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  Paris (ESA) Apr 15, 2019 The discarded 'upper stage' from a rocket launched almost ten years ago has recently crumbled to pieces. "Leaving a trail of debris in its wake, this fragmentation event provides space debris experts with a rare opportunity to test their understanding of such hugely important processes", explains Tim Flohrer, ESA's Senior Space Debris Monitoring Expert. Fragmentation events like this one - either break ups or collisions - are the primary source of debris objects in space in the range of a fe ... read more |
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Billionaire plans second mission to the moon for IsraelWashington (UPI) Apr 12, 2019 Billionaire Morris Kahn has announced plans for a second attempt to successfully land a spacecraft, Beresheet 2, on the moon for Israel - a project that might take two years. ... 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 
China's Chang'e-4 probe switches to dormant modeBeijing (XNA) Apr 15, 2019 The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe switched to dormant mode for the lunar night on Friday, with the rover traveling an accumulated 178.9 meters on the far side of the moon. The ro ... more 
Bridgestone Joins International Space Exploration Mission with JAXA and ToyotaColorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 Bridgestone Corporation has announced that it will take part in an international space exploration mission together with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota Motor Corporation. R ... more |
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Oil-eating bacteria found at the bottom of the oceanWashington (UPI) Apr 12, 2019 Scientists have discovered oil-eating bacteria in the planet's deepest oceanic trench, the Mariana Trench. ... 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  
Scientists from NUST MISIS create a super-fast robot microscope to search for dark matterMoscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 Researchers from the National University of science and technology MISIS (NUST MISIS, Moscow, Russia) and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN, Naples, Italy) have developed a simple and ... more 
Spin lasers facilitate rapid data transferBochum, Germany (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 Engineers at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum have developed a novel concept for rapid data transfer via optical fibre cables. In current systems, a laser transmits light signals through the cables and infor ... more 
To get to the Moon in 2024, the rocket is just NASA's first headacheColorado Springs (AFP) April 11, 2019 In the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, Alan Campbell, a project manager for space systems at the famed Draper Laboratory that built the computer which took astronauts to the Moon 50 years ago, is waiting for news from NASA. ... more |
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 Israeli spacecraft crashes during moon landing: mission control 
Ridding space of old satellites and debrisColorado Springs (AFP) April 11, 2019 With constellations of thousands of telecommunication mini satellites expected to orbit Earth in the near future, the risk of space-debris collisions will grow. For Nobu Okada, it's an opportunity. ... more  |
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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 
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  
Jupiter's Atmosphere Heats up under Solar WindGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 New Earth-based telescope observations show that auroras at Jupiter's poles are heating the planet's atmosphere to a greater depth than previously thought - and that it is a rapid response to the so ... more 
Revolutionary camera allows scientists to predict evolution of ancient starsSheffield UK (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 For the first time scientists have been able to prove a decades old theory on stars thanks to a revolutionary high-speed camera. Scientists at the University of Sheffield have been working wit ... more  
BepiColombo is ready for its long cruiseParis (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 Following a series of tests conducted in space over the past five months, the ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its near-Earth commissioning phase and is now ready for the oper ... 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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 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 Heidelberg University may now be able to answer that question. They discovered that the star Zeta Ophiuchi in the Milky Way is being orbited by two brown dwarfs, which in all probability formed along with ... 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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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 15, 2019 
The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe switched to dormant mode for the lunar night on Friday, with the rover traveling an accumulated 178.9 meters on the far side of the moon.
The rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, is expected to awaken again on April 28, and the lander to awaken the following day, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Spa ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 
To observe objects in the distant cosmos, and to do science that's never been done before, NASA's James Webb Space Telescopes' scientific instruments need to be cooled down to a temperature so cold, it would freeze the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere solid.
Intentionally chilling the telescope mirrors and instruments with innovative technologies and intelligent spacecraft design allows them t ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 
In the 1950s and early '60s, with the Cold War at its peak, the United States flew U2 spy planes across Europe, the Middle East, and central eastern Asia, taking images of interesting military targets. Though the missions typically connected Point A to Point B, say an air field and an important city, in many cases the camera kept recording between those spots, capturing thousands of photos of th ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 12, 2019  Why do asteroids and meteoroids collide with Earth? These objects orbit the Sun just like the planets, as they have been doing for billions of years, but small effects such as gravitational nudges from the planets can jostle the orbits, making them gradually shift over million-year timescales or abruptly reposition if there is a close planetary encounter. Over time ... more |
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 Los 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.
A paper recently published in the journal Space Weather details how the model can accurately give a one-day warning prior to a space storm of ultra-high-speed electrons, often referred to as "ki ... 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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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2019
To observe objects in the distant cosmos, and to do science that's never been done before, NASA's James Webb Space Telescopes' scientific instruments need to be cooled down to a temperature so cold, it would freeze the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere solid.
Intentionally chilling the telescope mirrors and instruments with innovative technologies and intelligent spacecraft design allows them t ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2019 
The findings are based on a new study led by Murray Cox from Massey University in New Zealand and made possible by sampling efforts led by Herawati Sudoyo from the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology in Jakarta, Indonesia. The data were collected and analyzed by an international team of researchers, including Mark Stoneking from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2019 
The United Arab Emirates' Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) said that Hazzaa AlMansoori will be the country's first astronaut to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on board the Russian Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft.
"@MBRSpaceCentre announces that it has selected Hazzaa AlMansoori as the prime astronaut and Sultan AlNeyadi as the backup astronaut for the International Space Stati ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 
University of California scientists think they know why Earth's generally warm and balmy climate over the past billion years has occasionally been interrupted by cold snaps that enshroud the poles with ice and occasionally turn the planet into a snowball.
The key trigger, they say, is mountain formation in the tropics as continental land masses collide with volcanic island arcs, such as th ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2019  An El Nino that began to form last fall has matured and is now fully entrenched across the Pacific Ocean. Changes in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) brought about by an El Nino affect the atmosphere, resulting in distinctive changes in the rainfall pattern across the Pacific Basin. These changes show up as anomalies or deviations in NASA's analysis of climatological rainfall.
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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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