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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 05, 2018 This set of 16 images shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's steady approach toward the asteroid Bennu during the last half of October 2018. From Oct. 12 to Oct. 29, the long-range PolyCam camera took one optical navigation image per day, except on Oct. 16 and 17 when PolyCam was not scheduled to take images. The spacecraft was approximately 27,340 miles (44,000 km) from Bennu for the first image - a distance several thousand miles greater than the circumference of the Earth. The last image was taken f ... read more |
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One step closer to complex quantum teleportationVienna, Austria (SPX) Nov 05, 2018 For future technologies such as quantum computers and quantum encryption, the experimental mastery of complex quantum systems is inevitable. Scientists from the University of Vienna and the Austrian ... more  
Quantum on the edge: Light shines on new pathway for quantum technologySydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 02, 2018 Scientists in Australia have for the first time demonstrated the protection of correlated states between paired photons - packets of light energy - using the intriguing physical concept of topology. ... more 
New insights on comet tails are blowing in the solar windGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 05, 2018 Engineers and scientists gathered around a screen in an operations room at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., eager to lay their eyes on the first data from NASA's STEREO spacecraft. ... more 
NASA's Dawn asteroid mission ends as fuel runs outWashington (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 Dawn, a NASA spacecraft that launched 11 years ago and studied two of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, has ended its mission after running out of fuel, officials said Thursday. ... more |
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Time-lapse shows thirty years in the life of supernova 1987AToronto, Canada (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 Since it first appeared in the southern night sky on February 24th 1987, Supernova 1987A has been one of the most studied objects in the history of astronomy. The supernova was the cataclysmic ... more 
Astronomers discover the giant that shaped the early days of our Milky WayGroningen, Netherlands (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 Some ten billion years ago, the Milky Way merged with a large galaxy. The stars from this partner, named Gaia-Enceladus, make up most of the Milky Way's halo and also shaped its thick disk, giving i ... more 
Galactic ghosts: Gaia uncovers major event in the formation of the Milky WayParis (ESA) Nov 01, 2018 ESA's Gaia mission has made a major breakthrough in unravelling the formation history of the Milky Way. Instead of forming alone, our Galaxy merged with another large galaxy early in its life, ... more 
Artificial intelligence bot trained to recognize galaxiesPerth, Australia (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 Researchers have taught an artificial intelligence program used to recognise faces on Facebook to identify galaxies in deep space. The result is an AI bot named ClaRAN that scans images taken ... more 
OSIRIS-REx captures 'super-resolution' view of BennuTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 This "super-resolution" view of asteroid Bennu was created using eight images obtained by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Oct. 29, 2018, from a distance of about 205 miles (330 km). The spacec ... more |
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 Maxar Technologies' MDA to design lunar rover concept for Canadian Space Agency 
NASA's mission to Jupiter's trojans given the green light for developmentGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 NASA's mission to perform the first reconnaissance of the Trojans, a population of primitive asteroids orbiting in tandem with Jupiter, has passed a critical milestone. NASA has given approval for t ... more  |
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Neil Armstrong's huge souvenir collection to be auctionedNew York (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 Talk about a pack rat: thousands of things that Neil Armstrong saved over the course of a career that saw him become the first man to walk on the moon will be auctioned off this week. ... more  
NASA retires Kepler Space Telescope, passes planet-hunting torchMoffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets - more planets even than stars - NASA's Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel n ... more 
Sci-Fi inspired tractor beam helps researchers boldly go where none have gone beforeAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Oct 30, 2018 A light driven energy trap similar to tractor beams used to capture spaceships in science fiction movies such as Star Trek and Star Wars has been developed by researchers in South Australia. T ... more 
JILA researchers see signs of interactive form of quantum matterWashington DC (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 JILA researchers have, for the first time, isolated groups of a few atoms and precisely measured their multi-particle interactions within an atomic clock. The advance will help scientists control in ... more  
Astroscale secures new funding for LEO debris clean up conceptSingapore (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 Astroscale has obtained additional funding of US $50 million from a group of investors led by INCJ Ltd. (INCJ), and including funds operated by SBI Investment Co., Ltd.(SBII) and Mitsubishi Estate C ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
A Southwest Research Institute team using internal research funds has made several discoveries that expand the range and value of a future Pluto orbiter mission. The breakthroughs define a fuel-saving orbital tour and demonstrate that an orbiter can continue exploration in the Kuiper Belt after surveying Pluto. These and other results from the study will be reported this week at a workshop on fu ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 
After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets - more planets even than stars - NASA's Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations. NASA has decided to retire the spacecraft within its current, safe orbit, away from Earth. Kepler leaves a legacy of more than 2,600 planet discoveries from outsi ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2018 
The northeastern rim region of Hellas impact basin, located in the southern hemisphere of Mars, contained numerous ephemeral lakes throughout Mars' history, a new study reveals. A new paper published in Astrobiology examines a region where depressions may have been hosted ponding water that originated from different sources, including precipitation, fluvial transportation and ground water.
