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  Mountain View CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 The SETI Institute and the Mars Institute have announced the discovery of small pits in a large crater near the North Pole of the Moon, which may be entrances to an underground network of lava tubes. The pits were identified through analysis of imaging data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). If water ice is present, these potential lava tube entrances or "skylights" might allow future explorers easier access to subsurface ice, and therefore water, than if they had to excavate the gritty ice ... read more |
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Scientists take viewers to the center of the Milky WayHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 A new visualization provides an exceptional virtual trip - complete with a 360-degree view - to the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. This project, made using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray ... more 
Space telescopes provide 3-D journey through Orion NebulaBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared vision of the Hubble (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble) and Spitzer (http://www.spitze ... more 
Organic molecule benzonitrile detected in spaceWashington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 Scientists studying a cold molecular cloud of the Taurus region with radio telescopes have detected the presence of a particular organic molecule called benzonitrile. The finding marks the first tim ... more  
Researchers catch supermassive black hole burpingBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has caught a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy snacking on gas and then "burping" - not once, but twice. CU Boulder Assistant Profess ... more |
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Magnetic coil springs accelerate particles on the SunGottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 Why does the Sun sometimes accelerate preferentially helium-3 and iron into space? Researchers have for the first time observed helical solar flares as a source. In April and July 2014, the Su ... more  
Citizen scientists discover five-planet systemPasadena CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 In its search for exoplanets - planets outside of our solar system - NASA's Kepler telescope trails behind Earth, measuring the brightness of stars that may potentially host planets. The instrument ... more 
Dark energy survey publicly releases first three years of dataBatavia IL (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 Also announces discovery of eleven stellar streams, evidence of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way At a special session held during the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washin ... more 
Astronomers detect 'whirlpool' movement in earliest galaxiesCambridge UK (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have formed in the universe. These 'newborns' - observed as they ... more  
NASA's newly renamed Swift mission spies a comet slowdownGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 Observations by NASA's Swift spacecraft, now renamed the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after the mission's late principal investigator, have captured an unprecedented change in the rotation of a co ... more  
Students design and build augmented-reality 'sandbox' to show how gravity worksIowa City IA (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 A University of Iowa undergraduate student will give a talk on Thursday at the American Astronomical Society annual meeting in Washington, D.C. about a sandbox created by students to show how gravit ... more |
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 Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth 
Swarm of hydrogen clouds flying away from center of our galaxyGreen Bank WV (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 A team of astronomers has discovered what appears to be a grand exodus of more than 100 hydrogen clouds streaming away from the center of the Milky Way and heading into intergalactic space. This obs ... more 
Extremely bright and fast light emissionZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 An international team of researchers from ETH Zurich, IBM Research Zurich, Empa and four American research institutions have found the explanation for why a class of nanocrystals that has been inten ... more 
Funding runs dry for Indian Google X Prize lunar teamNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 11, 2018 TeamIndus - India's first private aerospace startup that is contending for the Google XPrize, has failed to garner adequate financing for its moon mission. Its inability to pay $35 million to Antrix ... more 
SETI project homes in on strange 'fast radio bursts'Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 Recent observations of a mysterious and distant object that emits intermittent bursts of radio waves so bright that they're visible across the universe provide new data about the source but fail to ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 05, 2018 
In just under a year - shortly after midnight Eastern Time on Jan. 1, 2019 - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will buzz by the most primitive and most distant object ever explored. New Horizons' encounter with Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, which orbits a billion miles beyond Pluto, will offer the first close-up look at such a pristine building block of the solar system - and will be performed in a ... more Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2017Study explains why Jupiter's jet stream reverses course on a predictable schedule  Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 11, 2017New Horizons Corrects Its Course in the Kuiper Belt  Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2017Does New Horizons' Next Target Have a Moon? |
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Recent observations of a mysterious and distant object that emits intermittent bursts of radio waves so bright that they're visible across the universe provide new data about the source but fail to clear up the mystery of what causes them.
