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  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 A comprehensive catalogue of the bacteria and fungi found on surfaces inside the International Space Station (ISS) is being presented in a study published in the open access journal Microbiome. Knowledge of the composition of the microbial and fungal communities on the ISS can be used to develop safety measures for NASA for long-term space travel or living in space. Dr Kasthuri Venkateswaran, at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the corresponding author said: "Specific microbes in indoor s ... read more |
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UCF researchers develop way to control speed of light, send it backwardOrlando FL (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 University of Central Florida researchers have developed a way to control the speed of light. Not only can they speed up a pulse of light and slow it down, they can also make it travel backward. ... more 
Life Could Be Evolving Right Now on Nearest ExoplanetsIthaca NY (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 Rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting our closest stars could host life, according to a new study that raises the excitement about exoplanets. When rocky, Earth-like planets were discovered orbit ... 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  
Iron volcanoes may have erupted on metal asteroidsSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 Metallic asteroids are thought to have started out as blobs of molten iron floating in space. As if that's not strange enough, scientists now think that as the metal cooled and solidified, volcanoes ... 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 
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  
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 
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 
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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 Researchers pinpoint origin of photons in mysterious gamma-ray bursts 
Dark Energy Instrument's lenses see the night sky for the first timeBerkeley CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 On April 1 the dome of the Mayall Telescope near Tucson, Arizona, opened to the night sky, and starlight poured through the assembly of six large lenses that were carefully packaged and aligned for ... more  |
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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 
Samara scientists research how building material for planets appears in the universeSamara, Russia (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 The international team of scientists proposed a sequence of transformations starting from a chemical compound - a triphenylene molecule - to graphene nanoparticles, soot, and carbon dust, which are ... more 
Are brown dwarfs failed stars or super-planets?Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 Brown dwarfs fill the "gap" between stars and the much smaller planets - two very different types of astronomical objects. But how they originate has yet to be fully explained. Astronomers from Heid ... more  
New model accurately predicts harmful space weatherLos Alamos NM (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 A new, first-of-its-kind space weather model reliably predicts space storms of high-energy particles that are harmful to many satellites and spacecraft orbiting in the Earth's outer radiation belt. ... more 
Astronomers find evidence of a planet with a mass almost 13 times that of JupiterSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 In the past three decades, almost 4,000 planet-like objects have been discovered orbiting isolated stars outside the Solar System (exoplanets). Beginning in 2011, it was possible to use NASA's Keple ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
More than 10 years since its discovery, (225088) 2007 OR10 is the largest minor planet in our solar system without a name, and the 3 astronomers who discovered it want the public's help to change that. In an article published by The Planetary Society today, Meg Schwamb, a planetary scientist who helped discover 2007 OR10, announced a campaign inviting the public to pick the best name to submit t ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
Rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting our closest stars could host life, according to a new study that raises the excitement about exoplanets.
When rocky, Earth-like planets were discovered orbiting in the habitable zone of some of our closest stars, excitement skyrocketed - until hopes for life were dashed by the high levels of radiation bombarding those worlds.
Proxima-b, only 4.24 li ... 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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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 
Metallic asteroids are thought to have started out as blobs of molten iron floating in space. As if that's not strange enough, scientists now think that as the metal cooled and solidified, volcanoes spewing liquid iron could have erupted through a solid iron crust onto the surface of the asteroid.
This scenario emerged from an analysis by planetary scientists at UC Santa Cruz whose investi ... more |
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 Wallops Island, VA (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 
NASA successfully launched the Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment or AZURE mission on April 5 from the Andoya Space Center in Norway.
Two Black Brant XI-A sounding rockets were launched at 6:14 and 6:16 p.m. EDT on April 5 carrying scientific instruments for studying the energy exchange within an aurora.
The AZURE mission is designed to make measurements of the atmospheric dens ... 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 effect on us: oxytocin, end ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 
This is the last year for Operation IceBridge, NASA's most comprehensive airborne survey of ice change. Since the launch of its first Arctic campaign in spring 2009, IceBridge has enabled discoveries ranging from water aquifers hidden within snow in southeast Greenland, to the first map indicating where the base of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet is thawed, to detailed depictions of the evolving ... more |
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 Lemont IL (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
While water is perceived to be one of the simplest substances in the world, modeling its behavior on the atomic or molecular level has frustrated scientists for decades. To date, no single model has been able to accurately represent the plethora of water's singular characteristics, including the fact that it is densest at a temperature slightly higher than its melting point.
A new study fr ... 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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