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  Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 02, 2018 Much like detectives study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to identify the "fingerprints" of water in the atmosphere of a hot, bloated, Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away. And, they found a lot of water. In fact, the planet, known as WASP-39b, has three times as much water as Saturn does. Though no planet like this resides in our solar system, WASP-39b can provide new insights into how and where planets form around a sta ... read more |
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Research details mineralogy of potential lunar exploration siteProvidence RI (SPX) Mar 02, 2018 A detailed study of a giant impact crater on the Moon's far side could provide a roadmap for future lunar explorers. The study, by planetary scientists from Brown University, maps the mineralo ... more  
Watch an asteroid pass between Earth and the moon on FridayWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018 A small asteroid will pass within 70,000 miles of Earth's surface on Friday - a close but safe encounter. ... more 
Study details new story for how the moon formedBoston MA (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 Simon Lock wants to change the way you think about the Moon. A graduate student in Harvard's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Lock is the lead author of a study that suggests the Moon - r ... more  
Quantum recurrence: Everything goes back to the way it wasVienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 It is one of the most astonishing results of physics: when a complex system is left alone, it will return to its initial state with almost perfect precision. Gas particles, for example, chaotically ... more |
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Astronomers detect earliest evidence yet of hydrogen in the universeBoston MA (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 In a study published in the journal Nature, astronomers from MIT and Arizona State University report that a table-sized radio antenna in a remote region of western Australia has picked up faint si ... more  
Search for first stars uncovers 'dark matter'Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 A team of astronomers led by Prof. Judd Bowman of Arizona State University unexpectedly stumbled upon "dark matter," the most mysterious building block of outer space, while attempting to detect the ... more 
Unlocking the secrets of the universeTempe AZ (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 Long ago, about 400,000 years after the beginning of the universe (the Big Bang), the universe was dark. There were no stars or galaxies, and the universe was filled primarily with neutral hydrogen ... more 
The moon formed inside a vaporized Earth synestiaDavis CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 A new explanation for the Moon's origin has it forming inside the Earth when our planet was a seething, spinning cloud of vaporized rock, called a synestia. The new model led by researchers at the U ... more 
Black holes from small galaxies might emit gamma raysClemson SC (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 As a general rule of thumb, if there is a puzzling phenomenon occurring somewhere deep in outer space, a black hole is often the culprit behind it. This is according to postdoctoral researcher ... more |
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 How does water change the moon's origin story? 
Alien life in our Solar System? Study hints at Saturn's moonParis (AFP) Feb 27, 2018 Humanity may need look no further than our own Solar System in the search for alien life, researchers probing one of Saturn's moons said Tuesday. ... more  |
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When do aging brown dwarfs sweep the clouds away?Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 Brown dwarfs, the larger cousins of giant planets, undergo atmospheric changes from cloudy to cloudless as they age and cool. A team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Jonathan Gagne measured for the ... more 
XMM-Newton spies first clear X-Ray flares from massive stellar lighthouseParis (ESA) Feb 28, 2018 In 2014, ESA's XMM-Newton spotted X-rays emanating from the massive star Rho Ophiuchi A and, last year, found these to ebb and flow periodically in the form of intense flares - both unexpected resul ... more 
Study reveals Milky Way stars being evicted by invading galaxiesNew York NY (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 An international team of astronomers has discovered that some stars located in the Galactic halo surrounding the Milky Way - previously thought to be remnants of invading galaxies from the past - ar ... more 
Proxima Centauri's no good, very bad dayWashington, DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 A team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Meredith MacGregor and Alycia Weinberger detected a massive stellar flare--an energetic explosion of radiation--from the closest star to our own Sun, Proxima ... more  
Researchers demonstrate promising method for improving quantum information processingOak Ridge TN (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 A team of researchers led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated a new method for splitting light beams into their frequency modes. The scientists can then choo ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 28, 2018 
Last year, ESA's Gaia mission helped astronomers make unique observations of Neptune's largest moon, Triton, as it passed in front of a distant star. This is a preview of the superb quality and versatility of the Gaia data that will be released in April.
When a small Solar System body such as a moon or an asteroid passes in front of a star and temporarily blocks its light, the occultation ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 27, 2018 
Humanity may need look no further than our own Solar System in the search for alien life, researchers probing one of Saturn's moons said Tuesday.
The icy orb known as Enceladus may boast ideal living conditions for single-celled microorganisms known as archaeans found in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, they reported in the science journal Nature Communications.