The observations by the Breakthrough Listen team at UC Berkeley using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia show that the fast radio ... more Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Iron-Rich Stars Host Shorter-Period Planets  Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2018Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth  Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Extraterrestrial Hypatia stone rattles solar system status quo |
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 Miami (AFP) Jan 11, 2018 
Buried glaciers have been spotted on Mars, offering new hints about how much water may be accessible on the Red Planet and where it is located, researchers said Thursday.
Although ice has long been known to exist on Mars, a better understanding of its depth and location could be vital to future human explorers, said the report in the US journal Science.
"Astronauts could essentially just ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 11, 2018Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice  Dallas TX (SPX) Jan 12, 2018Scientist's work may provide answer to Martian mountain mystery  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 15, 2018Opportunity takes right at the fork and has successful battery test |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 
The SETI Institute and the Mars Institute have announced the discovery of small pits in a large crater near the North Pole of the Moon, which may be entrances to an underground network of lava tubes. The pits were identified through analysis of imaging data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). If water ice is present, these potential lava tube entrances or "skylights" might allow futu ... moreNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 11, 2018Funding runs dry for Indian Google X Prize lunar team  Washington DC (SPX) Jan 05, 2018Astronauts: Trump's proposed Lunar mission will take time  Beijing (XNA) Jan 02, 2018China Prepares for Breakthrough Chang'e 4 Moon Landing in 2018 |
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The SCHOTT melting team has started casting the first mirror segments that will make up the 39-meter primary mirror (M-1) of the European Large Telescope (ELT). To make the segments, liquid glass heated to over 1400 degrees Celsius will be poured directly into molds, and transferred into a cooling furnace and subjected to a ceramicization process lasting several weeks.
The result is ZERODU ... more Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 12, 2018ASU astronomers to build space telescope to explore nearby stars  Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 11, 2018New stellar streams confirm 'melting pot' history of the galaxy Batavia IL (SPX) Jan 12, 2018Dark energy survey publicly releases first three years of data |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 
In the cold vacuum of space, four satellites travel through the darkness, cruising around Earth at speeds up to 22,300 miles per hour. These spacecraft comprise NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, called MMS for short. Looking at electric and magnetic fields, hot plasmas, and high-energy particles, they have been charting the dynamic space environment around Earth for over two years. What ... more Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 11, 2018Scientists examine how aerosol types influence cloud formation  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 15, 2018NASA Calculated Heavy Rainfall Leading to California Mudslides  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 15, 2018GeoCarb: A New View of Carbon Over the Americas |
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Observations by NASA's Swift spacecraft, now renamed the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after the mission's late principal investigator, have captured an unprecedented change in the rotation of a comet. Images taken in May 2017 reveal that comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak - 41P for short - was spinning three times slower than it was in March, when it was observed by the Discovery Channel Telesc ... more Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2017NASA image showcases Ceres mountain named for Kwanzaa  Osaka, Japan (SPX) Dec 27, 2017Development on muon beam analysis of organic matter in samples from space  Washington DC (SPX) Dec 27, 2017Arecibo radar returns with asteroid Phaethon images |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 
Why does the Sun sometimes accelerate preferentially helium-3 and iron into space? Researchers have for the first time observed helical solar flares as a source.
In April and July 2014, the Sun emitted three jets of energetic particles into space, that were quite exceptional: the particle streams contained such high amounts of iron and helium-3, a rare variety of helium, as have been obser ... more Wallops Island, VA (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Sounding rockets study space x-ray emissions and create polar mesospheric cloud  Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2018Eclipse megamovie projects seeks public's help analyzing 50,000 photos  Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Jan 08, 2018Special star is a Rosetta Stone for understanding the sun's variability and climate effect |
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China is poised to begin a comprehensive lunar exploration program which is expected to kick off with the launch of the Long March 5 rocket in June. Professor Heino Falcke, an astrophysicist at Radboud University in the Netherlands, explained during an interview with Radio Sputnik why this mission is so important.
