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  Washington (AFP) May 10, 2019 Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world and head of space company Blue Origin, announced Thursday his intent to participate in the new race to the Moon with a high-tech lander to carry vehicles and equipment. "This is Blue Moon," the 55-year-old said at a carefully choreographed presentation in Washington, as curtains lifted to show a model of a huge vessel. It will weigh more than three metric tons empty, 15 fully fueled, and be capable of carrying 3.6 tons to the lunar surface - or 6.5 in a ... read more |
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Lunar tunnel engineers excited by boring Moon coloniesNaples, Italy (AFP) May 10, 2019 As space agencies prepare to return humans to the Moon, top engineers are racing to design a tunnel boring machine capable of digging underground colonies for the first lunar inhabitants. ... more 
Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin will land humans on moon by 2024Washington DC (UPI) May 09, 2019 Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos unveiled plans Thursday to land humans on the moon by 2024 - in a new lander called Blue Moon. The company held a news conference in Washington, D.C., to announc ... more  
A new filter to better map the dark universeBerkeley CA (SPX) May 09, 2019 The earliest known light in our universe, known as the cosmic microwave background, was emitted about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. The patterning of this relic light holds many important clues ... more  
Rare-Earth metals in the atmosphere of a glowing-hot exoplanetBern, Switzerland (SPX) May 10, 2019 KELT-9 b is the hottest exoplanet known to date. In the summer of 2018, a joint team of astronomers from the universities of Bern and Geneva found signatures of gaseous iron and titanium in its atmo ... more |
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New material also reveals new quasiparticlesVilligen, Switzerland (SPX) May 08, 2019 Researchers at PSI have investigated a novel crystalline material that exhibits electronic properties that have never been seen before. It is a crystal of aluminum and platinum atoms arranged in a s ... more 
Star formation burst in the Milky Way 2-3 billion years agoBarcelona CA (SPX) May 09, 2019 A team led by researchers of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB, UB-IEEC) and the Besancon Astronomical Observatory have found, analysing data from the Gaia satel ... 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  
UCLA students touch space with a microgravity experimentLos Angeles CA (SPX) May 10, 2019 It took only 10 minutes and a ride aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard reusable rocket for 11 students in the Bruin Spacecraft Group to make history. At 6:32 a.m. on May 2, their experimental p ... more 
Gravitational waves leave a detectable mark, physicists sayIthaca NY (SPX) May 10, 2019 Gravitational waves, first detected in 2016, offer a new window on the universe, with the potential to tell us about everything from the time following the Big Bang to more recent events in galaxy c ... more |
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First planetary defense technology demonstration to collide with asteroid in 2022Baltimore MD (SPX) May 07, 2019 The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) - NASA's first mission to demonstrate a planetary defense technique - will get one chance to hit its target, the small moonlet in the binary asteroid syst ... more  |
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Lunar Power System Team Wins President's AwardCleveland OH (SPX) May 09, 2019 In preparation of establishing a sustainable presence on the Moon by 2028, NASA is developing new technologies that will let astronauts land, live and explore the surface. In this video, Marc Gibson ... 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 
LIGO and Virgo Detect Neutron Star Smash-UpsPasadena CA (SPX) May 03, 2019 On April 25, 2019, the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European-based Virgo detector registered gravitational waves from what appears ... more 
Could Rare Supernova Resolve Longstanding Origin DebateWashington DC (SPX) May 08, 2019 Detection of a supernova with an unusual chemical signature by a team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Juna Kollmeier - and including Carnegie's Nidia Morrell, Anthony Piro, Mark Phillips, and Josh ... more  
Recognising sustainable behaviour in orbitParis (ESA) May 07, 2019 Solving the growing problem of space debris will require everyone who flies rockets and satellites to adhere to sustainable practices, which doesn't always happen. Now there will be a way to recogni ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) May 08, 2019 
Discovered in 2004, Haumea is a dwarf planet located beyond Pluto's orbit in a region of the Solar System called the Kuiper Belt. Pluto was demoted from the category of fully fledged planets in 2006 because of the discovery of Haumea and other dwarf planets.
