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  Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 The University of Arizona is spearheading work that would begin efforts to construct a space-based infrared telescope that could provide the capabilities NASA needs to search for asteroids and comets that pose impact hazards to Earth, called near-Earth objects, or NEOs. Professor Amy Mainzer of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona will provide technical leadership for the projected mission, to be in partnership with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Near-Earth Obj ... read more |
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Weizmann physicists image electrons flowing like waterRehovot, Israel (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 Physicists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have imaged electrons flowing viscously through a nanodevice, just like water flowing through a pipe. Long predicted but only now visualized ... more  
Revealing the physics of the Sun with Parker Solar ProbeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 Nearly a year and a half into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned gigabytes of data on the Sun and its atmosphere. Following the release of the very first science from the mission, five res ... more  
Second stellar population found in Milky Way's thick diskRome, Italy (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 A new study led by Dr. Daniela Carollo - researcher of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics - on the kinematics and chemical composition of a sample of stars in the vicinity of the Sun, r ... more 
Stardust from Red GiantsZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 Some of the Earth's building material was stardust from red giants, researchers from ETH Zurich have established. They can also explain why the Earth contains more of this stardust than the asteroid ... more |
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OSIRIS-REx engineers pull off a daring rescue of asteroid missionGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 On Friday, Oct. 11, the OSIRIS-REx team should have been preparing to point their spacecraft cameras precisely over the asteroid Bennu to capture high-resolution images of a region known as Osprey. ... more  
Hidden giant planet around tiny white dwarf starCoventry UK (SPX) Dec 05, 2019 The first evidence of a giant planet orbiting a dead white dwarf star has been found in the form of a disc of gas formed from its evaporating atmosphere. The Neptune-like planet orbits a star ... more 
Scientists figure out how accumulating dust particles become planetsWashington DC (UPI) Dec 09, 2019 Scientists have developed a working theory for how small clumps of dust become big balls of debris and begin to form young planets. ... more  
ESA to fund world's first space debris removal missionWashington DC (UPI) Dec 09, 2019 The European Space Agency has agreed to fund a mission to remove a piece of space debris - the first of its kind - as part of the agency's new Space Safety program. ... more 
ESA commissions world's first space debris removalParis (ESA) Dec 10, 2019 ClearSpace-1 will be the first space mission to remove an item of debris from orbit, planned for launch in 2025. The mission is being procured as a service contract with a startup-led commercial con ... more |
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 KinetX team helps in understanding particles ejected from the surface of Asteroid Bennu 
OSIRIS-REx mission explains Bennu's mysterious particle eventsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 06, 2019 Shortly after NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission's science team revealed that the asteroid could be active, or consistently discharging pa ... more  |
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How planets may form after dust sticks togetherNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 Scientists may have figured out how dust particles can stick together to form planets, according to a Rutgers co-authored study that may also help to improve industrial processes. In homes, ad ... more  
How Enceladus got its stripesWashington DC (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is of great interest to scientists due to its subsurface ocean, making it a prime target for those searching for life elsewhere. New research led by Carnegie's Doug Hemin ... more 
Exoplanet axis study boosts hopes of complex life, just not next doorAtlanta GA (SPX) Dec 09, 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 Te ... more 
Scientists find further evidence for a population of dark matter deficient dwarf galaxiesBeijing, China (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC), Peking University and Tsinghua University have found a special population of dwarf galaxies that co ... more 
Signs of life: New field guide aids astronomers' searchIthaca NY (SPX) Dec 05, 2019 A Cornell University senior has come up with a way to discern life on exoplanets loitering in other cosmic neighborhoods: a spectral field guide. Zifan Lin has developed high-resolution spectral mod ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 08, 2019 
New Horizons is healthy and performing well as it flies ever onward, at nearly one million miles per day! This month we're collecting new data on the Kuiper Belt's charged particle and dust environment, and observing two distant Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) to learn about their surface properties, shapes and rotation periods, and to search for satellite systems.
