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  Rome, Italy (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 Investigating the earliest and least known phases of the history of the solar system, when the young Sun was still enveloped by the disk of gas and dust where its planets began to form, is probably one of the most complex challenges in modern planetary science. The celestial bodies formed at the time that survived intact to now are few and in the majority of cases their "memory" of the ancient processes that marked the birth of the solar system has been canceled or otherwise altered by the environ ... read more |
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Construction of Europe's exoplanet hunter Plato beginsParis (ESA) Oct 05, 2018 The construction of ESA's Plato mission to find and study planets beyond our Solar System will be led by Germany's OHB System AG as prime contractor, marking the start of the full industrial phase o ... more 
MASCOT Lander Completes Exploration of Asteroid Ryugu's SurfaceBonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 It was a day full of exciting moments and a happy team of scientists and engineers: late in the afternoon of 3 October 2018, the German-French lander MASCOT completed its historic exploration of the ... more  
Lunar craters named in honor of Apollo 8Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 The newly named craters are visible in the foreground of the iconic Earthrise colour photograph taken by astronaut William Anders. It depicts the moment that our shiny blue Earth came back into view ... more  
Latest insights into Saturn's weird magnetic field only make things weirderLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 Some of the last data from the Cassini mission reveals more structure in Saturn's magnetic field, but still no answer as to how it formed. NASA's Cassini mission - with Imperial kit on board - ... more |
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Lockheed Martin solicits ideas for commercial payloads on Orion spacecraftDenver CO (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 At the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) held last week in Bremen, Germany, Lockheed Martin reported it is studying interest in flying commercial payloads aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft. Th ... more 
Polar Wandering on Dwarf Planet Ceres RevealedTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 Dwarf planet Ceres experienced an indirect polar reorientation of approximately 36 degrees, a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Pasquale Tricarico says. Tricarico's pap ... more 
In its final days, Cassini bathed in 'ring rain'Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 On its last orbits in 2017, the long-running Cassini spacecraft dove between Saturn's rings and its upper atmosphere and bathed in a downpour of dust that astronomers call "ring rain." In rese ... more  
When is a nova not a nova? When a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collideNewcastle UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 Researchers from Keele University have worked with an international team of astronomers to find for the first time that a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collided in a 'blaze of glory' that was witnes ... more  
NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar SpaceWashington DC (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 NASA's Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little l ... more |
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Ultrafast optical fiber-based electron gun to reveal atomic motionsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 One of the most enduring "Holy Grail" experiments in science has been attempts to directly observe atomic motions during structural changes. This prospect underpins the entire field of chemistry bec ... more  |
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Electrons go with the flowDresden, Germany (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 However, electric currents in solids are formed by electrons. In metals, the electrons do not collide with each other, but they scatter with lattice defects. In conventional materials, the movement ... more 
Bezos' Blue Origin signs on to ship supplies to Moon by 2023Washington (Sputnik) Oct 08, 2018 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' aerospace exploration company signed a letter of intent with two German Space companies to deliver "several metric tons" of cargo to the moon over the next five years. B ... more 
Astronomers discover sonic boom from powerful unseen explosionToronto, Canada (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 A team of astronomers has detected the sonic boom from an immensely powerful cosmic explosion, even though the explosion itself was totally unseen. For years, astronomers have been hunting all ... more 
SwRI scientists study Saturn's rings to discover downpourSan Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 05, 2018 Using some of the Cassini spacecraft's final measurements, Southwest Research Institute scientists have discovered that complex organics rain down from Saturn's rings into its upper atmosphere. Cass ... more 
Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey reveals detailed dark matter map of the universeTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 Einstein's general theory of relativity has helped an international team of researchers measure the lumpiness of dark matter in our Universe today by analyzing images of 10 million distant galaxies, ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 4, 2018 
While searching for signs of Planet X, scientists have discovered a new dwarf planet candidate beyond Pluto. Astronomers dubbed the object "the Goblin."
The dwarf planet's lengthy orbit is extremely oblong, sending the Goblin far away from Earth for most its 40,000-year-long trek around the sun.
