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  Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 Earth's solid surface and moderate climate may be due, in part, to a massive star in the birth environment of the Sun, according to new computer simulations of planet formation. Without the star's radioactive elements injected into the early solar system, our home planet could be a hostile ocean world covered in global ice sheets. "The results of our simulations suggest that there are two qualitatively different types of planetary systems," said Tim Lichtenberg of the National Centre of Comp ... read more |
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Better to dry a rocky planet before useBern, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 Earth's solid surface and clement climate may be in part due to a massive star in the birth environment of the Sun. Without its radioactive elements injected into the early solar system, our home pl ... more  
China's lander and rover power down for lunar nightBeijing (Sputnik) Feb 13, 2019 Last week, NASA released unique satellite reconnaissance photos of the landing site of the Chinese lunar mission, which made history last month by achieving humanity's first-ever successful soft lan ... more  
Insulating crust kept cryomagma liquid for millions of years on nearby dwarf planetAustin TX (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 A recent NASA mission to the dwarf planet Ceres found brilliant, white spots of salts on its surface. New research led by The University of Texas at Austin in partnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion ... more 
Scientists discover oldest evidence of mobility on EarthCardiff UK (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 Ancient fossils of the first ever organisms to exhibit movement have been discovered by an international team of scientists. Discovered in rocks in Gabon and dating back approximately 2.1 bill ... more |
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Will moving to the commercial cloud leave some data users behind?Atlanta GA (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 As part of their missions, federal agencies generate or collect massive volumes of data from such sources as earth-observing satellites, sensor networks and genomics research. Much of that informati ... more 
SOFIA finds dust survives obliteration in Supernova 1987AMoffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 Dust particles form as dying red giant stars throw off material and become part of interstellar clouds of various sizes, densities and temperatures. This cosmic dust is then destroyed by supernova b ... more 
NASA-Industry Partnerships Can Support Lunar Exploration, Reports SayWashington DC (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 Renewed interest in exploration of the Moon has the potential to benefit lunar science greatly and could evolve into a program facilitated by partnerships between commercial companies and NASA's Sci ... more 
Study shows unusual microbes hold clues to early lifeEast Boothbay ME (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 A new study has revealed how a group of deep-sea microbes provides clues to the evolution of life on Earth, according to a recent paper in The ISME Journal. Researchers used cutting-edge molecular m ... more 
Hubble reveals dynamic atmospheres of Uranus, NeptuneGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 During its routine yearly monitoring of the weather on our solar system's outer planets, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new mysterious dark storm on Neptune and provided a fresh look ... more |
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 Gaia clocks new speeds for Milky Way-Andromeda collision 
NASA seeks US partners to develop reusable systems for lunar missionsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 As the next major step to return astronauts to the Moon under Space Policy Directive-1, NASA announced plans on Dec. 13 to work with American companies to design and develop new reusable systems for ... more  |
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Asteroid from 'Rare Species' Sighted in the Cosmic WildPasadena CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 Astronomers have discovered an asteroid looping through the inner solar system on an exotic orbit. The unusual object is among the first asteroids ever found whose orbit is confined almost entirely ... more  
Evidence for a new fundamental constant of the sunNewcastle UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 New research undertaken at Northumbria University, Newcastle shows that the Sun's magnetic waves behave differently than currently believed. Their findings have been reported in the latest edi ... more  
New physical effect demonstrated by University of Bath scientists after 40 year searchBath UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 A new physical effect has been demonstrated at the University of Bath after 40 years of pursuit by physicists around the world, which could lead to advancements in chemical manufacturing efficiency, ... more 
Novel experiment validates widely speculated mechanism behind the formation of starsPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 How have stars and planets developed from the clouds of dust and gas that once filled the cosmos? A novel experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPP ... more 
Roscosmos, Academy of Sciences: Necessary to Prepare Lawyers for Moon DisputesMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 07, 2019 Russian Roscosmos space corporation and the Academy of Sciences think that it is time to start preparing lawyers for the territorial disputes over the Moon, their joint resolution, obtained by Sputn ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 
An evocative new image sequence from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft offers a departing view of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) nicknamed Ultima Thule - the target of its New Year's 2019 flyby and the most distant world ever explored.