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 New York (AFP) Oct 31, 2018  Talk about a pack rat: thousands of things that Neil Armstrong saved over the course of a career that saw him become the first man to walk on the moon will be auctioned off this week.
Nobody really knew the extent of the stuff Armstrong amassed during his 82 years on earth, not even the children of the man who made history with his feat on July 20, 1969. Some of the mementos are from his spa ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 02, 2018 
Scientists in Australia have for the first time demonstrated the protection of correlated states between paired photons - packets of light energy - using the intriguing physical concept of topology. This experimental breakthrough opens a pathway to build a new type of quantum bit, the building blocks for quantum computers.
The research, developed in close collaboration with Israeli colleag ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 05, 2018 
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission has resumed collecting science-quality data and planned in-orbit checks after successfully completing a switchover to a backup system in the microwave instrument (MWI) on one of the mission's twin spacecraft.
The in-orbit checks include calibrations and other system tests, and are expected to continue until January, w ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 05, 2018 
Engineers and scientists gathered around a screen in an operations room at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., eager to lay their eyes on the first data from NASA's STEREO spacecraft. It was January 2007, and the twin STEREO satellites - short for Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory - which had launched just months before, were opening their instruments' eyes for the first ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 30, 2018 
Parker Solar Probe now holds the record for closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object. The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles from the Sun's surface on Oct. 29, 2018, at about 1:04 p.m. EDT, as calculated by the Parker Solar Probe team.
The previous record for closest solar approach was set by the German-American Helios 2 spacecraft in April 1976. As the P ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2018 
When German scientists were conducting micro-gravity experiments on China's recoverable satellite in the 1980s, Chinese space engineer Tang Bochang was busy solving technical problems, while carefully keeping Chinese secrets.
Tang joined the China Academy of Space Technology in 1970, the same year China launched its first satellite. He has participated in the development of returnable sate ... more |
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 02, 2018
Scientists in Australia have for the first time demonstrated the protection of correlated states between paired photons - packets of light energy - using the intriguing physical concept of topology. This experimental breakthrough opens a pathway to build a new type of quantum bit, the building blocks for quantum computers.
The research, developed in close collaboration with Israeli colleag ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 
This study is the first to report lead exposure in Neanderthal and is the first to use teeth to reconstruct climate during and timing of key developmental events including weaning and nursing duration - key determinants of population growth.
Results of the study will be published online in Science Advances, a journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Nov 05, 2018 
Fans of science in space now can experience fast-moving footage in even higher definition as NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) deliver the first 8K ultra high definition (UHD) video of astronauts living, working and conducting research from the International Space Station.
The same engineers who sent high-definition (HD) cameras, 3D cameras, and a camera capable of recording 4K footage ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Nov 3, 2018 
A plan to create the world's largest marine sanctuary in Antarctic waters was shot down when a key conservation summit failed to reach a consensus, with environmentalists on Saturday decrying a lack of scientific foresight.
Member states of the organisation tasked with overseeing the sustainable exploitation of the Southern Ocean failed at an annual meeting Friday to agree over the a 1.8 mil ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 2, 2018 
Some coral reefs have a stronger genetic makeup to fight off bleaching, a recent study said.
Researchers recently discovered that so-called "robust" coral, which includes certain brain corals and mushroom corals, are capable of producing special amino acids that prevent bleaching.
Other coral, like "complex" coral, have a special relationship with microalgae called Symbiodinium, ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable astrophysicists to observe gravitational waves emitted by black holes as they collide with or capture other black holes. LISA will consist of three spacecraft orbiting the sun in a constant triangle formation.
Gravitational waves passing through will distort the sides of the triangle slightly, and these minimal distortions can be de ... more |
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