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  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 Researchers have discovered that light can possess a new property, self-torque. This discovery could open up exciting possibilities in light-related applications, researchers explain in a related video, including as relates to the improvement of smart phones and hard drives. The utility of light is tightly connected to our ability to control light. In addition to many well-known properties like intensity and wavelength, light can be twisted, possessing what's known as angular momentum, something r ... read more |
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Guardians of Apollo: the curators preserving the Moon mission's legacyChantilly, United States (AFP) June 29, 2019 Lying on a workshop counter that is closed to the public at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's annex near Washington Dulles airport, Neil Armstrong's gloves look almost as good as new. ... more  
Scientists capture atomic motion in four dimensions for the first timeWashington (UPI) Jun 27, 2019 Scientists have for the first time captured atomic nucleation in 4D, the movement of atoms across space and time. ... more 
New model explains appearance of supermassive black holes in early universeWashington (UPI) Jun 28, 2019 Scientists have developed a new model for the formation and growth of supermassive black holes that could explain their appearance in the early universe. ... more 
Old hearts might be solution to red giants' age paradoxGottingen, Germany (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 A group of red giants discovered four years ago seems to be old and young at the same time. Scientists now prove that they are indeed old - and a result of star mergers. Four years ago, severa ... more |
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The first AI universe sim is fast and accurate - and its creators don't know how it worksNew York NY (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 For the first time, astrophysicists have used artificial intelligence techniques to generate complex 3D simulations of the universe. The results are so fast, accurate and robust that even the creato ... more  
When CubeSats meet asteroidParis (ESA) Jul 01, 2019 ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence, being designed to survey the smallest asteroid ever explored, is really three spacecraft in one. The main mothership will carry two briefcase-sized CubeSats ... more  
Total eclipse will shield sun over South America next weekWashington (UPI) Jun 27, 2019 The first total solar eclipse since 2017 will occur next week, and will be visible in parts of South America. ... more  
China unveils cloud-tech platform to serve commercial space industryBeijing (XNA) Jul 01, 2019 The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has unveiled a cloud technology-based data platform tailored to the commercial space industry. The Space Cloud Cubic platform launched Wednesday in Shenzh ... more 
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 7th lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Jun 28, 2019 The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the seventh lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extreme cold night. The lander woke up at 9: ... more |
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 NASA Tracked Small Asteroid Before It Broke Up in Atmosphere  
NASA's TESS Mission Finds Its Smallest Planet YetGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the tiniest di ... more  |
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NASA's Dragonfly Will Fly Around Titan Looking for Origins, Signs of LifeWashington DC (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 NASA has announced that our next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world Titan. Advancing our search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multi ... more 
Using a 'Cave Rover,' NASA Learns to Search for Life UndergroundMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 Imagine descending into a cave carved out by lava to work alongside a rover about the size of Spirit and Opportunity on Mars, watching the pristine wilderness of a national park transition into tall ... more 
Astronomers Discover Eight Buried Dual AGN CandidatesLyon, France (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 Astronomers discovered eight buried dual AGN candidates, the largest sample of hidden accreting supermassive black holes in late stage galaxy mergers, selected using NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Surve ... more 
Planet Seeding and PanspermiaHaifa, Israel (SPX) Jun 27, 2019 The first detection of an interstellar asteroid/comet-like object visiting the solar system two years ago has sparked the ideas about the possibility of interstellar travel. New research from the Te ... more 
Half of Indian Anti-Satellite Test Debris Still Orbiting in Space - Harvard AstronomerNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jun 28, 2019 India's anti-satellite missile was a three-stage rocket, which successfully engaged an Indian orbiting target satellite on 27 March. The Indian defence ministry claims that the test was conducted to ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 27, 2019 
A Southwest Research Institute-led team studied the orientation of distant solar system bodies to bolster the "streaming instability" theory of planet formation.
"One of the least understood steps in planet growth is the formation of planetesimals, bodies more than a kilometer across, which are just large enough to be held together by gravity," said SwRI scientist Dr. David Nesvorny, the l ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the tiniest discovered by TESS to date.