These aren't the last Ultima Thule images New Horizons will send back to Earth - in fact, many more are to come - but they are the final views New Horizons captu ... more |
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 Cardiff UK (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 
Ancient fossils of the first ever organisms to exhibit movement have been discovered by an international team of scientists.
Discovered in rocks in Gabon and dating back approximately 2.1 billion years, the fossils suggest the existence of a cluster of single cells that came together to form a slug-like multicellular organism that moved through the mud in search of a more favourable enviro ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 13, 2019 
US space agency NASA will make one final attempt to contact its Opportunity Rover on Mars late Tuesday, eight months after it last made contact.
The agency also said it would hold a briefing Wednesday, during which it will likely officially declare the end of the mission.
Opportunity landed on Mars in 2004 and covered 28 miles (45 kilometers) on the planet, securing its place in history ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Feb 13, 2019 
Last week, NASA released unique satellite reconnaissance photos of the landing site of the Chinese lunar mission, which made history last month by achieving humanity's first-ever successful soft landing on the far side of the Moon.
China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft and its Yutu-2 lunar rover have entered sleep mode to wait out the cold lunar night, during which temperatures can plunge to as low ... more |
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 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 
Earth's solid surface and moderate climate may be due, in part, to a massive star in the birth environment of the Sun, according to new computer simulations of planet formation.
Without the star's radioactive elements injected into the early solar system, our home planet could be a hostile ocean world covered in global ice sheets.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 
Space isn't silent. In fact, an entire orchestra of instruments fills our near-Earth environment with eerie sounds. Scientists have long known about space phenomena involving electromagnetic waves travelling around Earth that resonate like string instruments and whistle like wind instruments. Now, new research published in Nature Communications has added a percussive member to the cosmic ensembl ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 
A recent NASA mission to the dwarf planet Ceres found brilliant, white spots of salts on its surface. New research led by The University of Texas at Austin in partnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) delved into the factors that influenced the volcanic activity that formed the distinctive spots and that could play a key role in mixing the ingredients for life on other worlds.
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 
Auroras, also known as Northern or Southern lights depending on whether they occur near the North or South Pole, are natural displays of light in the Earth's sky. Typically these lights are dimly present at night. However, sometimes these otherwise faint features explode in brightness and can even break up into separate glowing hallmarks, appearing as spectacular bursts of luminous manifestation ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 12, 2019 
China announced Monday that it is developing the modified version of the Long March-6 rocket to add four solid boosters to increase its carrying capacity.
The improved medium-left carrier rocket will be sent into space by 2020, according to the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, which designed the rocket.
The Long ... more |
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Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Feb 12, 2019
Earth's solid surface and moderate climate may be due, in part, to a massive star in the birth environment of the Sun, according to new computer simulations of planet formation.
Without the star's radioactive elements injected into the early solar system, our home planet could be a hostile ocean world covered in global ice sheets.
"The results of our simulations suggest that there ar ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 12, 2019 
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have identified nearly 2,000 previously unknown bacterial species living in the human gut.
Researchers with the lab's European Bioinformatics Institute collected gut cultures from study participants around the world. The microbiologists used a variety of computational methods to sequence the genes found in the samples.
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 Columbus OH (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 
"This year, American astronauts will go back to space in American rockets."
This one sentence from the 2019 State of the Union address may have escaped your notice. It ended a paragraph in which the president paid tribute to astronaut Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo 11 mission to mark the the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. From that point, the speech transitioned to increasing the s ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 
A new study on ice cores shows that reductions in sea ice in the Arctic in the period between 30-100,000 years ago led to major climate events. During this period, Greenland temperatures rose by as much as 16 degrees Celsius. The results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
A team from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), University of Cambridge and Unive ... more |
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 Kisumu, Kenya (AFP) Feb 8, 2019 
With nets piled onto wooden boats, a group of fishermen joke while gazing out across Lake Victoria and the vast green weed clogging up the waterway. But their laughter has a worried edge as the sun sets.
The thick green carpet of water hyacinth is again choking Kisumu bay, floating on the surface and blocking Kenya's main entry to the largest body of water in Africa.
Leggy egrets are del ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 
The detection of Einstein's gravitational waves relies on highly precise laser measurements of small length changes. The kilometer-size detectors of the international network (GEO600, LIGO, Virgo) are so sensitive that they are fundamentally limited by tiny quantum mechanical effects.
These cause a background noise which overlaps with gravitational-wave signals. This noise is always presen ... more |
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