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  Washington DC (SPX) Oct 02, 2018 NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft executed its first Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-1) today putting it on course for its scheduled arrival at the asteroid Bennu in December. The spacecraft's main engine thrusters fired in a braking maneuver designed to slow the spacecraft's speed relative to Bennu from approximately 1,100 mph (491 m/sec) to 313 mph (140 m/sec). The mission team will continue to examine telemetry and tracking data as they become available and will have more information on the re ... read more |
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A universe aglow: lyman-alpha emission across the entire skyGarching, Germany (SPX) Oct 02, 2018 Deep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast cosmic reservoirs of atomic hydrogen surrounding distant galaxies. The exquisite sensitivity of MU ... more  
China planning probes, manned missions, ultimately a base on moon - Space ChiefBeijing (Sputnik) Oct 02, 2018 China's lunar program is setting ambitious goals, including exploring both lunar poles by 2030 and, further in the future, sending manned missions to the moon and establishing a permanent base there ... more 
Russia's lunar exploration program should be part of internatinal projectMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 01, 2018 Russia's lunar exploration program should be a part of an international project, as none of major space powers is capable to explore Earth's only permanent natural satellite without support of other ... more  
Cosmologists use photonics to search Andromeda for signs of alien lifeSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 "Are we alone in the universe?" The question has fascinated, tantalized and even disconcerted humans for as long as we can remember. So far, it would seem that intelligent extraterrestrial lif ... more |
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JAXA's asteroid landers share photos from Ryugu's surfaceWashington (UPI) Sep 27, 2018 JAXA released new photos of the asteroid Ryugu's rugged landscape. ... more  
Neutron star jets shoot down theoryPerth, Australia (SPX) Sep 28, 2018 Astronomers have detected radio jets belonging to a neutron star with a strong magnetic field - something not predicted by current theory, according to a new study published in Nature. The tea ... more 
Asteroid Landing: To Know an Asteroid is to Know Our Solar System - Yuichi TsudaTokyo, Japan (Sputnik) Sep 27, 2018 Japan's space agency has successfully landed two rovers on an asteroid for the first time in history. The robotic explorers were dispatched to the Ryugu asteroid from the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft on Fr ... more 
ESA choosing CubeSat companions for Hera asteroid missionParis (ESA) Sep 26, 2018 As the world marvels at the hopping mini-rovers deployed on asteroid Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa2, ESA is due to decide on the CubeSats planned for delivery to a binary asteroid system by its proposed ... more 
Plans for European Astrobiology Institute AnnouncedBerlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 27, 2018 Astrobiology, the study of the origin, evolution and future of life on Earth and beyond, is a multidisciplinary field that has expanded rapidly over the last two decades. Now, a consortium of organi ... more |
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 Astronomers use Earth's natural history as guide to spot vegetation on new worlds 
China aims to explore polar regions of Moon by 2030Beijing (XNA) Sep 26, 2018 China plans to land on and explore the southern and northern polar regions of the Moon by 2030, according to an official of the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Li Guoping, director ... more  |
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Gaia finds candidates for interstellar 'Oumuamua's homeParis (ESA) Sep 26, 2018 Using data from ESA's Gaia stellar surveyor, astronomers have identified four stars that are possible places of origin of 'Oumuamua, an interstellar object spotted during a brief visit to our Solar ... more  
Dust storms on Titan spotted by Cassini for the first timeParis (ESA) Sep 25, 2018 Data from the international Cassini spacecraft that explored Saturn and its moons between 2004 and 2017 has revealed what appear to be giant dust storms in equatorial regions of Titan. The dis ... more 
Interstellar object 'Oumuamua traced to four possible stellar homesWashington (UPI) Sep 25, 2018 The interstellar object 'Oumuamua came from somewhere outside the solar system, but where has remained a mystery. ... more 
Bacteria's password for sporulation hasn't changed in over 2 billion yearsPittsburgh PA (SPX) Sep 26, 2018 When it comes to changing their passwords, bacteria are just as bad as you and me - maybe even worse. A Carnegie Mellon University research team has found that despite 2.7 billion years of evolution ... more 
NASA is taking a new look at searching for life beyond EarthWashington DC (SPX) Sep 26, 2018 Since the beginning of civilization, humanity has wondered whether we are alone in the universe. As NASA has explored our solar system and beyond, it has developed increasingly sophisticated tools t ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 
You never know what you're going to see when you visit a world for the first time - particularly when it's on the solar system's most distant frontier - but you can get ready to see it.
