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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 This animated flyover of each of the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu, selected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, was produced using close-range data from the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), an instrument contributed by the Canadian Space Agency. It illustrates the location of each site on Bennu, the topography of each site, and the potential sampling regions that the spacecraft will target, which are 10 meters in diameter. The laser altimeter on ... read more |
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AI learns to model our universeKashiwa, Japan (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 Researchers have successfully created a model of the universe using artificial intelligence, reports a new study. Researchers seek to understand our universe by making model predictions to mat ... more  
Deep-sea sediments reveal solar system chaos: An advance in dating geologic archivesManoa HI (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 A day is the time for Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis, a year is the time for Earth to make one revolution around the Sun - reminders that basic units of time and periods on Earth ar ... more 
Exoplanets Can't Hide Their Secrets from Innovative New InstrumentHilo HI (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 A cunning new instrument at Gemini Observatory has achieved what was once thought impossible - namely, the characterization of an exoplanet orbiting a binary star and determining which star of the p ... more 
Hints of a volcanically active exomoonBern, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in our solar system. Today, there are indications that an active moon outside our solar system, an exo-Io, could be hidden at the exoplanet sys ... more |
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Towards an 'orrery' for quantum gauge theoryZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 The interaction between fields and matter is a recurring theme throughout physics. Classical cases such as the trajectories of one celestial body moving in the gravitational field of others or the m ... more  
Temperatures of 800 billion degrees in the cosmic kitchenMunich, Germany (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 When two neutron stars collide, the matter at their core enters extreme states. An international research team has now studied the properties of matter compressed in such collisions. The HADES long- ... more 
Scientists discover a new type of pulsating starSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 Scientists can tell a lot about a star by the light it gives off. The color, for example, reveals its surface temperature and the elements in and around it. Brightness correlates with a star's mass, ... more 
Observed explosion of monster star requires new supernova mechanismBoston MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2019 Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the discovery of the most massive star ever known to be destroyed by a supernova explosion, challenging known model ... more 
From crystals to glasses: a new unified theory for heat transportTrieste, Italy (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 Theoretical physicists from SISSA and the University of California at Davis lay brand new foundations to such a fundamental process as heat transport in materials, which finally allow crystals, poly ... more |
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 China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for ninth lunar day  
Chandrayaan-2's Third Lunar-Bound Orbit Manoeuvre Performed Successfully: ISRONew Delhi (IANS) Aug 29, 2019 The telemetry, tracking and command network of the Indian space agency (ISTRAC) performed the third lunar-bound orbit manoeuvre for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, the agency said on Wednesday. "The next ... more  |
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Canadian astronomers determine Earth's fingerprintMontreal, Canada (SPX) Aug 29, 2019 Researchers have successfully created a model of the Universe using artificial intelligence, reports a new study. Researchers seek to understand our Universe by making model predictions to match obs ... more 
The dark side of extrasolar planets share surprisingly similar temperaturesMontreal, Canada (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 A new study by McGill University astronomers has found that the temperature on the nightsides of different hot Jupiters - planets that are similar size in to Jupiter, but orbit other stars - is surp ... more  
China's Tianhe-2 Supercomputer to Crunch Space Data From New Radio TelescopeBeijing (Sputnik) Aug 23, 2019 In anticipation of the world's largest astronomical instrument, Beijing is set to construct a permanent regional data hub that will house its Tianhe-2 supercomputer to make sense of reams of data ac ... more 
Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big dataLondon, UK (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Neutrinos come in three flavours made up of a mix of three neutrino masses. While the differences between the masses are known, little information was available about the mass of the lightest specie ... more 
Chandrayaan-2 Captures First Image of Moon Showing Mare Orientale Basin, Apollo CratersNew Delhi (IANS) Aug 27, 2019 Chandrayaan-2 has captured the first image of the Moon, two days after entering the lunar orbit. The picture was taken by Vikram, the spacecraft's lander and shows the Mare Orientale basin and Apoll ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their flow and even changing their color.
Thanks to coordinated observations of the planet in January 2017 by six ground-based optical and radio telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer and her colleagues ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 
A new study by McGill University astronomers has found that the temperature on the nightsides of different hot Jupiters - planets that are similar size in to Jupiter, but orbit other stars - is surprisingly uniform, suggesting the dark sides of these massive gaseous planets have clouds made of minerals and rocks.