Radio Sputnik: Please tell us about your radio telescope, which you are plan ... more Wuhan, China (XNA) Jan 02, 2018China's Kuaizhou-11 rocket scheduled to launch in first half of 2018  Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017Nation 'leads world' in remote sensing technology  Beijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017China plans for nuclear-powered interplanetary capacity by 2040 |
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Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 10, 2018
The SCHOTT melting team has started casting the first mirror segments that will make up the 39-meter primary mirror (M-1) of the European Large Telescope (ELT). To make the segments, liquid glass heated to over 1400 degrees Celsius will be poured directly into molds, and transferred into a cooling furnace and subjected to a ceramicization process lasting several weeks.
The result is ZERODU ... moreTempe AZ (SPX) Jan 12, 2018ASU astronomers to build space telescope to explore nearby stars Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 11, 2018New stellar streams confirm 'melting pot' history of the galaxy Batavia IL (SPX) Jan 12, 2018Dark energy survey publicly releases first three years of data |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 9, 2018 
New research suggests women are more resilient than men.
Analysis of three centuries of historical data showed women are more likely than men to survive famines and epidemics. Their advantage is earned early. Female newborns were more likely to survive trying circumstances during the last three centuries.
Researchers say the life expectancy gender gap is at least partially explai ... more Durham NC (SPX) Jan 09, 2018Bonobos prefer jerks  Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2018Unlike people, bonobos don't 'look for the helpers'  Washington (UPI) Jan 4, 2018Study redefines understanding of old age throughout human history |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Jan 10, 2018 
A Japanese astronaut has sparked hilarity back on Earth after he claimed to have grown nine centimetres in space, making him worried he would not squeeze into the capsule home.
Norishige Kanai, who is aboard the International Space Station, tweeted: "We had our bodies measured after reaching space, and wow, wow, wow, I had actually grown by as much as 9 centimetres (3.5 inches)!"
"I have ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Life-saving NASA Communications System Turns 20  Houston TX (SPX) Jan 15, 2018NanoRacks Begins Third International Space Station External Platform Mission In Extreme Space Environment  Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 09, 2018NASA Deep Space Exploration Systems looks ahead to action-packed 2018 |
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 Newark DE (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 
Light is an important cue for nearly all life on Earth. Plants use light for photosynthesis, animals use light to set sleep cycles, and marine organisms use light to find food, avoid predators and even hide in plain sight.
Since 2014, University of Delaware marine scientist Jonathan Cohen has been studying how winter darkness in the polar night affects biological processes and marine organ ... more Lawrence KS (SPX) Jan 15, 2018Machine learning predicts new details of geothermal heat flux beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet  Cape Cod MA (SPX) Jan 09, 2018Scientists find surprising evidence of rapid changes in the Arctic  Fort Collins CO (SPX) Jan 09, 2018In Antarctic dry valleys, early signs of climate change-induced shifts in soil |
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 The Hague (AFP) Jan 13, 2018 
Storm surges and tidal cycles caused record sea levels along the coast of the Netherlands last year, a Dutch marine institute has found.
"The level has been rising gradually since 1890 by about 0.2 cm per year due to the melting of the ice and the warming up of the ocean," expert Fedor Baart, of the research organisation Deltares, said in a statement Friday.
"That means that, as a rule, ... more Leeds UK (SPX) Jan 11, 2018New depth limit for deep-sea marine burrows  Phnom Penh (AFP) Jan 11, 2018China lavishes cash on ally Cambodia with eyes on the Mekong  Toulouse, France (AFP) Jan 9, 2018French cop cleared over death of anti-dam protester |
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 Iowa City IA (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 
A University of Iowa undergraduate student will give a talk on Thursday at the American Astronomical Society annual meeting in Washington, D.C. about a sandbox created by students to show how gravity works in the universe.
The student, Jacob Isbell, will explain how he and other students conceived an augmented-reality sandbox, the first interactive system of its kind to be used for astroph ... more Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Dec 28, 2017Next-Generation GRACE Satellites Arrive at Launch Site  Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Dec 28, 2017A New Window on the Universe  Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 18, 2017Sierras lost water weight, grew taller during drought |
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