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  Paris (ESA) Sep 11, 2019 The next few days will see a rare convergence of asteroid-related activity in Europe, as planetary defence and other experts meet in three locations to coordinate humanity's efforts to defend ourselves from hazardous space rocks. Such intense levels of international scientific collaboration are driven in part by the fact that an asteroid impact could cause devastating effects on Earth. But this is also a testament to the fact that we are at a point in human history where we can do something about ... read more |
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Are black holes made of dark energyManoa HI (SPX) Sep 11, 2019 Two University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein's equations to model the growth of the universe. Physicists usua ... more  
Nitrogen explosions created craters on Saturn moon TitanIthaca NY (SPX) Sep 11, 2019 Lakes of liquid methane on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, were likely formed by explosive, pressurized nitrogen just under the moon's surface, according to new research. "Titan h ... more  
How to Spin a Disk Around Young ProtostarsGarching, Germany (SPX) Sep 09, 2019 The main steps of star and planet formation are well understood: a dense, interstellar cloud will collapse under its own gravity; a central core forms as well as a protostellar disk due to the conse ... more  
And then there was light: looking for the first stars in the UniverseCanberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 09, 2019 Astronomers are closing in on a signal that has been travelling across the Universe for 12 billion years, bringing them nearer to understanding the life and death of the very earliest stars. I ... more |
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New models suggest Titan lakes are explosion cratersPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 10, 2019 Using radar data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, recently published research presents a new scenario to explain why some methane-filled lakes on Saturn's moon Titan are surrounded by steep rims that ... more  
India locates missing Moon landerNew Delhi (AFP) Sept 10, 2019 Indian space scientists were desperately trying Tuesday to establish communication with their broken Moon lander, having located the probe that went silent moments before it was due to make a historic soft landing. ... more 
Hubble explores the formation and evolution of star clusters in the Large Magellanic CloudMunich, Germany (SPX) Sep 10, 2019 Just as people of the same age can vary greatly in appearance and shape, so do collections of stars or stellar aggregates. New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that chro ... more 
Afterglow sheds light on the nature, origin of neutron star collisionsEvanston IL (SPX) Sep 10, 2019 The final chapter of the historic detection of the powerful merger of two neutron stars in 2017 officially has been written. After the extremely bright burst finally faded to black, an international ... more 
India to launch another Lunar probe to in early 2020s with JapanNew Delhi (Sputnik) Sep 10, 2019 Despite the recent failure of its Chandrayaan-2 mission, the Indian space agency is set to make another attempt at the moon, this time in collaboration with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ... more |
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NASA Science Experiments to be Delivered to Moon by Commercial LandersGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 06, 2019 After sitting in a vacuum chamber for 15 years, a gas-sniffing instrument will finally get its chance to fly. The device, a neutral mass spectrometer dubbed SEAL, is one of four instruments fr ... more  |
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India loses contact with Moon landerBangalore, India (AFP) Sept 7, 2019 India's space programme suffered a huge setback Saturday after losing contact with an unmanned spacecraft moments before it was due to make a historic soft landing on the Moon. ... more 
Pulsar Emission Map Thanks to EinsteinBonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 09, 2019 Pulsars in binary systems are affected by relativistic effects, causing the spin axes of each pulsar to change their direction with time. A research team led by Gregory Desvignes from the Max Planck ... more 
Space dragons: Researchers observe energy consumption in quasarsHefei, China (SPX) Sep 05, 2019 Quasars are the Universe's brightest beacons; shining with magnitudes more luminosity than entire galaxies and the stars they contain. In the center of this light, at the heart of a quasar, research ... more 
Ttiny satellites that will pave the way to LunaGuildford UK (The Conversation) Sep 02, 2019 The space race between the US and Russia ended half a century ago when US astronauts became the first to walk on the moon. Today there's yet another race, prompted by China's successful landing on t ... more  
NASA Selects Proposals to Advance Understanding of Space WeatherWashington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2019 NASA has selected three proposals for concept studies of missions that could help us better understand the dynamic space weather system driven by the Sun that manifests near Earth. The proposa ... 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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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Sep 09, 2019 
The main steps of star and planet formation are well understood: a dense, interstellar cloud will collapse under its own gravity; a central core forms as well as a protostellar disk due to the conservation of angular momentum; finally, after about 100,000 years or so, the star will become dense enough to ignite nuclear fusion at its centre and so will start to shine, while in the disk, planets w ... more |
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 Swindon UK (Sputnik) Sep 09, 2019 
Volcanic Martian meteorites known as "nakhlites owe their name to El Nakhla in Egypt, where they first landed on Earth in 1911. Although they hold traces of impact of liquid water on the Martian surface the process which generated the fluids has been a mystery.
