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  New Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 24, 2019 NASA has found no trace of the Indian lunar lander, dubbed Vikram, in the images captured during its Moon orbiter's latest flyby of the lunar region where the lander made a hard landing on 7 September, Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission Noah Petro said. The Indian Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was put into lunar orbit on 20 August. During the mission, the Vikram lander was supposed to target a patch of high ground between two craters called Simpelius N and Manzinus C a ... read more |
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Beyond Jupiter, Researchers Discover a 'Cradle of Comets'Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 Comets are known to have a temper. As they swoop in from the outer edges of our solar system, these icy bodies begin spewing gas and dust as they venture closer to the Sun. Their luminous outbursts ... more 
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 11th lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2019 The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 11th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night. The lander woke up at 5:1 ... more  
Breakthrough Listen to collaborate with scientists from NASA's TESS TeamNew York NY (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 Breakthrough Listen announced this week at the International Astronautical Congress in Washington, DC, a new collaboration with scientists working on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. ... more  
Surveying solar storms by ancient Assyrian astronomersTsukuba, Japan (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 A research team led by the University of Tsukuba combined observations from ancient cuneiform tablets that mention unusual red skies with radioisotope data to identify solar storms that likely occur ... more |
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New measurement of Hubble Constant adds to cosmic mysteryDavis CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 New measurements of the rate of expansion of the universe, led by astronomers at the University of California, Davis, add to a growing mystery: Estimates of a fundamental constant made with differen ... more 
eROSITA takes its first look at the hot UniverseBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 Galaxy clusters, active galactic nuclei, supernova remnants and X-ray binaries have one thing in common - they are incredibly hot and therefore emit X-rays. This type of radiation can reveal a great ... more 
How to spot a wormhole if they existBuffalo NY (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 A new study outlines a method for detecting a speculative phenomenon that has long captured the imagination of sci-fi fans: wormholes, which form a passage between two separate regions of spacetime. ... more 
NASA innovator experiments with force fields for moving matterGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 On a metal work bench covered with tools, instruments, cords and bottles of solution, Aaron Yevick is using laser light to create a force field with which to move particles of matter. Yevick i ... more 
A crisis in cosmologyKamuela HI (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 A group of astronomers led by University of California, Davis, has obtained new data that suggest the universe is expanding more rapidly than predicted. The study comes on the heels of a hot d ... more |
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How supergiant stars repeatedly cool and heat upBrussels, Belgium (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 An international team of professional and amateur astronomers, which includes Alex Lobel, astronomer at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has determined in detail how the temperature of four yellow ... more  |
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Fresh strontium, an ingredient in fireworks, produced by neutron star mergerWashington DC (UPI) Oct 24, 2019 Scientists have for the first time identified a freshly forged heavy metal element inside a neutron star merger. ... more 
Ancient stars shed light on Earth's similarities to other planetsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 Earth-like planets may be common in the universe, a new UCLA study implies. The team of astrophysicists and geochemists presents new evidence that the Earth is not unique. The study was published in ... more 
First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collisionMunich, Germany (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 For the first time, a freshly made heavy element, strontium, has been detected in space, in the aftermath of a merger of two neutron stars. This finding was observed by ESO's X-shooter spectrograph ... more 
Chinese scientists' pursuit of cosmic rays opens windows on universeBeijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2019 In the wilderness of Daocheng, southwest China's Sichuan Province, 4,400 meters above sea level, Chinese scientists are constructing a cosmic ray observation station on an area equivalent to 200 soc ... more  
Cloud computing gains drive up profit for MicrosoftSan Francisco (AFP) Oct 24, 2019 Microsoft reported Wednesday that quarterly profits rose on the back of its thriving cloud computing business which has become a core focus for the US technology giant. ... 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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 Moffett Field (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
A dramatic glimpse of the aftermath of a collision between two exoplanets is giving scientists a view at what can happen when planets crash into each other. A similar event in our own solar system may have formed our Moon.
