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  Charlottesville VA (SPX) May 17, 2018 Not long after the Big Bang, the first generations of stars began altering the chemical make-up of primitive galaxies, slowly enriching the interstellar medium with basic elements such as oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. Finding the earliest traces of these common elements would shed important light on the chemical evolution of galaxies, including our own. New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveal the faint, telltale signature of oxygen coming from a galaxy ... read more |
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Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter set to soar highGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 17, 2018 As we develop more and more powerful tools to peer beyond our solar system, we learn more about the seemingly endless sea of faraway stars and their curious casts of orbiting planets. But there's on ... more 
A new map for a birthplace of starsNew Haven CT (SPX) May 17, 2018 A Yale-led research group has created the most detailed maps yet of a vast seedbed of stars similar to Earth's Sun. The maps provide unprecedented detail of the structure of the Orion A molecu ... more 
A laser from a space antManchester UK (SPX) May 17, 2018 An international team of astronomers have discovered an unusual laser emission that suggests the presence of a double star system hidden at the heart of the "spectacular" Ant Nebula. The extre ... more 
Space cloud discoveryCleveland OH (SPX) May 17, 2018 Astronomers have been keenly peering into M51, or the Whirlpool Galaxy, since the 1800s, its signature spiral structure informing the earliest debates over the nature of galaxies and the Cosmos at l ... more |
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Scientists crack how primordial life on Earth might have replicated itselfLondon, UK (SPX) May 16, 2018 Scientists have created a new type of genetic replication system which demonstrates how the first life on Earth - in the form of RNA - could have replicated itself. The scientists from the Medical R ... more 
Orbital variations can trigger 'snowball states' on exoplanetsSeattle WA (SPX) May 15, 2018 Aspects of an otherwise Earthlike planet's tilt and orbital dynamics can severely affect its potential habitability - even triggering abrupt "snowball states" where oceans freeze and surface life is ... more  
Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa PlumesPasadena CA (JPL) May 15, 2018 Scientists re-examining data from an old mission bring new insights to the tantalizing question of whether Jupiter's moon Europa has the ingredients to support life. The data provide independent evi ... more  
Astronomers find fastest-growing black hole known in the universeCanberra, Australia (SPX) May 15, 2018 Astronomers at the Australian National University (ANU) have found the fastest-growing black hole known in the universe, describing it as a monster that devours a mass equivalent to our Sun every tw ... more 
Milky Way's globular cluster binaries detectable by LISAEvanston IL (SPX) May 15, 2018 The historic first detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes far outside our galaxy opened a new window to understanding the universe. A string of detections - four more binary bla ... more |
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NICER finds X-ray pulsar in a record-fast orbitGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 11, 2018 Scientists analyzing the first data from the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission have found two stars that revolve around each other every 38 minutes - about the time it takes ... more  |
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Quarks feel the pressure in the protonNewport News VA (SPX) May 17, 2018 Inside every proton in every atom in the universe is a pressure cooker environment that surpasses the atom-crushing heart of a neutron star. That's according to the first measurement of a mechanical ... more  
Asteroid Institute Announces Program with York Space Systems to Explore Low-Cost Space-Based Asteroid Tracking SystemSilicon 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 trackin ... more  
Take me to the MoonBethesda, 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 astrona ... 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 
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 |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 15, 2018 
Scientists re-examining data from an old mission bring new insights to the tantalizing question of whether Jupiter's moon Europa has the ingredients to support life. The data provide independent evidence that the moon's subsurface liquid water reservoir may be venting plumes of water vapor above its icy shell.
Data collected by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in 1997 were put through new and adv ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) May 15, 2018 
Aspects of an otherwise Earthlike planet's tilt and orbital dynamics can severely affect its potential habitability - even triggering abrupt "snowball states" where oceans freeze and surface life is impossible, according to new research from astronomers at the University of Washington.
The research indicates that locating a planet in its host star's "habitable zone" - that swath of space j ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2018 
Opportunity is only halfway down in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour crater, pursuing several scientific hypotheses as to the origin of the valley including both water and wind erosion.
