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  Washington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 After a year scoping out asteroid Bennu's boulder-scattered surface, the team leading NASA's first asteroid sample return mission has officially selected a sample collection site. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-Rex) mission team concluded a site designated "Nightingale" - located in a crater high in Bennu's northern hemisphere - is the best spot for the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to snag its sample. The OSIRIS-REx team spent the ... read more |
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Interstellar comet 2I Borisov swings past SunBaltimore MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like one-of-a-kind, it's bound to stir up a lot of excitement and attention. Enter comet 2I/Borisov. This mysterious visitor ... more  
Water common yet scarce in exoplanetsCambridge UK (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 The most extensive survey of atmospheric chemical compositions of exoplanets to date has revealed trends that challenge current theories of planet formation and has implications for the search for w ... more  
OneWeb to use advanced grappling tech from Altius Space MachinesLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 OneWeb, whose goal is to connect everyone everywhere, and OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture between Airbus and OneWeb are coming together to advance the OneWeb Responsible Space program with a comm ... more  
Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdnessBerkeley CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 If you use a vacuum-insulated thermos to help keep your coffee hot, you may know it's a good insulator because heat energy has a hard time moving through empty space. Vibrations of atoms or molecule ... more |
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A galactic danceWashington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 Galaxies lead a graceful existence on cosmic timescales. Over millions of years, they can engage in elaborate dances that produce some of Nature's most exquisite and striking grand designs. Few are ... more 
How to shape a spiral galaxyWashington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 Our Milky Way galaxy has an elegant spiral shape with long arms filled with stars, but exactly how it took this form has long puzzled scientists. New observations of another galaxy are shedding ligh ... more 
Russian astrophysicists discovered a neutron star with an unusual magnetic field structureMoscow, Russia (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 Scientists from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), and Pulkovo Observatory discovered a unique neutron star, the magnetic ... more 
NRL-camera aboard NASA spacecraft confirms asteroid phenomenonWashington DC (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on the NASA Parker Solar Probe revealed an asteroid dust trail that has eluded astronomers for decades. Karl Battams, a computational scie ... more 
Storing data in everyday objectsZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 Living beings contain their own assembly and operating instructions in the form of DNA. That's not the case with inanimate objects: anyone wishing to 3D print an object also requires a set of instru ... more |
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 Looking Toward Work on NASA's Potential Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope 
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  |
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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  
Quantum expander for gravitational-wave observatoriesChangchun, 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 t ... more 
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 |
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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.
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 
A project lead by an international team of researchers use publicly available data with images of the sky dating as far back as to the 1950s to try to detect and analyse objects that have disappeared over time.
In the project "Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations" (VASCO), they have particularly looked for objects that may have existed in old military sky catalo ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 
A new paper in Science documents for the first time the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of a planet, 120 to 300 kilometers above the surface. The findings are based on local observations, rather than indirect measurements, unlike many prior measurements taken on Earth's upper atmosphere. But it didn't happen on Earth: it happened on Mars. On top of that, all the data cam ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 
Galaxies lead a graceful existence on cosmic timescales. Over millions of years, they can engage in elaborate dances that produce some of Nature's most exquisite and striking grand designs. Few are as captivating as the galactic duo known as NGC 5394/5, sometimes nicknamed the Heron Galaxy. This image, obtained by the Gemini Observatory of NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Labor ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 09, 2019 
The Montreal Protocol, an international agreement signed in 1987 to stop chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) destroying the ozone layer, now appears to be the first international treaty to successfully slow the rate of global warming.
New research published in Environmental Research Letters has revealed that thanks to the Protocol, today's global temperatures are considerably lower. And by mid-cent ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 
A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on the NASA Parker Solar Probe revealed an asteroid dust trail that has eluded astronomers for decades.
Karl Battams, a computational scientist in NRL's Space Science Division, discussed the results from the camera called Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) on Dec. 11 during a NASA press conference.
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 Space Weather at NASA 
by Lina Tran for GSFC News
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 12, 2019
In a Dec. 10 press event at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, three scientists presented new images of the ionosphere, the dynamic region where Earth's atmosphere meets space. Home to astronauts and everyday technology like radio and GPS, the ionosphere constantly responds to changes from space above ... 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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Washington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2019
Galaxies lead a graceful existence on cosmic timescales. Over millions of years, they can engage in elaborate dances that produce some of Nature's most exquisite and striking grand designs. Few are as captivating as the galactic duo known as NGC 5394/5, sometimes nicknamed the Heron Galaxy. This image, obtained by the Gemini Observatory of NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Labor ... more |
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 Washington UPI) Dec 11, 2019 
Artistic expression is a vital part of the human story, and it's a story that began at least 44,000 years ago. The discovery of an ancient cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed the origins of figurative cave painting back further than ever before.
The painting was first discovered by Hamrullah, an Indonesian spelunker and archaeologist, while working on a governm ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Dec 13, 2019 
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner space capsule is ready for its maiden voyage as early as Dec. 20, NASA officials said Thursday.
The space agency said the capsule passed a flight readiness review Thursday. The review included dozens of managers and engineers from the space agency, Boeing and launch provider United Launch Alliance.
The scheduled launch date is Dec. 20, but alternate dates becaus ... 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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