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  Silicon Valley, CA (SPX) May 11, 2018 The Asteroid Institute, a program of the B612 Foundation, has announced a new collaboration with York Space Systems to explore a data-gathering constellation of satellites for a new asteroid tracking system. In addition, the Institute will join York's innovative program with Metropolitan State University (MSU) of Denver, by engaging students to work on the project, providing both motivation and practical skills to train the next generation space industry workforce. "We are tremendously impressed w ... read more |
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New views of Jupiter" showcases swirling clouds on giant planetLondon, UK (SPX) May 11, 2018 Members of NASA's Juno mission team, some of the world's leading observers of Jupiter, and citizen scientists from across the globe will attend a workshop 'New Views of Jupiter: Pro-Am Collaboration ... more  
ANU study sheds new light on how our solar system formedCanberra, Australia (SPX) May 11, 2018 A study led by The Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Crete in Greece has shed new light on the mystery of how our solar system formed in a cloud of gas and dust in space bil ... more  
Black Hole Bounty Captured in the Milky Way CenterHuntsville AL (SPX) May 10, 2018 Astronomers have discovered evidence for thousands of black holes located near the center of our Milky Way galaxy using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This black hole bounty consi ... more 
Bursting pulsar found to 'hiccup' during crucial stage of its lifecycleSouthampton UK (SPX) May 10, 2018 Researchers at the University of Southampton have discovered that the unique 'Bursting Pulsar' - a neutron star which steals matter from a low-mass stellar neighbour - may also be the slowest known ... more |
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Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar SystemMunich, Germany (SPX) May 09, 2018 An international team of astronomers has used ESO telescopes to investigate a relic of the primordial Solar System. The team found that the unusual Kuiper Belt Object 2004 EW95 is a carbon-rich aste ... more 
The Cheops ccience instrument arrives in MadridMadrid, Spain (ESA) May 04, 2018 Members of the CHEOPS consortium could be proud of their achievement as the science instrument of the upcoming exoplanet mission left Bern on its journey to Madrid last month. The science inst ... more 
Burst of newborn stars in young star cluster puzzles astronomersBeijing, China (SPX) May 07, 2018 Since the limited amount of gas survived from the first bulk star forming process will be quickly expelled within several million years, star clusters have long been thought of as "infertile" stella ... more 
MSU-based specialists in mechanics investigated the behavior of vacuum oil in spaceMoscow, Russia (SPX) May 07, 2018 A research team from the Research Institute of Mechanics, MSU together with a colleague from the Center of New Space Technologies, MAI described the behavior of a liquid sheet propagating in open sp ... more 
Nanoscale measurements 100x more precise, thanks to improved two-photon techniqueWarwick UK (SPX) May 07, 2018 The precision of measuring nanoscopic structures could be substantially improved, thanks to research involving the University of Warwick and QuantIC researchers at the University of Glasgow and Heri ... more |
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Russian cosmonaut could ride US spacecraft to Moon for first missionMoscow (Sputnik) May 07, 2018 The first flight of a Russian cosmonaut to the moon could take place aboard of the US Orion spacecraft in 2024, a space industry source told Sputnik on Friday. "Within the framework of talks, ... more  |
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Waves similar to those controlling Earth weather found on the SunGottingen, Germany (SPX) May 08, 2018 A team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) and the University of Gottingen has discovered new waves of vorticity on the Sun. As described in the latest issu ... more 
Breakthrough listen begins survey of Milky Way galactic plane at ParkesSan Francisco CA (SPX) May 08, 2018 Breakthrough Listen - the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe - has announced a survey of millions of stars located in the plane of our galaxy, using the CSIRO Parkes Radio ... more 
An Exoplanet Atmosphere Free of CloudsExeter UK (SPX) May 08, 2018 Scientists have detected an exoplanet atmosphere that is free of clouds, marking a pivotal breakthrough in the quest for greater understanding of the planets beyond our solar system. An intern ... more 
What will happen when our sun dies?Manchester UK (SPX) May 08, 2018 Scientists agree the sun will die in approximately 10 billion years, but they weren't sure what would happen next...until now. A team of international astronomers, including Professor Albert Z ... more  
The big bell test challenges EinsteinWashington DC (SPX) May 10, 2018 On November 30th, 2016, more than 100,000 people around the world contributed to a suite of first-of-a-kind quantum physics experiments known as The BIG Bell Test. ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) May 11, 2018  Members of NASA's Juno mission team, some of the world's leading observers of Jupiter, and citizen scientists from across the globe will attend a workshop 'New Views of Jupiter: Pro-Am Collaborations during and beyond the NASA Juno Mission' at the Royal Astronomical Society in London on 10-11 May.
