidence for the occurrence of ground ice on the protoplanet Vesta. The work, under the sponsorship of NASA's Planetary Geology and ... more  
Researchers create first global map of water in moon's soilProvidence RI (SPX) Sep 14, 2017 In research that may prove useful to future lunar explorers, scientists from Brown University have created the first quantitative map of water and its chemical building blocks trapped in the uppermo ... more 
NASA Team Passes Major Technological Milestone for Characterizing ExoplanetsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 11, 2017 NASA researchers say they have passed a major milestone in their quest to mature more powerful tools for directly detecting and analyzing the atmospheres of giant planets outside the solar system - ... more |
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 Cassini readies final plunge into Saturn 
CU Boulder Scientists Ready for Cassini Mission to Saturn Grand FinaleBoulder CO (SPX) Sep 14, 2017 University of Colorado Boulder Professor Larry Esposito has been eying the fabulous rings of Saturn for much of his career, beginning as a team scientist on NASA's Pioneer 11 mission when he discove ... more 
Inferno world with titanium skiesBelfast, Northern Ireland (SPX) Sep 14, 2017 Astronomers at Queen's University Belfast, working with a team of international researchers, have detected titanium oxide in an exoplanet atmosphere for the first time, revealing incredible informat ... more 
Does the Organic Material of Comets Predate our Solar System?Paris, France (SPX) Sep 13, 2017 The Rosetta space probe discovered a large amount of organic material in the nucleus of comet "Chury." In an article published by MNRAS on August 31, 2017, two French researchers advance the theory ... more 
Cassini Makes its 'Goodbye Kiss' Flyby of TitanPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 12, 2017 NASA's Cassini spacecraft is headed toward its Sept. 15 plunge into Saturn, following a final, distant flyby of the planet's giant moon Titan. The spacecraft made its closest approach to Titan ... more |
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  Laurel MD (SPX) Sep 14, 2017 
A long summer break ended for NASA's New Horizons on Sept. 11, as the spacecraft "woke" itself on schedule from a five-month hibernation period. Signals confirming that New Horizons had executed on-board computer commands to exit hibernation reached mission operations at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, via NASA's Deep Space Network station in Madrid, Spain, at 12:55 p. ... more Washington DC (SPX) Sep 11, 2017Pluto features given first official names  Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2017Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery  Washington DC (SPX) Sep 06, 2017New Horizons Files Flight Plan for 2019 Flyby |
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Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black. This discovery sheds new light on the atmospheric composition of the planet and also refutes previous hypotheses about WASP-12b's atmosphere. The results are also in stark contrast to observations of another similarly sized exoplanet.
Using the Space Tele ... moreGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 15, 2017The return of the comet-like exoplanet Paris, France (SPX) Sep 13, 2017Does the Organic Material of Comets Predate our Solar System?  Boston MA (SPX) Sep 12, 2017X-rays Reveal Temperament of Possible Planet-hosting Stars |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 12, 2017 
Opportunity is continuing the winter exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
Winter is constraining the available energy, so the project has the rover doing "hops" (drives) from one energy-favorable "lily pad" to the next. (These lily pads are locations where the terrain is tilted sufficiently to the north to maximize the Sun illumination on the rover's so ... more Paris (ESA) Sep 12, 2017New tools for exploring the surface of Mars  Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 14, 2017NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Climbing Toward Ridge Top  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 14, 2017New Gravity Map Suggests Mars Has a Porous Crust |
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 Providence RI (SPX) Sep 14, 2017 
In research that may prove useful to future lunar explorers, scientists from Brown University have created the first quantitative map of water and its chemical building blocks trapped in the uppermost portion of the Moon's soil.
The study, published in Science Advances, builds on the initial discovery in 2009 of water and a related molecule - hydroxyl, which consists of one atom each of hy ... more Paris (ESA) Aug 22, 2017Call For Ideas For Research On The Deep Space Gateway  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 |
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Sep 12, 2017 
Like in a nail-biting thriller full of escapes and subterfuge, photons from far-off light sources, such as blazars, could go up against a continuous exchange of identity in their journey through the Universe. This is an operation that would allow these very tiny particles of light to escape an enemy which, if encountered, would annihilate them.
