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  Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 08, 2019 Around 60 fragments of India's Microsat-R military satellite are currently flying in orbit, 46 of which are flying in orbits located above the apogee of the International Space Station (ISS), according to the US Air Force's catalogue, published on space-track.org website. The US Air Force's catalogue currently includes 57 Microsat-R fragments flying in orbits at altitudes from 159 kilometres to 2,248 kilometres (99-1,397 miles). As many as 46 of these fragments are flying in orbits above the ISS a ... read more |
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Debris from anti-satellite test no danger to ISS, India saysNew Delhi (AFP) April 6, 2019 India insisted Saturday that debris from its anti-satellite missile test was not a danger to the International Space Station, in a rebuff to criticism from the US space agency. ... more  
Biologists find world's first organism with non-photosynthesizing chlorophyllWashington (UPI) Apr 4, 2019 Scientists have discovered the world's first organism that can produce chlorophyll but does not perform photosynthesis. ... more  
OSIRIS-REx Captures Laser 3D View of BennuGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 This three-dimensional view of asteroid Bennu was created by the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), contributed by the Canadian Space Agency, on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. From Feb. 12 throu ... more 
Japan probe blasts asteroid, seeking clues to life's originsTokyo (AFP) April 5, 2019 A Japanese probe on Friday launched an explosive device at an asteroid, aiming to blast a crater in the surface and scoop up material that could shed light on how the solar system evolved. ... more |
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Heavy Metal Planet Fragment Survives Destruction from Dead StarCoventry, UK (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 Astronomers from University of Warwick detected the small body orbiting a white dwarf 'closer than we would expect to find anything still alive'; Planetesimal orbits with a 'comet-like tail' of gas, ... more  
And the Blobs Just Keep on ComingGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 When Simone Di Matteo first saw the patterns in his data, it seemed too good to be true. "It's too perfect!" Di Matteo, a space physics Ph.D. student at the University of L'Aquila in Italy, recalled ... more  
'Featherweight oxygen' discovery opens window on nuclear symmetrySt. Louis MO (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered and characterized a new form of oxygen dubbed "featherweight oxygen" - the lightest-ever version of the familiar chemical element ox ... more 
Behavior of 'trapped' electrons in a one-dimensional world observed in the labCologne, Germany (SPX) Apr 02, 2019 A team of physicists at the University of Cologne has, for the first time, seen a particularly exotic behaviour of electrons on an atomic scale. Electrons normally move almost freely through three-d ... more 
Hubble watches spun-up asteroid coming apartGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 A small asteroid has been caught in the process of spinning so fast it's throwing off material, according to new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories. Images from Hubble s ... more |
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Dark matter experiment finds no evidence of axionsBoston MA (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 Physicists from MIT and elsewhere have performed the first run of a new experiment to detect axions - hypothetical particles that are predicted to be among the lightest particles in the universe. If ... more  |
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Journey to the Big Bang via Lithium of a Milky Way StarTenerife, Spain (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Cambridge have detected lithium in a primitive star in our galaxy. The observations were made at the VLT, at the P ... more 
Simulations find mechanism of brightest flashes in UniverseTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 Scientists have used simulations to show that the photons emitted by long gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful electromagnetic phenomena in the universe, originate at the visible surface of high-spee ... more 
Researchers pinpoint origin of photons in mysterious gamma-ray burstsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and collaborators have used simulations to show that the photons emitted by long gamma-ray bursts - one of the most energetic events to take ... more  
Ten years before the detection of gravitational wavesSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 The history of science is filled with stories of enthusiastic researchers slowly winning over skeptical colleagues to their point of view. Astrophysicist Scott Hughes can relate to these tales. ... more 
Building blocks of DNA and RNA could have appeared together before life began on EarthLa Jolla CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 Scientists for the first time have found strong evidence that RNA and DNA could have arisen from the same set of precursor molecules even before life evolved on Earth about four billion years ago. ... more |
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 Hampton, VA (SPX) Apr 01, 2019 
It probably goes without saying, but this isn't your everyday satellite dish.
In fact, it's not a satellite dish at all. It's a high-gain antenna (HGA), and a future version of it will send and receive signals to and from Earth from a looping orbit around Jupiter.
The antenna will take that long journey aboard NASA's Europa Clipper, a spacecraft that will conduct detailed reconnaissa ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2019  Scientists have discovered the world's first organism that can produce chlorophyll but does not perform photosynthesis.
