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  Tokyo, Japan (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 A Japanese probe sent to examine an asteroid in order to shed light on the origins of the solar system will now land on the rock several months later than planned, officials said Thursday. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) told reporters the Hayabusa2 probe is now expected to touch down on the Ryugu asteroid in "late January" at the earliest, rather than at the end of this month as initially expected. JAXA project manager Yuichi Tsuda said they needed more time to prepare the lan ... read more |
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NASA should expand search for life in the universe: NAS ReportWashington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 To advance the search for life in the universe, NASA should support research on a broader range of biosignatures and environments, and incorporate the field of astrobiology into all stages of future ... more  
SpaceX delays Israel's first lunar mission to early 2019Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 The Israeli organisation behind the country's first mission to the moon on Wednesday announced a delay in the vessel's launch from December to early 2019. ... more  
Surprising chemical complexity of Saturn's rings changing planet's upper atmosphereLawrence KS (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 Political humorist Mark Russel once joked, "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." Well, there's no luggage, it turns out ... more 
The stuff that planets are made ofZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 Is there a second Earth out there in space? Our knowledge of planetary systems far, far away is increasing constantly, as new technologies continue to sharpen our gaze into space. To date, 3,700 pla ... 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 
Vesta, Tell Us About the Childhood of the Solar SystemRome, 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 ... more 
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 |
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String theory: Is dark energy even allowed?Vienna, Austria (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 In string theory, a paradigm shift could be imminent. In June, a team of string theorists from Harvard and Caltech published a conjecture which sounded revolutionary: String theory is said to be fun ... more  |
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VLA sky survey reveals first 'orphan' gamma ray burstCharlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 Astronomers comparing data from an ongoing major survey of the sky using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to data from earlier surveys likely have made the fir ... more 
Hubble in Safe Mode as Gyro Issues are DiagnosedWashington DC (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 NASA is working to resume science operations of the Hubble Space Telescope after the spacecraft entered safe mode on Friday, October 5, shortly after 6:00 p.m. EDT. Hubble's instruments still are fu ... more 
Journey to the Beginning of TimePotsdam, Germany (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 When studying the early universe, astronomers have different methods at their disposal: One is to look to very large distances and therefore back in time, to see the first stars and galaxies as they ... more 
Cutting through the mystery of Titan's atmospheric hazeBerkeley CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is unique among all moons in our solar system for its dense and nitrogen-rich atmosphere that also contains hydrocarbons and other compounds, and the story behind the f ... more 
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 |
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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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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 
To advance the search for life in the universe, NASA should support research on a broader range of biosignatures and environments, and incorporate the field of astrobiology into all stages of future exploratory missions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Astrobiology, the study of the origin, evolution, distributi ... 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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 Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 
The Israeli organisation behind the country's first mission to the moon on Wednesday announced a delay in the vessel's launch from December to early 2019.
SpaceIL said Elon Musk's SpaceX firm, whose rockets are set to carry the unmanned probe into space, had informed it of "a delay of a number of weeks to the beginning of 2019."
SpaceIL stressed that the delay was SpaceX's decision, not ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 
Dark Matter Day returns for a second year giving people all over the world the opportunity to celebrate Halloween in a different way. A series of Dark Matter Day events held in person and online throughout the day on Oct. 31 means that everyone has the opportunity to get involved. Whether you want to host an event, make Dark Matter Day part of an existing event you are involved in, or simply wan ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
About a quarter of the world's seafood caught in the ocean comes from bottom trawling, a method that involves dragging a net along the ocean's shelves and slopes to scoop up shrimp, cod, rockfish, sole and other kinds of bottom-dwelling fish and shellfish. The technique impacts these seafloor ecosystems, because other marine life and habitats can be killed or disturbed unintentionally as nets sw ... 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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Washington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2018
Dark Matter Day returns for a second year giving people all over the world the opportunity to celebrate Halloween in a different way. A series of Dark Matter Day events held in person and online throughout the day on Oct. 31 means that everyone has the opportunity to get involved. Whether you want to host an event, make Dark Matter Day part of an existing event you are involved in, or simply wan ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 
Male chimps that are less aggressive and form strong social bonds tend to live longer, research suggests.
A study of hundreds of captive chimpanzees showed that males that get along well with others - by being sensitive, protective and cooperative - outlived their less amiable peers.
The team, led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, found that, contrary to studies of human ... more |
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 London UK (Sputnik) Oct 11, 2018 
Analysts have warned that the global space race is becoming more and more competitive. Peter Diamandis, Chairman of the X-Prize Foundation told the portal Axios that tycoons and political leaders are eager to pour billions into space exploration.
Sputnik has discussed the competition in space with Dr. Gbenga Oduntan, an associate professor of international commercial law at the University ... 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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