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  Denver CO (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 TAGSAM, or Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, completed a successful practice deployment in space on Nov. 14-an important milestone in the OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu. TAGSAM is the first-of-its-kind robotic arm and sampling head invented by Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin engineers on the Mission Support Area (MSA) team moved TAGSAM's arm through the full range of motion of all its "joints"-shoulder, elbow and wrist. The maneuver demonstrates that TAGSAM is ready to collect ... read more |
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When not seeing is believing as Oumuamua mystery continuesGroningen. Netherlands (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 A year ago, astronomers identified the first interstellar visitor to our solar system. 'Oumuamua was studied by nearly every telescope available, including the ultra-sensitive Spitzer infrared space ... more 
A solar sibling identical to the SunPorto, Portugal (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 An international team, led by Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA) researcher Vardan Adibekyan, used a novel method to detect solar siblings. The article was published in the journal A ... more  
Universal laws in impact dynamics of dust agglomerates under microgravity conditionsNagoya, Japan (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 Everybody is familiar with granular clusters - while making a cake in the kitchen, you see that the flour forms clumps. Porous dust agglomerates - clumps of clumps of dust grains - are considered to ... more  
World's next supercollider design report releasedBeijing, China (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 Scientists working on the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), a planned next-generation particle collider in China, released its Conceptual Design Report (CDR) on Nov. 14 in Beijing. I ... more |
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Astronomers find picture of hefty star before it blew upPasadena CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 Supernovas are the deathly explosions of massive stars. One of the ways that astronomers look for clues about how these stars blow up is to go hunting for what's known as the progenitor to a superno ... more  
Super-earth discovered orbiting the sun's famous stellar neighborMaunakea HI (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 At only six light-years away, Barnard's star has fascinated exoplanet hunters since the 1960's, largely due to its extreme proximity to us. It is the closest single star to the sun and second closes ... more 
The most luminous galaxy is eating its neighborsPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2018 The most luminous galaxy ever discovered is cannibalizing not one, not two, but at least three of its smaller neighbors, according to a new study published (Nov. 15) in the journal Science and coaut ... more 
UD astronomers detect once-in-a-lifetime gamma raysNewark DE (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 Scientists have discovered something amazing. In a cluster of some of the most massive and luminous stars in our galaxy, about 5,000 light years from Earth, astronomers detected particles being acce ... more 
To boldly go into colliding galaxy clustersBoston MA (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 Hidden in a distant galaxy cluster collision are wisps of gas resembling the starship Enterprise - an iconic spaceship from the "Star Trek" franchise. Galaxy clusters - cosmic structures conta ... more |
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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  |
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Scientists map magnetic reconnection in Earth's magnetotailSan Antonio CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 Analyzing data from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, a team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has found that the small regions in the Earth's magnetosphere that energize the ... more 
Auroras Unlock the Physics of Energetic Processes in SpaceLondon UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 A close study of auroras has revealed new ways of understanding the physics of explosive energy releases in space, according to new UCL-led research. Auroras are an incredible light show cause ... 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 
Detecting light in a different dimensionUpton NY (SPX) Nov 16, 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 
Atomic parity violation research reaches new milestoneMainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 A reflection always reproduces objects as a complete mirror image, rather than just its individual parts or individual parts in a completely different orientation. It's all or nothing, the mirror ca ... 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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 Orlando FL (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 
In 1974, the Arecibo Observatory made history by beaming the most powerful radio message into deep space ever made. The famous Arecibo Message was designed by the AO 74's staff, led by Frank Drake, and with the help of the astronomer and famed science communicator Carl Sagan. It contained information about the human race and was intended to be our intergalactic calling card.
"Our society a ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 
Today, most of the water on Mars is locked away in frozen ice caps. But billions of years ago it flowed freely across the surface, forming rushing rivers that emptied into craters, forming lakes and seas. New research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found evidence that sometimes the lakes would take on so much water that they overflowed and burst from the sides of their basins, crea ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Nov 17, 2018 
A potential mission to the moon in 2028 was presented Thursday to the US National Space Council's (NSC) Users' Advisory Group in response to US President Donald Trump's idea of going to the Moon.
The NSC Users' Advisory Group - a group of government and NASA officials headed by Vice President Mike Pence - was presented with a timeline for reaching and settling the moon in the late 2020s, V ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
Supernovas are the deathly explosions of massive stars. One of the ways that astronomers look for clues about how these stars blow up is to go hunting for what's known as the progenitor to a supernova - the star before it died. They comb through archival telescope images and try to pinpoint the location and identity of the star before it blasted apart.
Now, for the first time, a Caltech-le ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
Research published in the respected journal Science presents observations made by NASA's four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites in the Earth's magnetotail. Two scientists from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Uppsala are co-authors of the article. The lead author is from the University of New Hampshire in USA.
Magnetic reconnection is an energy conversion process im ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 
On Nov. 14, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft stretched out its robotic sampling arm for the first time in space. The arm, more formally known as the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), is key to the spacecraft achieving the primary goal of the mission: returning a sample from asteroid Bennu in 2023.
As planned, engineers at Lockheed Martin commanded the spacecraft to move the a ... more |
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 London UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
A close study of auroras has revealed new ways of understanding the physics of explosive energy releases in space, according to new UCL-led research.
Auroras are an incredible light show caused by electrically charged particles in near-Earth space spiraling down Earth's magnetic field and colliding with gases in the atmosphere, causing them to glow.
They are also a tell-tale sign of ... more |
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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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Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2018
Supernovas are the deathly explosions of massive stars. One of the ways that astronomers look for clues about how these stars blow up is to go hunting for what's known as the progenitor to a supernova - the star before it died. They comb through archival telescope images and try to pinpoint the location and identity of the star before it blasted apart.
Now, for the first time, a Caltech-le ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
An ape maxilla (upper jaw) from the Late Miocene found in the Kutch basin, in western India, significantly extends the southern range of ancient apes in the Indian Peninsula, according to a study published in November 14, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Ansuya Bhandari from the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India, and colleagues.
Apes, or hominoids, are a g ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 15, 2018 
Windy weather pushed back until Saturday the planned launch of a US cargo ship loaded with supplies for astronauts living at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday.
The delay to 4:01 am (0901 GMT) on November 17 from Wallops Island, Virginia marks the second time launch managers have postponed the mission from its initial flight plan of Thursday.
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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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 Saint Louis MO (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
Slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates under the ocean drag about three times more water down into the deep Earth than previously estimated, according to a first-of-its-kind seismic study that spans the Mariana Trench.
The observations from the deepest ocean trench in the world have important implications for the global water cycle, according to researchers in Arts and Sciences at Washi ... more |
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 Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 
Everybody is familiar with granular clusters - while making a cake in the kitchen, you see that the flour forms clumps. Porous dust agglomerates - clumps of clumps of dust grains - are considered to be building materials in the formation of planets. But to reveal how planets are formed, the physical behaviour of these dust clumps has to be properly understood.
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