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  Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 An international group of astronomers, involving the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, has succeeded in detecting a planet around Barnard's star, which is only six lightyears away. The planet has just over three times the mass of Earth and is slightly colder than Saturn. The discovery was made by measuring the periodic change in the radial velocity of the parent star. The spectrograph CARMENES, developed to a large part by the MPIA, played an important role in this discovery ... read more |
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NASA learns more about interstellar visitor 'OumuamuaPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2018 In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as 'Oumuamua - the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system. The infrared Spitzer was one ... more  
Detecting light in a different dimensionBrookhaven National Laboratory Upton NY (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 Scientists from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) - a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory - hav ... more  
Doubly-excited electrons reach new energy statesWashington DC (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 Positrons are short-lived subatomic particle with the same mass as electrons and a positive charge. They are used in medicine, e.g. in positron emission tomography (PET), a diagnostic imaging method ... more 
Dark matter hurricane gives physicists hope they'll discover elusive materialLondon, UK (Sputnik) Nov 15, 2018 A new study suggests the Earth is in the middle of a "dark matter hurricane" and scientists are optimistic it offers a better than normal chance at detecting the elusive material. The dark matter is ... more |
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SOFIA unravels the mysterious formation of star clustersMoffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 The sun, like all stars, was born in a giant cold cloud of molecular gas and dust. It may have had dozens or even hundreds of stellar siblings - a star cluster - but these early companions are now s ... more 
Dawn falls silent as a successful mission comes to an endBonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 An extraordinary mission has drawn to an end, after the NASA space probe Dawn fell silent on 31 October. On 27 September 2007, Dawn set off to explore the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, ... more 
Sandwich structure of nanocrystals as quantum light sourceZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 09, 2018 Some materials spontaneously emit light if they are excited by an external source, for instance a laser. This phenomenon is known as fluorescence. However, in several gases and quantum systems a muc ... more 
Meteorite crater discovered under Greenland iceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 An international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in northwest Greenland. The crater - t ... more 
New finding of particle physics may help to explain the absence of antimatterHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 In the Standard Model of particle physics, there is almost no difference between matter and antimatter. But there is an abundance of evidence that our observable universe is made up only of matter - ... more |
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Windy with a chance of magnetic storms - space weather science with clusterParis (ESA) Nov 12, 2018 Space weather is no abstract concept - it may happen in space, but its effects on Earth can be significant. To help better forecast these effects, ESA's Cluster mission, a quartet of spacecraft that ... more  |
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Half moons and pinch points: Same physics, different energyOnna, Japan (SPX) Nov 13, 2018 When physicists send neutrons shooting through a frustrated magnet, the particles spray out the other side in signature patterns. The designs appear because, even at low temperatures, atoms in a fru ... more 
Astronomers get best view yet of supermassive black holes in colliding galaxiesMaunakea HI (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 Two galaxies, drawn together by the force of gravity, are merging into a tangled mass of dense gas and dust. Structure is giving way to chaos, but hiding behind this messy cloud of material are two ... more  
European-built Service Module arrives in US for first Orion lunar missionKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 07, 2018 The powerhouse that will help NASA's Orion spacecraft venture beyond the Moon is stateside. The European-built service module that will propel, power and cool during Orion flight to the Moon on Expl ... more 
A stellar achievement: Magnetized space winds in the laboratoryPortland OR (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 New insights have been gained about stellar winds, streams of high-speed charged particles called plasma that blow through interstellar space. These winds, created by eruptions from stars or stellar ... more 
Johns Hopkins scientist finds elusive star with origins close to Big BangBaltimore MD (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 Astronomers have found what could be one of the universe's oldest stars, a body almost entirely made of materials spewed from the Big Bang. The discovery of this approximately 13.5 billion-yea ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
A letter authored by SETI Institute scientist Oliver White was published by Nature Astronomy today. Co-authors included researchers Jeff Moore, Tanguy Bertrand and Kimberly Ennico at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
The letter "Washboard and Fluted Terrains on Pluto as Evidence for Ancient Glaciation" focuses on these distinctive landscapes that border the vast nitrogen ice p ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018  An international group of astronomers, involving the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, has succeeded in detecting a planet around Barnard's star, which is only six lightyears away.
