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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2019 The first map showing the global geology of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has been completed and fully reveals a dynamic world of dunes, lakes, plains, craters and other terrains. Titan is the only planetary body in our solar system other than Earth known to have stable liquid on its surface. But instead of water raining down from clouds and filling lakes and seas as on Earth, on Titan what rains down is methane and ethane - hydrocarbons that we think of as gases but that behave as liquids in Tita ... read more |
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How LISA Pathfinder detected dozens of 'comet crumbs'Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based gravitational wave obs ... more  
NASA scientists confirm water vapor on EuropaGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter's 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon's icy surface, which give Europa the look ... more  
The measurements of the expansion of the universe don't add upBarcelona, Spain (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 Physicists use two types of measurements to calculate the expansion rate of the universe, but their results do not coincide, which may make it necessary to touch up the cosmological model. "It's lik ... more  
Scientists use 3D climate model to narrow search for habitable exoplanetsWashington (UPI) Nov 14, 2019 For the first time, scientists used a 3D climate model that incorporates photochemistry to study the habitability of exoplanets surrounding M dwarf stars. ... more |
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Images from solar observatory peel away layers of a stellar mysteryNewark NJ (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has shed new light on one of the central mysteries of solar physics: how energy from ... more 
New observations help explain why sun's upper atmosphere is hotter than its surfaceWashington (UPI) Nov 18, 2019 Several observatories, both on Earth's surface and in space, are dedicated to solving the mysteries of the sun's heating mechanisms. ... more  
Astronauts conduct first spacewalk to fix cosmic particle detector on ISSWashington (UPI) Nov 15, 2019 NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano are back inside the space station after a spacewalk that lasted six hours and 39 minutes. ... more 
When galaxies rotate, size mattersSpotswood, Australia (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 The direction in which a galaxy spins depends on its mass, researchers have found. A team of astrophysicists analysed 1,418 galaxies and found that small ones are likely to spin on a different ... more 
Campaign launched to support Hera asteroid missionLuxembourg (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 During a press event at the Museum fur Naturkunde (MfN) in Berlin, a major campaign was launched to support missions designed to increase our knowledge of asteroids and near-Earth objects (NEOs), in ... more |
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 Making planets in a rocket 
Massive photons in an artificial magnetic fieldWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 An international research collaboration from Poland, the UK and Russia has created a two-dimensional system - a thin optical cavity filled with liquid crystal - in which they trapped photons. As the ... more  |
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Amazon says 'bias' in Pentagon awarding $10 bn contract to MicrosoftSan Francisco (AFP) Nov 15, 2019 Amazon on Thursday challenged the awarding of a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft, alleging "unmistakable bias" in the process. ... more 
Amazon says 'bias' in Pentagon awarding $10 bn contract to MicrosoftSan Francisco (AFP) Nov 15, 2019 Amazon on Thursday challenged the awarding of a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft, alleging "unmistakable bias" in the process. ... more
Top US court to hear key Google-Oracle software caseWashington (AFP) Nov 15, 2019 The US Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a software copyright case pitting Oracle against Google in which billions of dollars is at stake. ... more 
New approach in hunt for dark matterMainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 A study that takes a novel approach to the search for dark matter has been performed by the BASE Collaboration at CERN working together with a team at the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes G ... more 
New laser opens up large region of the electromagnetic spectrumBoston MA (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 The terahertz frequency range - which sits in the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and infrared light - offers the potential for high-bandwidth communications, ultrahigh-res ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2019 
Even by the wild standards of the outer solar system, the strange orbits that carry Neptune's two innermost moons are unprecedented, according to newly published research.
Orbital dynamics experts are calling it a "dance of avoidance" performed by the tiny moons Naiad and Thalassa. The two are true partners, orbiting only about 1,150 miles (1,850 kilometers) apart. But they never get that ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 18, 2019 
How are celestial bodies created? Aside from philosophical questions, researchers are taking practical steps to investigate the very first moments when planets are born - on a sounding rocket launching from Sweden next week.
