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  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2019 NASA is sending a mobile robot to the South Pole of the Moon to get a close-up view of the location and concentration of water ice in the region and for the first time ever, actually sample the water ice at the same pole where the first woman and next man will land in 2024 under the Artemis program. About the size of a golf cart, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, will roam several miles, using its four science instruments - including a 1-meter drill - to sample various ... read more |
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ISRO releases new images captured by Chandrayaan-2 orbiterChennai, India (IANS) Oct 27, 2019 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released a new set of images of the surface of the Moon. The images, showing impact craters on the Moon surface, were captured by the Dual Frequency ... 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 
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  
With NASA telescope on board, search for intelligent aliens 'more credible'Washington (AFP) Oct 24, 2019 Astronomers dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) have announced a new collaboration with scientists working on a NASA telescope. ... more |
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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 
Putting the 'bang' in the Big BangBoston MA (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 As the Big Bang theory goes, somewhere around 13.8 billion years ago the universe exploded into being, as an infinitely small, compact fireball of matter that cooled as it expanded, triggering react ... more  
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 
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 |
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Placing another piece in the dark matter puzzleMainz, Germany (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 A team led by Prof Dmitry Budker has continued their search for dark matter within the framework of the "Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment" (or "CASPEr" for short). The CASPEr group conducts t ... more  |
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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  
Las Cumbres helping to develope a Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Astronomical DataGoleta CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 Las Cumbres Observatory is one of nine organizations jointly awarded a $2.8 million grant by the National Science Foundation to further develop the concept for a Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institu ... 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 
What About Space Traffic Management?Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 Those familiar with air traffic management architectures understand the constraints of aircraft flying in the atmosphere, vehicle dynamics and command and control techniques. Unfortunately, sp ... more 
Space collisions a growing concern as Earth orbit gets more crowdedWashington DC (UPI) Oct 24, 2019 A tweet from Elon Musk christened the burgeoning Starlink satellite constellation this week, which he plans to grow to 12,000 satellites. ... 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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 Washington (AFP) Oct 24, 2019 
Astronomers dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) have announced a new collaboration with scientists working on a NASA telescope.
So has alien hunting finally earned its stripes as a scientific discipline?
To find out, AFP spoke to scientist Jill Tarter who has devoted her life to searching for signals emanating from distant galaxies and who inspired the charac ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 27, 2019 
This time-lapse video, taken on Oct. 8, 2019, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, captures the first time NASA's Mars 2020 rover has carried its full weight on its legs and wheels.
"After years of design, analysis and testing, it is fantastic to see the rover on her wheels for the first time," said Ben Riggs, a mechanical systems engineer working on Mars 2020 at JPL. "T ... more |
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 Chennai, India (IANS) Oct 27, 2019 
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released a new set of images of the surface of the Moon. The images, showing impact craters on the Moon surface, were captured by the Dual Frequency-Synthetic Aperture Radar (DF-SAR) on its Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter, the space agency said in a post on Twitter.
According to ISRO, the Moon has been continuously bombarded by meteorites, asteroids ... 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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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 25, 2019  On 23 October 2019, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the U.S. company Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) will announce the start of routine operations for the 'DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer' (DESIS).
This instrument will be operated by DLR and TBE. It is the most powerful hyperspectral Earth observation instrument in orbit and addresse ... more |
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 Columbia SC (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 
A controversial theory that suggests an extraterrestrial body crashing to Earth almost 13,000 years ago caused the extinction of many large animals and a probable population decline in early humans is gaining traction from research sites around the world.
The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, controversial from the time it was presented in 2007, proposes that an asteroid or comet hit the Ea ... 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 
Just as a Northerner relocated to the South might begin to drawl, marmoset monkeys tweak their dialect to fit in with new neighbors.
Like many mammals, the marmoset, a small monkey native to Central and South America, communicates using regional dialects. Their calls and songs vary from one location to another.
Scientists have previously studied marmoset dialects, but, until now, ... more |
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 Washington DC (ESA) Oct 27, 2019 
Quick access to space and high-speed data transfer are paving the way for competitive science on the International Space Station. The Bartolomeo external platform has received a boost as ESA and Airbus confirmed their interest in using this new space-based vantage point for several experiments.
The Bartolomeo service will provide end-to-end access for external payloads on the Station. A ne ... 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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 Sao Paulo (AFP) Oct 24, 2019 
Amazon river dolphins are showing alarming levels of contamination mainly because of illegal panning for gold, conservationists say.
Researchers measured contamination levels in 46 of these large freshwater creatures known for long, bottle-like snouts in major basins of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.
All of them had some degree of mercury contamination and in more than half the lev ... 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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