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  New Delhi (Sputnik) Jul 26, 2019 India's second Moon Mission, Chandrayaan-2 completed its first orbit manoeuver successfully. The Earthbound manoeuvers of the spacecraft will be executed starting Thursday, and it is scheduled to reach the Moon by 20th August 2019. The second orbit manoeuver is planned for 26th July. India's Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its ambitious deep space mission on Monday (22nd July) from its spaceport at Sriharikota on the eastern shore in Andhra Pradesh. Billed as one of the most challengin ... read more |
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Chandrayaan-2 will reach the moon by August 20, says ISRONew Delhi (IANS) Jul 26, 2019 India's second moon spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 put into earth orbit on July 22, is scheduled to reach the Moon by August 20, the Indian space agency said on Wednesday. The Indian Space Research ... more 
How to build a moon baseLondon, UK (The Conversation) Jul 26, 2019 Half a century after humans first walked on the moon, a number of private companies and nations are planning to build permanent bases on the lunar surface. Despite the technological progress since t ... more 
The death of Neil Armstrong and a $6 million secretWashington (AFP) July 25, 2019 When Neil Armstrong died in 2012, it was officially put down to complications arising from heart surgery. But seven years on, more murky circumstances have come to light. ... more 
The Apollo experiment that keeps on givingPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2019 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins departed from the Moon 50 years ago, but one of the experiments they left behind continues to return fresh data to this day: arrays of prisms that ref ... more |
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New space discovery sheds light on how planets formHanover NH (SPX) Jul 26, 2019 Researchers at Dartmouth College have discovered a planet orbiting one of the brightest young stars known, according to a study published in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Aged at ap ... more 
Cold, dry planets could have a lot of hurricanesWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Jul 26, 2019 Nearly every atmospheric science textbook ever written will say that hurricanes are an inherently wet phenomenon - they use warm, moist air for fuel. But according to new simulations, the storms can ... more  
Einstein's general relativity theory is questioned but still stands for now, team reportsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2019 More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic theory of general relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy. No ... more 
A peek at the birth of the universeBielefeld, Germany (SPX) Jul 26, 2019 The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is set to become the largest radio telescope on Earth. Bielefeld University researchers together with the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) and intern ... more  
'Terminators' on the sun trigger plasma tsunamis and the start of new solar cyclesBoulder CO (SPX) Jul 26, 2019 In a pair of new papers, scientists paint a picture of how solar cycles suddenly die, potentially causing tsunamis of plasma to race through the Sun's interior and trigger the birth of the next suns ... 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  |
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ELSI scientists discover new chemistry that may help explain the origins of cellular lifeTokyo, 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 ... 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 
The early days of the Milky Way revealedSanta 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 merge ... more 
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 |
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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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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jul 26, 2019 
Nearly every atmospheric science textbook ever written will say that hurricanes are an inherently wet phenomenon - they use warm, moist air for fuel. But according to new simulations, the storms can also form in very cold, dry climates.
A climate as cold and dry as the one in the study is unlikely to ever become the norm on Earth, especially as climate change is making the world warmer and ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 26, 2019 
The first round-trip to the Red Planet will see a European orbiter bringing martian samples back to Earth. ESA is opening the door to industry to build the spacecraft that will deliver the precious rocks, dust and gas from Mars - the key to understanding whether life ever existed on our closest planetary neighbour.
This 'take-away' service is called the Earth Return Orbiter, and will be ES ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) July 25, 2019 
When Neil Armstrong died in 2012, it was officially put down to complications arising from heart surgery. But seven years on, more murky circumstances have come to light.
The New York Times said Tuesday it had received by mail 93 pages of documents revealing a dispute between the family of the most famous astronaut in history and the small Ohio hospital where he was treated and operated on. ... 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 24, 2019 
NASA has secured a host satellite provider and ride into space for an instrument that will dramatically advance our understanding of air quality over North America.
Maxar Technologies of Westminster, Colorado, will provide satellite integration, launch and data transmission services for NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO), an Earth science instrument that will ob ... more |
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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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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 26, 2019 
In a pair of new papers, scientists paint a picture of how solar cycles suddenly die, potentially causing tsunamis of plasma to race through the Sun's interior and trigger the birth of the next sunspot cycle only a few short weeks later.
The new findings provide insight into the mysterious timing of sunspot cycles, which are marked by the waxing and waning of sunspot activity on the solar ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 25, 2019 
A Chinese startup successfully launched the country's first commercial rocket capable of carrying satellites into orbit Thursday, as the space race between China and the US heats up.
Beijing-based Interstellar Glory Space Technology - also known as iSpace - said it launched two satellites into orbit around 1:00 pm Beijing time (0500 GMT) from Jiuquan, a state launch facility in the Gobi de ... 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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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 
Genetic analysis has revealed that the ancestors of modern humans interbred with at least five different archaic human groups as they moved out of Africa and across Eurasia.
While two of the archaic groups are currently known - the Neandertals and their sister group the Denisovans from Asia - the others remain unnamed and have only been detected as traces of DNA surviving in different mode ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 26, 2019 
July 25 (UPI) - Japan's astronauts could be drinking water distilled from their own urine in the near future, thanks to the latest innovation from Japan's space agency.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said they have developed a distiller, used during space flight, that converts urine into potable water, Yomiuri Shimbun reported Thursday.
Satoshi Matsumoto said the device ... more |
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 Chamonix, France (AFP) July 25, 2019 
High up in the natural wonder of the French Alps, the climbers who spend their days among the rockfaces and glaciers have come to a grim conclusion: the mountains are falling down around them.
In the Mont Blanc range, a magnet for mountaineers in the summer, many popular routes up or through the peaks have become too dangerous to take because of the risk of falling debris.
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 Baghdad (AFP) July 22, 2019 
Human Rights Watch on Monday warned of a repeat of last year's deadly water crisis in Iraq's oil-rich southern province of Basra unless authorities correct decades of management failures.
Nearly 120,000 people were hospitalised last summer after drinking polluted water, in a mass health crisis that sparked deadly protests against the dire state of public services.
In a damning report, HR ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2019 
Observations made with a new instrument developed for use at the 2.1-meter (84-inch) telescope at the National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Observatory have led to the discovery of the fastest eclipsing white dwarf binary yet known.
Clocking in with an orbital period of only 6.91 minutes, the rapidly orbiting stars are expected to be one of the strongest sources of gravitational ... more |
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