Astronomers conclude that planets are formed out of cosmic dust and gas from an interstellar cloud around a new-born star, but exactly how dust particles start to asse ... more |
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 Bethesda, MD (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 
People visiting and living on Mars have been the subjects of science fiction stories, engineering studies and tourist proposals since Gustavus Pope's adventure story, "Journey to Mars" in 1894. Mission plans have included landing humans on Mars for exploration at a minimum, and with the possibility of sending settlers and terraforming the planet.
Serious mission design activities have been ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Nov 15, 2019 
In July 2019, India attempted to be the first country to land a robotic mission at the moon's South Pole. The lunar mission, named 'Chandrayaan 2', failed when engineers lost contact with the "Vikram" lander in September.
India is gearing up to launch its third lunar mission 'Chandrayaan-3' by November 2020 as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has started preparing for the miss ... more |
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 Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 
An international research collaboration from Poland, the UK and Russia has created a two-dimensional system - a thin optical cavity filled with liquid crystal - in which they trapped photons. As the properties of the cavity were modified by an external voltage, the photons behaved like massive quasiparticles endowed with a magnetic moment, called "spin", under the influence of an artificial magn ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 
Artificial lighting at night affects the behavior of urban wildlife, according to a recent study published in Nature Scientific Reports, which examined animals in the laboratory and the field. The researchers mapped light levels in the city of Chicago using publicly available images of Earth taken by astronauts from the International Space Station.
The study is only one example of the wide ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 
Using the Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer (COMICS) on the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have detected an unidentified infrared emission band from comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner (hereafter, comet 21P/G-Z) in addition to the thermal emissions from silicate and carbon grains.
These unidentified infrared emissions are likely due to complex organic molecules, both aliphatic and aromatic ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 19, 2019 
Data from ESA's Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie 'song' that Earth sings when it is hit by a solar storm.
The song comes from waves that are generated in the Earth's magnetic field by the collision of the storm. The storm itself is the eruption of electrically charged particles from the Sun's atmosphere.
A team led by Lucile Turc, a former ESA research fellow who ... more |
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 Guangzhou, China (XNA) Nov 19, 2019 
China plans to complete the construction of a space station and have it put into operation around 2022, said Zhou Jianping, the chief designer of China's manned space program, at a forum held in south China's Guangdong Province.
The space station is designed to weigh 100 tonnes and accommodate three astronauts, which could be enlarged if needed, according to Zhou.
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Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Nov 15, 2019
An international research collaboration from Poland, the UK and Russia has created a two-dimensional system - a thin optical cavity filled with liquid crystal - in which they trapped photons. As the properties of the cavity were modified by an external voltage, the photons behaved like massive quasiparticles endowed with a magnetic moment, called "spin", under the influence of an artificial magn ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 13, 2019 
New research suggests it wasn't superior intelligence that set our earliest pre-human ancestors, like Australopithecus, apart from apes.
For the study, scientists analyzed holes in the skull that allow the passage of supply arteries to the brain, calculating blood flow to the cognitive part of the brain. Researchers calibrated their estimates using humans and other mammal models, and th ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Nov 18, 2019 
A government report on NASA's quest to send people into space again criticizes the agency for making additional and "unnecessary" payments to Boeing Co. of up to $287 million.
The report from NASA's Office of Inspector General, an independent watchdog, also says NASA made those payments to Boeing without talking to the other major contractor on the program, SpaceX, about alternatives.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 
The oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing twice as fast as ice in the rest of the Arctic Ocean, according to new research.
A new study in AGU's journal Geophysical Research Letters finds ice in the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland is more mobile than previously thought, as ocean currents and atmospheric winds are likely transporting the old, thick ice found there to other parts ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 
In an effort to reverse the decline in the health of the world's oceans, the United Nations (UN) has declared 2021 to 2030 to be the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. One key requirement for the scientific initiative is data on existing global ocean conditions. An important trove of data is already available thanks to the Tara Oceans expedition, an international, interdiscipli ... 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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