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  Paris (ESA) May 02, 2019 Small enough to be an aircraft carry-on, the Juventas spacecraft nevertheless has big mission goals. Once in orbit around its target body, Juventas will unfurl an antenna larger than itself, to perform the very first subsurface radar survey of an asteroid. ESA's proposed Hera mission for planetary defence will explore the twin Didymos asteroids, but it will not go there alone: it will also serve as mothership for Europe's first two 'CubeSats' to travel into deep space. CubeSats are nanosatel ... read more |
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China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for fifth lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Apr 30, 2019 The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the fifth lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extreme cold night. The lander woke up at 7:40 ... more 
Scientists Planning Now for Asteroid Flyby a Decade AwayCollege Park MD (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 On April 13, 2029, a speck of light will streak across the sky, getting brighter and faster. At one point it will travel more than the width of the full Moon within a minute and it will get as brigh ... more 
ASU researchers find water in samples from asteroid ItokawaTucson AZ (SPX) May 02, 2019 Two cosmochemists at Arizona State University have made the first-ever measurements of water contained in samples from the surface of an asteroid. The samples came from asteroid Itokawa and were col ... more  
Researchers discover surprising quantum effect in hard disk drive materialLemont IL (SPX) May 01, 2019 Scientists find surprising way to affect information storage properties in metal alloy. Sometimes scientific discoveries can be found along well-trodden paths. That proved the case for a cobal ... more |
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Study details chemical contribution of dwarf galaxy to Milky Way's growthWashington DC (UPI) May 01, 2019 Astronomers are gaining new insights into the way the Milky Way acquires new stellar citizens. ... more 
Astronomers discover 2,000-year-old remnant of a novaGottingen, Germany (SPX) May 01, 2019 For the first time, a European research team involving the University of Gottingen has discovered the remains of a nova in a galactic globular cluster. A nova is an explosion of hydrogen on the surf ... more 
Star with strange chemistry is from out of townTokyo, Japan (SPX) May 01, 2019 Astronomers have discovered a star in the Milky Way Galaxy with a chemical composition unlike any other star in our Galaxy. This chemical composition has been seen in a small number of stars in dwar ... more 
What a dying star's ashes tell us about the birth of our solar systemTucson AZ (SPX) May 01, 2019 A grain of dust forged in the death throes of a long-gone star was discovered by a team of researchers led by the University of Arizona. The discovery challenges some of the current theories a ... more 
Observations that question dark matter disprovedTrieste, Italy (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 As fascinating as it is mysterious, dark matter is one of the greatest enigmas of astrophysics and cosmology. It is thought to account for 90% of the matter in the Universe, but its existence has be ... more |
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 Cosmic dust reveals new insights on the formation of solar system 
Gaia survey reveals three new asteroidsWashington (UPI) Apr 29, 2019 The ongoing Gaia survey has turned up a trio of new asteroids in the solar system. ... more  |
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Researchers find ice feature on Saturn's giant moonTucson AZ (SPX) May 01, 2019 Rain, seas and a surface of eroding organic material can be found both on Earth and on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. However, on Titan it is methane, not water, that fills the lakes with slushy rain ... more 
Giant planets and big data: What deep learning reveals about Saturn's stormsTucson AZ (SPX) May 01, 2019 A "deep learning" approach to detecting storms on Saturn is set to transform our understanding of planetary atmospheres, according to University College London and University of Arizona researchers. ... more 
Deep learning takes Saturn by stormLondon, UK (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 A 'deep learning' approach to detecting storms on Saturn is set to transform our understanding of planetary atmospheres, according to UCL and University of Arizona researchers. The new techniq ... more  
Spinning black hole sprays light-speed plasma clouds into spacePerth, Australia (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 Astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole almost 8000 light-years from Earth. Published in the journal Nature, the research shows jets from V404 Cygni's black ... more  
Rapid destruction of Earth-like atmospheres by young starsVienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system has made questions about the potential for life to form on these planets fundamentally important in modern science. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
Much has changed technologically since NASA's Galileo mission dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere to investigate, among other things, the heat engine driving the gas giant's atmospheric circulation.
A NASA scientist and his team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are taking advantage of those advances to mature a smaller, more capable net flux radiometer.
