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  Tampa (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 NASA's first-ever mission designed to visit an asteroid and return a sample of its dust back to Earth arrived Monday at its destination, Bennu, two years after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The $800 million unmanned mission, known as OSIRIS-REx, made a rendez-vous with the asteroid at around 12:10 pm (1710 GMT), firing its engines a final time. "We have arrived," said Javier Cerna, an engineer at Lockheed Martin, as his colleagues at mission control in Littleton, Colorado cheered and e ... read more |
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Taking the Measure of an AsteroidBOULDER CO (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 CU Boulder scientists have a front row seat to observe a NASA spacecraft as it approaches the asteroid Bennu, coming to within 4.5 miles of the space rock. This meet up, which happened this morning, ... more  
Four New Gravitational Wave Events from Black Hole MergersCollege Park MD (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 Scientists announced four new observations of gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of spacetime - from the final moments of black hole mergers. The twin Laser Interferometer Gravitation ... more  
Water on Saturn's Moon Phoebe Is Out of This WorldTucson AZ (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 By developing a new method for measuring isotopic ratios of water and carbon dioxide remotely, scientists have found that the water in Saturn's rings and satellites is unexpectedly like water on the ... more  
Telescopes Reveal More Than 100 ExoplanetsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 An international team of astronomers using a combination of ground and space based telescopes have reported more than 100 extrasolar planets (here after, exoplanets) in only three months. These plan ... more |
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Lockheed Martin Selected for NASA's Commercial Lunar Lander Payload Services ContractDenver CO (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 Lockheed Martin will apply its expertise in interplanetary spacecraft to a new program designed to deliver commercial payloads to the surface of the Moon. NASA announced today they have selected Loc ... more 
NASA Announces New Partnerships for Commercial Lunar Payload Delivery ServicesWashington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 Nine U.S. companies now are eligible to bid on NASA delivery services to the lunar surface through Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts, as one of the first steps toward long-term scie ... more  
Kepler's supernova experiment captures first moments of dying starMoffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 In a galaxy far away, an old star exploded and became a supernova. About 170 million years later on Feb. 4, 2018, the light emanating from the explosion was received by an arsenal of high-powered te ... more 
Newly discovered supernova may rewrite exploding star origin theoriesHonolulu HI (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 A supernova discovered by an international group of astronomers has provided an unprecedented look at the first moments of a violent stellar explosion. The team, led by the University of Hawaii (UH) ... more 
Black hole 'donuts' are actually 'fountains'Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 Based on computer simulations and new observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers have found that the rings of gas surrounding active supermassive black ho ... more |
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Atomic jet - the first lens for extreme-ultraviolet light developedBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 29, 2018 Scientists from the Max Born Institute (MBI) have developed the first refractive lens that focuses extreme ultraviolet beams. Instead of using a glass lens, which is non-transparent in the extreme-u ... more  |
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Construction of Russian Lunar Orbital Station May Be Launched in 2025Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 30, 2018 The construction of the Russian lunar orbital station may start in 2025 with the launch of the base module, according to a report entitled "Roadmap to the implementation of the lunar program," prepa ... more 
Clemson scientists measure all of the starlight ever produced by the observable universeClemson SC (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 From their laboratories on a rocky planet dwarfed by the vastness of space, Clemson University scientists have managed to measure all of the starlight ever produced throughout the history of the obs ... more 
A new way to create Saturn's radiation beltsLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 A team of international scientists from BAS, University of Iowa and GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences has discovered a new method to explain how radiation belts are formed around the planet ... more 
A Close-up Look at the Whirlpool Around a Gigantic Black HoleGarching, Germany (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 Detailed observations of the quasar 3C 273 with the GRAVITY instrument reveal the structure of rapidly moving gas around the central super-massive black hole, the first time that the so-called "broa ... more 
Gas Clouds Whirling Around Black Hole in Distant QuasarTel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 In 1963, astronomer Maarten Schmidt identified the first quasi-stellar object or "quasar," an extremely bright but distant object. He found the single quasar, the active nucleus of a far-away galaxy ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 
The New Horizons spacecraft is healthy and is now beginning its final approach to explore Ultima Thule - our first Kuiper Belt object (KBO) flyby target - about a billion miles beyond Pluto. And on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, New Horizons will swoop three times closer to "Ultima" than we flew past Pluto three years ago!
