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  Bremen, Germany (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 The European Space Agency (ESA) has commissioned Airbus for two studies for possible European involvement in the future human base in lunar orbit. The Gateway, previously known as the Deep Space Gateway (DSG) or Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G), is a project involving the US, Russian, Canadian, Japanese and European space agencies (NASA, Roscosmos, CSA, JAXA and ESA). Over the next 15 months, Airbus will develop a concept for a habitation and research module as part of the first study (habit ... read more |
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Illuminating First Light Data from Parker Solar ProbeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 Just over a month into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned first-light data from each of its four instrument suites. These early observations - while not yet examples of the key science obs ... more  
What Recipes Produce a Habitable PlanetHouston TX (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 NASA's interdisciplinary Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) project has awarded Rice University $7.7 million for a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research program aimed at finding ma ... more  
UK Scientists Contribute to Project to Unlock Mysteries of NeutrinosLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 The signal recorded for the first time ever as a cosmic particle travelled nearly 4 meters through liquid argon, inside the newest detector to become operational at CERN, could help explain more abo ... more 
The surprising environment of an enigmatic neutron starUniversity Park PA (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 An unusual infrared emission detected by the Hubble Space Telescope from a nearby neutron star could indicate that the pulsar has features never before seen. The observation, by a team of researcher ... more |
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Astronomers witness birth of new star from stellar explosionWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 The explosions of stars, known as supernovae, can be so bright they outshine their host galaxies. They take months or years to fade away, and sometimes, the gaseous remains of the explosion slam int ... more 
The spark that created lifeMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 Evolution by Darwinian natural selection is immensely powerful - both in nature and within laboratories. Using 'laboratory evolution', we can take an enzyme which combines random mutations and funct ... more
Nuclear pasta, the hardest known substance in the universeMontreal, Canada (SPX) Sep 19, 2018 A team of scientists has calculated the strength of the material deep inside the crust of neutron stars and found it to be the strongest known material in the universe. Matthew Caplan, a postd ... more 
First Particle Tracks Seen in Prototype International Neutrino ExperimentGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 19, 2018 The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in the story of the international Deep Underground Neutrino ... more 
Magellanic Clouds Due May Have Been a TrioPerth, Australia (SPX) Sep 19, 2018 Two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way - the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds - may have had a third companion, astronomers believe. Research published this week describes how another " ... more |
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 Juno image showcases Jupiter's brown barge 
Planet Vulcan FoundGainesville FL (SPX) Sep 19, 2018 Among the TV series Star Trek's many charms are its rich universe of characters and planets. Now, the Dharma Planet Survey, in a new study led by University of Florida (UF) astronomer Jian Ge and te ... more  |
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DigitalGlobe and LeoLabs working to promote safe, responsible spaceflightBoulder CO (SPX) Sep 19, 2018 Since the dawn of the Space Age in the late 1950s, humans have been launching objects into space for military, commercial, and scientific purposes. Today, space environment models are used to estima ... more 
TESS Shares First Science Image in Hunt to Find New WorldsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 18, 2018 NASA's newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now providing valuable data to help scientists discover and study exciting new exoplanets, or planets beyond our sol ... more 
When is a star not a star?Washington DC (SPX) Sep 18, 2018 The line that separates stars from brown dwarfs may soon be clearer thanks to new work led by Carnegie's Serge Dieterich. Published by the Astrophysical Journal, his team's findings demonstrate that ... more  
Ceres takes life an ice volcano at a timeTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 18, 2018 Every year throughout its 4.5-billion-year life, ice volcanoes on the dwarf planet Ceres generate enough material on average to fill a movie theater, according to a new study led by the University o ... more 
Cryovolcanism helped shape dwarf planet CeresTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 18, 2018 Icy volcanoes have erupted throughout the history of Ceres, but such continuous activity has not had the same extensive impact on the dwarf planet's surface as standard volcanism on Earth, says a ne ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 19, 2018 
Jupiter's "brown barge" feature is the subject of a new photograph snapped by Juno's camera.
Like Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the brown barge is shaped by cyclone-like weather patterns in the gas giant's atmosphere. But unlike the red spot, which is round, the barge is longer and boxier.
The brown barge isn't always easy to pick out. Its colors often blend relatively seamlessly wit ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
NASA's interdisciplinary Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) project has awarded Rice University $7.7 million for a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research program aimed at finding many different recipes nature might follow to produce rocky planets capable of supporting life.
