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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 09, 2019 With careful planning and dashes of creativity, engineers have been able to keep NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft flying for nearly 42 years - longer than any other spacecraft in history. To ensure that these vintage robots continue to return the best science data possible from the frontiers of space, mission engineers are implementing a new plan to manage them. And that involves making difficult choices, particularly about instruments and thrusters. One key issue is that both Voyagers, launched ... read more |
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Zwicky Transient Facility Spots Asteroid with Shortest YearPasadena CA (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 Astronomers have spotted an unusual asteroid with the shortest "year" known for any asteroid. The rocky body, dubbed 2019 LF6, is about a kilometer in size and circles the Sun roughly every 151 days ... more  
Chameleon Theory Could Change How We Think About GravityDurham UK (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 Supercomputer simulations of galaxies have shown that Einstein's general theory of relativity might not be the only way to explain how gravity works or how galaxies form. Physicists at Durham ... more  
Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon?Nottingham UK (The Conversation) Jul 05, 2019 Many people who are old enough to have experienced the first moon landing will vividly remember what it was like watching Neil Armstrong utter his famous quote: "That's one small step for a man, one ... more  
Discovering Exoplanets with Gravitational WavesPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 In a recent paper in Nature Astronomy, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) in Potsdam and from the French Alternative Energies and Ato ... more |
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Spiraling Filaments Feed Young GalaxiesPasadena CA (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 Galaxies grow by accumulating gas from their surroundings and converting it to stars, but the details of this process have remained murky. New observations, made using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KC ... more  
Details of Solar Science Mission Revealed at UK Astronomy MeetingLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 Named after a Celtic goddess of the Sun, SULIS is a UK-led solar science mission, designed to answer fundamental questions about the physics of solar storms. The mission consists of a cluster of sma ... more 
Scientists weigh the balance of matter in galaxy clustersBirmingham UK (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 A method of weighing the quantities of matter in galaxy clusters - the largest objects in our universe - has shown a balance between the amounts of hot gas, stars and other materials. The resu ... more  
How visions of the Moon inspired centuries of storytellersParis (AFP) July 8, 2019 By landing on the Moon in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin arrived at a place which, up until that point, had been the stuff of fantasy. ... more 
Astrobotic Awarded $5.6 Million NASA Contract to Deliver Autonomous Moon RoverPittsburgh PA (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 Astrobotic has been selected by NASA's Lunar Surface and Instrumentation and Technology Payload (LSITP) program to develop an autonomous lunar rover with its partner, Carnegie Mellon University. ... more |
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 How conspiracy theories followed man to the Moon  
The mission of a lifetime: a drone on Titan in 2034Laurel, United States (AFP) July 4, 2019 Elizabeth Turtle was overjoyed when, on June 26, she received a call from NASA: her project to send a drone quadcopter to Titan, Saturn's largest moon, was given the green light, which came with a budget of nearly a billion dollars. ... more  |
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UK-led solar science mission to use cubesatsLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 Named after a Celtic goddess of the Sun, SULIS is a UK-led solar science mission, designed to answer fundamental questions about the physics of solar storms. The mission consists of a cluster of sma ... more 
SMU's 'Titans in a jar' could answer key questions ahead of NASA's space explorationDallas TX (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 Researchers from Southern Methodist University (SMU) could help determine if Saturn's icy moon - Titan - has ever been home to life long before NASA completes an exploratory visit to its surface by ... more 
New camera system to offer high-resolution images, video of lunar landingTucson AZ (SPX) Jul 03, 2019 A new spacecraft-mounted camera system funded by NASA is poised to return the first high-resolution video of a landing plume as it lands on the Moon. The Heimdall camera system project, headed ... more 
Scientists scramble to build payload for 2021 lunar landingBerkeley CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2019 Scavenging spare parts and grabbing off-the-shelf hardware, University of California, Berkeley, space scientists are in a sprint to build scientific instruments that will land on the Moon in a mere ... more 
Tracking down dark matterMainz, Germany (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 Matter surrounds us day and night in all its forms - trees, houses, furniture, and even the air we breathe. But, according to physicists, the visible matter familiar to us may only account for appro ... 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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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 
In a recent paper in Nature Astronomy, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) in Potsdam and from the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Saclay, Paris suggest how the planned space-based gravitational-wave observatory LISA can detect exoplanets orbiting white dwarf binaries everywhere in our Milky Way and ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 
When astronauts live and work on the Moon, they will need access to life-sustaining oxygen, water and other resources. On the Moon, and eventually Mars, they could collect local resources on the surface and transform them into breathable air; water for drinking, hygiene, and farming; rocket propellants and more. It's a practice called in-situ resource utilization (ISRU).