The planet has just over three times the mass of Earth and is slightly colder than Saturn. The discovery was made by measuring the periodic change in the radial velocity of the parent star ... more |
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 Nashville TN (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
The closest place in the universe where extraterrestrial life might exist is Mars, and human beings are poised to attempt to colonize this planetary neighbor within the next decade. Before that happens, we need to recognize that a very real possibility exists that the first human steps on the Martian surface will lead to a collision between terrestrial life and biota native to Mars.
If the ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
Lunar Outpost, a space technology startup developing enabling technologies for a sustained presence on the Lunar surface, announced their Lunar Prospector designed to search for and map the Moon's natural resources.
The first Prospector was demonstrated driving and drilling in Lunar regolith simulant at the Colorado School of Mines' new Lunar testbed facility in the Earth Mechanics Institu ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
For the first time, astronomers have detected gravitational waves from a merged, hyper-massive neutron star. The scientists, Maurice van Putten of Sejong University in South Korea, and Massimo della Valle of the Osservatorio Astronomico de Capodimonte in Italy, publish their results in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.
Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert ... more |
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 Krefeld, Germany (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 
OpenForests (https://openforests.com), an innovative German forest consulting and tech company, just released the explorer.land platform. The interactive map-based platform is designed to present forest and landscape projects and tell their stories while connecting like-minded organizations and stakeholders from around the world.
"We believe that explorer.land will cause a substantial para ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft executed its fourth Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-4) yesterday. The spacecraft fired its Attitude Control System (ACS) thrusters to slow the spacecraft from approximately 0.31 mph (0.14 m/sec) to 0.10 mph (0.04 m/sec).
The ACS thrusters are capable of velocity changes as small as 0.02 mph (0.01 m/sec).
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 12, 2018 
Space weather is no abstract concept - it may happen in space, but its effects on Earth can be significant. To help better forecast these effects, ESA's Cluster mission, a quartet of spacecraft that was launched in 2000, is currently working to understand how our planet is connected to its magnetic environment, and unravelling the complex relationship between the Earth and its parent star.
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018 
The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment components on Friday.
The selection of space equipment components involves reliability verification, data collection, transmission and comparison.
The smart solution will help shorten the time to ... more |
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London, UK (SPX) Nov 15, 2018
For the first time, astronomers have detected gravitational waves from a merged, hyper-massive neutron star. The scientists, Maurice van Putten of Sejong University in South Korea, and Massimo della Valle of the Osservatorio Astronomico de Capodimonte in Italy, publish their results in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.
Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert ... more |
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 Cape Cod MA (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
More than 4,000 years ago, the Harappa culture thrived in the Indus River Valley of what is now modern Pakistan and northwestern India, where they built sophisticated cities, invented sewage systems that predated ancient Rome's, and engaged in long-distance trade with settlements in Mesopotamia.
Yet by 1800 BCE, this advanced culture had abandoned their cities, moving instead to smaller vi ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 14, 2018  A US spaceship loaded with supplies for the International Space Station is poised to launch Thursday, marking the first such trip since a Soyuz rocket carrying two people failed last month.
At the last moment, NASA added some extra supplies for the three orbiting scientists, just in case. The next Soyuz launch, with three more astronauts on board - one Russian, one Canadian and one Americ ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
NASA's Operation IceBridge flew over a new iceberg that is three times the size of Manhattan on Wednesday - the first known time anyone has laid eyes on the giant berg, dubbed B-46, that broke off from Pine Island Glacier in late October.
The flight over one of the fastest-retreating glaciers in Antarctica was part of IceBridge's campaign to collect measurements of Earth's changing polar r ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
An international team of drought scientists show that while many dams and reservoirs are built, or expanded, to alleviate droughts and water shortages, they can paradoxically contribute to make them worse. The study is published in Nature Sustainability.
Building dams and reservoirs is one of the most common approaches to cope with drought and water shortage. The aim is straightforward: re ... more |
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 Nathan, Australia (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 
Griffith University researchers have demonstrated a procedure for making precise measurements of speed, acceleration, material properties and even gravity waves possible, approaching the ultimate sensitivity allowed by laws of quantum physics.
Published in Nature Communications, the work saw the Griffith team, led by Professor Geoff Pryde, working with photons (single particles of light) a ... more |
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