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  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2018 Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found - 11 "normal" outer moons, and one that they're calling an "oddball." This brings Jupiter's total number of known moons to a whopping 79 - the most of any planet in our solar system. A team led by Carnegie's Scott S. Sheppard first spotted the moons in the spring of 2017 while they were looking for very distant solar system objects as part of the hunt for a possible massive planet far beyond Pluto. In 2014, this same team found the object wit ... read more |
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Dusk for Dawn: Mission of many firsts to gather more data in home stretchPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2018 As NASA's Dawn spacecraft prepares to wrap up its groundbreaking 11-year mission, which has included two successful extended missions at Ceres, it will continue to explore - collecting images and ot ... more  
Theorists publish highest-precision prediction of muon magnetic anomalyUpton NY (SPX) Jul 16, 2018 Theoretical physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have just released the most precise prediction of how subatomic particles cal ... more  
Astronomers find a famous exoplanet's doppelgangerHonolulu HI (SPX) Jul 17, 2018 When it comes to extrasolar planets, appearances can be deceiving. Astronomers have imaged a new planet, and it appears nearly identical to one of the best studied gas-giant planets. But this doppel ... more 
ATLAS Telescope Pinpoints Meteorite Impact PredictionHonolulu HI (SPX) Jul 16, 2018 A multinational team of scientists has just found the first fragments of the small asteroid 2018 LA, which exploded harmlessly high above Africa on June 2. The University of Hawaii's Asteroid Terres ... more |
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Two independent magnetic skyrmion phases discovered in a single materialDresden, Germany (SPX) Jul 13, 2018 Whirlpools are an everyday experience in a bath tub: When the water is drained a circular vortex is formed. Typically, such whirls are rather stable. Similar structures can be observed in magnetic m ... more  
VERITAS supplies critical piece to neutrino discovery puzzleSalt Lake City UT (SPX) Jul 13, 2018 The VERITAS array has confirmed the detection of high-energy gamma rays from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole located in a distant galaxy, TXS 0506+056. While these detections are relativel ... more 
MeerKAT Radio Telescope Reveals Clearest View Yet of Center of Milky WayJohannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Jul 13, 2018 Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr. David Mabuza, has officially inaugurated the MeerKAT radio telescope. After a decade in design and construction, this project of South Africa's ... more 
IceCube neutrinos point to long-sought cosmic ray acceleratorMadison WI (SPX) Jul 13, 2018 An international team of scientists has found the first evidence of a source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, ghostly subatomic particles that can travel unhindered for billions of light years from ... more 
Hubble and Gaia team up to fuel cosmic conundrumGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 13, 2018 Using the power and synergy of two space telescopes, astronomers have made the most precise measurement to date of the universe's expansion rate. The results further fuel the mismatch between ... more |
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 Plasma Jets Foretell Unequal Activity of the Sun's Two Hemispheres 
NASA's Webb Space Telescope to Inspect Atmospheres of Gas Giant ExoplanetsBaltimore MD (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 In April 2018, NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Its main goal is to locate Earth-sized planets and larger "super-Earths" orbiting nearby stars for further study. One o ... more  |
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TESS Spacecraft Continues Testing Prior to First ObservationsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 After a successful launch on April 18, 2018, NASA's newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is currently undergoing a series of commissioning tests before it begins searchin ... more  
Israel plans its first moon launch in DecemberYehud, Israel (AFP) July 10, 2018 An Israeli organisation announced plans Tuesday to launch the country's first spacecraft to the moon in December, with hopes of burnishing Israel's reputation as a small nation with otherworldly high-tech ambitions. ... more 
Centenary of cosmological constant lambdaWashington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 Physicists are now celebrating the 100th anniversary of the cosmological constant. On this occasion, two papers recently published in EPJ H highlight its role in modern physics and cosmology. ... more 
A refined magnetic senseZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 06, 2018 The field of quantum science and technology experiences an ever-intensifying flurry of activity. The A refined magnetic senses are currently dominated by reports on progress towards building quantum ... more  
Could Gravitational Waves Reveal How Fast Our Universe Is Expanding?Boston MA (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 ince it first exploded into existence 13.8 billion years ago, the universe has been expanding, dragging along with it hundreds of billions of galaxies and stars, much like raisins in a rapidly risin ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2018 
Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found - 11 "normal" outer moons, and one that they're calling an "oddball." This brings Jupiter's total number of known moons to a whopping 79 - the most of any planet in our solar system.
A team led by Carnegie's Scott S. Sheppard first spotted the moons in the spring of 2017 while they were looking for very distant solar system objects as part ... more |
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Jul 17, 2018 
When it comes to extrasolar planets, appearances can be deceiving. Astronomers have imaged a new planet, and it appears nearly identical to one of the best studied gas-giant planets. But this doppelganger differs in one very important way: its origin.
