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  Garching, Germany (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 A new national facility at ESO's La Silla Observatory has successfully made its first observations. The ExTrA telescopes will search for and study Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby red dwarf stars. ExTrA's novel design allows for much improved sensitivity compared to previous searches. Astronomers now have a powerful new tool to help in the search for potentially habitable worlds. The newest addition to ESO's La Silla observatory in northern Chile, Exoplanets in Transits and their Atmospheres (E ... read more |
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Rare 'super blood blue moon' visible on Jan 31Miami (AFP) Jan 28, 2018 A cosmic event not seen in 36 years - a rare "super blood blue moon" - may be glimpsed January 31 in parts of western North America, Asia, the Middle East, Russia and Australia. ... more 
NASA Poised to Topple a Planet-Finding BarrierGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 NASA optics experts are well on the way to toppling a barrier that has thwarted scientists from achieving a long-held ambition: building an ultra-stable telescope that locates and images dozens of E ... more 
A hot Jupiter with unusual windsMontreal, Canada (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be - a discovery that challenges scientists' understanding of the many planets of this type found ... more  
Chinese volunteers spend 200 days on virtual 'moon base'Beijing (AFP) Jan 26, 2018 Chinese students spent 200 continuous days in a "lunar lab" in Beijing, state media said Friday, as the country prepares for its long-term goal of putting people on the moon. ... more |
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Deep Learning Pioneered for Real-Time Gravitational Wave DiscoveryUrbana IL (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Scientists at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have pioneered the use of GPU-accelerated deep learning for rapid ... more  
First evidence of winds outside black holes throughout their mealtimesEdmonton, Canada (SPX) Jan 26, 2018 New research shows the first evidence of strong winds around black holes throughout bright outburst events when a black hole rapidly consumes mass. The study, published in Nature, sheds new li ... more 
Black hole jets account for three highest-energy particles in the universeWashington (UPI) Jan 22, 2018 Scientists have traced the three highest-energy particles in the universe to a single cosmic origin. The latest research - published this week in the journal Nature Physics - suggests neutrinos, cosmic rays and gamma rays all results from the powerful jets of supermassive black holes. ... more  
Theory shows unified origin for 3 types of extreme-energy space particlesUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jan 26, 2018 New model connects the origins of very high-energy neutrinos, ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, and high-energy gamma rays with black-hole jets embedded in their environments. One of the biggest m ... more
What scientists can learn about the Moon during the Jan. 31 eclipseGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 26, 2018 The lunar eclipse on Jan. 31 will give a team of scientists a special opportunity to study the Moon using the astronomer's equivalent of a heat-sensing, or thermal, camera. Three lunar events ... more 
Astronomers produce first detailed images of surface of giant starAtlanta GA (SPX) Jan 26, 2018 An international team of astronomers has produced the first detailed images of the surface of a giant star outside our solar system, revealing a nearly circular, dust-free atmosphere with complex ar ... more  
Europa and Other Planetary Bodies May Have Extremely Low-Density SurfacesTucson AZ (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 Spacecraft landing on Jupiter's moon Europa could see the craft sink due to high surface porosity, research by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Robert Nelson shows. Nelson was the ... more |
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 Johns Hopkins scientist proposes new limit on the definition of a planet 
Chasing dark matter with the oldest stars in the Milky WayPrinceton NJ (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 Just how quickly is the dark matter near Earth zipping around? The speed of dark matter has far-reaching consequences for modern astrophysical research, but this fundamental property has eluded rese ... more 
TRAPPIST-1 System Planets Potentially HabitableTucson 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 o ... more 
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  |
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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 
A new 'atmospheric disequilibrium' could help detect life on other planetsSeattle WA (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 As NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and other new giant telescopes come online they will need novel strategies to look for evidence of life on other planets. A University of Washington study has fo ... more 
Acoustic tractor beam could pave the way for levitating humansBristol UK (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 Acoustic tractor beams use the power of sound to hold particles in mid-air, and unlike magnetic levitation, they can grab most solids or liquids. For the first time University of Bristol engineers h ... more  
Ultralow power consumption for data recordingSendai, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 A team of researchers at Tohoku University, in collaboration with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Hanyang University, has developed new phase change m ... more |
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 Scientists find two ways to create 4D quantum Hall effect 
Scientists get better numbers on what happens when electrons get wetChicago IL (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 There's a particular set of chemical reactions that governs many of the processes around us--everything from bridges corroding in water to your breakfast breaking down in your gut. One crucial part ... more 
Quantum cocktail provides insights on memory controlZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 The speed of writing and reading out magnetic information from storage devices is limited by the time that it takes to manipulate the data carrier. To speed up these processes, researchers have rece ... more 
How we created a mini 'gamma ray burst' in the lab for the first timeLondon, UK (The Conversation) Jan 19, 2018 Gamma ray bursts, intense explosions of light, are the brightest events ever observed in the universe - lasting no longer than seconds or minutes. Some are so luminous that they can be observed with ... 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 |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 
Spacecraft landing on Jupiter's moon Europa could see the craft sink due to high surface porosity, research by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Robert Nelson shows.
Nelson was the lead author of a laboratory study of the photopolarimetric properties of bright particles that explain unusual negative polarization behavior at low phase angles observed for decades in association wi ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 
Pluto hogs the spotlight in the continuing scientific debate over what is and what is not a planet, but a less conspicuous argument rages on about the planetary status of massive objects outside our solar system. The dispute is not just about semantics, as it is closely related to how giant planets like Jupiter form.
Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Kevin Schlaufman aims to settle t ... more |
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 Moscowm Russia (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 
In 2013, the European Space Agency and Roscosmos - the Russian governmental body responsible for space research - agreed to cooperate on ExoMars, the first joint interplanetary mission between ESA and Russia. This project now involves scientists from 29 research organizations, including MIPT and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which is the leading contributor of ... more |
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