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  Washington DC (SPX) May 04, 2018 NASA is returning to the Moon with commercial and international partners as part of an overall agency Exploration Campaign in support of Space Policy Directive 1. It all starts with robotic missions on the lunar surface, as well as a Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway for astronauts in space beyond the Moon. Right now, NASA is preparing to purchase new small lunar payload delivery services, develop lunar landers, and conduct more research on the Moon's surface ahead of a human return. And that long-te ... read more |
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Milky Way's supermassive black hole may have 'unseen' siblingsNew Haven CT (SPX) Apr 25, 2018 Astronomers are beginning to understand what happens when black holes get the urge to roam the Milky Way. Typically, a supermassive black hole (SMBH) exists at the core of a massive galaxy. Bu ... more  
Hubble detects helium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first timeMunich, Germany (SPX) May 03, 2018 Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected helium in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-107b. This is the first time this element has been detected in the atmosphere of a ... more  
Hubble telescope has helped scientists better understand the cosmosWashington (UPI) Apr 24, 2018 Today, astronomers know the age and size of the universe with greater certainty and precision than they did 28 years ago - and it's all thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope. ... more  
Flares in the universe can now be studied on EarthGothenburg, Sweden (SPX) May 03, 2018 Solar flares, cosmic radiation, and the northern lights are well known phenomena. But exactly how their enormous energy arises is not as well understood. Now, physicists at Chalmers University ... more |
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Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway is First Step Towards Mars - ESA CoordinatorMoscow (Sputnik) May 02, 2018 The Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway, which will be used for deep space exploration and research, is due to start operating by 2025, and NASA is preparing its first manufacture contracts. Philippe Sch ... more  
Fresh results from NASA's Galileo spacecraft 20 years onGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 01, 2018 Far across the solar system, from where Earth appears merely as a pale blue dot, NASA's Galileo spacecraft spent eight years orbiting Jupiter. During that time, the hearty spacecraft - slightly larg ... more  
Airbus-built Mercury-mission is on its way to Kourou for launchAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 After years of development the BepiColombo spacecraft which will be heading to Mercury from autumn 2018 has at last taken to the air. On 23 April 2018 the first elements of the BepiColombo hardware ... more 
New mechanism of radio emission in neutron stars revealedSaint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Apr 25, 2018 Young scientists from ITMO University have explained how neutron stars generate intense directed radio emission. They developed a model based on the transitions of particles between gravitational st ... more 
The Milky Way BluesSanta Barbara, CA (SPX) May 02, 2018 Scientists often transform astronomy data in a way that allows for interpretation with visual plots such as color-coded graphs. UC Santa Barbara postdoctoral fellow Greg Salvesen went in a different ... more |
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 FAST's first discovery of a millisecond pulsar 
Astronomers witness galaxy megamergerCharlottesville VA (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 Peering deep into space - an astounding 90 percent of the way across the observable universe - astronomers have witnessed the beginnings of a gargantuan cosmic pileup, the impending collision of 14 ... more  |
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Dellingr baselined for CubeSat mission to Van Allen BeltsGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 02, 2018 A new CubeSat mission - GTOSat - will not only provide key observations of the environmentally forbidding radiation belts that encircle Earth, it will provide initial steps of a new technological vi ... more 
US plans own space suits for EVAs instead of Russia's at Lunar GatewayMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2018 The United States offers to use US-made space suits instead of Russian-made Orlan suits for conducting spacewalks outside the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, a space industry source told Sputnik. ... more 
The laws of star formation challengedWashington DC (SPX) May 01, 2018 In space, hidden behind the dusty veils of nebulae, clouds of gas clump together and collapse, forming the structures from which stars are born: star-forming cores. These cluster together, accumulat ... more 
Key Parker Solar Probe sensor bests sun simulator-last launch hurdleAnn Arbor MI (SPX) May 01, 2018 You don't get to swim in the sun's atmosphere unless you can prove you belong there. And the Parker Solar Probe's Faraday cup, a key sensor aboard the $1.5 billion NASA mission launching this summer ... more 
Long-distance relationships of particles: Electron-hole pairs in two-dimensional crystalsDresden, Germany (SPX) May 04, 2018 When light of specific frequency hits a semiconductor crystal, it is absorbed and produces a excitation, a state of higher energy. In solar cells, this energy can be converted into electricity and u ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 01, 2018 
Far across the solar system, from where Earth appears merely as a pale blue dot, NASA's Galileo spacecraft spent eight years orbiting Jupiter. During that time, the hearty spacecraft - slightly larger than a full-grown giraffe - sent back spates of discoveries on the gas giant's moons, including the observation of a magnetic environment around Ganymede that was distinct from Jupiter's own magnet ... more |
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 Exeter UK (SPX) May 03, 2018 
Astronomers have detected helium in the atmosphere of a planet that orbits a star far beyond our solar system for the very first time.
