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  Pullman WA (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 Modeling the shape and movement of near-Earth asteroids is now up to 25 times faster thanks to new Washington State University research. The WSU scientists improved the software used to track thousands of near-Earth asteroids and comets, which are defined as being within 121 million miles or about 1.3 times the distance to the sun. Their work provides a valuable new tool for studying asteroids and determining which of them might be on a collision course with Earth. Matt Engels, a PhD s ... read more |
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NASA Chief Explains Why America Hasn't Been Back to the Moon Since the 70sWashington DC (Sputnik) Jul 17, 2019 Late last week, NASA announced that senior officials in charge of the manned space mission portfolio had been reshuffled amid growing impatience from President Donald Trump to hasten the return huma ... more  
New Measurement Adds to Mystery of Universe's Expansion RateBaltimore MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 Astronomers have made a new measurement of how fast the universe is expanding, using an entirely different kind of star than previous endeavors. The revised measurement, which comes from NASA's Hubb ... more  
Yale researcher has a window seat for planning NASA's Dragonfly missionNew Haven CT (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 By 2034, when the Dragonfly drone mission makes landfall on the surface of Titan, Yale's Juan Lora will have spent nearly half his life studying the climatic tendencies of Saturn's icy moon. T ... more 
At 82, NASA pioneer Sue Finley still reaching for the starsWashington (AFP) July 16, 2019 Sue Finley began work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the US prepared to launch its first satellite into orbit in 1958, racing to match the Soviet Union, which had accomplished the feat months earlier. ... more |
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Five ethical questions for how we choose to use the MoonMelbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Jul 13, 2019 The Moon has always served as an inspiration for humanity, and there are many potential benefits for further exploration of our planet's rocky satellite. But we need to establish guidelines to ... more 
NASA chief: 'Moon is the proving ground, Mars is the destination'Washington (UPI) Jul 15, 2019 President Donald Trump has implored NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine to talk less about the moon and more about Mars. On the week of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, it's a tall task, but Bridenstine is trying. ... more 
A Few Things Artemis Will Teach Us About Living and Working on the MoonGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 Humans have not had much of an opportunity to work on the Moon. The 12 Apollo astronauts who got to explore its surface clocked in 80 hours in total of discovery time. From their brief encounters, a ... more 
Humanity needs bold new space mission, Apollo legends agreeCocoa Beach FL (UPI) Jul 17, 2019 A new, bold challenge in space exploration is needed to advance American prosperity and unite humanity with a common goal, a group of Apollo-era legends said Tuesday on the 50th anniversary of Apoll ... more 
MASCOT Confirms What Scientists Have Long SuspectedBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 Ryugu and other asteroids of the common 'C-class' consist of more porous material than was previously thought. Small fragments of their material are therefore too fragile to survive entry into the a ... more |
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'One giant leap': US marks Apollo mission 50 years onCape Canaveral (AFP) July 17, 2019 Fifty years after a mighty rocket set off from Florida carrying the first humans to the Moon, a veteran of the Apollo 11 crew returned to its fabled launch pad Tuesday to commemorate "one giant leap" that became a defining moment in human history. ... more  |
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Could vacuum physics be revealed by laser-driven microbubble?Osaka, Japan (SPX) Jul 11, 2019 A "vacuum" is generally thought to be nothing but empty space. But in fact, a vacuum is filled with "virtual particle-antiparticle pairs" of electrons and positrons that are continuously created and ... more 
India aims to become 4th nation to land on moonWashington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 India will try to become just the fourth country to make a soft landing on the moon, after its Chandrayaan 2 mission takes off Monday. India's space agency is making final preparations over th ... more 
Who owns the moon? A space lawyer answersLincoln NB (The Conversation) Jul 13, 2019 Most likely, this is the best-known picture of a flag ever taken: Buzz Aldrin standing next to the first U.S. flag planted on the Moon. For those who knew their world history, it also rang some alar ... more  
Star formation may be halted by cold ionized hydrogenDwingeloo, Netherlands (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 For the first time ionised hydrogen has been detected at the lowest frequency ever towards the centre of our galaxy. The findings originate from a cloud that is both very cold (around -230 degrees C ... more 
Maxar teams with Dynetics on power and propulsion element for Lunar GatewayWestminster CO (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 Maxar Technologies has signed a teaming agreement with Huntsville, Alabama-based Dynetics to support Maxar in building and demonstrating the power and propulsion element for the Gateway - an essenti ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 11, 2019 
New analysis of Juno mission data suggests Jupiter's auroras are powered by alternating current, not direct current.
