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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 30, 2018 With its dark, heavily cratered surface interrupted by tantalizing bright spots, Ceres may not remind you of our home planet Earth at first glance. The dwarf planet, which orbits the Sun in the vast asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is also far smaller than Earth (in both mass and diameter). With its frigid temperature and lack of atmosphere, we're pretty sure Ceres can't support life as we know it. But these two bodies, Ceres and Earth, formed from similar materials in our solar system. And ... read more |
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High-Altitude Jovian CloudsWashington DC (SPX) Jul 30, 2018 his image captures a high-altitude cloud formation surrounded by swirling patterns in the atmosphere of Jupiter's North North Temperate Belt region. The North North Temperate Belt is one of Ju ... more  
X-ray technology reveals never-before-seen matter around black holeHiroshima, Japan (SPX) Jul 30, 2018 In an international collaboration between Japan and Sweden, scientists clarified how gravity affects the shape of matter near the black hole in binary system Cygnus X-1. Their findings, which were p ... more 
A Simpler Approach to Black Hole Description DevelopedMoscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 30, 2018 RUDN astrophysicists suggested an approach to simplify calculations of various observable effects in the vicinity of black holes to which the mathematical apparatus of Einstein's classic relativity ... more  
NASA's TESS spacecraft starts science operationsWashington DC (SPX) Jul 30, 2018 NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has started its search for planets around nearby stars, officially beginning science operations on July 25, 2018. TESS is expected to transmit its ... more |
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Red planet and 'blood moon' pair up to dazzle skygazersParis (AFP) July 27, 2018 The longest "blood moon" eclipse this century will coincide with Mars' closest approach in 15 years on Friday to offer skygazers a thrilling astronomical double bill. ... more  
At 60, NASA shoots for revival of moon glory daysTampa (AFP) July 27, 2018 Sixty years ago, spurred by competition with the Soviet Union, the United States created NASA, launching a journey that would take Americans to the moon within a decade. ... more  
New family photos of Mars and Saturn from HubbleMunich, Germany (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 In summer 2018 the planets Mars and Saturn are, one after the other, in opposition to Earth. During this event the planets are relatively close to Earth, allowing astronomers to observe them in grea ... more  
BepiColombo to target mid-October launchParis (ESA) Jul 27, 2018 Europe's first mission to Mercury will target the early morning of 19 October for launch, Arianespace and ESA have announced. The joint ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission will launch on an Ariane 5 ... more  
GRAVITY Confirms Predictions of General Relativity Near Galactic CenterParis, France (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 Observations made with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have, for the first time, detected the effects of general relativity predicted by Einstein, in the mo ... more |
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Researchers discover thin gap on stellar family portraitAtlanta GA (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 A thin gap has been discovered on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (HRD), the most fundamental of all maps in stellar astronomy, a finding that provides new information about the interior structures ... more  |
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First Catalog of X-ray Sources in Overlapping Observations PublishedPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 Members of the X-ray astronomy working group at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics (AIP) and an international team have published the first catalogue of X-ray sources in multiply observed sky re ... more 
Possible death of the Universe scenario proposedKazan, Russia (SPX) Jul 26, 2018 Professor Odintsov comments, "Possible future singularity was studied within the modified theory of gravity with the use of dynamical system variables. We showed that a dynamical system singularity ... more 
Innovative Technology Will Explore Mercury in Unprecedented DetailLeicester UK (SPX) Jul 2265, 2018 Researchers from the University of Leicester will be showcasing the innovative space instrument they have developed which will be used to help provide the most complete exploration and study of the ... more 
Students Find Foundations for Massive StarsTucson AZ (SPX) Jul 26, 2018 For three years, Jenny Calahan led fellow undergraduate students at the University of Arizona (UA) in research to help unravel the mystery of how the galaxy's most massive stars are born. On J ... more 
How Can You Tell If That ET Story Is RealMountain View CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 What are the consequences for the human race if we encountered extraterrestrial intelligence? If you see a story about aliens on TV or online, how excited should you be? A new study, published in th ... more |
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 Leicester UK (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 
The discovery of a dark ribbon of weak hydrogen ion emissions that encircles Jupiter has overturned previous thinking about the giant planet's magnetic equator.
An international team of scientists led by the University of Leicester has identified the weakened ribbon of H3+ emissions near the jovigraphic equator using the NSFCam instrument at the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility, the first ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 30, 2018 
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has started its search for planets around nearby stars, officially beginning science operations on July 25, 2018.