JunoCam images presented at the meeting by citizen scientists Gerald Eichstadt and Sean Doran ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) May 10, 2018 
Dozens of potentially habitable planets have been discovered outside our solar system, and many more are awaiting detection. Is anybody - or anything - there?
The hunt for life in these places, which are impossible to visit in person, will begin with a search for biological products in their atmospheres. These atmospheric fingerprints of life, called biosignatures, will be detected using n ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 11, 2018  NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars. The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency's Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability and potential of heavier-than-air vehicles on the Red Planet.
"NASA has a proud history of firsts," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "The idea of a helicopter flying ... more |
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 Bethesda, MD (SPX) May 08, 2018 
Last December, President Trump signed the first set of National Space Council recommendations under Space Policy Directive 1. Vice President Pence recently noted that, "We will send American astronauts back to the moon, and after that we will establish the capacity, with international and commercial partners, to send Americans to Mars, and NASA will lead the way."
Newly appointed NASA Admi ... more |
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 Southampton UK (SPX) May 10, 2018 
Researchers at the University of Southampton have discovered that the unique 'Bursting Pulsar' - a neutron star which steals matter from a low-mass stellar neighbour - may also be the slowest known 'transitional pulsar' in existence.
Transitional pulsars are a rare class of neutron stars, which alternate between showing X-ray and radio pulsations over timescales of years.
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 Taiyuan, China (XNA) May 10, 2018 
China on Wednesday launched Gaofen-5, a hyperspectral imaging satellite, as part of the country's high-resolution Earth observation project.
The Gaofen-5 satellite was launched off the back of a Long March 4C rocket at 2:28 a.m. Beijing Time from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province. It was the 274th flight mission by a Long March carrier rocket.
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 Silicon Valley, CA (SPX) May 11, 2018 
The Asteroid Institute, a program of the B612 Foundation, has announced a new collaboration with York Space Systems to explore a data-gathering constellation of satellites for a new asteroid tracking system. In addition, the Institute will join York's innovative program with Metropolitan State University (MSU) of Denver, by engaging students to work on the project, providing both motivation and ... more |
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 Manchester UK (SPX) May 08, 2018 
Scientists agree the sun will die in approximately 10 billion years, but they weren't sure what would happen next...until now.
A team of international astronomers, including Professor Albert Zijlstra from the University of Manchester, predict it will turn into a massive ring of luminous, interstellar gas and dust, known as a planetary nebula.
A planetary nebula marks the end of 90% o ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 07, 2018 
China is developing its first space rocket with a reusable first stage that could see its trial launch as early as 2020, SpaceNews reported, citing a senior Chinese rocket designer.
Long Lehao of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), revealed the new plans for the Long March 8 medium-lift launcher during a space industry conference in Harbin on April 24.
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Southampton UK (SPX) May 10, 2018
Researchers at the University of Southampton have discovered that the unique 'Bursting Pulsar' - a neutron star which steals matter from a low-mass stellar neighbour - may also be the slowest known 'transitional pulsar' in existence.
Transitional pulsars are a rare class of neutron stars, which alternate between showing X-ray and radio pulsations over timescales of years.
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 10, 2018 
It's very difficult to determine when, how and why human language began. While fossil primates provide important clues about human evolution, the sounds they made and the soft tissue involved in making those sounds weren't preserved.
But chimpanzees - one of our closest living relatives - provide important points of comparison for inferring the sorts of sounds our early ancestors may have ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 09, 2018 
A United Arab Emirates (UAE) national currently stands as the main candidate to become a space tourist on the International Space Station (ISS) in the spring of 2019, although similar offers of this opportunity were also sent to US-based company Space Adventures, the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, sources told Sputnik.
The tourist is supposed to arrive at the ISS on board Russia's S ... more |
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 Dallas TX (SPX) May 10, 2018 
About 700 million years ago, the Earth experienced unusual episodes of global cooling that geologists refer to as "Snowball Earth." Several theories have been proposed to explain what triggered this dramatic cool down, which occurred during a geological era called the Neoproterozoic. Now two geologists at The University of Texas at Dallas and UT Austin suggest that those major climate changes ca ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 8, 2018 
Spring has arrived in the North Sea, as revealed by new images of phytoplankton blooms.
As winter gives way to spring, and more of the sun reaches the waters closer to the poles, warmth and solar energy fuel the growth of phytoplankton colonies.
Phytoplankton blooms feature billions of the microscopic organisms, which turn sunlight and CO2 into sugars and oxygen. They anchor rich ... 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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