Known as BD +20 307, this double-star system is more than 300 light years from Earth with stars that are at least one billion years old. Yet this mature system has shown ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 23, 2019 
Don't miss the out-of-this-world opportunity to name NASA's next Mars rover: U.S. students in kindergarten through 12th grade, attending public, private or home schools, have only through Nov. 1 to propose their name for the rover to be launched to Mars in 2020.
Just think about what it means to have something you named conducting history-making science on the Red Planet - or, if you are o ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 24, 2019 
NASA has found no trace of the Indian lunar lander, dubbed Vikram, in the images captured during its Moon orbiter's latest flyby of the lunar region where the lander made a hard landing on 7 September, Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission Noah Petro said.
The Indian Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was put into lunar orbit on 20 August. During the mission, the Vikra ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 24, 2019 
Scientists have for the first time identified a freshly forged heavy metal element inside a neutron star merger.
The element, strontium, was found in the spectra emanating from the neutron star merger GW170817. Scientists detailed the discovery in a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Gravitational wave machines first picked up the signal produced by GW170817 in 2017 ... more |
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 New Haven CT (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 
For many, the word "aerosol" might conjure thoughts of hairspray or spray paint. More accurately, though, aerosols are simply particles found in the atmosphere. They can be human-made, like from car exhaust or biomass burning, or naturally occurring, from sources such as volcanic eruptions or sea spray.
Aerosols account for one of the greater uncertainties in understanding the Earth's clim ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 
Comets are known to have a temper. As they swoop in from the outer edges of our solar system, these icy bodies begin spewing gas and dust as they venture closer to the Sun. Their luminous outbursts can result in spectacular sights that grace the night sky for days, weeks or even months.
But comets aren't born that way, and their pathway from their original formation location toward the inn ... more |
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 Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 
A research team led by the University of Tsukuba combined observations from ancient cuneiform tablets that mention unusual red skies with radioisotope data to identify solar storms that likely occurred around 679 to 655 BCE, prior to any previously datable events. This work may help modern astronomers predict future solar flares or coronal mass ejections that can damage satellite and terrestrial ... more |
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 Washington DC (XNA) Oct 23, 2019 
"I miss an important space agency in this panel. Where is China?" Attendees at a plenary of the ongoing weeklong International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington brought the question atop the panel voting system and demanded an answer.
The crowd-sourced question popped up after the audience found that Wu Yanhua, vice administrator of China National Space Administration (CNSA) sched ... more |
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Washington DC (UPI) Oct 24, 2019
Scientists have for the first time identified a freshly forged heavy metal element inside a neutron star merger.
The element, strontium, was found in the spectra emanating from the neutron star merger GW170817. Scientists detailed the discovery in a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Gravitational wave machines first picked up the signal produced by GW170817 in 2017 ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 24, 2019 
Neanderthals were using sophisticated methods to extract birch tar and use it as an adhesive in tool making.
Scientists recently found traces of the ancient glue on the handle of a 50,000 year-old flint tool, according to a study published this week.
"What is so interesting about this find is the combination of a large amount of birch tar on a small and simple sliver of stone," P ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
The International Space Station is a stepping stone for NASA's Artemis program that will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. As the only place for conducting long-duration research on how living in microgravity affects living organisms, especially humans, as well as testing technologies to allow humans to work at the Moon, the space station serves as a unique asset in the effo ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
A new consortium of international companies, called IRSA Development Group (IDG), was announced October 1, 2019, at DEFSEC Atlantic in Halifax, Canada. IDG consists of international companies with expertise in selected technology domains to bring the world an advanced remote sensing network.
Integrated Remote Sensing for the Arctic (IRSA) is a scalable, civilian, all-domain system-of- syst ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 22, 2019 
Its white flesh is tender and tasty, it can measure up to three meters long and weigh more than 200 kilograms: meet the pirarucu, one of the world's largest freshwater fish, and native to the Amazon.
The enormous animal, once threatened with extinction, is now on dinner plates in Rio de Janeiro's fanciest restaurants, thanks to a number of chefs who have championed the delicacy, and the indi ... 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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