Jupiter, a the largest planet in the solar system, boasts an aurora with a radiant power of 100 terawatts, or 100 billion kilowatts. It's the brightest aurora in the solar system.
Like Earth's auroras, Jupiter's light shows are centered around its poles. The aurora ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 
Vast rings of electrically charged particles encircle the Earth and other planets. Now, a team of scientists has completed research into waves that travel through this magnetic, electrically charged environment, known as the magnetosphere, deepening understanding of the region and its interaction with our own planet, and opening up new ways to study other planets across the galaxy.
The sci ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 
People have long dreamed of re-shaping the Martian climate to make it livable for humans. Carl Sagan was the first outside of the realm of science fiction to propose terraforming. In a 1971 paper, Sagan suggested that vaporizing the northern polar ice caps would "yield ~10 s g cm-2 of atmosphere over the planet, higher global temperatures through the greenhouse effect, and a greatly increased li ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Jul 17, 2019  Late last week, NASA announced that senior officials in charge of the manned space mission portfolio had been reshuffled amid growing impatience from President Donald Trump to hasten the return human beings to the lunar surface.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has explained why the US suspended its manned lunar program over 40 years ago and what it will take for the US manned space prog ... more |
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 Dwingeloo, Netherlands (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 
For the first time ionised hydrogen has been detected at the lowest frequency ever towards the centre of our galaxy. The findings originate from a cloud that is both very cold (around -230 degrees Celsius) and also ionised, something that has never been detected before. This discovery may help to explain why stars don't form as quickly as they theoretically could.
Dr. Raymond Oonk (ASTRON/ ... more |
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 Konstanz, Germany (SPX) Jul 16, 2019 
The International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space (ICARUS) is a cooperative project between the Russian space agency Roscosmos and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) under the leadership of Martin Wikelski from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz.
With the space-based observation system, scientists want to find out m ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 
Ryugu and other asteroids of the common 'C-class' consist of more porous material than was previously thought. Small fragments of their material are therefore too fragile to survive entry into the atmosphere in the event of a collision with Earth. This has revealed the long-suspected cause of the deficit of this meteorite type in finds on Earth.
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center ( ... 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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Dwingeloo, Netherlands (SPX) Jul 13, 2019
For the first time ionised hydrogen has been detected at the lowest frequency ever towards the centre of our galaxy. The findings originate from a cloud that is both very cold (around -230 degrees Celsius) and also ionised, something that has never been detected before. This discovery may help to explain why stars don't form as quickly as they theoretically could.
Dr. Raymond Oonk (ASTRON/ ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 16, 2019 
Archaeologists have unearthed a massive Neolithic settlement near Jerusalem. The 9,000-year-old site is the largest prehistoric settlement discovered in Israel, and one of the largest of its kind in the region.
The ancient settlement was found when construction crews on a road-building project broke ground five miles outside of Jerusalem, near the town of Motza. Archaeologists were call ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 17, 2019  Russia and Saudi Arabia have discussed the possibility for Russia to send a Saudi astronaut to space for a short-duration flight, the protocol of the meeting of the Russian-Saudi intergovernmental commission read.
"The countries have expressed readiness to continue consultations on the prospects and mutually beneficial areas of bilateral space activities ... a manned space flight and prepa ... more |
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 Copenhagen (AFP) July 11, 2019 
In Greenland, climate change isn't just a danger to ecosystems but also a threat to history, as global warming is affecting archeological remains, according to a study published Thursday.
There are more than 180,000 archaeological sites across the Arctic, some dating back thousands of years, and previously these were protected by the characteristics of the soil.
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 Wellington (AFP) July 16, 2019 
The Pacific's low-lying reef islands are likely to change shape in response to climate change, rather than simply sinking beneath rising seas and becoming uninhabitable as previously assumed, new research has found.
Atoll nations such as Tuvalu, Tokelau and Kiribati lie only a few metres above sea level and are considered the world's most vulnerable to global warming, with fears their popula ... 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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