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  Beijing (AFP) Dec 8, 2018 China launched a rover early Saturday destined to land on the far side of the moon, a global first that would boost Beijing's ambitions to become a space superpower, state media said. The Chang'e-4 lunar probe mission - named after the moon goddess in Chinese mythology - launched on a Long March 3B rocket from the southwestern Xichang launch centre at 2:23 am (1823 GMT), according to the official Xinhua news agency. The blast-off marked the start of a long journey to the far side of the moon f ... read more |
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Get ready to greet the Geminid MeteorsBoston MA (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 If it's clear the nights of Thursday and Friday, December 13th and 14th, step outside and look up - you may very well see streaks of light across the sky from the annual Geminid meteor shower. ... more  
Science: High pressure orders electronsKarlsruher, Germany (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 High-temperature superconductors can transport electrical energy without resistance. Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have carried out high-resolution inelastic x-ray scatterin ... more 
On the trail of the Higgs BosonBologna, Italy (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 For the physics community, the discovery of new particles like the Higgs Boson has paved the way for a host of exciting potential experiments. Yet, when it comes to such an elusive particle as the H ... more 
Learning from lunar lightsParis (ESA) Dec 10, 2018 Every few hours observing the Moon, ESA's 'NELIOTA' project discovers a brilliant flash of light across its surface - the result of an object hurtling through space and striking our unprotected rock ... more |
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An exoplanet loses its atmosphere in the form of a tailMadrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 A new study, led by scientists from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), reveals that the giant exoplanet WASP-69b carries a comet-like tail made up of helium particles escaping from its ... more  
Prediction of Sun's Activity Over the Next DecadeKolkata, India (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 The Sun's activity influences environmental conditions in space, adversely affecting satellites and space-based technologies such as telecommunications and navigational networks. The Sun is also the ... more 
Bizarre 'dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universeOxford UK (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 It's embarrassing, but astrophysicists are the first to admit it. Our best theoretical model can only explain 5% of the universe. The remaining 95% is famously made up almost entirely of invisible, ... more  
BepiColombo now firing on all cylindersParis (ESA) Dec 06, 2018 BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA spacecraft on a mission to Mercury, is now firing its thrusters for the first time in flight. On Sunday, BepiColombo carried out the first successful manoeuver ... more 
Radio Search for Artificial Emissions from 'OumuamuaMountain View CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2018 It's the first time a visitor from another star system has been seen nearby. But what is it? An asteroid, a comet ... or an alien artifact? Scientists at the SETI Institute have attempted to a ... more |
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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  |
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Discovery of single material that produces white light could boost efficiency of LED bulbsToledo OH (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 Physicists at The University of Toledo are part of an international team of scientists who discovered a single material that produces white light, opening the door for a new frontier in lighting, wh ... more 
COSINE-100 experiment investigates dark matter mysteryNew Haven CT (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 Yale scientists are part of a new international experiment that challenges previous claims about the detection of non-luminous dark matter. Astrophysical evidence suggests that the universe co ... 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 
The 'Camera That Saved Hubble' Turns 25Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 05, 2018 Twenty-five years ago this week, NASA held its collective breath as seven astronauts on space shuttle Endeavour caught up with the Hubble Space Telescope 353 miles (568 kilometers) above Earth. Thei ... more 
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 |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 
With just 29 days to go before making space exploration history, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft performed a short but record-setting course-correction maneuver on Dec. 2 that refined its path toward Ultima Thule, the Kuiper Belt object it will fly by on Jan. 1.
Just as the exploration of Ultima Thule will be the farthest-ever flyby of a planetary body, Sunday's maneuver was the most distan ... more |
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 
Although helium is a rare element on Earth, it is ubiquitous in the Universe. It is, after hydrogen, the main component of stars and gaseous giant planets. Despite its abundance, helium was only detected recently in the atmosphere of a gaseous giant by an international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland.