An international team of researchers, led by Jessica Spake from the University of Exeter, discovered evidence of the inert gas on 'super-Neptune' exoplanet WASP-107b, found 200 light years from Earth and in the constellation of Virgo.
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 03, 2018  The climate of early Mars is a subject of debate. While it has been thought that Mars had a warm and wet climate, like Earth, other researchers suggested early Mars might have been largely glaciated.
A recent study by Ramses Ramirez from the Earth-Life Science Institute (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) and Robert Craddock from the National Air and Space Museum's Center for Earth and ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 04, 2018 
NASA is returning to the Moon with commercial and international partners as part of an overall agency Exploration Campaign in support of Space Policy Directive 1. It all starts with robotic missions on the lunar surface, as well as a Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway for astronauts in space beyond the Moon.
Right now, NASA is preparing to purchase new small lunar payload delivery services, de ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 04, 2018 
NASA's decommissioned Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite re-entered Earth's atmosphere on April 30. Orbiting for more than 22 years, the 6,700-pound satellite operated from 1996 to 2012, providing scientists with an unprecedented look into the extreme environments around neutron stars - also known as pulsars - and black holes.
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 Paris (ESA) May 03, 2018  While ESA's CryoSat continues to provide clear insight into how much sea ice is being lost and how the Antarctic and Greenlandic ice sheets are changing, the mission has again surpassed its original scope by revealing exactly how mountain glaciers are also succumbing to change.
Glaciers all over the globe are retreating - and for the last 15 years, glacial ice has been the main cause of se ... more |
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 Providence RI (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 
Experiments using a high-powered projectile cannon show how impacts by water-rich asteroids can deliver surprising amounts of water to planetary bodies. The research, by scientists from Brown University, could shed light on how water got to the early Earth and help account for some trace water detections on the Moon and elsewhere.
"The origin and transportation of water and volatiles is on ... more |
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) May 03, 2018 
Solar flares, cosmic radiation, and the northern lights are well known phenomena. But exactly how their enormous energy arises is not as well understood.
Now, physicists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a new way to study these spectacular space plasma phenomena in a laboratory environment. The results have been published in the renowned journal Nature Communic ... more |
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 Wuhan (XNA) Apr 30, 2018 
A new type of space cargo transport aircraft is under development and will complete its maiden flight in 2019, a space engineering company based in central China's Wuhan said Thursday.
The aircraft is being developed using technology such as space inflatable deployment, flexible heat shielding and composite materials, enabling it to have a high bearing ratio at a low cost, said Lyu Dongmin ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 04, 2018
NASA's decommissioned Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite re-entered Earth's atmosphere on April 30. Orbiting for more than 22 years, the 6,700-pound satellite operated from 1996 to 2012, providing scientists with an unprecedented look into the extreme environments around neutron stars - also known as pulsars - and black holes.
The strong gravity of these objects can pull streams ... more |
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 York UK (SPX) May 04, 2018  Scientists have produced a 3D nanoscale reconstruction of the mineral structure of bone.
Bone performs equally well whether in an accelerating cheetah or in a heavy elephant, thanks to its toughness and strength.
The properties of bone can be attributed to its hierarchical organisation, where small elements form larger structures.
However, the nanoscale organisation and relatio ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) May 02, 2018  As a child watching Apollo 11 land on the Moon, Ted Mosteller dreamed of working for the space program. As leader of NASA's Commercial Crew Program Landing and Recovery Team, he directs a multi-agency operation to rescue astronauts in emergency landing scenarios.
"It's like insurance," he said. "You have insurance on your car or house, but you hope you never have to use it."
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 03, 2018  Reports of the rapidly melting West Antarctic ice sheet often refer to how much the melting could add to global sea levels - as if meltwater raises the ocean evenly, like a sink filling up. The reality is far different. Water from West Antarctica will end up raising sea levels more in Los Angeles and Miami than in Rio de Janeiro, for example, even though Brazil is thousands of miles closer to An ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) May 02, 2018 
Marine scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), University of Warwick, and University of Queensland have identified two key factors that create the ideal conditions needed for high species diversity in coral reefs: thermal energy in the form of warm water and low climate stress.
In a new study recently published in the Journal of Biogeography, scientists from a number of instit ... 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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