Haumea was officially recognized as a dwarf planet in 2008. Its ellipsoidal shape resembles that of the ball used in rugby or America ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) May 10, 2019 
The galaxy is littered with planetary systems vastly different from ours. In the solar system, the planet closest to the Sun - Mercury, with an orbit of 88 days - is also the smallest. But NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered thousands of systems full of very large planets - called super-Earths - in very small orbits that zip around their host star several times every 10 days.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 10, 2019 
For the first time, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has caught the Martian moon Phobos during a full moon phase. Each color in this new image represents a temperature range detected by Odyssey's infrared camera, which has been studying the Martian moon since September of 2017. Looking like a rainbow-colored jawbreaker, these latest observations could help scientists understand what materials make up ... more |
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 Naples, Italy (AFP) May 10, 2019 
As space agencies prepare to return humans to the Moon, top engineers are racing to design a tunnel boring machine capable of digging underground colonies for the first lunar inhabitants.
"Space is becoming a passion for a lot of people again. There are discussions about going back to the moon, this time to stay," US-Iranian expert Jamal Rostami told AFP at this year's World Tunnel Congress ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 08, 2019 
Detection of a supernova with an unusual chemical signature by a team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Juna Kollmeier - and including Carnegie's Nidia Morrell, Anthony Piro, Mark Phillips, and Josh Simon - may hold the key to solving the longstanding mystery that is the source of these violent explosions. Observations taken by the Magellan telescopes at Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory in Chi ... more |
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 New Haven CT (SPX) May 08, 2019 
A Yale-led team of scientists may have found a new factor to help explain the ebb and flow of Earth's magnetic field - and it's something familiar to anyone who has made a vinaigrette for their salad.
Earth's magnetic field, produced near the center of the planet, has long acted as a buffer from the harmful radiation of solar winds emanating from the Sun. Without that protection, life on E ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) May 07, 2019 
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) - NASA's first mission to demonstrate a planetary defense technique - will get one chance to hit its target, the small moonlet in the binary asteroid system Didymos.
The asteroid poses no threat to Earth and is an ideal test target: measuring the change in how the smaller asteroid orbits about the larger asteroid in a binary system is much easier ... 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 03, 2019 
China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-7 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean, beginning its first maritime space monitoring mission this year.
The ship departed from a port in eastern China's Jiangsu Province Wednesday.
As a part of China's new generation of spacecraft tracking ships, Yuanwang-7 is about 220 meters long, 40 meters high and has a displacement of nearly 30,000 tonnes. I ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) May 08, 2019
Detection of a supernova with an unusual chemical signature by a team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Juna Kollmeier - and including Carnegie's Nidia Morrell, Anthony Piro, Mark Phillips, and Josh Simon - may hold the key to solving the longstanding mystery that is the source of these violent explosions. Observations taken by the Magellan telescopes at Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory in Chi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 9, 2019 
Some 8,000 years ago, South American's climate suddenly shifted. According to a new study, the abrupt change precipitated a decline among the continent's human populations.
"Archaeologists working in South America have broadly known that some 8,200 years ago, inhabited sites in various places across the continent were suddenly abandoned," Philip Riris, researcher at University College L ... more |
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 Traverse City MI (SPX) May 07, 2019 
ATLAS Space Operations, Inc., a leading innovator in communications for the space industry, today announced NASA has awarded it a contract for the Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Program's Space Relay Partnership and Services Study. Prime contractor ATLAS partnered in its proposal with Laser Light Communications, Inc, a leader in advanced optical communications and data distribution v ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 10, 2019 
For more than half a century, biologists studying Antarctica focused their research on understanding how organisms cope with the continent's severe drought and the coldest conditions on the planet.
One thing they didn't really factor in, however, was the role played by the nitrogen-rich droppings from colonies of cute penguins and seals - until now.
A new study published Thursday in the ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) May 08, 2019 
Hypersaline brines - water that contains high concentrations of dissolved salts and whose saline levels are higher than ocean water - are a growing environmental concern around the world. Very challenging and costly to treat, they result from water produced during oil and gas production, inland desalination concentrate, landfill leachate (a major problem for municipal solid waste landfills), flu ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 10, 2019 
It took only 10 minutes and a ride aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard reusable rocket for 11 students in the Bruin Spacecraft Group to make history.
At 6:32 a.m. on May 2, their experimental pump designed for use in zero-gravity environments, named "Blue Dawn ," completed its flight into a low-Earth orbit and freefall - thereby becoming the first space payload developed and built entirely ... more |
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