The team, this time led by Genevan research ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2018 
NASA's newest Mars lander InSight is slowly readying itself for its scientific mission. The newest images captured by the lander's camera, and shared by NASA, showcase the spacecraft's robotic arm.
The robotic arm can be seen in a flexed position, poised to deploy some of InSight's instruments in the coming days.
One of those instruments is the craft's seismometer. Once deployed, ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 10, 2018 
Every few hours observing the Moon, ESA's 'NELIOTA' project discovers a brilliant flash of light across its surface - the result of an object hurtling through space and striking our unprotected rocky neighbour at vast speed. Based at the Kryoneri telescope of the National Observatory of Athens, this important project is now being extended to January 2021.
Impact flashes are referred to as ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope requires a primary mirror so large that it would not fit inside any existing rockets as one single, large mirror. Because of this, Webb is equipped with a revolutionary set of 18 hexagonal mirror segments that are able to fold to fit inside the rocket fairing.
Their honeycomb like arrangement allows for Webb to have the largest possible reflective surface ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 
Ball Aerospace has delivered the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) spectrometer to NASA after a successful final acceptance review. Once launched, TEMPO will be a space-based ultraviolet/visible light air quality spectrometer in geostationary orbit over greater North America.
"Ball Aerospace has more than 30 years of innovation in advanced spectrometers and expertise ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 
On Dec. 3, after traveling billions of kilometers from Earth, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached its target, Bennu, and kicked off a nearly two-year, up-close investigation of the asteroid. It will inspect nearly every square inch of this ancient clump of rubble left over from the formation of our solar system. Ultimately, the spacecraft will pick up a sample of pebbles and dust from Bennu's s ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 
Andres Munoz-Jaramillo and Jose Manuel Vaquero, from Southwest Research Institute and University of Extremadura, respectively, have developed a new technique for looking at historic solar data to distinguish trustworthy observations from those that should be used with care. This work is critical to understanding the Sun's past and future as well as whether solar activity plays a role in climate ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 7, 2018  China launched a rover early Saturday destined to land on the far side of the moon, a global first that would boost Beijing's ambitions to become a space superpower, state media said.
The Chang'e-4 lunar probe mission - named after the moon goddess in Chinese mythology - launched on a Long March 3B rocket from the southwestern Xichang launch centre at 2:23 am (1823 GMT), according to the o ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 10, 2018
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope requires a primary mirror so large that it would not fit inside any existing rockets as one single, large mirror. Because of this, Webb is equipped with a revolutionary set of 18 hexagonal mirror segments that are able to fold to fit inside the rocket fairing.
Their honeycomb like arrangement allows for Webb to have the largest possible reflective surface ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 4, 2018  As humans continue to alter the landscape and transform environments, ecosystems across the globe are becoming increasingly homogenous.
New research suggests the same cosmopolitan species are taking advantage of humankind's environmental disruption. And as the same cosmopolitan species thrive across planet Earth, more unique species are disappearing.
To quantify the phenomenon, a ... more |
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 Washington DC (The Conversation) Dec 07, 2018 
On July 20, 1989, the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, President George H. W. Bush stood on the steps of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. and, backed by the Apollo 11 crew, announced his new Space Exploration Initiative (SEI). He believed that this new program would put America on a track to return to the moon and make an eventual push to Mars.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 
New NASA research has found that increases in the rate at which Arctic sea ice grows in the winter may have partially slowed down the decline of the Arctic sea ice cover.
As temperatures in the Arctic have warmed at double the pace of the rest of the planet, the expanse of frozen seawater that blankets the Arctic Ocean and neighboring seas has shrunk and thinned over the past three decades ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 10, 2018 
The jury is still out as to whether climate change will lead to stronger El Nino events, but while representatives from around 200 countries at the COP24 conference are working to breathe life into the 2105 Paris Agreement, there is a 75-80% chance that a fully-fledged event could be with us in the next couple of months.
El Nino and its cooler cousin, La Nina, are complex naturally occurri ... 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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