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  Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS) released two new policy papers that examine major implications for space traffic management due to the proliferation of small, hard-to-track satellites and plans for vast constellations of small- and medium-sized satellites. The first paper, GPS Transponders for Space Traffic Management, proposes a radically new way of thinking about space traffic management, based on the use of onboard GPS transponders. These devices could mo ... read more |
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China to name relay satellite for Chang'e-4 lunar probeBeijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2018 China will give a name to the relay satellite for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land softly on the far side of the Moon in late 2018. The name will be announced on China's Sp ... more  
Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep seaChicago IL (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 We know more about the surface of the moon that we do about the bottom of the ocean. The sea floor is an alien landscape, with crushing pressure, near-total darkness, and fluids wafting from cracks ... more  
Galaxies grow bigger and puffier as they ageSydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 A new international study involving The Australian National University (ANU) and The University of Sydney has found that galaxies grow bigger and puffier as they age. Co-researcher Professor M ... more 
Atomic Lego guides light below one nanometerBarcelona, Spain (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 All electronic devices in our daily lives - computers, smartphones etc. - consist of billions of transistors, the key building block invented in Bell Labs in the late 1940s. The transistor started o ... more |
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SSTL and Goonhilly Earth Station Sign Collaboration Agreement with ESA for Commercial Lunar MissionsGuildford, UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Goonhilly Earth Station (GES) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a collaboration agreement for Commercial Lunar Mission Support Services at the ... more 
Indian Space Agency claims to have saved $120 mln on second Lunar missionNew Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 20, 2018 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has claimed that it has saved $120 million in public money in the upcoming moon mission "Chandrayaan-2," which is expected to be launched in October-Nov ... more  
Quantum shift shows itself in coupled light and matterHouston TX (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 A team led by Rice University scientists used a unique combination of techniques to observe, for the first time, a condensed matter phenomenon about which others have only speculated. The research c ... more 
Physicists gain control over transitions between different states of matterSaint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 An international group of physicists managed for the first time to experimentally observe the transition between two different states of matter: propagating polariton-solitons and a Bose-Einstein co ... more 
Structured light and nanomaterials open new ways to tailor light at the nanoscaleHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Apr 23, 2018 What happens when you excite novel assemblies of nanomaterials using structured light? Joint research between Tampere University of Technology (TUT) (Finland) and University of Tubingen (Germany) ha ... more |
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 Lyrid meteor shower to peak over the weekend 
Are we alone? NASA's new planet hunter aims to find outTampa (AFP) April 16, 2018 SpaceX postponed the launch of NASA's new planet-hunting mission Monday in order to verify the Falcon 9 rocket's navigation systems, the California-based company said. ... more  |
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Ultrafast electron oscillation and dephasing monitored by attosecond light sourceYokohama, Japan (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Collaborative research team of Prof. Jun Takeda and Associate Prof. Ikufumi Katayama in the laboratory of Yokohama National University (YNU) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) successfully obs ... more  
Close Call: Giant Asteroid Flies Through the Earth-Moon OrbitTucson AZ (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2018 With just a few hours' notice, a relatively large asteroid whipped through the Earth-moon orbit over the weekend. You may have missed it though; humanity only learned of the asteroid hours before th ... more  
Understanding Mercury's Magnetic TailCollege Park MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 Theoretical physicists used simulations to explain the unusual readings collected in 2009 by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission. The origin of ener ... more 
We think we're the first advanced earthlings - but how do we really know?Rochester UK (SPX) Apr 18, 2018 Imagine if, many millions of years ago, dinosaurs drove cars through cities of mile-high buildings. A preposterous idea, right? Over the course of tens of millions of years, however, all of the dire ... more 
Newly discovered salty subglacial lakes could help search for life in solar systemAustin TX (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 Researchers from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have helped discover the first subglacial lakes ever found in the Canadian High Arctic. The two new lakes are a potenti ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 
Hydrogen sulfide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive odor, permeates the upper atmosphere of the planet Uranus - as has been long debated, but never definitively proven. Based on sensitive spectroscopic observations with the Gemini North telescope, astronomers uncovered the noxious gas swirling high in the giant planet's cloud tops. This result resolves a stubborn, long-standing my ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
We know more about the surface of the moon that we do about the bottom of the ocean. The sea floor is an alien landscape, with crushing pressure, near-total darkness, and fluids wafting from cracks in the Earth's crust. It's also home to some weird animals that scientists are only just getting to know. Case in point: deep-sea expeditions and drones have revealed a giant group of octopuses and th ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 20, 2018  As Curiosity rover marches across Mars, the red planet's watery past comes into clearer focus.
