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  Atlanta GA (SPX) Nov 20, 2019 "They're out there," goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be true in light of a new study on planetary axis tilts. Astrophysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology modeled a theoretical twin of Earth into other star systems called binary systems because they have two stars. They concluded that 87% of exo-Earths one might find in binary systems should have axis tilts similarly steady to Earth's, an important ingredient for climate stability that favors the evolution o ... read more |
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New Companies Join Growing Ranks of NASA Partners for Artemis ProgramWashington DC (SPX) Nov 20, 2019 NASA has added five American companies to the pool of vendors that will be eligible to bid on proposals to provide deliveries to the surface of the Moon through the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload ... more  
Emissions from complex organic molecules detected in cometTokyo, 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, c ... more 
First detection of sugars in meteorites gives clues to origin of lifeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 20, 2019 An international team has found sugars essential to life in meteorites. The new discovery adds to the growing list of biologically important compounds that have been found in meteorites, supporting ... more  
Aquatic rover goes for a drive under the icePasadena CA (JPL) Nov 20, 2019 A little robotic explorer will be rolling into Antarctica this month to perform a gymnastic feat - driving upside down under sea ice. BRUIE, or the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, is ... more |
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How to observe a 'black hole symphony' using gravitational wave astronomyNashville TN (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 Shrouded in mystery since their discovery, the phenomenon of black holes continues to be one of the most mind-boggling enigmas in our universe. In recent years, many researchers have made stri ... more 
NASA's TESS helps astronomers study red-giant stars, examine a too-close planetAmes IA (SPX) Nov 20, 2019 NASA's planet-hunting TESS Mission keeps giving astronomers new realities to examine and explain. Case in point: astronomers using the tools of asteroseismology - the observations and measurem ... more 
Weakened black hole allows its galaxy to awakenBoston MA (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 Astronomers have confirmed the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars are being born at its core. Using data from NASA space telescopes and a National Science Foundation radi ... more  
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  
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 |
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The first global geologic map of Titan completedPasadena 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 ... 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 
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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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 20, 2019 
A little robotic explorer will be rolling into Antarctica this month to perform a gymnastic feat - driving upside down under sea ice.
BRUIE, or the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, is being developed for underwater exploration in extraterrestrial, icy waters by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. It will spend the next month testing its endurance ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Nov 20, 2019 
"They're out there," goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be true in light of a new study on planetary axis tilts. Astrophysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology modeled a theoretical twin of Earth into other star systems called binary systems because they have two stars. They concluded that 87% of exo-Earths one might find in binary systems should have axi ... 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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 Beijing, China (SPX) Nov 20, 2019 
The South Pole-Aitken (SPA) is the largest and deepest basin on the Moon, theoretically opening a window into the lunar lower crust and likely into the upper mantle. However, compositional information of the SPA basin was mainly obtained from orbital remote sensing.
Chang'E-4 landed in the SPA Basin, providing a unique chance for in situ probing the composition of the lunar interior. The l ... more |
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Nov 20, 2019 
The Euclid mission is taking shape in Airbus cleanrooms: engineers are now finishing assembly of the telescope, the main instrument of the Payload Module, for which Airbus is responsible within this European Space Agency (ESA) mission led by Thales Alenia Space (TAS) as industrial prime contractor.
The Euclid Payload Module contains the largest telescope with such optical performance ever ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 20, 2019 
Getting stuck on a muddy road is a hassle for anyone, but for the U.S. Army it could be far more serious - a matter of life and death in some parts of the world. That's one of the reasons the U.S. Air Force HQ 557th Weather Wing is now using data about soil moisture from a NASA satellite in the weather forecasts, warnings and advisories that it issues for the Army and the Air Force.
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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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 Washington (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.
One of them is the Big Bear Solar Observatory at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and new observations by the observatory have offered fresh insights into source of extreme temperatures measured in the sun's upper atmosphere.
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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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Toulouse, France (SPX) Nov 20, 2019
The Euclid mission is taking shape in Airbus cleanrooms: engineers are now finishing assembly of the telescope, the main instrument of the Payload Module, for which Airbus is responsible within this European Space Agency (ESA) mission led by Thales Alenia Space (TAS) as industrial prime contractor.
The Euclid Payload Module contains the largest telescope with such optical performance ever ... 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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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 20, 2019 
Sierra Nevada Corp.'s new disposable space cargo container has arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for taking supplies to the International Space Station.
The cargo unit is to be attached to the back of the company's Dream Chaser spaceplane, still under development, and carry those supplies starting in fall 2021.
Like a miniature space shuttle, Dream Chaser would be ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 
Climate change is accomplishing what centuries of exploration could not: opening the fabled Northwest Passage, a maritime shortcut from Europe to Asia via the Arctic Ocean.
Research led by the University of California, Riverside, could help ships navigating these freshly thawed routes avoid the Titanic's fate with a new way to forecast the motion of floating ice.
A group led by Monic ... 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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