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 03, 2019 
A new spacecraft-mounted camera system funded by NASA is poised to return the first high-resolution video of a landing plume as it lands on the Moon.
The Heimdall camera system project, headed by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist R. Aileen Yingst, consists of four color cameras and a DVR to store images until they can be uplinked to Earth.
"The camera system will return th ... more |
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 
A method of weighing the quantities of matter in galaxy clusters - the largest objects in our universe - has shown a balance between the amounts of hot gas, stars and other materials.
The results are the first to use observational data to measure this balance, which was theorized 20 years ago, and will yield fresh insight into the relationship between ordinary matter that emits light and d ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 
The French Space Agency (CNES) has awarded the CO3D (Constellation Optique 3D) contract to Airbus. Under this agreement, Airbus will deliver a global high-resolution Digital Surface Model (DSM).
Following launch, expected end of 2022, the Airbus-made CO3D constellation, comprising four identical satellites, will deliver 50cm resolution stereo imagery across the world on a daily basis. The ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 
Astronomers have spotted an unusual asteroid with the shortest "year" known for any asteroid. The rocky body, dubbed 2019 LF6, is about a kilometer in size and circles the Sun roughly every 151 days.
In its orbit, the asteroid swings out beyond Venus and, at times, comes closer in than Mercury, which circles the Sun every 88 days. 2019 LF6 is one of only 20 known "Atira" asteroids, which a ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 
Named after a Celtic goddess of the Sun, SULIS is a UK-led solar science mission, designed to answer fundamental questions about the physics of solar storms. The mission consists of a cluster of small satellites and will carefully monitor solar storms using state-of-the-art UK technology, as well as demonstrating new technologies in space. Lead Investigator on the project, Dr. Eamon Scullion of ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2019 
With eyes bright, Sun Zezhou, chief designer of China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe, speaks fast but clearly.
"Every time I see the moon, I think how Chinese probes have left permanent footprints on it, especially Chang'e-4, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the far side. As a member of the mission, I'm very proud," said Sun.
Chinese engineers began plans for the Chang'e-1 lunar probe i ... more |
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Birmingham UK (SPX) Jul 05, 2019
A method of weighing the quantities of matter in galaxy clusters - the largest objects in our universe - has shown a balance between the amounts of hot gas, stars and other materials.
The results are the first to use observational data to measure this balance, which was theorized 20 years ago, and will yield fresh insight into the relationship between ordinary matter that emits light and d ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 
A leading public health expert is calling for a strategic initiative to develop green burial corridors alongside major transport routes because British graveyards and cemeteries are rapidly running out of room. With 500,000 deaths annually in England and Wales, it is likely that there will be no burial space left within five years.
Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, P ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2019 
The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft sprang loose from its Prox-1 carrier vehicle as planned, and sent its first signals back to mission control at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in California. The CubeSat, about the size of a loaf of bread, was scheduled to leave Prox-1 precisely 7 days after both spacecraft successfully flew to orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
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 Reykjavik (AFP) July 5, 2019 
UNESCO on Friday added Iceland's Vatnajokull National Park, Europe's largest with a landscape of "fire and ice," to its World Heritage List.
Shaped by volcanoes and surrounded by lava fields, the park is also home to the largest glacier in Europe, after which it is named.
The protected area of some 14,500 square kilometres (around 5,600 square miles) - or 14 percent of the whole country ... more |
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 Kiel, Germany (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 
The oceans are losing oxygen. Numerous studies based on direct measurements in recent years have shown this. Since water can dissolve less gas as temperatures rise, these results were not surprising. In addition to global warming, factors such as eutrophication of the coastal seas also contribute to the ongoing deoxygenation.
Will the oceans become completely oxygen-depleted at some point ... more |
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 Durham UK (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 
Supercomputer simulations of galaxies have shown that Einstein's general theory of relativity might not be the only way to explain how gravity works or how galaxies form.
Physicists at Durham University, UK, simulated the cosmos using an alternative model for gravity - f(R)-gravity, a so called Chameleon Theory. The resulting images produced by the simulation show that galaxies like our Mi ... more |
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