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  Santa Cruz, Spain (SPX) Jul 23, 2019 The universe 13,000 million years ago was very different from the universe we know today. It is understood that stars were forming at a very rapid rate, forming the first dwarf galaxies, whose mergers gave rise to the more massive present-day galaxies, including our own. However the exact chain of the events which produced the Milky Way was not known until now. Exact measurements of position, brightness and distance for around a million stars of our galaxy within 6,500 light years of the sun, obta ... read more |
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Astronomers Map Vast Void in Our Cosmic NeighborhoodHonolulu HI (SPX) Jul 23, 2019 An astronomer from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) and an international team published a new study that reveals more of the vast cosmic structure surrounding our Milky Way gal ... more  
What gives meteorites their shapeNew York NY (SPX) Jul 23, 2019 Meteoroids coming from outer space are randomly shaped, but many of these, which land on earth as meteorites, are found to be carved into cones. Scientists have now figured out how the physics of fl ... more  
India launches historic bid to put spacecraft on MoonSriharikota, India (AFP) July 22, 2019 India launched a bid to become a leading space power Monday, sending up a rocket to put a craft on the surface of the Moon in what it called a "historic day" for the nation. ... more 
Lunar Surface Trash or Treasure?Bethesda MD (SPX) Jul 23, 2019 Since 1959, the lunar surface has experienced a barrage of man-made attacks of various kinds. It all began on September 13 with Soviet probe Luna 2 when it smashed into Mare Imbrium and all but vapo ... more |
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Coupled exploration of light and matterZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 The concept of 'quasiparticles' is a highly successful framework for the description of complex phenomena that emerge in many-body systems. One species of quasiparticles that in particular has attra ... more 
Toyota Unveils Its Cosmic Collaboration for Futuristic Moon RoverTokyo, Japan (Sputnik) Jul 24, 2019 Many major national space agencies are currently looking to utilise the resource of the Moon and its shadowed craters through the development of new technologies. NASA has previously used "moon bugg ... more 
Polar Moon water not as invincible as expected, scientists argueGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 24, 2019 The Moon's south pole region is home to some of the most extreme environments in the solar system: it's unimaginably cold, massively cratered, and has areas that are either constantly bathed in sunl ... more 
NASA Delivers Hardware for ESA Dark Energy MissionPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 24, 2019 The European Space Agency's Euclid mission, set to launch in 2022, will investigate two of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy: dark matter and dark energy. A team of NASA engineers recently d ... more 
China invites nations to join in moon explorationWashington DC (XNA) Jul 23, 2019 In 1969, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, the astronomical body was for Chinese just a glowing orb overhead to gaze at and muse about. Now, fifty years later, China h ... more |
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 India launches spacecraft on Moon-landing mission 
One giant leap: 50 years ago, humanity's first steps on the MoonHouston (AFP) July 21, 2019 "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind": it was with these words that Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the Moon 50 years ago, an occasion celebrated by space enthusiasts globally Saturday. ... more  |
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Three original NASA moon-walk videos auctioned off for $1.82M Washington (UPI) Jul 21, 2019 The original NASA videotapes of the Apollo 11 moon walk were auctioned off for $1.82 million on the 50th anniversary of the feat. ... more 
Building a toolkit for the MoonParis (ESA) Jul 22, 2019 As the world celebrates 50 years since the first lunar landing, the team at ESA's astronaut centre is looking to the future of lunar exploration. This includes developing prototypes for rock and soi ... more  
Electronic chip mimics the brain to make memories in a flashMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 Researchers from RMIT University drew inspiration from an emerging tool in biotechnology - optogenetics - to develop a device that replicates the way the brain stores and loses information. Op ... more 
Powering the future with lunar soilParis (ESA) Jul 22, 2019 Building a lunar base would be one of the next logical steps in our exploration of the Solar System, but the survival of a future crew depends on access to a reliable source of energy. An ESA Discov ... more 
Angelic halo orbit chosen for humankind's first lunar outpostParis (ESA) Jul 22, 2019 Mission planners at NASA and ESA's Operations Centre (ESOC) have spent months debating the pros and cons of different orbits, and have now decided on the path of the lunar Gateway. Like the In ... 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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 24, 2019 
Before life began on Earth, the environment likely contained a massive number of chemicals that reacted with each other more or less randomly, and it is unclear how things as complex as cells could have emerged from such chemical chaos. Now, a team led by Tony Z. Jia of the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Kuhan Chandru of the National University of Ma ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 23, 2019 
An ambitious instrument for ESA's ExoMars 2020 mission has passed its testing in conditions resembling those on the Red Planet. It will now be transported to Russia for its acceptance review, followed by integration onto the Kazachok Surface Platform, scheduled for launch this time next year.
