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  Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 In January of this year, China's Chang'E-4 - the fourth version of a lunar spacecraft named for the Chinese goddess of the Moon - landed on the far side of the Moon. Due to the location of the landing, Chang'E-4 had to navigate autonomously, without the guidance of scientists on Earth. Now, a research team, headed by LI Chunlai, corresponding author of this results and a professor of the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), has published a full reconstruction ... read more |
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Astrobotic and Spacebit aim eye first commercial UK lunar payloadSeptember 24, 2019 Newport UK (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 Spacebit proudly announces at The UK Space Conference 2019 their signing of a joint agreement with Astrobotic to begin commercial and scientific lunar exploration with ... more  
Iron magma could explain Psyche's density puzzleTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 The metallic asteroid Psyche has mystified scientists because it is less dense than it should be. Now, a new theory by researchers including scientists at the University of Arizona could explain Psy ... more 
NASA Administrator explores potential Artemis collaborations with JapanTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine met with Hiroshi Yamakawa, president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), on Sept. 24 in Tokyo to discuss future bilateral cooperation and JAXA's pote ... more 
Magically exploring 'the Moon' from afarDarmstadt, Germany (ESA) Sep 25, 2019 As Europe sleeps, in the early hours of Wednesday 25 September, a small rover in Canada will explore a mock lunar surface, controlled from ESA's ESOC operations centre in Germany. The live experime ... more |
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NASA Commits to Long-term Artemis Missions with Orion Production ContractWashington DC (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 NASA is setting in motion the Orion spacecraft production line to support as many as 12 Artemis missions, including the mission that will carry the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024. ... more 
Chinese researchers conduct in situ measurement of lunar dust at Chang'e-3 landing siteLanzhou, China (XNA) Sep 24, 2019 Chinese researchers have successfully conducted an in situ measurement of lunar dust at the landing site of the country's Chang'e-3 probe. Using a temperature-controlled sticky quartz crystal ... more 
NASA blames bad weather for failure to warn about approaching hazardous asteroidWashington DC (Sputnik) Sep 23, 2019 The celestial object flew past the Earth five times closer than the Moon and highlights the need to improve NASA's detection systems. Internal emails reveal that NASA discussed 2019 OK "becaus ... more  
New initiative to explore origin and future of UniverseHannover, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 Anna Ijjas, leader of the recently established Lise Meitner Research Group "Gravitational Theory and Cosmology" at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute / AEI ... more 
Comet gateway discovered to inner solar systemOrlando FL (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 A new study led by a University of Central Florida researcher may fundamentally alter our understanding of how comets arrive from the outskirts of the solar system and are funneled to the inner sola ... more |
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Looking for alien lurkersLafayette CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 The most recently discovered group of rocky bodies nearby Earth are termed co-orbital objects. An attractive location for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) to locate a probe to observe Earth throu ... more  |
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Orion to face simulated rigors of space in last major testing before Artemis ICleveland OH (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 The recently completed Orion spacecraft for Artemis I will head to Ohio for the final stretch of major testing before integration with the Space Launch System rocket for launch. Slated to begi ... more 
Lunar soil is a dangerous nuisance for astronautsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 Future moon missions are at risk because of lunar soil. It seems harmless, but moon dust can actually damage scientific equipment and be harmful to human health: It is like a sticky powder made from ... more 
Comet's collapsing cliffs and bouncing bouldersParis (ESA) Sep 23, 2019 Scientists analysing the treasure trove of images taken by ESA's Rosetta mission have turned up more evidence for curious bouncing boulders and dramatic cliff collapses. Rosetta operated at Co ... more  
Pulsating gamma rays from neutron star rotating 707 times a secondHannover, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 An international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) in Hannover has discovered that the radio pulsar J0952-0607 also emits pulse ... more 
Researchers mix RNA and DNA to study how life's process began billions of years agoLa Jolla CA (SPX) Sep 18, 2019 For decades, chemists have tested theories for how life began on Earth. One hypothesis has caught the scientific imagination for years: RNA World. This theory proposes that prebiotic molecules joine ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 18, 2019 
Volcanic eruptions are difficult to predict, but observations have shown the largest and most powerful volcano on Io, a large moon of Jupiter, has been erupting on a relatively regular schedule.
