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  Krakow Poland (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 For decades, astronomers have speculated that the space between stars may be populated by exosolar minor bodies - comets and asteroids - ejected from their home planetary systems. Studies have also suggested that these bodies may occasionally pass through the Solar System and be identified thanks to their strongly open orbits. The discovery of 'Oumuamua two years ago brought the long-awaited confirmation, sparking hopes for subsequent detections. A team of scientists led by astronomers from the Ja ... read more |
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Spacebit aims to land first UK rover on the MoonLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 At an award-winning and mind-blowing festival of discoveries and ideas - New Scientist Live, CEO and Founder of UK startup Spacebit, Pavlo Tanasyuk announced the first commercial UK mission to The M ... more  
Violent flaring at the heart of a black hole systemSouthampton UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Southampton, have used state-of-the-art cameras to create a high-frame rate movie of a growing black hole system at a level of detail n ... more  
Scientists find microbial remains in ancient rocksSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 Scientists have found exceptionally preserved microbial remains in some of Earth's oldest rocks in Western Australia - a major advance in the field, offering clues for how life on Earth originated. ... more  
The Milky Way kidnapped several tiny galaxies from its neighborRiverside CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2019 Just like the moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth orbits the sun, galaxies orbit each other according to the predictions of cosmology. For example, more than 50 discovered satellite galaxies ... more |
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Light in a new lightBaton Rouge LA (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 In a paper published in Nature's NPJ Quantum Information, Omar Magana-Loaiza, assistant professor in the Louisiana State University (LSU) Department of Physics and Astronomy, and his team of researc ... more 
Study suggests ice on lunar south pole may have more than one sourceProvidence RI (SPX) Oct 11, 2019 The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon's south pole has helped to renew interest in exploring the lunar surface, but no one is sure exactly when or how that ice got there ... more 
Liquifying a rocky exoplanetBern, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 Rocky exoplanets that are around Earth-size are comparatively small, which makes them incredibly difficult to detect and characterise using telescopes. What are the optimal conditions to find such s ... more 
Milky Way's Center Will Be Revealed by NASA's Webb TelescopeBaltimore MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 The center of our galaxy is a crowded place: A black hole weighing 4 million times as much as our Sun is surrounded by millions of stars whipping around it at breakneck speeds. This extreme environm ... more 
Milky Way raids intergalactic 'bank accounts,' Hubble study findsBaltimore MD (SPX) Oct 11, 2019 Our Milky Way is a frugal galaxy. Supernovas and violent stellar winds blow gas out of the galactic disk, but that gas falls back onto the galaxy to form new generations of stars. In an ambitious ef ... more |
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 Astroscale takes next step towards commercial active debris removal mission  
When debris overwhelms space exploitationBethesda MD (SPX) Oct 08, 2019 We see more and more reports of debris concern among satellite operators and space observers. Add to this the many recent announcements of multiple broadband satellite constellations that are being ... more  |
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UK teams complete space weather mission study ahead of selection decision in NovemberLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 The first phase of design work for the European Space Agency's Lagrange spacecraft has been completed, with three out of the four multinational teams led by the UK. This ESA mission, together with ... more 
Physicists have found a way to 'hear' dark matterStockholm, Sweden (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 Physicists at Stockholm University and the Max Planck Institute for Physics have turned to plasmas in a proposal that could revolutionise the search for the elusive dark matter. Dark matter is ... more 
Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way explodedCanberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 A titanic, expanding beam of energy sprang from close to the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way just 3.5 million years ago, sending a cone-shaped burst of radiation through both ... more 
Pressure runs high at edge of solar systemGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 09, 2019 Out at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high. This pressure, the force plasma, magnetic fields and particles like ions, cosmic rays and electrons exert on one another when they flow a ... more 
Draconid meteor shower to light up the skiesWashington DC (UPI) Oct 08, 2019 Get ready for a modest midweek meteor shower. That's what the Draconids promise to deliver. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 02, 2019 
Last night, NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver - extraordinarily long by mission standards. The goal of the burn, as it's known, will keep the solar-powered spacecraft out of what would have been a mission-ending shadow cast by Jupiter on the spacecraft during its next close flyby of the planet on Nov. 3, 2019.
Juno began the maneuver yeste ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 
The discovery of the first exoplanet almost 25 years ago changed our perception of the origin and evolution of the Universe and challenged the uniqueness of our own Solar System. Today, scientists from the German Aerospace Center and other organisations are using new techniques and instruments on ESA missions such as CHEOPS and PLATO to set their sights even higher - the hunt for a second Earth. ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 
Submarine canyons are a final frontier on planet Earth. There are thousands of these breathtaking geological features hidden within the depths of the ocean - yet scientists have more high-resolution imagery of the surface of Mars than of Earth's ocean floor.
