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  Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 wo exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system have been identified as most likely to be habitable, a paper by PSI Senior Scientist Amy Barr says. The TRAPPIST-1 system has been of great interest to observers and planetary scientists because it seems to contain seven planets that are all roughly Earth-sized, Barr and co-authors Vera Dobos and Laszlo L. Kiss said in "Interior Structures and Tidal Heating in the TRAPPIST-1 Planets" that appears in Astronomy and Astrophysics. "Because the TRAPPIST-1 st ... read more |
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Russia at work on new station, lunar trips: says top rocket scientistMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 24, 2018 Russia is set to spend the next decade working on a potential new station that might be built if the International Space Station (ISS) project is terminated, as well as a spacecraft capable of makin ... more  
Asteroid to pass by Earth in Feb.Washington (UPI) Jan 22, 2018 A half-mile-wide asteroid is scheduled to make a close pass by Earth next month. ... more 
Asteroid 2002 AJ129 to Fly Safely Past Earth February 4Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 23, 2018 Asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make a close approach to Earth on Feb. 4, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. PST (4:30 p.m. EST / 21:30 UTC). At the time of closest approach, the asteroid will be no closer than 10 times th ... more  
Titan topographic map unearths cookie-cutter holes in moon's surfaceIthaca NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Using the now-complete Cassini data set, Cornell University astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flo ... more |
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Cassini finds Titan has 'sea level' like EarthPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 19, 2018 Saturn's moon Titan may be nearly a billion miles away from Earth, but a recently published paper based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals a new way this distant world and our own are ee ... 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 
Smartphones come in handy for the rare cosmic particles searchMoscow, Russia (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Researchers from the Laboratory of Methods for Big Data Analysis (LAMBDA) at the Higher School of Economics have improved their way of analyzing ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) with the use of ... more 
Meteoritic stardust unlocks timing of supernova dust formationWashington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Dust is everywhere - not just in your attic or under your bed, but also in outer space. To astronomers, dust can be a nuisance by blocking the light of distant stars, or it can be a tool to study th ... more 
North, east, south, west: The many faces of Abell 1758Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Resembling a swarm of flickering fireflies, this beautiful galaxy cluster glows intensely in the dark cosmos, accompanied by the myriad bright lights of foreground stars and swirling spiral galaxies ... more 
Neutron-star merger yields new puzzle for astrophysicistsMontreal, Canada (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 The afterglow from the distant neutron-star merger detected last August has continued to brighten - much to the surprise of astrophysicists studying the aftermath of the massive collision that took ... more 
A New Cosmic Accelerator: Turbulent Strong Electromagnetic FieldsThessaloniki, Greece (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 An important scientific discovery was made by the Aristotle University research team dealing with plasma astrophysics and high energy astrophysics, composed of the professor at the Physics Departmen ... more |
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NASA team studies middle-aged sun by tracking motion of MercuryGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Like the waistband of a couch potato in midlife, the orbits of planets in our solar system are expanding. It happens because the Sun's gravitational grip gradually weakens as our star ages and loses ... more 
NASA, USGS confirm Michigan meteorite strikeWashington (UPI) Jan 17, 2018 Both NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have confirmed that a meteorite entered Earth's atmosphere above southeastern Michigan on Tuesday night. ... more  
Applications now open for the Space Debris Training CourseParis (ESA) Jan 18, 2018 Space debris is a hazard to our satellites and spacecraft as well as a contributor to near-Earth space pollution. To help raise awareness of this issue, ESA's Education Office is organising the firs ... more |
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Viruses are everywhere, maybe even in spacePortland OR (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Viruses are the most abundant and one of the least understood biological entities on Earth. They might also exist in space, but as of yet scientists have done almost no research into this possibilit ... more 
Rutgers scientists discover 'Legos of life'New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 Rutgers scientists have found the "Legos of life" - four core chemical structures that can be stacked together to build the myriad proteins inside every organism - after smashing and dissecting near ... more 
NRL improves optical efficiency in nanophotonic devicesWashington DC (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 A team of physicists, headed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), have demonstrated the means to improve the optical loss characteristics and transmission efficiency of hexagonal boron nitri ... more  
Scientists unveil world's most powerful tractor beamWashington (UPI) Jan 22, 2018 For the first time, scientists have developed a tractor beam capable for levitating objects larger than an acoustic wavelength. Scientists believe the breakthrough could pave the way for tractor beams powerful enough to levitate humans. ... more  
New record at ultracold neutron source in MainzMainz, Germany (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Some ten years ago, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) entered a new field of research by starting to generate ultracold neutrons (UCN) for use in fundamental research in physics. Now that th ... more 
Ultra-thin memory storage device paves way for more powerful computingAustin TX (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Engineers worldwide have been developing alternative ways to provide greater memory storage capacity on even smaller computer chips. Previous research into two-dimensional atomic sheets for memory s ... more 
Redshift space distortions measured by quasars in scientific firstBeijing, China (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), the world's largest galaxy survey, is part of Phase IV of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a major multi-spectral imaging and spectr ... more |
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Study identifies processes of rock formed by meteors or nuclear blastsSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 Coesite is a polymorph of silica that only forms under extremely high pressure - 10,000 times more on average than normal atmospheric pressure. The presence of this rock at a site indicates either t ... more 
Russian company declassifies 1973 report on Lunokhod-2 lunar roverMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 17, 2018 Space equipment manufacturer Russian Space Systems declassified on Tuesday a report on unmanned lunar rover Lunokhod-2 and its 1973 Moon landing mission. The document describes all aspects of ... more 
Astronomers Measure More Black Holes, Farther AwayBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 Today, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) announced new measurements of the masses of a large sample of supermassive black holes far beyond the local universe. The results, b ... more |
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ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer - JUICE - passed an important milestone, the ground segment requirements review, with flying colours, demonstrating that the teams are on track in the preparation of the spacecraft operations needed to achieve the mission's ambitious science goals.
Planned to launch in 2022, JUICE will embark on a 7.5-year long journey through the Solar System before arrivi ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 
wo exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system have been identified as most likely to be habitable, a paper by PSI Senior Scientist Amy Barr says.
The TRAPPIST-1 system has been of great interest to observers and planetary scientists because it seems to contain seven planets that are all roughly Earth-sized, Barr and co-authors Vera Dobos and Laszlo L. Kiss said in "Interior Structures and Tidal H ... more |
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A fascinating martian crater has been chosen to honour the German physicist and planetary scientist, Gerhard Neukum, one of the founders of ESA's Mars Express mission.
The International Astronomical Union named the 102 km-wide crater in the Noachis Terra region "Neukum" in September last year after the camera's leader, who died in 2014. Professor Neukum inspired and led the development of ... more |
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