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  Warwick UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 New research by a team led by an astrophysicist at the University of Warwick has a way of finally telling whether newly forming planets are migrating within the disc of dust and gas that typically surrounds stars or whether they are simply staying put in the same orbit around the star. Finding real evidence that a planet is migrating (usually inwards) within such discs would help solve a number of problems that have emerged as astronomers are able to see more and more detail within protoplanetary ... read more |
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Strofio will measure Mercury's exosphere on BepiColombo missionSan Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 The European Space Agency's BepiColombo spacecraft will launch towards Mercury carrying a unique payload designed and built at Southwest Research Institute: an instrument called Strofio, which will ... more  
Milky Way's youngest pulsar exposes secrets of star's demiseBoston MA (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 Scientists have confirmed the identity of the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way galaxy using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result could provide astronomers new information ab ... more 
ASU astronomers catch red dwarf star in a superflare outburstTempe AZ (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 New observations by two Arizona State University astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have caught a red dwarf star in a violent outburst, or superflare. The blast of radiation was more power ... more 
Measuring the speed of sloshing gas in galaxy clusterTaipei, Taiwan (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 Almost all galaxy clusters experience mergers. While a merger takes place, a specific pattern of "spiral" often can be observed in X-ray images. Such a spiral feature is due to the motion of the gas ... more |
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Asteroid named after university of China's science academyBeijing (XNA) Oct 19, 2018 An asteroid has been named after the university of China's top science academy, with approval from the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Asteroid Guokeda (Univ ... more 
NASA's OSIRIS-REx executes second asteroid approach maneuverGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft executed its second Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-2). The spacecraft's main engine thrusters fired in a braking maneuver designed to slow the spacecraft's speed relati ... more 
Debris from Halley's Comet to spark Orionid meteor shower this weekendState College PA (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 Cloud-free conditions will allow much of the United States to see this weekend's Orionid meteor shower, the first major shower of the fall. The Orionids will peak on Sunday night and into earl ... more 
FEFU astrophysicist contributed into international-team efforts on study Comet 29PVladivostok, Russia (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 Evgenij Zubko of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with other international team members has developed a comprehensive model to explain the results of a photometric study of the ... more  
How to weigh a black hole with the Webb Space TelescopeBaltimore MD (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 At first glance, the galaxy NGC 4151 looks like an average spiral. Examine its center more closely, though, and you can spot a bright smudge that stands out from the softer glow around it. That poin ... more |
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Mission control ready for MercuryDarmstadt, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 Teams responsible for flying the bold BepiColombo mission to Mercury today completed the last major step in preparation for Saturday's liftoff - the final pre-launch 'dress rehearsal' at ESA's ESOC ... more  |
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BepiColombo: Two Orbiters Head to MercuryParis, France (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 Known since Antiquity, Mercury has not yet delivered all its secrets. The international mission BepiColombo, scheduled to launch in the coming days, will study the planet's surface and compare its m ... more 
UK-led Space Technology on BepiColombo Mission to MercuryLeicester UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 As the BepiColombo spacecraft sets off on its seven year journey to explore the strange world of Mercury this week, it will be carrying a piece of cutting-edge technology developed and built by UK s ... more 
Algorithm takes search for habitable planets to the next levelThuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 An international team of scientists, including high performance computing (HPC) experts from the King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST), astronomers from the Paris Observatory a ... more 
Scientific research will help to understand the origin of life in the universeSamara, Russia (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 Until now, in the scientific community there has been the prevailing view that thermal processes associated exclusively with the combustion and high-temperature processing of organic raw materials s ... more 
New study sets a size limit for undiscovered subatomic particlesNew Haven CT (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 A new study suggests that many theorized heavy particles, if they exist at all, do not have the properties needed to explain the predominance of matter over antimatter in the universe. If conf ... more |
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 Manoa HI (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
A recently published study led by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology reveals Ganymede, an icy moon of Jupiter, appears to have undergone complex periods of geologic activity, specifically strike-slip tectonism, as is seen in Earth's San Andreas fault. This is the first study to exhaustively consider the role of strike-slip tectonism ... more |
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 
New research by a team led by an astrophysicist at the University of Warwick has a way of finally telling whether newly forming planets are migrating within the disc of dust and gas that typically surrounds stars or whether they are simply staying put in the same orbit around the star.