TESS is expected to transmit its first series of science data back to Earth in August, and thereafter periodically every 13.5 days, once per orbit, as the spacecraft makes it closest approach to Earth. The TESS Science Team will begi ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 30, 2018 
The announcement of the presence of liquid water beneath the surface of Martian poles validates research published by PSI Senior Scientist Stephen Clifford back in 1987.
A paper published in the June 25 issue of Science says that data collected, by the MARSIS orbital radar sounder on the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft, points to a lake of liquid water buried about one mile ... more |
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 Tampa (AFP) July 27, 2018 
Sixty years ago, spurred by competition with the Soviet Union, the United States created NASA, launching a journey that would take Americans to the moon within a decade.
Since then, the US space agency has seen glorious achievements and crushing failures in its drive to push the frontiers of space exploration, including a fatal launch pad fire in 1967 that killed three and two deadly shuttle ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 26, 2018 
NASA launched a prototype telescope and instrument to observe the X-rays emitted by Cassiopeia A, the expanding debris of an exploded star. The High-Resolution Microcalorimeter X-ray Imaging Rocket (Micro-X) launched July 22 aboard a sub-orbital launch vehicle called a sounding rocket and successfully tested its detector technology.
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 25, 2018 
The launch of Aeolus - ESA's mission to map Earth's wind in real-time - is getting tantalisingly close, with the satellite due for lift-off on 21 August from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. With the wind in their sails, mission teams are busily preparing this unique satellite for its upcoming journey.
Aeolus will carry a sophisticated atmospheric laser Doppler instrument, dubb ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 30, 2018 
With its dark, heavily cratered surface interrupted by tantalizing bright spots, Ceres may not remind you of our home planet Earth at first glance. The dwarf planet, which orbits the Sun in the vast asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is also far smaller than Earth (in both mass and diameter). With its frigid temperature and lack of atmosphere, we're pretty sure Ceres can't support life as w ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) July 28, 2018 
The longest "blood moon" eclipse this century dazzled skygazers across the globe Friday, coinciding with Mars' closest approach in 15 years in a thrilling celestial spectacle.
As Earth's constant companion slowly sailed across the skies, crowds gathered around the world to catch a glimpse of the rare phenomenon.
Beside Lake Magadi, 100 kilometres (60 miles) southwest of the Kenyan capita ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 23, 2018 
China is developing a space vehicle to help transport orbiting satellites that have run out of fuel, Science and Technology Daily reported Thursday.
Fuel is a key factor limiting the life of satellites. Most satellites function for years after entering orbit, but eventually, they have to end their missions and burn up into the atmosphere due to fuel exhaustion.
The vehicle is being d ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 26, 2018
NASA launched a prototype telescope and instrument to observe the X-rays emitted by Cassiopeia A, the expanding debris of an exploded star. The High-Resolution Microcalorimeter X-ray Imaging Rocket (Micro-X) launched July 22 aboard a sub-orbital launch vehicle called a sounding rocket and successfully tested its detector technology.
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 Kinshasa (AFP) July 25, 2018 
Virunga Park, the nature preserve in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo famous for its endangered mountain gorillas, said Wednesday that a mother had given birth to two babies, bringing to nine the number of infants born so far this year.
"The mountain gorillas were a most welcome source of good news in 2018 and it's only getting better!" the park said in a statement, adding that i ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 30, 2018 
The International Space Station is officially home to the coolest experiment in space.
NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) was installed in the station's U.S. science lab in late May and is now producing clouds of ultracold atoms known as Bose-Einstein condensates. These "BECs" reach temperatures just above absolute zero, the point at which atoms should theoretically stop moving entirely. Th ... more |
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 Irvine CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2018 
A team of scientists from the University of California, Irvine has found evidence of significant mass loss in East Antarctica's Totten and Moscow University glaciers, which, if they fully collapsed, could add 5 meters (16.4 feet) to the global sea level.
In a paper published this week in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters, the glaciologists estimate that be ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2018 
The ocean, long a source of inspiration for exploration and discovery as well as a place to test the limits of humans, is no longer the wild frontier it once was. An international study published in the journal Current Biology demonstrates that only 13 percent of the ocean can still be classified as wilderness.
"The idea of wilderness is powerful for people, as well as for nature," said UC ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 
Observations made with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have, for the first time, detected the effects of general relativity predicted by Einstein, in the movement of a star passing into the intense gravitational field of Sagittarius A*, a massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
These results were obtained by the GRAVITY consortium, led b ... more |
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