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  Tokyo (AFP) June 27, 2018 A Japanese probe has reached an asteroid 300 million kilometres away to collect information about the birth of the solar system and the origin of life after a more than three-year voyage through deep space. The Hayabusa2 probe successfully settled into an observation position 20 kilometres (12 miles) above the Ryugu asteroid, officials from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said Wednesday. Researchers broke out into cheers when the probe arrived in place, a feat JAXA described as "sh ... read more |
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Is the interstellar asteroid really a comet?Manoa HI (SPX) Jun 28, 2018 The interstellar object Oumuamua was discovered back on October 19, 2017, but the puzzle of its true nature has taken months to unravel, and may never be fully solved. Meaning "scout from the ... more 
UK scientist involved in Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid RyuguStirling UK (SPX) Jun 28, 2018 A University of Stirling scientist is set to begin analysing - and attempting to recreate - conditions on a primitive asteroid as part of a major international space mission led by the Japanese. ... more  
Hardy organisms threaten interplanetary contaminationHouston TX (SPX) Jun 28, 2018 In professor George Fox's lab at the University of Houston, scientists are studying Earth germs that could be contaminating other planets. Despite extreme decontamination efforts, bacterial spores f ... more  
Signatures of complex organic molecules spotted on Saturn's moon EnceladusWashington (UPI) Jun 27, 2018 Scientists have found evidence of complex organic molecules on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The chemical signals were identified among spectrometry data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ... more |
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Scientists developing guidebook for finding life beyond EarthRiverside CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 If you're looking for a manual on the hunt for alien life, you're in luck. Some of the leading experts in the field, including a UC Riverside team of researchers, have written a major series of revi ... more  
Indian Space Agency to teach foreign students how to build satellitesNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jun 25, 2018 he Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set to start an eight-week-long training program intended to equip students from developing countries to build satellites. The costs of the training, ... more 
UW part of NASA network coordinating search for life on exoplanetsSeattle WA (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 Researchers with the University of Washington-led Virtual Planetary Laboratory are central to a group of papers published by NASA researchers in the journal Astrobiology outlining the history - and ... more 
Will we know life when we see itPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 26, 2018 In the last decade, we have discovered thousands of planets outside our solar system and have learned that rocky, temperate worlds are numerous in our galaxy. The next step will involve asking even ... more  
A galactic test will clarify the existence of dark matterBonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 Researchers at the University of Bonn and the University of California at Irvine used sophisticated computer simulations to devise a test that could answer a burning question in astrophysics: is the ... more |
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Webb Telescope to target Jupiter's Great Red SpotGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the most ambitious and complex space observatory ever built, will use its unparalleled infrared capabilities to study Jupiter's Great Red Spot, shedding new light ... more  |
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NASA will seek partnership with US Industry to develop lunar gatewayWashington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 As part of the agency's Exploration Campaign, NASA's Gateway will become the orbital outpost for robotic and human exploration operations in deep space. Built with commercial and international partn ... more 
Rosetta image archive completeParis (ESA) Jun 25, 2018 All high-resolution images and the underpinning data from Rosetta's pioneering mission at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko are now available in ESA's archives, with the last release including the ico ... more 
Queqiao satellite the bridge to China's lunar explorationBeijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2018 If all goes to plan, China will soon make history as the first country to put a lander and a rover on the far side of the moon. Information gleaned from such a mission may answer questions about the ... more  
Precise gravitation lens test confirms general relativityWashington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 The theory of general relativity states that objects and their gravitational pull distort the spacetime around them. The phenomenon explains the gravitational lens effect, the bending of light in a lens-like shape around large galaxies and cosmic structures. ... more 
Nearly 80 exoplanet candidates identified in record timeBoston MA (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have analyzed data from K2, the follow-up mission to NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, and have discovered a trove of possible exoplanets amid some 50,000 stars. I ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the most ambitious and complex space observatory ever built, will use its unparalleled infrared capabilities to study Jupiter's Great Red Spot, shedding new light on the enigmatic storm and building upon data returned from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories.
Jupiter's iconic storm is on the Webb telescope's list of targets chosen by gua ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 26, 2018 
In the last decade, we have discovered thousands of planets outside our solar system and have learned that rocky, temperate worlds are numerous in our galaxy. The next step will involve asking even bigger questions. Could some of these planets host life? And if so, will we be able to recognize life elsewhere if we see it?