Scientists first spotted the dwarf planet, officially named 2015 TG387, around Hallow ... more |
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The construction of ESA's Plato mission to find and study planets beyond our Solar System will be led by Germany's OHB System AG as prime contractor, marking the start of the full industrial phase of the project.
The announcement was made this week at the 69th International Astronautical Congress in Bremen, Germany, where the contract was formally signed.
The contract covers the deli ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2018  A new investigative technique has shown the latitudinal distribution of ice-rich landforms on Mars. This large-scale study enables future, more detailed investigations to study several young deposits of ice and sediment in the north polar basin.
"The young ice deposits are extremely important for several reasons. First, they represent a different epoch in Mars' climate history when ice was ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
The newly named craters are visible in the foreground of the iconic Earthrise colour photograph taken by astronaut William Anders. It depicts the moment that our shiny blue Earth came back into view as the spacecraft emerged out of the dark from behind the grey and barren Moon. This is arguably the most famous picture taken by Apollo 8. It became iconic and has been credited with starting the en ... more |
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 Newcastle UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 
Researchers from Keele University have worked with an international team of astronomers to find for the first time that a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collided in a 'blaze of glory' that was witnessed on Earth in 1670.
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, the international team of astronomers, including workers from the Universities of Keele, Manchester, ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 
Scientists investigating how human-induced increases in atmospheric methane also increase the amount of solar energy absorbed by that gas in our climate system have discovered that this absorption is 10 times stronger over desert regions such as the Sahara Desert and Arabian Peninsula than elsewhere on Earth, and nearly three times more powerful in the presence of clouds.
A research team f ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 
Dwarf planet Ceres experienced an indirect polar reorientation of approximately 36 degrees, a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Pasquale Tricarico says.
Tricarico's paper "True Polar Wander of Ceres Due to Heterogeneous Crustal Density" appears in Nature Geoscience.
Using data from NASA's Dawn mission, Tricarico determined the magnitude of the reorientation wi ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 05, 2018 
On Oct. 3, 2018, Parker Solar Probe performed the first significant celestial maneuver of its seven-year mission. As the orbits of the spacecraft and Venus converged toward the same point, Parker Solar Probe slipped in front of the planet, allowing Venus' gravity - relatively small by celestial standards - to twist its path and change its speed. This maneuver, called a gravity assist, reduced Pa ... 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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Newcastle UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2018
Researchers from Keele University have worked with an international team of astronomers to find for the first time that a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collided in a 'blaze of glory' that was witnessed on Earth in 1670.
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, the international team of astronomers, including workers from the Universities of Keele, Manchester, ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2018 
Previous studies have highlighted the important role sleep plays in learning and memory formation. New research suggests, during sleep, a person's brain replays memories that go un-recalled when awake.
For their study, neuroscientists in Germany recruited epilepsy patients electrodes implanted in their brains for surgical planning. The electrodes allowed scientists to precisely record b ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Oct 9, 2018 
Billionaire Japanese tycoon and future space tourist Yusaku Maezawa's training to go the moon should not be too tricky, he joked Tuesday, adding that he planned to use free time from his six-hour work day to squeeze it in.
The 42-year-old Maezawa paid an undisclosed sum for a ticket on fellow tycoon Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket around the moon as early as 2023 and the passionate art collector a ... more |
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 Portland OR (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
Antarctica's sandy polar desert, the McMurdo Dry Valleys, has undergone changes over the past decade and the recent discovery of thawing permafrost, thinning glaciers and melting ground ice by a Portland State University-led research team are signs that rapid and widespread change could be on the horizon.
Led by Andrew Fountain, a geology professor in PSU's College of Liberal Arts and Scie ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 8, 2018  Fertilizer can accumulate over time, causing environmental damage several decades later.
In a new study, scientists quantified the maximum amount of nutrients land can hold before fertilizers overflow into downriver ecosystems. Their analysis suggests an average square mile of land can hold 1,800 pounds of phosphorus - 2.1 metric tons per square kilometer.
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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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