Finding real evidence that a planet is migrating (usually inwards) within such discs would help solve a n ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 19, 2018 
If you've ever played the claw machine at an arcade, you know how hard it can be to maneuver the metal "hand" to pick up a prize. Imagine trying to play that game when the claw is on Mars, the objects you're trying to grasp are far more fragile than a stuffed bear and all you have is a stitched-together panorama of the environment you're working in. Oh, and there might be a dust storm.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 
NASA has announced a call for Lunar Surface Instrument and Technology Payloads that will fly to the Moon on commercial lunar landers as early as next year or 2020. The agency is working with U.S. industry and international partners to expand human exploration from the Moon to Mars. It all starts with robotic missions on the lunar surface, as well as a Gateway for astronauts in space orbiting the ... more |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 
Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy: the high levels of scandium discovered last spring near the galaxy's giant black hole were in fact an optical illusion.
Last spring, researchers published a study about the apparent presence of astonishing and dramatically high levels of three different eleme ... more |
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 Westminster CO (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 
DigitalGlobe reports that NASA awarded the company a sole-source contract for high-resolution commercial electro-optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery valued at up to $7 million. NASA-funded researchers will use this data to advance the agency's science and application development goals to understand and explore Earth, improve lives, and safeguard our future.
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 State College PA (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 
Cloud-free conditions will allow much of the United States to see this weekend's Orionid meteor shower, the first major shower of the fall.
The Orionids will peak on Sunday night and into early Monday morning, but stargazers should also be able to see some meteors on both Friday night and Saturday night leading up to the shower's peak, weather permitting.
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 
School students have successfully identified sounds caused by a solar storm in the Earth's magnetic shield, as part of a Queen Mary University of London research project.
The findings, by a group of year 12 pupils from Eltham Hill School in south east London, have now been published in the scientific journal Space Weather.
The project encouraged schools in London to take part in univ ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018 
Many new companies have entered the commercial aerospace industry in China, supported by the government. Most of the CEOs come from government aerospace agencies or national scientific institutions. These companies still have a long way to go to catch up with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
The aerospace industry used to be a battleground for superpowers. Space agencies were all sponsored by governmen ... more |
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Lund, Sweden (SPX) Oct 18, 2018
Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy: the high levels of scandium discovered last spring near the galaxy's giant black hole were in fact an optical illusion.
Last spring, researchers published a study about the apparent presence of astonishing and dramatically high levels of three different eleme ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 17, 2018 
Life expectancy in 2040 is set to rise at least a little in all nations but the rankings will change dramatically, with Spain taking the top spot while China and the United States trade places, researchers said Wednesday.
With a projected average lifespan of nearly 85.8 years, Spain - formerly in 4th place - will dethrone Japan, which sits atop the rankings today with a lifespan of 83.7 ye ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 
With scarce nutrients and weak gravity, growing potatoes on the Moon or on other planets seems unimaginable. But the plant hormone strigolactone could make it possible, plant biologists from the University of Zurich have shown. The hormone supports the symbiosis between fungi and plant roots, thus encouraging plants' growth - even under the challenging conditions found in space.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 
In an extensive and rigorous study of animal life on the Central Arctic Ocean floor, researchers have shown that water depth and food availability influence the species composition, density, and biomass of benthic communities, according to a study published October 17, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.
The study, led by a team including Antje Boetius of the Max Planck Institute for ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 17, 2018 
Scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara want to use satellite tracking technology to ensure shark sanctuaries around the world are true sanctuaries - not hotbeds of illegal activity.
When Darcy Bradley and her colleagues at UCSB set out for the Marshall Islands, they intended to monitor the movements of grey reef sharks inside a supposed shark sanctuary. Instead, th ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
A RUDN physicist demonstrated how to describe the shape of any symmetrical wormhole - a black hole that theoretically can be a kind of a portal between any two points in space and time - based on its wave spectrum. The research would help understand the physics of wormholes and better identify their physical characteristics. The article of the scientist was published in the Physics Letters B jou ... more |
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