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  Washington DC (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 The International Space Station serves as humanity's orbital research platform, conducting a variety of experiments and research projects while in orbit around the planet. On June 20, 2018, the space station deployed the NanoRacks-Remove Debris satellite into space from outside the Japanese Kibo laboratory module. This technology demonstration was designed to explore using a 3D camera to map the location and speed of orbital debris or "space junk." The NanoRacks-Remove Debris satellite ... read more |
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Matter falling into a black hole at 30 percent of the speed of lightLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 A UK team of astronomers report the first detection of matter falling into a black hole at 30% of the speed of light, located in the centre of the billion-light year distant galaxy PG211+143. The te ... more  
A new twist on stellar rotationGottingen, Germany (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 What do we know about distant stars aside from their brightness and colors? Is our Sun a typical star? Or does it show certain properties that make it special, or maybe even unique? One property tha ... more  
Meteorite hunting with Marc FriesPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 21, 2018 Thousands of meteorites fall onto the Earth each year. When a fall occurs in an accessible area, scientists and amateur space enthusiasts pursue the specimens, often submitting them to collections t ... more  
Airbus wins ESA studies for future human base in lunar orbitBremen, 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 Gat ... more |
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Wave-particle interactions allow collision-free energy transfer in space plasmaNagoya, Japan (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 The Earth's magnetosphere contains plasma, an ionized gas composed of positive ions and negative electrons. The motion of these charged plasma particles is controlled by electromagnetic fields. The ... more 
Looking back in time to watch for a different kind of black holeAtlanta GA (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 Black holes form when stars die, allowing the matter in them to collapse into an extremely dense object from which not even light can escape. Astronomers theorize that massive black holes could also ... more  
Mercury Studies Reveal an Intriguing Target for BepiColomboParis (ESA) Sep 20, 2018 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 A month before the planned launch of the joint ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury, two new studies shed light on when the innermost planet formed and the puz ... more 
AI helps track down mysterious cosmic radio burstsBerkeley CA (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 Artificial intelligence is invading many fields, most recently astronomy and the search for intelligent life in the universe, or SETI. Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a SETI project led by ... more 
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 |
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 Nuclear pasta, the hardest known substance in the universe 
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  |
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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  
Juno image showcases Jupiter's brown bargeWashington (UPI) Sep 19, 2018 Jupiter's "brown barge" feature is the subject of a new photograph snapped by Juno's camera. ... more  
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 
Searching for errors in the quantum worldZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 There is likely no other scientific theory that is as well supported as quantum mechanics. For nearly 100 years now, it has repeatedly been confirmed with highly precise experiments, yet physicists ... more 
Light provides spinNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have proven that incoming light causes the electrons in warm perovskites to rotate thus influencing the direction of the flow of ... 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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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 19, 2018 
NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) captured new imagery of variations in surface-temperature patterns in Los Angeles County. The first of its kind to be taken by the agency's newest Earth-observing mission, it is more detailed than previous imagery and, unlike prior imagery, was acquired at different times of the day.
ECOSTRESS measures s ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 21, 2018 
Thousands of meteorites fall onto the Earth each year. When a fall occurs in an accessible area, scientists and amateur space enthusiasts pursue the specimens, often submitting them to collections that serve planetary research. The Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) division at NASA's Johnson Space Center studies meteorites and is implementing tools and technique to more easi ... more |
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 Greenbelt 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 observations Parker Solar Probe will take closer to the Sun - show that each of the instruments is working well. The instruments work in tandem to measure the Sun's electric and magnetic fields, particle ... 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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 Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 
In the last few years, the Vavilov Ice Cap in the Russian High Arctic has dramatically accelerated, sliding as much as 82 feet a day in 2015, according to a new multi-national, multi-institute study led by CIRES Fellow Mike Willis, an assistant professor of Geology at CU Boulder. That dwarfs the ice's previous average speed of about 2 inches per day and has challenged scientists' assumptions abo ... 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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