The volcano Loki is expected to erupt in mid-September 2019, according to a poster by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Julie Rathbun presented this week.
"Loki is the largest and ... more |
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 Lafayette CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
The most recently discovered group of rocky bodies nearby Earth are termed co-orbital objects. An attractive location for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) to locate a probe to observe Earth throughout our deep past are the co-orbital objects. They most recently discovered group of rocky bodies nearby Earth. Co-orbital objects approach Earth very closely every year at distances much shorter th ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Sep 23, 2019 
US President Donald Trump on Friday praised the US space program's efforts to return astronauts to the moon by 2024 as "tremendous," yet outlined that the ultimate goal is Mars.
"We're going to Mars," Trump told reporters after a White House meeting with Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison, marking Mars as a more exciting target than the moon.
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 
In January of this year, China's Chang'E-4 - the fourth version of a lunar spacecraft named for the Chinese goddess of the Moon - landed on the far side of the Moon. Due to the location of the landing, Chang'E-4 had to navigate autonomously, without the guidance of scientists on Earth.
Now, a research team, headed by LI Chunlai, corresponding author of this results and a professor of the N ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 
A new object from interstellar space has been found within the Solar System, only the second such discovery of its kind. Astronomers are turning their telescopes towards the visitor, which offers a tantalising glimpse beyond our Solar System and raises some puzzling questions. The object has been given the name 2I/Borisov by the IAU.
On 30 August 2019 the amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov ... more |
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 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 
As neighborhood and city planners design ways to reuse vacant land in cities like Detroit, a researcher at the University of Michigan is urging them to look at the footpaths of people who already live there - literally.
In what's believed to be the first comprehensive study of unofficial footpaths in a large urban area, U-M's Joshua Newell and colleague Alec Foster of Illinois State Univer ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
A new study led by a University of Central Florida researcher may fundamentally alter our understanding of how comets arrive from the outskirts of the solar system and are funneled to the inner solar system coming closer to Earth.
In a study to be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters this week, scientist Gal Sarid and co-authors describe the discovery of an orbital "gateway" thro ... more |
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 Albuquerque NM (SPX) Sep 12, 2019 
Experimenting at 2.2 million degrees Celsius, physicists at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine have found that an astronomical model - used for 40 years to predict the sun's behavior as well as the life and death of stars - underestimates the energy blockage caused by free-floating iron atoms, a major player in those processes.
The blockage effect, called opacity, is an element's natu ... 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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Garching, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2019
A new object from interstellar space has been found within the Solar System, only the second such discovery of its kind. Astronomers are turning their telescopes towards the visitor, which offers a tantalising glimpse beyond our Solar System and raises some puzzling questions. The object has been given the name 2I/Borisov by the IAU.
On 30 August 2019 the amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 18, 2019 
An ancient ape pelvis recovered in Hungary suggests bipedalism has deeper evolutionary roots than previously thought.
The 10-million-year-old fossilized pelvis bone belongs to Rudapithecus hungaricus, a large-bodied ape that lived in Europe during the late Miocene. Previous analysis of the species' jaws and limbs suggest the ape was a relative of modern African apes and humans.
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 Fort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 
With the recent celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo program's first landing of humans on the moon, the eyes and hopes of the world turn skyward again.
The romantic notions of exploring and even colonizing space have been re-kindled, with the above and more recent movies such as The Martian and the fictional planting of potatoes. The ambitious spirit is further spurred by priv ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 
The extent of Arctic sea ice at the end of this summer was effectively tied with 2007 and 2016 for second lowest since modern record keeping began in the late 1970s. An analysis of satellite data by NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder shows that the 2019 minimum extent, which was likely reached on Sept. 18, measured 1.60 million square mil ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 21, 2019  China and the Solomon Islands established diplomatic relations Saturday, days after the Pacific island nation severed ties with Taiwan.
"We look forward to the quick development of bilateral relations between China and the Solomons," Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said at a ceremony in Beijing alongside his Solomons counterpart Jeremiah Manele.
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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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