As any cook knows, it takes the right recipe and getting the right ingredients to make a tasty dish, ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (ESA) Sep 19, 2018 
Astronauts on a mission to Mars would be exposed to at least 60% of the total radiation dose limit recommended for their career during the journey itself to and from the Red Planet, according to data from the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter being presented at the European Planetary Science Congress, EPSC, in Berlin, Germany, this week.
The orbiter's camera team are also presenting ... more |
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 Bremen, Germany (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
The European Space Agency (ESA) has commissioned Airbus for two studies for possible European involvement in the future human base in lunar orbit. The Gateway, previously known as the Deep Space Gateway (DSG) or Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G), is a project involving the US, Russian, Canadian, Japanese and European space agencies (NASA, Roscosmos, CSA, JAXA and ESA).
Over the next 1 ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Sep 19, 2018 
A team of scientists has calculated the strength of the material deep inside the crust of neutron stars and found it to be the strongest known material in the universe.
Matthew Caplan, a postdoctoral research fellow at McGill University, and his colleagues from Indiana University and the California Institute of Technology, successfully ran the largest computer simulations ever conducted of ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 17, 2018 
For more than 20 years, changes in ozone over Antarctica have been carefully monitored by a succession of European satellites. This important long-term record is now being added to by the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission, which is dedicated to atmospheric monitoring.
Protecting life on Earth from the Sun's harmful rays of ultraviolet radiation, the ozone layer is a very important, yet fragil ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 18, 2018 
Icy volcanoes have erupted throughout the history of Ceres, but such continuous activity has not had the same extensive impact on the dwarf planet's surface as standard volcanism on Earth, says a new paper "Cryovolcanic Rates on Ceres Revealed by Topography" appearing in Nature Astronomy. Cryovolcanoes erupt liquid or gaseous volatiles such as water, ammonia or methane instead of spewing molten ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Sep 18, 2018 
The UK-built Solar Orbiter is preparing to leave the Airbus factory in Stevenage to travel to Germany for testing, ahead of its launch in 2020 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA.
The UK is at the heart of this European Space Agency (ESA) mission to uncover the secrets of our planet's star. Solar Orbiter will provide close-up views of the Sun's polar regions, tracking features such as sola ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 30, 2018 
Engineers have successfully tested the propulsion system of China's planned space station lab capsules, a key step in its space station program.
Weighing 66 tonnes, the space station will comprise a core module and two lab capsules. The propulsion system will determine whether lab capsules can move in space.
Engineers designed 36 engines for the propulsion system with four to adjust ... more |
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Montreal, Canada (SPX) Sep 19, 2018
A team of scientists has calculated the strength of the material deep inside the crust of neutron stars and found it to be the strongest known material in the universe.
Matthew Caplan, a postdoctoral research fellow at McGill University, and his colleagues from Indiana University and the California Institute of Technology, successfully ran the largest computer simulations ever conducted of ... more |
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 London UK (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
Analysis of bones, from what was once the world's largest bird, has revealed that humans arrived on the tropical island of Madagascar more than 6,000 years earlier than previously thought - according to a study published, 12 September 2018, in the journal Science Advances.
A team of scientists led by international conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society of London) discovered that anci ... more |
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 Bremen, Germany (ESA) Sep 19, 2018 
Last week at the Airbus integration hall in Bremen, Germany, technicians installed the last radiator on the European Service Module for NASA's Orion spacecraft marking the module's finished integration.
ESA's European service module will provide power, water, air and electricity to NASA's Orion exploration spacecraft that will eventually fly beyond the Moon with astronauts. The European Se ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 
Moderate global temperature rises of just two degrees Celsius could still be enough to melt parts of the largest ice sheet on Earth and raise sea levels by several metres, experts warned on Wednesday.
As the pace of climate change rapidly outstrips mankind's attempts to rein it in, scientists delved into the distant past of glaciers in eastern Antarctica to predict what lay in store as our ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
A study simulating the final stages of terrestrial planet formation shows that 'hit-and-run' encounters play a significant role in the acquisition of water by large protoplanets, like those that grew into Mars and Earth. The results will be presented by Christoph Burger at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2018 in Berlin.
Four and a half billion years ago, the inner solar syst ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 17, 2018 
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission team plans to switch to a backup system in the Microwave Instrument (MWI) on one of the twin spacecraft this month. Following the switch-over, GRACE-FO is expected to quickly resume science data collection.
A month after launching this past May, GRACE-FO produced its first preliminary gravity field map. The mission ha ... more |
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