At about 8 x 8 x 20 cm plus a trio of antennas, ESA's Lander Radioscience experiment, or LaRa for ... more |
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 Sriharikota, India (AFP) July 22, 2019 
India launched a bid to become a leading space power Monday, sending up a rocket to put a craft on the surface of the Moon in what it called a "historic day" for the nation.
Chandrayaan-2 - or Moon Chariot 2 - took off on time at 2:43 pm (0913 GMT) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on an island off the coast of Andhra Pradesh state.
Applause broke out in the mission control room as t ... more |
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 Santa Cruz, Spain (SPX) Jul 23, 2019 
The universe 13,000 million years ago was very different from the universe we know today. It is understood that stars were forming at a very rapid rate, forming the first dwarf galaxies, whose mergers gave rise to the more massive present-day galaxies, including our own. However the exact chain of the events which produced the Milky Way was not known until now.
Exact measurements of positi ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 24, 2019 
ESA's Aeolus satellite, which carries the world's first space Doppler wind lidar, has been delivering high-quality global measurements of Earth's wind since it was launched almost a year ago. However, part of the instrument, the laser transmitter, has been slowly losing energy. As a result, ESA decided to switch over to the instrument's second laser - and the mission is now back on top form.
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 New York NY (SPX) Jul 23, 2019 
Meteoroids coming from outer space are randomly shaped, but many of these, which land on earth as meteorites, are found to be carved into cones. Scientists have now figured out how the physics of flight in the atmosphere leads to this transformation.
The progression, discovered through a series of replication experiments in New York University's Applied Mathematics Lab, involves melting an ... 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 23, 2019 
After helping scientists complete many significant experiments such as growing rice and vegetables in space, observing the strongest explosions in the universe and setting up the most precise clock in space, China's first space lab Tiangong-2 ended its mission and reentered the atmosphere under control Friday night (Beijing Time).
With deep attachment, Chinese scientists recalled the exper ... more |
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Santa Cruz, Spain (SPX) Jul 23, 2019
The universe 13,000 million years ago was very different from the universe we know today. It is understood that stars were forming at a very rapid rate, forming the first dwarf galaxies, whose mergers gave rise to the more massive present-day galaxies, including our own. However the exact chain of the events which produced the Milky Way was not known until now.
Exact measurements of positi ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 
The development of new hunting projectiles by European hunter-gatherers during the Mesolithic may have been linked to territoriality in a rapidly-changing climate, according to a study published July 17, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Philippe Crombe from Ghent University, Belgium.
As a result of warming occurring at a rate of ca. 1.5 to 2C per century, hunter-gatherers in Eur ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) July 22, 2019 
US space agency NASA on Monday asked American aerospace companies to offer detailed ideas for vehicles that could bring two astronauts to the Moon by 2024, an American objective that was reconfirmed on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.
NASA called the request for input a "major step" forward for its new Moon mission, dubbed Artemis - who in Greek mythology was Apollo's twin sis ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 
Over the past 22 years, sea levels in the Arctic have risen an average of 2.2 millimeters per year. This is the conclusion of a Danish-German research team after evaluating 1.5 billion radar measurements of various satellites using specially developed algorithms.
"The Arctic is a hotspot of climate change," explains Prof. Florian Seitz of the German Geodetic Research Institute at the Techn ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2019 
A U.S. Navy request for proposals calls for a new class of unmanned surface vessels.
While the Navy floated performance specifications in February for a fleet of "medium unmanned surface vehicles," the request was officially announced Tuesday. It seeks developers for a craft of up to 164 feet long, to function as a sensor and communications relay in part of a family of unmanned surface ... 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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