Using data from the Spitzer Space and the Hubble Space telescopes, the resear ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 30, 2019 
The 2020 mission of the ExoMars programme is expected to deliver a European rover and a Russian surface platform to the surface of Mars. The rover is expected to spend one year exploring the surface of the Red Planet.
The European Space Agency's Director General Jan Woerner said he had spoken to Russia's Roscosmos during MAKS-2019 to ensure all issues on the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars-202 ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2019 
The Trump administration asked the US Congress in May to increase NASA spending next year to accommodate the goal of returning Americans to the surface of the Moon by 2024.
NASA is offering $7 billion to take the first steps for an accelerated US return to the lunar surface within five years, writes Bloomberg Business.
The proposal issued by NASA could be for as long as 15 years and ... more |
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 Noordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Aug 29, 2019 
The Solar wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission is still four years away from launch, but scientists are already using existing ESA satellites, such as the XMM-Newton X-ray observatory and the Cluster mission studying Earth's magnetosphere, to pave the way for this pioneering venture.
A joint European-Chinese spacecraft, SMILE is currently scheduled for launch in 2023 ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
NASA's P-3B science aircraft soared into the skies over the Philippines on Aug. 25 to begin a nearly two-month-long investigation on the impact that smoke from fires and pollution have on clouds, a key factor in improving weather and climate forecasts.
The Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) is the most comprehensive field campaign to date in Maritime Sou ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 
This animated flyover of each of the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu, selected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, was produced using close-range data from the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), an instrument contributed by the Canadian Space Agency.
It illustrates the location of each site on Bennu, the topography of each site, and the potential sa ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 
A special kind of streaked aurora has been found to track disturbances in near-Earth space from the ground. Known as structured diffuse aurora, it was recently discovered, with the help of NASA spacecraft and instruments, that these faint lights in the night sky can map the edges of the Van Allen radiation belts - hazardous concentric bands of charged particles encircling Earth.
When the V ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 21, 2019 
China's new communication satellite ChinaSat 18, sent into space on Monday, has experienced abnormalities, and space engineers are investigating the cause.
The ChinaSat 18 satellite was launched at 8:03 p.m. (Beijing Time) on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The satellite separated with the carrier rocket a ... more |
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Noordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Aug 29, 2019
The Solar wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission is still four years away from launch, but scientists are already using existing ESA satellites, such as the XMM-Newton X-ray observatory and the Cluster mission studying Earth's magnetosphere, to pave the way for this pioneering venture.
A joint European-Chinese spacecraft, SMILE is currently scheduled for launch in 2023 ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2019 
The discovery of a rare 3.8-million-year-old hominin skull unearthed in Ethiopia promises to offer fresh insights into the complexities of early human evolution.
The fossil's jaw and teeth suggest it belongs to the species Australopithecus anamensis, an ancestor of the famed Lucy hominin, Australopithecus afarensis. Researchers have previously found only fragments of A. anamensis, most ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2019 
India is comfortably positioned economically to provide funds for its space programme and benefits to people, the country's space organisation chief has said.
Addressing students at a university convocation ceremony in Bangalore (now Bengaluru), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Sivan said some people were questioning the need for space technology in a poor country like ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 29, 2019 
Ice fronts have retreated, rocky peaks are more exposed, fewer icebergs drift to the ocean: the branching network of glaciers that empty into Greenland's Sermilik Fjord has changed significantly in the last half century. Comparing Landsat images from 1972 and 2019, those changes and more come into view.
The glaciers appear brownish grey in this true-color Landsat 8 satellite image from Aug ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
To investigate the vastly unexplored oceans covering most our planet, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that send data to the surface - an underwater "internet of things." But how to supply constant power to scores of sensors designed to stay for long durations in the ocean's deep?
MIT researchers have an answer: a battery-free underwater communication ... more |
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Aug 09, 2019  Researchers have, for the first time, identified the sufficient and necessary conditions that the low-energy limit of quantum gravity theories must satisfy to preserve the main features of the Unruh effect.
In a new study, led by researchers from SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Waterloo, a solid theoretica ... more |
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