As someone who follows New Horizons, let your friends and socia ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
An international team of astronomers using a combination of ground and space based telescopes have reported more than 100 extrasolar planets (here after, exoplanets) in only three months. These planets are quite diverse and expected to play a large role in developing the research field of exoplanets and life in the universe.
Exoplanets, planets that revolve around stars other than the Sun, ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 03, 2018 
Mars atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site remains at a storm-free level of 0.8.
Since loss of signal on Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), 359 recovery commands have been radiated including on both polarizations. No signal from Opportunity has been heard.
Opportunity likely experienced a low-power fault, a mission clock fault and an up-loss timer fault.
The project has been lis ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2018  Nine U.S. companies now are eligible to bid on NASA delivery services to the lunar surface through Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts, as one of the first steps toward long-term scientific study and human exploration of the Moon and eventually Mars.
These companies will be able to bid on delivering science and technology payloads for NASA, including payload integration and ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
In a galaxy far away, an old star exploded and became a supernova. About 170 million years later on Feb. 4, 2018, the light emanating from the explosion was received by an arsenal of high-powered telescopes.
NASA's Kepler space telescope detected the unfurling light of SN 2018oh, as it has been labeled. The first ground-based facility to identify the signal was with the All-Sky Automated S ... more |
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 Osaka, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
It has been difficult to simultaneously obtain micro- and macroscopic information in outer space. Global images of distant astrophysical phenomena provide macroscopic information; however, local information is inaccessible.
In contrast, in situ observations with spacecrafts provide microscopic information of phenomena such as the Earth's magnetosphere, but it is difficult to obtain global ... more |
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 Tampa (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 
NASA's first-ever mission designed to visit an asteroid and return a sample of its dust back to Earth arrived Monday at its destination, Bennu, two years after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The $800 million unmanned mission, known as OSIRIS-REx, made a rendez-vous with the asteroid at around 12:10 pm (1710 GMT), firing its engines a final time.
"We have arrived," said Javier Ce ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 26, 2018 
Scientists are using auroras to better understand the physics of explosive energy instabilities in space.
"An instability is a physical process whereby the energy output can essentially grow very quickly without limits," Colin Forsyth, physicist at the University College London's, told UPI in an email.
When a clean swell breaks and crashes on the beach, or when a pile of sand sud ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 23, 2018  According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for just over 85%. Satellite Navigation, one of the key satellite applications in China, was the main revenue generator in 2017, ahead of Satellite Communications and Earth Observation.
This premier ed ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
In a galaxy far away, an old star exploded and became a supernova. About 170 million years later on Feb. 4, 2018, the light emanating from the explosion was received by an arsenal of high-powered telescopes.
NASA's Kepler space telescope detected the unfurling light of SN 2018oh, as it has been labeled. The first ground-based facility to identify the signal was with the All-Sky Automated S ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
Four years ago, DARPA announced the start of a "journey of discovery" toward understanding and treating networks of the brain. The Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) program proposed to develop responsive, adaptable, closed-loop therapies for neuropsychiatric illness that incorporate recording and analysis of brain activity with near-real-time neural stimulation to co ... more |
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 Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 3, 2018  A Soyuz rocket carrying Russian, American and Canadian astronauts took off from Kazakhstan and reached orbit on Monday, the first manned mission since a failed launch in October. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Anne McClain of NASA and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency blasted off for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station on schedule at 1131 GMT. ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
In August 2012, in the frigid wilderness of West Greenland, the Jakobshavn Glacier was flowing and breaking off into the sea at record speeds, three times faster than in previous years. An underwater calving event had caused the massive glacier to lose its footing. But the movement was not linear like a runaway train (as previous studies suggested), but dynamic: drastically speeding up, then slo ... more |
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 Manhattan KS (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
Along with a warming climate and intensified human activities, recent water storage in global landlocked basins has undergone a widespread decline. A new study reveals this decline has aggravated local water stress and caused potential sea level rise.
The study, "Recent Global Decline in Endorheic Basin Water Storage," was carried out by a team of scientists from six countries and appears ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
Four new gravitational wave detections have been announced including the most massive and distant source ever observed. The results are included in a new paper from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the VIRGO gravitational-wave detector, which presents analysis of 10 stellar-mass binary black hole mergers and one neutron star merger.
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