Two other worlds orbit the same star. While all three planets' sizes are known, further study with other telescopes will be needed to determine if they have atmospheres ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 28, 2019 
The cracked, uneven, jumbled landscape seen in this image from ESA's Mars Express forms an intriguing type of terrain that cannot be found on Earth: chaotic terrain. The feature visible here, Aurorae Chaos, is located in the ancient and equatorial Margaritifer Terra region of Mars. The terrain here is heavily cratered, and shows signs of myriad fascinating features - many of which are thought to ... more |
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 Chantilly, United States (AFP) June 29, 2019 
Lying on a workshop counter that is closed to the public at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's annex near Washington Dulles airport, Neil Armstrong's gloves look almost as good as new.
You can hardly tell they made a trip to the Moon and back 50 years ago.
To their side is the slightly yellowed "Snoopy Cap" (formally known as a "communications carrier") worn by crewmate Buzz Aldrin. ... more |
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 Hilo HI (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 
An Australian-led team of astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in Chile have successfully confirmed the distance to a galaxy hosting an intense radio burst that flashed only once and lasted but a thousandth of a second. The team made the initial discovery of the fast radio burst (FRB) using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope.
The critical Gemin ... more |
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 Guildford UK (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 
The successful launch on 24 June 2019 (EST) of 6 satellites for the FORMOSAT-7 joint US-Taiwanese weather forecasting constellation marks the start of another SSTL-enabled space mission, a cause for celebration at SSTL's UK HQ.
The launch on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre was attended by SSTL staff including Managing Director, Sarah Parker who said "We are ver ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 28, 2019 
When a lightning detector on a NOAA weather satellite detected something that wasn't lightning last Saturday, a scientist at the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, did some detective work.
Could a tiny, harmless object that broke up in the atmosphere in a bright flash be connected to a just-received automated alert of a potenti ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 27, 2019 
The first total solar eclipse since 2017 will occur next week, and will be visible in parts of South America.
The eclipse will be seen along a 6,000-mile swath on Tuesday. When it aligns with the sun, the moon will cast a dark shadow over parts of Chile and Argentina, experts said. During the event, those locations will be shaded from the sun for several minutes.
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 
Luokung Technology Corp. has announced a strategic partnership with Land Space Technology Corporation Ltd. ("Land Space"). The two parties will work together and take advantage of respective strength on commercial space cooperation with satellite remote sensing data applications as the main target market.
They will jointly develop domestic and foreign markets of products and services which ... more |
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Hilo HI (SPX) Jun 28, 2019
An Australian-led team of astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in Chile have successfully confirmed the distance to a galaxy hosting an intense radio burst that flashed only once and lasted but a thousandth of a second. The team made the initial discovery of the fast radio burst (FRB) using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope.
The critical Gemin ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 
The archaeological site of 'Ein Qashish in northern Israel was a place of repeated Neanderthal occupation and use during the Middle Paleolithic, according to a study released June 26, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Ravid Ekshtain of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and colleagues.
In the Levant region of the Middle East, the main source of information on Middle Paleolithic h ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2019 
LightSail 2 is officially in space! The Planetary Society's solar sail CubeSat lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 25 June at 02:30 EDT (06:30 UTC). The late-night launch came courtesy of SpaceX's triple-booster Falcon Heavy rocket, which was carrying 24 spacecraft for the U.S. Air Force's STP-2 mission.
Launch was originally scheduled to occur at 23:30 EDT on 24 June (03:30 ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 24, 2019 
The defense bill in the U.S. Congress specifies that a new strategic port in the Arctic Ocean must be identified and designated.
The action is meant to counter Russian advances in the Arctic, notably by its submarine fleet, as the ocean warms and becomes easier to navigate.
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act is expected to receive a vote in the Senate this week. It direc ... more |
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 Bristol UK (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 
The findings of a research expedition to coastal Greenland which examined, for the first time, how melting ice is affecting supplies of nutrients to the oceans has been published in the journal Progress in Oceanography.
The European Research Council-funded expedition on board the RSS Discovery took place during the summer of 2017. It was led by Dr Kate Hendry a geochemist from the Universi ... more |
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 Kashiwa, Japan (SPX) Jun 21, 2019 
A new study by a pair of researchers in the US and Japan has found that, when gravity is combined with quantum mechanics, symmetry is not possible.
"Many physicists believe that there must a beautiful set of laws in Nature and that one way to quantify the beauty is by symmetry. Some of the symmetries may be hidden in our world, but they should manifest themselves if we look at Nature at a ... more |
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