A group of leading researchers in astronomy, biology and geology has ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2018 
The dust storm on Mars is now a Planet-encircling Dust Event (PEDE).
It shows no indication of receding at this time. Since the last contact with the rover on Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), it is likely that Opportunity has experienced a low-power fault, putting herself to sleep only to wake when the skies eventually clear.
If the atmospheric opacity or the solar array dust factor has got ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2018 
If all goes to plan, China will soon make history as the first country to put a lander and a rover on the far side of the moon. Information gleaned from such a mission may answer questions about the universe that we have not even thought to ask yet.
It was for this reason that I found myself talking to Zheng Yongchun at Beijing Planetarium. Zheng is an animated interviewee, but that's not ... more |
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 Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Jun 28, 2018 
How large is a neutron star? Previous estimates varied from eight to sixteen kilometres. Astrophysicists at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the FIAS have now succeeded in determining the size of neutron stars to within 1.5 kilometres by using an elaborate statistical approach supported by data from the measurement of gravitational waves. The researchers' report appears in the current issue o ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2018 
This week marks 20 years since the manifesto was signed that gave rise to Europe's Copernicus environmental programme. With seven Sentinel satellites already in orbit delivering terabytes of data every day, Copernicus is the biggest provider of Earth observation data in the world.
To mark this 20-year milestone, reflect on the programme's achievements and to look to the future, EU commissi ... more |
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 Onna, Japan (SPX) Jun 28, 2018  Look up above you. You might see blue sky, clouds, the Moon or stars. And while it might seem calm up there, the truth is it's nearly always raining. Every day, Earth is constantly bombarded by about 100 tons of falling objects from space, mostly simple dust or sand-sized particles that are destroyed as they hit the upper atmosphere.
But very rarely, a piece large enough to survive the int ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
Tom Woods knows about space gunk. As the principal investigator for the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment, or EVE, instrument aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, he's all too familiar with the ways that exposure to the harsh space environment can lead to a spacecraft instrument's degradation.
"Since its launch in 2010, EVE's sensitivity has degraded by about 70 percent at so ... more |
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 Xichang, China (XNA) Jun 28, 2018 
China successfully launched new-tech experiment twin satellites on the Long March-2C rocket from southwest China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center Wednesday morning.
The twin satellites were launched at 11:30 a.m., and entered their intended orbit.
The twin-satellites missions are to link the inter-satellite network and conduct new technology tests on satellites earth-observation. ... more |
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Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Jun 28, 2018
How large is a neutron star? Previous estimates varied from eight to sixteen kilometres. Astrophysicists at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the FIAS have now succeeded in determining the size of neutron stars to within 1.5 kilometres by using an elaborate statistical approach supported by data from the measurement of gravitational waves. The researchers' report appears in the current issue o ... more |
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 Cardiff UK (SPX) Jun 28, 2018 
The evolution of the orangutan has been more heavily influenced by humans than was previously thought, new research reveals.
Professor Mike Bruford, of Cardiff University, was part of the team of scientists shedding light on the development of the critically endangered species. Their findings offer new possibilities for orangutan conservation.
One of humans' closet living relatives, ... more |
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 Vienna (AFP) June 25, 2018 
It sounds appealing given the state of politics on Earth: a plan to launch a utopian "space nation" with the aim of transcending earthly divisions.
At a lavish ceremony in Vienna's Hofburg Palace on Monday, some 200 attendees inaugurated Russian scientist and businessman Igor Ashurbeyli as the first "head of nation" of Asgardia, named after a realm in Norse mythology.
Ashurbeyli has been ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 
A new NASA study explains why the Tracy and Heilprin glaciers, which flow side by side into Inglefield Gulf in northwest Greenland, are melting at radically different rates.
Using ocean data from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) campaign, the study documents a plume of warm water flowing up Tracy's underwater face, and a much colder plume in front of Heilprin. Scientists have assumed ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2018 
An international oceanography satellite that is tracking the ongoing rise in global sea level marks its 10th year in orbit today.
Designed for a three-to-five-year mission, the joint U.S./European Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) on the Jason-2 satellite has now made more than 47,000 trips around our home planet, measuring sea level change across the globe, observing ocean currents, ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 
The theory of general relativity states that objects and their gravitational pull distort the spacetime around them. The phenomenon explains the gravitational lens effect, the bending of light in a lens-like shape around large galaxies and cosmic structures.
Recently, astronomers successfully measured the gravitation lensing effect around the elliptical galaxy ESO 325-G004, located 450 ... more |
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