"We have found a gas-giant planet that is a virtual twin of a previously known planet, but it looks like the two objects formed in different ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 13, 2018 
While the existence of native carbon-based organic compounds on the Red Planet was confirmed only in 2014, some suggest that the discovery could have been made a long time ago.
Back in 1976, NASA's twin Viking landers touched down on Mars to find out if life could survive on Mars and whether there was organic matter in the Martian soil. Researchers were puzzled as no evidence for organic m ... more |
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 Yehud, Israel (AFP) July 10, 2018 
An Israeli organisation announced plans Tuesday to launch the country's first spacecraft to the moon in December, with hopes of burnishing Israel's reputation as a small nation with otherworldly high-tech ambitions.
The unmanned spacecraft, shaped like a pod and weighing some 585 kilogrammes (1,300 pounds) at launch, will land on the moon on February 13, 2019 if all goes according to plan, o ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Jul 16, 2018 
An international team of scientists that includes University of California, Riverside, physicist Hai-Bo Yu has imposed conditions on how dark matter may interact with ordinary matter - constraints that can help identify the elusive dark matter particle and detect it on Earth.
Dark matter - nonluminous material in space - is understood to constitute 85 percent of the matter in the universe. ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 16, 2018 
For the last several decades, Geoscientists have been intrigued by a potential link between erosion rates at the Earth's surface and changes in global climate. What was the cause and what the effect remained unclear. However, a new study now calls into question the link itself.
A team of researchers from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, the University Potsdam, Uni ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2018 
New observations by three of the world's largest radio telescopes have revealed that an asteroid discovered last year is actually two objects, each about 3,000 feet (900 meters) in size, orbiting each other.
Near-Earth asteroid 2017 YE5 was discovered with observations provided by the Morocco Oukaimeden Sky Survey on Dec. 21, 2017, but no details about the asteroid's physical properties we ... more |
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 Kolkata, India (SPX) Jul 13, 2018 
The Sun's activity waxes and wanes periodically and holds sway over our space environment. Sunspots, strongly magnetized blotches on the solar surface, sometimes release fierce storms in space that severely impact our satellite based communication and navigational systems and occasionally, render satellites useless.
However, a complete understanding of all aspects of the sunspot activity c ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (SPX) Jul 16, 2018 
China launched two satellites for Pakistan on a Long March-2C rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 11:56 a.m. Monday.
The PRSS-1 is China's first optical remote sensing satellite sold to Pakistan and the 17th satellite developed by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) for an overseas buyer.
After entering orbit, the PRSS-1 is in good condition ... more |
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Riverside CA (SPX) Jul 16, 2018
An international team of scientists that includes University of California, Riverside, physicist Hai-Bo Yu has imposed conditions on how dark matter may interact with ordinary matter - constraints that can help identify the elusive dark matter particle and detect it on Earth.
Dark matter - nonluminous material in space - is understood to constitute 85 percent of the matter in the universe. ... more |
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 Kent UK (SPX) Jul 13, 2018 
The strength required to access the high calorie content of bone marrow may have played a key role in the evolution of the human hand and explain why primates hands are not like ours, research at the University of Kent has found.
In an article in The Journal of Human Evolution, a team lead by Professor Tracy Kivell of Kent's School of Anthropology and Conservation concludes that although s ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 16, 2018 
According to a new study, scientists have cracked one of most challenging obstacles to deep space travel: how to ensure that astronauts have enough fuel, air and water for the trip. Their proposed method involves "photo catalysts" that can split or recombine water molecules.
The emptiness of space and the vast distances between locations pose huge and unique challenges to space travel. One ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) July 10, 2018 
Five major krill fishing firms Tuesday agreed to halt operations across huge swathes of the Antarctic to help protect wildlife in a move hailed as "bold and progressive" by conservationists.
The vast frozen continent is home to penguins, seals, whales and other marine life with krill a staple food for many species.
But a combination of climate change and industrial-scale fishing has been ... more |
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 Abu Dhabi (AFP) July 17, 2018 
In the waters of the Arabian Sea, a vast "dead zone" the size of Scotland is expanding and scientists say climate change may be to blame.
In his lab in Abu Dhabi, Zouhair Lachkar is labouring over a colourful computer model of the Gulf of Oman, showing changing temperatures, sea levels and oxygen concentrations.
His models and new research unveiled earlier this year show a worrying trend ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 
ince it first exploded into existence 13.8 billion years ago, the universe has been expanding, dragging along with it hundreds of billions of galaxies and stars, much like raisins in a rapidly rising dough.
Astronomers have pointed telescopes to certain stars and other cosmic sources to measure their distance from Earth and how fast they are moving away from us - two parameters that are es ... more |
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