The next objective is to investigate some tabular rocks up close that are of interest to the science team. On Sol 5074 (May 3, 2018), Opportunity backed up about 6.07 feet (1.85 meters) to ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 15, 2018 
A group of Chinese volunteers has emerged from 110 days of isolation in a virtual "lunar lab", state media reported Tuesday, as the country pursues its ambition to put people on the moon.
The official Xinhua news service streamed images on its website of the would-be astronauts emerging from their temporary home, a self-contained environment simulating conditions which future explorers will ... more |
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 Manchester UK (SPX) May 17, 2018 
An international team of astronomers have discovered an unusual laser emission that suggests the presence of a double star system hidden at the heart of the "spectacular" Ant Nebula.
The extremely rare phenomenon is connected to the death of a star and was discovered in observations made by European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel space observatory.
When low- to middleweight stars like ... more |
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 College Park MD (SPX) May 17, 2018 
A new global, satellite-based study of Earth's freshwater distribution found that Earth's wet areas are getting wetter, while dry areas are getting drier. The data suggest that this pattern is due to a variety of factors, including human water management practices, human-caused climate change and natural climate cycles.
The NASA-led research team, which included Hiroko Beaudoing, a faculty ... more |
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 Tampa (AFP) May 15, 2018 
An asteroid around the size of a football field is expected to zoom by Earth on Tuesday, but at a safe distance, the US space agency said.
The space rock was discovered in 2010, but only recently did astronomers determine it would not collide with our planet, instead passing at a distance about halfway between the Earth and Moon.
Asteroid 2010 WC9 will make a "close approach" to Earth at ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 17, 2018 
As we develop more and more powerful tools to peer beyond our solar system, we learn more about the seemingly endless sea of faraway stars and their curious casts of orbiting planets. But there's only one star we can travel to directly and observe up close - and that's our own: the Sun.
Two upcoming missions will soon take us closer to the Sun than we've ever been before, providing our bes ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 16, 2018 
Chinese volunteers have completed a one-year test living in a simulated space lab in Beijing, setting a new record for the longest stay in a self-contained cabin.
Four students, two males and two females, emerged from the Yuegong-1, or Lunar Palace 1, at Beihang University to the applause of academicians, researchers and fellow students Tuesday.
The total length of the test, which st ... more |
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Manchester UK (SPX) May 17, 2018
An international team of astronomers have discovered an unusual laser emission that suggests the presence of a double star system hidden at the heart of the "spectacular" Ant Nebula.
The extremely rare phenomenon is connected to the death of a star and was discovered in observations made by European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel space observatory.
When low- to middleweight stars like ... more |
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 Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) May 15, 2018 
The recently-discovered species Homo naledi may have had a pint-sized brain, but that brain packed a big punch. New research by Ralph Holloway and colleagues - that include researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa - published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines the imprints of the brain upon the skulls of this species, called en ... more |
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 Tampa (AFP) May 16, 2018 
A pair of American astronauts completed a successful spacewalk outside the International Space Station Wednesday to swap and check on two external cooling boxes, nicknamed "Leaky" and "Frosty," NASA said.
The boxes, each about the size of a mini-refrigerator or window AC unit, are crucial to keeping the batteries cool aboard the orbiting lab.
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 Corvallis OR (SPX) May 15, 2018 
A ribbon of ice more than 600 kilometers long that drains about 12 percent of the gigantic Greenland Ice Sheet has been smaller than it is today about half of the time over the past 45,000 years, a new study suggests.
Interestingly, the loss of ice from the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) took place not only during the warm Holocene period, but also during a period thought to be ver ... more |
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 Vancouver, Canada (SPX) May 17, 2018 
Industrial fisheries that rely on bottom trawling wasted 437 million tonnes of fish and missed out on $560 billion in revenue over the past 65 years, new UBC research has found.
The study, carried out by the Sea Around Us initiative at UBC's Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF), documents the growth of bottom trawling between 1950 and 2014, a practice where industrial fishing vesse ... 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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