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  Tempe AZ (SPX) Dec 03, 2019 This image shows the Vikram Lander impact point and associated debris field. Green dots indicate spacecraft debris (confirmed or likely). Blue dots locate disturbed soil, likely where small bits of the spacecraft churned up the regolith. "S" indicates debris identified by Shanmuga Subramanian. This portion of the Narrow Angle Camera mosaic was made from images M1328074531L/R and M1328081572L/R acquired Nov. 11. The Chandrayaan 2 Vikram lander was targeted for a highland smooth plain about 600 kilo ... read more |
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Astronomers propose a novel method of finding atmospheres on rocky worldsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 03, 2019 When NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launches in 2021, one of its most anticipated contributions to astronomy will be the study of exoplanets-planets orbiting distant stars. Among the most pressin ... more  
SwRI-built instrument confirms solar wind slows farther away from the SunSan Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 03, 2019 Measurements taken by the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are providing important new insights from some of the farthest reaches of space ever explore ... more 
Scientist leads international team to crack 60-year-old mystery of Sun's magnetic wavesBelfast UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2019 A Queen's University Belfast scientist has led an international team to the ground-breaking discovery of why the Sun's magnetic waves strengthen and grow as they emerge from its surface, which could ... more  
Astronauts wrap up third spacewalk for Cosmic Particle Detector repairsHouston TX (SPX) Dec 03, 2019 Expedition 61 Commander Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA Flight Engineer Andrew Morgan concluded their spacewalk at 12:33 p.m. EST. During the six hour and two minute spacewalk ... more |
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Amateur astronomers: help choose asteroid flybys for HeraParis (ESA) Nov 27, 2019 Amateur astronomers around the world are being asked to help the proposed ESA asteroid mission. As well as exploring its final destination - the Didymos binary asteroid system - the Hera spacecraft ... more  
Black hole nurtures baby stars a million light-years awayHuntsville AL (SPX) Nov 27, 2019 Black holes are famous for ripping objects apart, including stars. But now, astronomers have uncovered a black hole that may have sparked the births of stars over a mind-boggling distance, and acros ... more 
Scientists inch closer than ever to signal from cosmic dawnProvidence RI (SPX) Nov 27, 2019 Around 12 billion years ago, the universe emerged from a great cosmic dark age as the first stars and galaxies lit up. With a new analysis of data collected by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) ra ... more 
Giant magnetic ropes in a galaxy's haloSocorro NM (SPX) Nov 27, 2019 This image of the "Whale Galaxy" (NGC 4631), made with the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), reveals hair-like filaments of the galaxy's magnetic field protruding ... more 
Small satellites key to NASA's lunar search for waterWashington DC (UPI) Nov 26, 2019 Can shrinking satellites grow planetary science? NASA thinks so. With a handful of CubeSat and small satellite science and space exploration missions already under its belt - a couple even successfu ... more |
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Reports of Jupiter's Great Red Spot demise greatly exaggeratedSeattle WA (SPX) Nov 26, 2019 The shrinking of the clouds of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter has been well documented with photographic evidence from the last decade. However, researchers said there is no evidence the vortex itsel ... more  |
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Planets around a black hole?Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 26, 2019 Theoreticians in two different fields defied the common knowledge that planets orbit stars like the Sun. They proposed the possibility of thousands of planets around a supermassive black hole. ... more 
A new paradigm of black hole physics leads to a new quantumPescara, Italy (SPX) Nov 25, 2019 A change of paradigm in black hole physics, leading to new perspectives in the role of the quantum in fundamental laws of physics, is finally reaching its most cogent confirmation by the introductio ... more 
Israel's next attempt at lunar lander within 3 years says SpaceIL founderMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 25, 2019 Although Israel's first privately funded mission to the Moon crashed on the lunar surface in April, Kfir Damari, co-founder of SpaceIL, a startup that developed the spacecraft, isn't giving up. Work ... more 
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 12th lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Nov 25, 2019 The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 12th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night. The lander woke up at 5:03 p. ... more 
Animal embryos evolved before animalsBristol UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2019 Animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, before diversifying into 30 or 40 distinct anatomical designs. When and how animal ancestors made the transition from single-celled microbes to complex ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 26, 2019 
The shrinking of the clouds of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter has been well documented with photographic evidence from the last decade. However, researchers said there is no evidence the vortex itself has changed in size or intensity.
