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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 as -190 degrees Celsius, a press release by the China Lunar Exploration Program has confirmed. The miss ... read more |
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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  
NASA Selects New Mission to Explore Origins of UniverseWashington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2019 NASA has selected a new space mission that will help astronomers understand both how our universe evolved and how common are the ingredients for life in our galaxy's planetary systems. The Spe ... 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  
Liberal sprinkling of salt discovered around a young starCharlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 A team of astronomers and chemists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has detected the chemical fingerprints of sodium chloride (NaCl) and other similar salty compounds em ... more |
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A glimpse into the futureSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Feb 14, 2019 Ten years into the future. That's about how far UC Santa Barbara electrical and computer engineering professor John Bowers and his research team are reaching with the recent development of their mod ... more  
Lightning's electromagnetic fields may have protective propertiesTel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 Lightning was the main electromagnetic presence in the Earth's atmosphere long before the discovery and application of electricity. There are some 2,000 thunderstorms active at any given time, so humans and other o ... 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 |
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 Russia pencils in first manned lunar mission for 2031 
NASA Administrator says Agency plans to 'go to the Moon and stay'Washington DC (Sputnik) Feb 11, 2019 Jim Bridenstine, the space agency's administrator, said that NASA plans to return people to the Moon and have astronauts explore more of the surface for longer periods. The NASA administrator ... more  |
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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 
Gaia clocks new speeds for Milky Way-Andromeda collisionParis (ESA) Feb 08, 2019 ESA's Gaia satellite has looked beyond our Galaxy and explored two nearby galaxies to reveal the stellar motions within them and how they will one day interact and collide with the Milky Way - with ... more 
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 
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 |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 11, 2019 
Ultima Thule is flatter than scientists originally thought.
As revealed by the latest images captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, only recently downloaded and analyzed by mission scientists, the Kuiper Belt object is more pancake than snowman.
The new images were some of the last New Horizons snapped as it zoomed past the distant object at a speed of 31,000 miles per hour. ... 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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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 
The Hawaii-based James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) has discovered a stellar flare 10 billion times more powerful than the Sun's solar flares, a history-making discovery that could unlock decades-old questions about the origin of our own Sun and planets, giving insight into how these celestial bodies were born.
"A discovery of this magnitude could have only happened in Hawaii," said Dr. ... more |
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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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Honolulu HI (SPX) Feb 12, 2019
The Hawaii-based James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) has discovered a stellar flare 10 billion times more powerful than the Sun's solar flares, a history-making discovery that could unlock decades-old questions about the origin of our own Sun and planets, giving insight into how these celestial bodies were born.
"A discovery of this magnitude could have only happened in Hawaii," said Dr. ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 
All five of the women in NASA's latest class of astronaut candidates followed a passion for adventure and science to get where they are today and are inspirations for the next generation of NASA scientists.
Kayla Barron, Zena Cardman, Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara and Jessica Watkins are nearing the end of two years of intensive training that began in August 2017. They were selected out of ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Feb 14, 2019 
The filling and draining of meltwater lakes has been found to cause a floating Antarctic ice shelf to flex, potentially threatening its stability.
A team of British and American researchers, co-led by the University of Cambridge, has measured how much the McMurdo ice shelf in Antarctica flexes in response to the filling and draining of meltwater lakes on its surface.
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 Tallin, Estonia (SPX) Feb 14, 2019 
In February the article "Metal-doped organic aerogels for photocatalytic degradation of trimethoprim" written by the researchers of two research groups (nanoporous materials and environmental technology research groups) of Tallinn University of Technology was published in the high-impact peer-reviewed professional journal Chemical Engineering Journal.
The head of the nanoporous materials r ... 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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