This is the phenomenon studied by a group of ... more London, UK (SPX) Sep 12, 2017Accretion-powered pulsar reveals unique timing glitch Washington (UPI) Sep 15, 2017Study shows star formation influenced by environmental conditions  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 13, 2017Keeping NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in the dark |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 13, 2017 
For a few weeks over the summer in 2011, teams of scientists from around the world converged on a small patch of ponderosa pine forest in Colorado to carry out one of the most detailed, extended survey of atmospheric chemistry ever attempted in one place, in many cases using new measurement devices created especially for this project. Now, after years of analysis, their comprehensive synthesis o ... more Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 13, 2017Who is the chief culprit of dust concentrations over East Asia?  El Segundo CA (SPX) Sep 14, 2017Boeing to Design and Build Seven Medium Earth Orbit Satellites for SES  Toulouse, France (SPX) Sep 12, 2017Airbus to reshape Earth observation market with its Pleiades Neo constellation |
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Research at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering has revealed new evidence for the occurrence of ground ice on the protoplanet Vesta. The work, under the sponsorship of NASA's Planetary Geology and Geophysics program, is part of ongoing efforts at USC Viterbi to improve water detectability techniques in terrestrial and planetary subsurfaces using radar and microwave imaging techniques.
Th ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2017Radar Reveals Two Moons Orbiting Asteroid Florence  Perth, Australia (SPX) Sep 11, 2017Sling-shot show for NASA spacecraft over Australia  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 04, 2017NASA's Asteroid-Bound Spacecraft to Slingshot Past Earth |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 11, 2017 
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured dramatic images of a significant solar flare that peaked at 12:06 p.m. EDT Sunday.
The space agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory watches the sun on a constant basis and captured the significant solar flare classified as X8.2-class.
X-class identifies the most intense solar flares and the number provides additional information about its s ... more Washington (AFP) Sept 7, 2017NASA captures images of strong solar flares  Paris (ESA) Sep 01, 2017Space-inspired Star Storm to premiere next month  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2017NASA's Lunar mission captures solar eclipse as seen from the moon |
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 Beijing (XNA) Sep 15, 2017 
China's cargo spacecraft Tianzhou 1 completed an automated fast-docking operation with the Tiangong II space laboratory late on Tuesday night, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
Tianzhou 1 began its approach to the space lab at 5:24 pm and spent six and a half hours for the docking, which was completed at 11:58 pm, the agency said in a news release.
It was the third docking ... more Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 31, 2017China, Russia to Have Smooth Space Cooperation, Says Expert  Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2017Kuaizhou-11 to send six satellites into space Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017Russia, China May Sign 5-Year Agreement on Joint Space Exploration |
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Trieste, Italy (SPX) Sep 12, 2017
Like in a nail-biting thriller full of escapes and subterfuge, photons from far-off light sources, such as blazars, could go up against a continuous exchange of identity in their journey through the Universe. This is an operation that would allow these very tiny particles of light to escape an enemy which, if encountered, would annihilate them.
This is the phenomenon studied by a group of ... moreLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 12, 2017Accretion-powered pulsar reveals unique timing glitch Washington (UPI) Sep 15, 2017Study shows star formation influenced by environmental conditions Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 13, 2017Keeping NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in the dark |
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 New York NY (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 
In a study analyzing the genomes of 210,000 people in the United States and Britain, researchers at Columbia University find that the genetic variants linked to Alzheimer's disease and heavy smoking are less frequent in people with longer lifespans, suggesting that natural selection is weeding out these unfavorable variants in both populations.
Researchers further find that sets of genetic ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 6, 2017Groups are more likely to lie than individuals, new study shows  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 31, 2017Human settlement in the Americas may have occurred in the late Pleistocene  Washington (UPI) Sep 5, 2017Humans are still evolving, study suggests |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 15, 2017 
Whether you are on a diet or just want to be healthier, you might be one of those millions of people around the planet who use a mobile app to track everything you eat. The trend has arrived in space: European astronauts are now logging their meals on a tablet to make sure they are getting the right amount of nutrients.
An optimal diet, paired with constant exercise, is essential to counte ... more Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Sept 12, 2017Three astronauts blast off for five-month ISS mission Bethesda, MD (SPX) Sep 13, 2017Crewed Missions Beyond LEO  Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 04, 2017Voyager Spacecraft: 40 Years of Solar System Discoveries |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 13, 2017 
Asia's mountain glaciers will lose at least a third of their mass through global warming by century's end, with dire consequences for millions of people who rely on them for fresh water, researchers said Wednesday.
This is a best-case scenario, based on the assumption that the world manages to limit average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial le ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 15, 2017Study shows Arctic sea ice continues to melt considerably  Umea, Sweden (SPX) Sep 13, 2017Reindeer grazing protects tundra plant diversity in a warming climate  Sydney (AFP) Sept 8, 2017Warm Antarctic caves harbour secret life: scientists |
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 Kiel, Germany (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 
The Labrador Sea in the North Atlantic is one of the few areas in the world ocean where cold, saline seawater sinks to large depths and forms deep water. This convection process also transports oxygen into the deep sea.
A team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (San Diego, California), Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research ... more London (AFP) Sept 12, 2017130-tonne 'monster fatberg' clogs London sewer  Washington (UPI) Sep 14, 2017Old fish are rare in today's heavily fished oceans  Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 12, 2017NASA team find evidence of sea level 'fingerprints' |
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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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