Philip Marcus, from the University of California, Berkeley, will explain why the pictures from astronomers, both professionals and amateur, are not telling th ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 03, 2019 
When NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launches in 2021, one of its most anticipated contributions to astronomy will be the study of exoplanets-planets orbiting distant stars. Among the most pressing questions in exoplanet science is: Can a small, rocky exoplanet orbiting close to a red dwarf star hold onto an atmosphere?
In a series of four papers in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of a ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2019 
The search for evidence of life on Mars could be helped by fresh insights into ancient rocks on Earth.
Research which suggests that structures previously thought to be fossils may, in fact, be mineral deposits could save future Mars missions valuable time and resources.
Microscopic tubes and filaments that resemble the remains of tiny creatures may have been formed by chemical reacti ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 25, 2019 
The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 12th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night.
The lander woke up at 5:03 p.m. Thursday (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 0:51 a.m. the same day. Both are in normal working order, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Dec 03, 2019 
Expedition 61 Commander Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA Flight Engineer Andrew Morgan concluded their spacewalk at 12:33 p.m. EST. During the six hour and two minute spacewalk, the two astronauts successfully installed a new cooling system for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS).
The crew completed the primary task to install the upgraded cooling system, called the ... more |
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 Taiyuan, China (SPX) Nov 30, 2019 
China sent a new Earth observation satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province at 7:52 a.m. Thursday (Beijing Time).
The satellite, Gaofen-12, was launched aboard a Long March-4C rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully. It was the 320th flight mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.
As part of the country's high ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 27, 2019 
Amateur astronomers around the world are being asked to help the proposed ESA asteroid mission. As well as exploring its final destination - the Didymos binary asteroid system - the Hera spacecraft could potentially fly past one or more bodies on the way. But the mission team require additional observations to help select their targets.
"Asteroid research is one area of astronomy where ama ... more |
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 Belfast UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2019 
A Queen's University Belfast scientist has led an international team to the ground-breaking discovery of why the Sun's magnetic waves strengthen and grow as they emerge from its surface, which could help to solve the mystery of how the corona of the Sun maintains its multi-million degree temperatures.
For more than 60 years observations of the Sun have shown that as the magnetic waves leav ... more |
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 Wuhan, China (XNA) Nov 22, 2019 
A Chinese company on Wednesday launched a satellite service platform to make satellite resources more accessible for users.
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), the platform's designer, announced the news at the 5th China (International) Commercial Aerospace Forum in Wuhan.
A common satellite operating business focuses on satellites rather than services, which ma ... more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Dec 03, 2019
Expedition 61 Commander Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA Flight Engineer Andrew Morgan concluded their spacewalk at 12:33 p.m. EST. During the six hour and two minute spacewalk, the two astronauts successfully installed a new cooling system for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS).
The crew completed the primary task to install the upgraded cooling system, called the ... more |
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 Eindhoven, Netherlands (SPX) Nov 28, 2019 
Small populations, inbreeding, and random demographic fluctuations could have been enough to cause Neanderthal extinction, according to a study published November 27, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Krist Vaesen from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, and colleagues.
Paleoanthropologists agree that Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years ago - about the s ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 28, 2019 
None of the toilets at the International Space Station (ISS) are working, astronauts have to use "diapers", a NASA translation suggested Wednesday.
There are two toilets at the ISS, both Russian-made - one in the US module and another one in the Russian one.
In addition, there are toilets in Soyuz ships docked at the station but they are used when the ship is in flight and only rarel ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 27, 2019 
In the tiny part of Antarctica where the snow melts in springtime, mosses, lichens and grasses grow alongside flies, mites and colonies of micro-organisms that have fed and reproduced for millions of years.
The rich biodiversity is preserved by an ancient equilibrium of extreme cold and the isolation of a land mass surrounded by powerful ocean currents.
But scientists argue in a report p ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 30, 2019 
Fiber-optic cables that constitute a global undersea telecommunications network could one day help scientists study offshore earthquakes and the geologic structures hidden deep beneath the ocean surface.
In a paper appearing this week in the journal Science, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Monterey Bay Aquarium ... 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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