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system has made questions about the potential for life to form on these planets fundamentally important in modern science.
Fundamentally important for the habitability of a planet is whether or not it can hold onto an atmosphere, which requires that the atmosphere is not completely lost early in the lifetime of the pl ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2019 
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos should not consider postponing the launch of the ExoMars mission as its rescheduling will lead to the loss of support from European member countries, Director-General Jan Woerner told Sputnik.
"I don't accept a discussion about rescheduling because we already postponed the launch for two years, from 2018 to 2020, and I believe industry ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 30, 2019 
The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the fifth lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extreme cold night.
The lander woke up at 7:40 a.m. Monday, and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 1:45 p.m. Sunday. Both are in normal working condition, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National ... more |
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 
As fascinating as it is mysterious, dark matter is one of the greatest enigmas of astrophysics and cosmology. It is thought to account for 90% of the matter in the Universe, but its existence has been demonstrated only indirectly and recently called into question.
New research conducted by SISSA removes the recent doubts on the presence of dark matter within the galaxies, disproving the em ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 02, 2019 
Researchers have found a new way to use satellites to monitor the Great Whirl, a massive whirlpool the size of Colorado that forms each year off the coast of East Africa, they report in a new study.
Using 23 years of satellite data, the new findings show the Great Whirl is larger and longer-lived than scientists previously thought. At its peak, the giant whirlpool is, on average, 275,000 s ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) May 02, 2019 
Two cosmochemists at Arizona State University have made the first-ever measurements of water contained in samples from the surface of an asteroid. The samples came from asteroid Itokawa and were collected by the Japanese space probe Hayabusa.
The team's findings suggest that impacts early in Earth's history by similar asteroids could have delivered as much as half of our planet's ocean wat ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
The celestial phenomenon known as STEVE is likely caused by a combination of heating of charged particles in the atmosphere and energetic electrons like those that power the aurora, according to new research. In a new study, scientists found STEVE's source region in space and identified two mechanisms that cause it.
Last year, the obscure atmospheric lights became an internet sensation. Ty ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) May 01, 2019 
China's retired space tracking ship Yuanwang-2 will start its new mission of public education in the city of Jiangyin, in east China's Jiangsu Province.
The Yuanwang-2 was donated to the Jiangyin municipal government on Sunday. The vessel will start its new mission in science popularization education after serving China's aerospace development for more than 40 years.
Both China's fir ... more |
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Trieste, Italy (SPX) Apr 30, 2019
As fascinating as it is mysterious, dark matter is one of the greatest enigmas of astrophysics and cosmology. It is thought to account for 90% of the matter in the Universe, but its existence has been demonstrated only indirectly and recently called into question.
New research conducted by SISSA removes the recent doubts on the presence of dark matter within the galaxies, disproving the em ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) May 01, 2019 
A team of scientists led by LIU Wu and WU Xiujie from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the first ever Middle Pleistocene human skull found in southeastern China, revealing the variation and continuity in early Asian humans. Their findings were published on April 30 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) May 02, 2019 
RSC Energia mission specialists have developed a one-orbit flight profile for a rendezvous with the International Space Station within about 2 hours.
The main advantage of such a profile is the reduction of the time spent by cosmonauts in a small volume of a spacecraft. One more advantage of this one-orbit rendezvous profile is a quick delivery of various biomaterials to the Station to con ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 
Following four expeditions in the Arctic Ocean and satellite data analysis, a team of Russian climate scientists featuring MIPT researchers described the ocean's "seasonal memory." This refers to a mechanism explaining how atmospheric circulation has caused the ice in the Eurasian Arctic to melt faster than in the American Arctic in the 21st century. The paper was published in the journal Atmosp ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) May 1, 2019 
Australian researchers believe they have found an antidote to a sting from the world's most venomous creature, the much-feared box jellyfish.
Researchers at the University of Sydney had been investigating how the venom is so deadly that one box jellyfish can kill 60 people.
The team noticed the venom needs cholesterol to kill human cells and decided to test whether existing drugs could s ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
On March 17, 2002, the German-US satellite duo GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) were launched to map the global gravitational field with unprecedented precision. After all, the mission lasted a good 15 years - more than three times as long as expected. When the two satellites burnt up in the Earth's atmosphere at the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018, respectively, they had record ... more |
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