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  Houston TX (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 When astronauts are hours away from launching on Artemis missions to the Moon, they'll put on a brightly colored orange spacesuit called the Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS) suit. It is designed for a custom fit and equipped with safety technology and mobility features to help protect astronauts on launch day, in emergency situations, high-risk parts of missions near the Moon, and during the high-speed return to Earth. Many missions require two spacesuits - one worn outside a spacecraft during sp ... read more |
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New understanding of the evolution of cosmic electromagnetic fieldsOdense, Denmark (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 Next year is the 200 years anniversary of the discovery of electromagnetism by the Danish physicist H.C. Orsted. Even 200 years after its discovery, the existence of electromagnetism still brings up ... more  
Going against the flow around a supermassive black holeCharlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 At the center of a galaxy called NGC 1068, a supermassive black hole hides within a thick doughnut-shaped cloud of dust and gas. When astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Arra ... more  
Astronomers use giant galaxy cluster as X-ray magnifying lensBoston MA (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly 9.4 billion years ago. In the process, they spotted a tiny dwarf ... more 
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 |
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Heron survey fishes out detail in ghostly galaxy outskirtsLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 Astronomers have completed the largest survey to date of the faint outskirts of nearby galaxies, successfully testing a low-cost system for exploring these local stellar systems. R. Michael Rich of ... more 
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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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  |
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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 
The lunar cycle drives the nightjar's migrationLund, Sweden (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 GPS tracking data reveals that the foraging activity of the European nightjar more than doubles during moon-lit nights, and the birds then migrate simultaneously about 10 days after the full moon, a ... more 
Solving the mystery of quantum light in thin layersVienna, Austria (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 It is an exotic phenomenon that nobody was able to explain for years: when energy is supplied to a thin layer of the material tungsten diselenide, it begins to glow in a highly unusual fashion. In a ... 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 |
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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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 Odense, Denmark (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 
Next year is the 200 years anniversary of the discovery of electromagnetism by the Danish physicist H.C. Orsted. Even 200 years after its discovery, the existence of electromagnetism still brings up new puzzles pertaining to their origin.
One such mystery is the origin of electro magnetic fields on the very largest scale in the universe.
While researchers have believed for some time ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Oct 11, 2019 
After successfully launching Thursday night, NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft is in orbit for a first-of-its-kind mission to study a region of space where changes can disrupt communications and satellite orbits, and even increase radiation risks to astronauts.
A Northrop Grumman Stargazer L-1011 aircraft took off at 8:31 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Statio ... 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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Odense, Denmark (SPX) Oct 16, 2019
Next year is the 200 years anniversary of the discovery of electromagnetism by the Danish physicist H.C. Orsted. Even 200 years after its discovery, the existence of electromagnetism still brings up new puzzles pertaining to their origin.
One such mystery is the origin of electro magnetic fields on the very largest scale in the universe.
While researchers have believed for some time ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 15, 2019 
The evolution of the brain allowed humans to acquire a knack for language and tool production. The braincase, the portion of the skull that houses the brain, also changed shape, but new research suggests the two components evolved independently.
Scientists have long sought to unravel the evolutionary relationship between the human brain and braincase, and to determine which of the two l ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 
Researchers at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands have produced crops in Mars and Moon soil simulant developed by NASA. The research supports the idea that it would not only be possible to grow food on Mars and the Moon to feed future settlers, but also to obtain viable seed from crops grown there.
Wieger Wamelink and his colleagues at Wageningen University and Research, ... more |
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 Hobart, Australia (SPX) Oct 11, 2019 
New research into the chemistry of the oceans during ice ages is helping to solve a puzzle that has engaged scientists for more than two decades.
At issue is how much of the CO2 that entered the ocean during ice ages can be attributed to the 'biological pump', where atmospheric carbon is absorbed by phytoplankton and sequestered to the seafloor as organisms die and sink.
Solving the ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 
The intensity of summer algal blooms has increased over the past three decades, according to a first-ever global survey of dozens of large, freshwater lakes, which was conducted by Carnegie's Jeff Ho and Anna Michalak and NASA's Nima Pahlevan and published by Nature.
Reports of harmful algal blooms - like the ones that shut down Toledo's water supply in 2014 or led to states of emergency b ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly 9.4 billion years ago. In the process, they spotted a tiny dwarf galaxy in its very first, high-energy stages of star formation.
While galaxy clusters have been used to magnify objects at optical wavelengths, this is the first time scientists have leveraged ... more |
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