NASA's New Horizons science team recently wrapped up a three-day rehearsal of the busiest days around the mission's Dec. 31- Jan. 1 flyby of Ultima Thule, a Kuiper Belt object orbiting a billion miles beyon ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 27, 2018 
Astrobiology, the study of the origin, evolution and future of life on Earth and beyond, is a multidisciplinary field that has expanded rapidly over the last two decades. Now, a consortium of organisations has announced plans to establish a European Astrobiology Institute (EAI) to coordinate astrobiology research in Europe.
The new institute is being created in accordance with the recommen ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 
Selecting a landing site for a rover headed to Mars is a lengthy process that normally involves large committees of scientists and engineers. These committees typically spend several years weighing a mission's science objectives against a vehicle's engineering constraints, to identify sites that are both scientifically interesting and safe to land on.
For instance, a mission's science team ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Oct 02, 2018 
China's lunar program is setting ambitious goals, including exploring both lunar poles by 2030 and, further in the future, sending manned missions to the moon and establishing a permanent base there. The news comes as leaders of the US and Chinese space agencies said they were open to cooperation on research and missions.
Li Guoping, director of the Department of System Engineering of the ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Sep 28, 2018 
Astronomers have detected radio jets belonging to a neutron star with a strong magnetic field - something not predicted by current theory, according to a new study published in Nature.
The team, led by researchers at the University of Amsterdam, observed the object known as Swift J0243.6+6124 using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico and NASA's Swift space tel ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 25, 2018 
Just as an oven gives off more heat to the surrounding kitchen as its internal temperature rises, the Earth sheds more heat into space as its surface warms up. Since the 1950s, scientists have observed a surprisingly straightforward, linear relationship between the Earth's surface temperature and its outgoing heat.
But the Earth is an incredibly messy system, with many complicated, interac ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 02, 2018 
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft executed its first Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-1) today putting it on course for its scheduled arrival at the asteroid Bennu in December.
The spacecraft's main engine thrusters fired in a braking maneuver designed to slow the spacecraft's speed relative to Bennu from approximately 1,100 mph (491 m/sec) to 313 mph (140 m/sec).
The mission team will con ... 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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 Jiuquan (XNA) Oct 01, 2018 
China launched its Centispace-1-s1 satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:13 p.m. Saturday.
This is the second commercial launch by the Kuaizhou-1A rocket. The first launch in January 2017 sent three satellites into space.
The Kuaizhou-1A was developed by a rocket technology company under the China Aerospace Science and Industr ... more |
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Perth, Australia (SPX) Sep 28, 2018
Astronomers have detected radio jets belonging to a neutron star with a strong magnetic field - something not predicted by current theory, according to a new study published in Nature.
The team, led by researchers at the University of Amsterdam, observed the object known as Swift J0243.6+6124 using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico and NASA's Swift space tel ... more |
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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 27, 2018 
How is it possible that so many different and highly specific neurons arise in the brain? A mathematic model developed by researchers from the University of Basel's Biozentrum demonstrates that different variants of genes enable such a random diversity. The scientists describe in Cell Reports that despite countless numbers of newly formed neurons, the genetic variants equip neurons individually ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 
Russian investigators looking into the origin of a hole that caused an oxygen leak on the International Space Station have said it was caused deliberately, the space agency chief said.
A first commission had delivered its report, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, said in televised remarks late Monday.
"It concluded that a manufacturing defect had been ruled ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2018  New analysis suggests a small corridor between Norway and the British Isles remained ice-free during the last ice age, offering an oasis of sorts for marine life.
"When we were looking for evidence of biological life in sediments at the bottom of the ocean, we found that between the sea ice covered oceans, and the ice sheets on land, there must have been a narrow ice-free corridor," Joc ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Sept 25, 2018  One sunny morning in New York, a dozen biologists and volunteers stand in knee-deep water, chucking net sacks of oyster shells down a human chain, before planting them in containers on the riverbed.
Why? To build an oyster reef.
The goal? To restore a billion oysters by 2035 to America's largest city - not as a delicacy for the dinner table but in an environmental bid to clean up its n ... 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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