The unprecedented animal is called a corallicolid because it is found in 70 percent of the planet's corals.
"This is the second most abundant cohabitant of coral on the planet and it hasn't been seen until now," Patrick Keeling, a botanist at the University of B ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 
The module that will carry the ExoMars rover and surface science platform from Earth to Mars has arrived in Italy for final integration preparations.
The module, along with electrical ground support equipment, shipped from OHB System in Bremen, Germany, arrived on 2 April at Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy.
The mission is the second in the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars programme th ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 
European Space Agency operations specialists are helping flight planners at new European space startup PTScientists, headquartered in Berlin, pilot their way to the Moon.
PTScientists are planning to launch lunar landers and rovers as a regular service in the future, with an inaugural flight expected in 2020.
Specialists from ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germa ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
Scientists have used simulations to show that the photons emitted by long gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful electromagnetic phenomena in the universe, originate at the visible surface of high-speed jets emitted by exploding stars.
Gamma-ray bursts release as much energy in a second or so as the Sun will release over its entire lifetime. Scientists now know that one of the types, long bur ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
Earth observation satellites play a key role in weather forecasting, climate research, monitoring of the planet's surface and the detection of forest fires. These tasks require satellites to transmit very large amounts of data to the ground for analysis. Today's radio systems are reaching their limits in this area.
Optical transmission methods, however, offer the possibility of sending dat ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 
Engineers designing ESA's Hera planetary defence mission to the Didymos asteroid pair are developing advanced technology to let the spacecraft steer itself through space, taking a similar approach to self-driving cars.
"If you think self-driving cars are the future on Earth, then Hera is the pioneer of autonomy in deep space," explains Paolo Martino, lead systems engineer of ESA's proposed ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
For five months in mid 2017, Emily Mason did the same thing every day. Arriving to her office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, she sat at her desk, opened up her computer, and stared at images of the Sun - all day, every day.
"I probably looked through three or five years' worth of data," Mason estimated. Then, in October 2017, she stopped. She realized she had ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 04, 2019 
China's first carrier rocket for commercial use, the Smart Dragon-1 (SD-1), has finished its engine test, paving way for its maiden flight in the first half of 2019, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
The rocket is the first member of the Dragon series commercial carrier rockets family to be produced by CALT. It has a total length of 19.5 meters, a diameter ... more |
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Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 08, 2019
Scientists have used simulations to show that the photons emitted by long gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful electromagnetic phenomena in the universe, originate at the visible surface of high-speed jets emitted by exploding stars.
Gamma-ray bursts release as much energy in a second or so as the Sun will release over its entire lifetime. Scientists now know that one of the types, long bur ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 28, 2019 
With arrays of new galaxies and their stars being discovered every day, it still remains unresolved if there is anyone, or anything, super-intelligent in control, and though the probability of the existence of extra-terrestrial civilizations is considered to be incredibly high, the evidence is a far cry from sufficient.
Members of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence), a San Franc ... more |
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Paris (ESA) Apr 08, 2019
Music has long been known to affect people's mood. A certain tune can lift you up or bring you to tears, make you focus, relax or even run faster. Now a study is investigating how the power of music may improve human performance in one of the most stressful and alien environments we know - space.
Music can help release a cocktail of hormones that have a positive e ... more |
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 Kotelny Island, Russia (AFP) April 5, 2019 
Far above the Arctic Circle, a futuristic army complex equipped with a gym and year-round hot water serves the needs of Russia's Arctic troops.
Moscow built the military base on the remote Kotelny Island - part of the New Siberian Islands in the eastern Arctic - in record time after realising the strategic and economic potential of its northern frontier.
It is romantically named the ... more |
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 Upton NY (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
For the first time, a team of researchers from Stony Brook University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have revealed the molecular structure of membranes used in reverse osmosis. The research is reported in a recently published paper in ACS Macro Letters, a journal of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Reverse osmosis is the leading method of conve ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
The history of science is filled with stories of enthusiastic researchers slowly winning over skeptical colleagues to their point of view. Astrophysicist Scott Hughes can relate to these tales.
"For the first 15 or 16 years of my career I was speaking to astronomers, and I always had the impression that they were politely interested in what I had to say, but regarded me as a little bit of ... more |
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