Much more is in store for thi ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 09, 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 ha ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2019 
Curiosity won't be NASA's only active Mars rover for much longer. Next summer, Mars 2020 will be headed for the Red Planet. While the newest rover borrows from Curiosity's design, they aren't twins: Built and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, each has its own role in the ongoing exploration of Mars and the search for ancient life. Here's a closer look at what s ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 05, 2019 
China's lunar rover Yutu-2 has driven 345.059 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration of the virgin territory.
Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have ended their work for the 12th lunar day, and switched to dormant mode for the lunar night, the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said W ... more |
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 Rome, Italy (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 
A new study led by Dr. Daniela Carollo - researcher of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics - on the kinematics and chemical composition of a sample of stars in the vicinity of the Sun, revealed that the stars that make up the thick disk of our galaxy, the Milky Way, belong to two distinct stellar populations with different characteristics and not to a single one, as has been thought ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Dec 06, 2019 
The plan was first mooted by China to improve co-operation around natural disasters. But it took shape later when BRICS space agencies agreed to build a "virtual constellation of remote sensing satellites".
The Indian space ministry has indicated major progress in terms of establishing a BRICS satellite for various applications including natural resources management and disaster management ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 
On Friday, Oct. 11, the OSIRIS-REx team should have been preparing to point their spacecraft cameras precisely over the asteroid Bennu to capture high-resolution images of a region known as Osprey. It is one of four sites scientists are considering from which the spacecraft can safely collect a sample in late 2020.
But early that morning, the team learned that a telecommunications facility ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 06, 2019 
Early returns from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's camera on NASA's latest mission to study the Sun's corona revealed on Dec. 4 a star more complex than ever imagined.
NRL's Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, or WISPR, the only imaging instrument aboard the NASA Parker Solar Probe mission, is now 84 percent of the way to the Sun.
WISPR produced multiple scientifically rel ... more |
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 Taiyuan, China (XNA) Dec 08, 2019 
China sent six satellites into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province at 4:52 p.m. Saturday (Beijing Time).
They were launched by a Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) rocket and have entered the planned orbit successfully.
It was the second launch from the Taiyuan launch center in less than six hours after another KZ-1A rocket sent the Jilin-1 Gaofen 02B satellit ... more |
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Rome, Italy (SPX) Dec 11, 2019
A new study led by Dr. Daniela Carollo - researcher of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics - on the kinematics and chemical composition of a sample of stars in the vicinity of the Sun, revealed that the stars that make up the thick disk of our galaxy, the Milky Way, belong to two distinct stellar populations with different characteristics and not to a single one, as has been thought ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 10, 2019 
New research suggests narcissism isn't static - it changes over time.
Previous studies on narcissism have mostly focused on small groups and cross-sectional population samples across short periods of time. Until now, there was little information on how narcissism changes across the adult life span.
For the new study, published in the journal Psychology and Aging, scientists anal ... more |
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 El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 
The Near Infrared Airglow Camera (NIRAC) uses an Aerospace-patented orbital motion compensation system to take long-exposure, smear-free images at night. Motion compensation from a fast-moving, low Earth orbiting platform can be difficult, but NIRAC's custom optical system enables imaging at a spatial resolution of 80 meters, even as the ISS travels more than 10 kilometers during the camera's 1. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 
New time-lapse videos of Earth's glaciers and ice sheets as seen from space - some spanning nearly 50 years - are providing scientists with new insights into how the planet's frozen regions are changing.
At a media briefing Dec. 9 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, scientists released new time series of images of Alaska, Greenland, and Antarctica usin ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (UPI) Dec 09, 2019 
Kennedy Space Center in Florida has spent $100 million fixing storm damage and rebuilding sand dunes to protect launch pads in the past 10 years, and that number is expected to grow dramatically in the coming years.
New studies indicate sea level rise is accelerating and will impact low-lying areas, including the space center, sooner than previously thought.
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 Changchun, China (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 
Ultra-stable laser light that was stored in optical resonators of up to 4km length enabled the first observations of gravitational waves from inspirals of binary black holes and neutron stars. Due to the rather low bandwidth of the optical resonator system, however, the scientifically highly interesting post-merger signals at frequencies above a few hundred hertz could not be resolved. Such info ... more |
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