A recent study entailing modern analysis of Martian meteorites has revealed stunning new details about how asteroid impacts facili ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Sep 10, 2019 
China's lunar rover Yutu-2 has driven 284.66 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration on the virgin territory.
Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe switched to its dormant mode for the lunar night on Friday (Beijing time), according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Sep 11, 2019 
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have demonstrated a detector made from graphene that could revolutionize the sensors used in next-generation space telescopes. The findings were recently published in the scientific journal Nature Astronomy.
Beyond superconductors, there are few materials that can fulfill the requirements needed for making ultra-sensitive and fast terahert ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Sep 11, 2019 
No more than 540 million years ago there was a huge boom in the diversity of animals on Earth. The first larger animals evolved in what is today known as the Cambrian explosion. In the time that followed, the animals evolved and grew larger, but concurrently with the evolution of the animals, the oxygen level in the atmosphere dropped and this temporarily slowed the radiation. However, subsequen ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 11, 2019 
The next few days will see a rare convergence of asteroid-related activity in Europe, as planetary defence and other experts meet in three locations to coordinate humanity's efforts to defend ourselves from hazardous space rocks.
Such intense levels of international scientific collaboration are driven in part by the fact that an asteroid impact could cause devastating effects on Earth. But ... more |
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 Fairbanks AK (SPX) Sep 06, 2019 
Aurora-watchers gazing at spectacular displays over the Labor Day weekend may have been seeing more than the northern lights. They may have been dazzled by STEVE as well.
STEVE is short for the Strong Thermal Emissions Velocity Enhancement, a celestial phenomenon auroral researchers, citizen-scientists and photography enthusiasts first introduced to the world in 2016.
STEVE's narrow ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 
Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday.
The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit.
Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more |
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Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Sep 11, 2019
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have demonstrated a detector made from graphene that could revolutionize the sensors used in next-generation space telescopes. The findings were recently published in the scientific journal Nature Astronomy.
Beyond superconductors, there are few materials that can fulfill the requirements needed for making ultra-sensitive and fast terahert ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 30, 2019 
Stone tools recovered from an archaeological dig in western Idaho suggest humans were living in the region at least 16,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.
The discovery, published Friday in the journal Science, supports the theory that the earliest human migrations into the Americas followed a Pacific coastal route, not an inland ice-free corridor.
The anc ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Sep 10, 2019 
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) cargo ship H-II Transfer Vehicle-8 (HTV-8) is scheduled to lift off Sept. 10 at 5:33 p.m. EDT (6:33 a.m. Japan Standard Time) to the International Space Station from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center, 10 years after JAXA launched its first HTV mission. HTV-8 arrives at the space station on Sept. 14.
Here are details about some of the scientific ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (ESA) Sep 11, 2019 
Reliable maps of sea-ice conditions and forecasts are of vital importance for maritime safety, safe navigation and planning. The continued retreating and thinning of Arctic sea ice calls for a more effective way of producing detailed and timely ice information - which is where artificial intelligence comes in.
Manual ice-charting from multi-sensor satellite data has been used for years, bu ... more |
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 Washington(UPI) Sep 9, 2019 
The U.S. Navy's request for proposals of prototype designs for Large Unmanned Surface Vessels calls for externally-controlled navigation and lengths of about 180 feet.
The official release of the Request for Proposals follows the early release of specifications for the first block of corvette-sized LUSVs, which was first released in August.
The final RFP follows an LUSV Industry ... more |
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 Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 06, 2019 
Imagine being able to increase the force of gravity simply by turning a dial. A United Nations fellowship is offering this opportunity to researchers all over the world, through access to ESA's hypergravity-generating Large Diameter Centrifuge.
Manipulate gravity and a lot of other factors shift too: bubbles in liquid alter their behaviour, convection currents accelerate and metal alloys f ... more |
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