In an effort to shed light on these mysterious underwater features, Stanford researchers analyzed a collection of global images from ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 
At an award-winning and mind-blowing festival of discoveries and ideas - New Scientist Live, CEO and Founder of UK startup Spacebit, Pavlo Tanasyuk announced the first commercial UK mission to The Moon, making hereby lunar missions accessible.
Spacebit will send the smallest robotic moon rover in the world, with legs and not wheels. This will be the very first time in history anything with ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 
The center of our galaxy is a crowded place: A black hole weighing 4 million times as much as our Sun is surrounded by millions of stars whipping around it at breakneck speeds. This extreme environment is bathed in intense ultraviolet light and X-ray radiation. Yet much of this activity is hidden from our view, obscured by vast swaths of interstellar dust.
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 College Park MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 
University of Maryland (UMD) scientists have carried out a novel statistical analysis to determine for the first time a global picture of how the ocean helps predict the low-level atmosphere and vice versa.
They observed ubiquitous influence of the ocean on the atmosphere in the extratropics, which has been difficult to demonstrate with dynamic models of atmospheric and oceanic circulation ... more |
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 Krakow Poland (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 
For decades, astronomers have speculated that the space between stars may be populated by exosolar minor bodies - comets and asteroids - ejected from their home planetary systems. Studies have also suggested that these bodies may occasionally pass through the Solar System and be identified thanks to their strongly open orbits. The discovery of 'Oumuamua two years ago brought the long-awaited con ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 
The first phase of design work for the European Space Agency's Lagrange spacecraft has been completed, with three out of the four multinational teams led by the UK.
This ESA mission, together with a complementary US mission, will form the major elements of an early warning system for severe space weather, which can be hazardous to critical infrastructure on Earth and human life in space.
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 Nanjing (XNA) Oct 14, 2019 
China's two rocket-carrying ships departed Saturday from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province on a transportation mission.
The two Yuanwang ships are China's first ships made exclusively to carry rockets. With a length of 130 meters, a width of 19 meters and a height of 37 meters, the ships have a displacement of 9,000 tonnes.
Each ship is equipped with two 120-tonne cranes that c ... more |
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Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2019
The center of our galaxy is a crowded place: A black hole weighing 4 million times as much as our Sun is surrounded by millions of stars whipping around it at breakneck speeds. This extreme environment is bathed in intense ultraviolet light and X-ray radiation. Yet much of this activity is hidden from our view, obscured by vast swaths of interstellar dust.
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 Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Rd Congo (AFP) Oct 12, 2019 
Aged almost 17 years, Bonane is an eastern lowland gorilla, a survivor in a critically endangered species reduced to about 250 members in DR Congo's Kahuzi-Biega National Park.
For an hour each day, the gorilla and his dozen-strong family host a handful of wildlife tourists, guided by armed eco-guards.
Their home is a haven in the province of South Kivu - a battleground for rival militi ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 11, 2019 
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano is preparing to step out into space for his first spacewalk of the Beyond mission.
Scheduled for 25 October, he will work with NASA astronaut Jessica Meir to replace nickel hydrogen batteries with newer lithium ion batteries and install battery adapter plates on the Space Station's Port-6 truss structure.
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 
Upside-down "rivers" of warm ocean water are eroding the fractured edges of thick, floating Antarctic ice shelves from below, helping to create conditions that lead to ice-shelf breakup and sea-level rise, according to a new study.
The findings, published in Science Advances, describe a new process important to the future of Antarctica's ice and the continent's contribution to rising seas. ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 08, 2019  The Naval Sea Systems Command has approved the Navy's only Saturation Fly Away Diving System for sustained operations up to 30 days.
The Saturation Fly Away Diving System, or SATFADS, approval follows completion on Sept. 26, of a 30-foot wet certification of the launch and recovery system in Panama City, Fla., Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) said in a statement.
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 03, 2019 
Astronomers have pieced together the cannibalistic past of our neighbouring large galaxy Andromeda, which has now set its sights on the Milky Way as its next main course.
The galactic detective work found that Andromeda has eaten several smaller galaxies, likely within the last few billion years, with left-overs found in large streams of stars.
ANU researcher Dr Dougal Mackey, who co ... more |
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