A methano ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 02, 2018 
Researchers from MIPT and their colleagues from Research Center Juelich (Germany) and Dmitry Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia have described a new method for studying microorganisms that can survive in extreme conditions. The scientists identified a fluorescent dye that enabled them to observe the life cycle of bacteria in real time.
Halophiles, which is the ancient Gr ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 
It's amazing what a difference a little water can make. The Moon formed between about 4.4 and 4.5 billion years ago when an object collided with the still-forming proto-Earth. This impact created a hot and partially vaporized disk of material that rotated around the baby planet, eventually cooling and accreting into the Moon.
For years, scientists thought that in the aftermath of the colli ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 
An international team of astronomers has discovered that some stars located in the Galactic halo surrounding the Milky Way - previously thought to be remnants of invading galaxies from the past - are instead former residents of the Galactic disk, kicked out by those invading dwarf galaxies.
One in a series of scientific papers contributing to this story appears this week in the journal Nat ... more |
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 Miami (AFP) March 1, 2018  A new US satellite that offers speedy, high-resolution images of storms and may save lives by making forecasts more accurate blasted off Thursday from a NASA launchpad.
"Three, two, one and liftoff!" said a NASA commentator as the Atlas V rocket rumbled into the blue sky at 5:02 pm (2202 GMT) over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying the Geostationary Operational Environment ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018 
A small asteroid will pass within 70,000 miles of Earth's surface on Friday - a close but safe encounter.
They flyby will be streamed live online by the Virtual Telescope Project. Asteroid 2018 DV1 will reach its closest point to Earth at approximately 12:54 p.m. ET.
The flyby will mark the 18th time an asteroid has passed between Earth and the moon in 2018. It's possible others ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2018  A dramatic magnetic power struggle at the Sun's surface lies at the heart of solar eruptions, new research using NASA data shows. The work highlights the role of the Sun's magnetic landscape, or topology, in the development of solar eruptions that can trigger space weather events around Earth.
The scientists, led by Tahar Amari, an astrophysicist at the Center for Theoretical Physics at th ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 02, 2018 
China is planning its first sea-launch of satellites carried by a Long March rocket, according to an aerospace official.
Yang Yiqiang, commander-in-chief of the Long March-11 rockets project of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, said that 2018 would see five launches of Long March-11 rockets, with four missions for commercial payloads on land, and one at sea.
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New York NY (SPX) Feb 28, 2018
An international team of astronomers has discovered that some stars located in the Galactic halo surrounding the Milky Way - previously thought to be remnants of invading galaxies from the past - are instead former residents of the Galactic disk, kicked out by those invading dwarf galaxies.
One in a series of scientific papers contributing to this story appears this week in the journal Nat ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 
Neurons in the brain communicate via rapid electrical impulses that allow the brain to coordinate behavior, sensation, thoughts, and emotion. Scientists who want to study this electrical activity usually measure these signals with electrodes inserted into the brain, a task that is notoriously difficult and time-consuming.
MIT researchers have now come up with a completely different approac ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 
Three members of the Expedition 54 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, returned to Earth on Tuesday after months of performing research and spacewalks in low-Earth orbit.
Vande Hei, Acaba and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed at 9:31 p.m. EST (8:31 a.m. Feb. 28 in Kazakhstan) sout ... more |
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 Il Du Roi-George, Antarctique (AFP) March 1, 2018 
A decade ago, a thick layer of ice covered the Collins Glacier on Antarctica's King George Island.
Now, the rocky landscape is visible to the naked eye, in a region that is both a victim of and a laboratory for climate change.
"I had the opportunity to come here over a 15-year period, and even within a human's lifetime, you can already see the changes brought about by climate change," th ... more |
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 Abuja (AFP) Feb 28, 2018 
It sounds like something from Wakanda, the futuristic African kingdom of the hit movie "Black Panther".
But "Transaqua" is a very real proposal for a very real problem - how to replenish the shrinking waters of Lake Chad.
It imagines a 2,600-km (1,600-mile) canal from the Democratic Republic of Congo across the Central African Republic to meet the Chari River that feeds into the freshw ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 
In a new article, published in Nature Materials, researchers from Beijing, Uppsala and Julich have made significant progress allowing very high resolution magnetic measurements. With their method it is possible to measure magnetism of individual atomic planes.
Magnetic nanostructures are used in a wide range of applications. Most notably, to store bits of data in hard drives. These structu ... more |
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