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  Paris (ESA) Dec 04, 2018 Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system - already serving users globally - has now provided a historic service to the physics community worldwide, enabling the most accurate measurement ever made of how shifts in gravity alter the passing of time, a key element of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. Two European fundamental physics teams working in parallel have independently achieved about a fivefold improvement in measuring accuracy of the gravity-driven time dilation effect known as ' ... read more |
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OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid BennuWashington DC (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx,) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the as ... more  
Portsmouth researchers make vital contribution to new gravitational wave discoveriesPortsmouth UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have made vital contributions to the observations of four new gravitational waves, which were announced this weekend (1 December). The new results ... more  
Radio JOVE From NASA: Tuning In to Your Local Celestial Radio ShowGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 What does Jupiter sound like? If you had to take a guess, would you imagine the sharp staccato of popcorn popping? The slow static of waves reaching the shore? As it turns out, Jupiter produces a ca ... more  
Double Trouble: A White Dwarf Surprises AstronomersHuntsville AL (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 Astronomers have detected a bright X-ray outburst from a star in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy almost 200,000 light years from Earth. A combination of X-ray and optical data indicate t ... more |
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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 
Scientists Detect Biggest Known Black-Hole CollisionCanberra, Australia (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 An international team of scientists have detected ripples in space and time, known as gravitational waves, from the biggest known black-hole collision that formed a new black hole about 80 times lar ... more 
Newly discovered supernova complicates origin story theoriesWashington DC (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 A supernova discovered by an international group of astronomers including Carnegie's Tom Holoien and Maria Drout, and led by University of Hawaii's Ben Shappee, provides an unprecedented look at the ... more 
Four New Gravitational Wave Detections AnnouncedLondon, 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 Gravitat ... more 
NASA provides live coverage of OSIRIS-REx arrival at Asteroid BennuWashington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with its targeted asteroid, Bennu, on Monday, Dec. 3 a ... more |
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 NASA chooses nine companies to bid on flying to Moon  
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  |
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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 
No longer whistling in the dark: Scientists uncover source of perplexing wavesPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Sep 26, 2018 Magnetic reconnection, the snapping apart and violent reconnection of magnetic field lines in plasma - the state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei - occurs throughout the univer ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
What does Jupiter sound like? If you had to take a guess, would you imagine the sharp staccato of popcorn popping? The slow static of waves reaching the shore? As it turns out, Jupiter produces a cacophony of such sounds and all you need to hear them for yourself is a box the size of a DVD player.
The universe is full of radio emissions. Many objects in space emit radio waves, and scientis ... 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) Nov 28, 2018 
Aging is the most important single factor behind chronic diseases and death. As "silver tsunami" approaches, healthcare and social protection systems face the looming crisis. By 2050, the global population of older persons is projected to more than double its size in 2015.
New article published in Frontiers in Genetics by MIPT scientist Peter Fedichev describes a strategy for systematic de ... 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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 Portsmouth UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have made vital contributions to the observations of four new gravitational waves, which were announced this weekend (1 December).
The new results are from the National Science Foundation's LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and the European-based VIRGO gravitational-wave detector. The results were announced at the Gravi ... more |
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