In early 2017 scientists announced the discovery of possible desiccation cracks in Gale Crater, which was filled by lakes 3.5 billion years ago. Now, a new study has confirmed that these features are indeed desiccation cracks, and reveals fresh details about Mars' ancient climate.
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2018 
China will give a name to the relay satellite for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land softly on the far side of the Moon in late 2018.
The name will be announced on China's Space Day on April 24, marking the day the country's first satellite was sent into space in 1970, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Together with the relay satellite, tw ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 
A new international study involving The Australian National University (ANU) and The University of Sydney has found that galaxies grow bigger and puffier as they age.
Co-researcher Professor Matthew Colless from ANU said that stars in a young galaxy moved in an orderly way around the galaxy's disk, much like cars around a racetrack.
"All galaxies look like squashed spheres, but as th ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 
Scuba divers and snorkelers spend vacations visiting exotic coastal locations to see vibrant coral ecosystems. Researchers also don their gear to dive beneath the surface, not for the stunning views, but to study the health of the reefs that are so critical to fisheries, tourism and thriving ocean ecosystems.
But one person can only see so much coral in a dive. What if you wanted to assess ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 23, 2018 
NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its fourth year of survey data. Since the mission was restarted in December 2013, after a period of hibernation, the asteroid- and comet-hunter has completely scanned the skies nearly eight times and has observed and characterized 29,375 objects in four years of operations. This total includes 788 near-Ea ... more |
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 Belfast UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
A group of international scientists have met at Queen's University Belfast to finalise plans for a next generation telescope which will help to crack the mysteries of the Sun.
The revolutionary four-metre telescope is being designed to investigate the Sun at unprecedented resolution. It will allow scientists to identify structures as small as 30km, which is the equivalent to finding a poun ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2018 
As part of the events that mark China's Space Day, the first China Aerospace Conference will be held in Harbin in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on April 24, according to an official from China National Space Administration (CNSA).
More than 2,000 people have signed up for the conference, which will be attended by aerospace professionals from the government, state-owned and privat ... more |
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 24, 2018
A new international study involving The Australian National University (ANU) and The University of Sydney has found that galaxies grow bigger and puffier as they age.
Co-researcher Professor Matthew Colless from ANU said that stars in a young galaxy moved in an orderly way around the galaxy's disk, much like cars around a racetrack.
"All galaxies look like squashed spheres, but as th ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 23, 2018 
Early hominins had adopted a human-like gait prior to the emergence of the Homo genus, new research suggests.
After analyzing a series of 3.6-million-year-old hominin footprints, researchers determined human-like bipedalism evolved much earlier than previously thought.
"Fossil footprints are truly the only direct evidence of walking in the past," David Raichlen, an associate prof ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Apr 19, 2018  Standard flat imagery of space science is a thing of the past for researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center and Procter and Gamble Co. (P and G). Using the International Space Station's newly upgraded microscope, the Light Microscopy Module (LMM), scientists can now see microscopic particles in 3-dimensional images.
On April 12, researchers first viewed the particles, called colloids, in ... more |
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 Hobart, Australia (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
A new IMAS-led study has revealed a previously undocumented process where melting glacial ice sheets change the ocean in a way that further accelerates the rate of ice melt and sea level rise.
Led by IMAS PhD student Alessandro Silvano and published in the journal Science Advances, the research found that glacial meltwater makes the ocean's surface layer less salty and more buoyant, preven ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2018 
Just after the likely next head of US Pacific Command told Congress China's undersea warfare capability is one of the most pressing threats to the US, a new report says Beijing is establishing another base in the South China Sea for deploying manned and unmanned submersible vehicles.
The base would be located in Sanya, a city on the southern edge of China's Hainan island, Asia Times report ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 
A permanent Max Planck Independent Research Group under the leadership of Dr. M. Alessandra Papa has been established at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) in Hannover.
The primary goal of the research group "Searching for Continuous Gravitational Waves" is to make the first direct detection of gravitational waves from rapidly rotating neutr ... more |
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