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  Leeds UK (SPX) Dec 17, 2019 The existence of habitable alien worlds has been a mainstay of popular culture for more than a century. In the 19th century, astronomers believed that Martians might be using canal-based transport links to traverse the red planet. Now, despite living in an age when scientists can study planets light years from our own solar system, most new research continues to diminish the chances of finding other worlds on which humans could live. The biggest stumbling block may be oxygen - human settlers would need ... read more |
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Get ready for a new periodic tableJerusalem (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 Are you ready for the future? Back in 1869, Russia's Dmitri Mendeleev began to classify the elements according to their chemical properties, giving rise to the Periodical Table of Elements. "I saw i ... more  
'DNA' of Twin Stars Helps Reveal Family History of Milky WayAustin TX (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 Twin stars appear to share chemical "DNA" that could help scientists map the history of the Milky Way galaxy, according to new research by astronomer Keith Hawkins of The University of Texas at Aust ... more 
New Image of Candy Cane-Shaped Feature in Center of Milky WayLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 A team of astronomers has produced a new image of an arc-shaped object in the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The feature, which resembles a candy cane, is a magnetic structure that covers an enormo ... more  
Hebrew U researcher cracks Newton's elusive '3-body' problemJerusalem (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 It's been nearly 350 years since Sir Isaac Newton outlined the laws of motion, claiming "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." These laws laid the foundation to understand our ... more |
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Distant Milky Way-like galaxies reveal star formation history of the universeCharlottesville VA (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The brightest spots are galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes and shine bright in radio light. But ... more 
Nightside barrier gently brakes 'bursty' plasma bubblesHouston TX (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 The solar wind that pummels the Earth's dayside magnetosphere causes turbulence, like air over a wing. Physicists at Rice University have developed new methods to characterize how that influences sp ... more  
A box of Apollo lunar soilGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 Fortunately for today's scientists, Apollo-era leaders had the foresight to save much of the 842 pounds (382 kilograms) of Moon soil and rocks retrieved by NASA astronauts 50 years ago for future ge ... more 
Macao's moon, planetary lab to boost China's deep space explorationBeijing, China (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 Macao's first space exploration satellite was named Macao Science 1, the special administrative region (SAR)'s Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Tam Chon Weng announced Sunday at an opening c ... more 
NYU Abu Dhabi researcher discovers exoplanets can be made less habitable by stars' flaresAbu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Dec 17, 2019 The discovery of terrestrial exoplanets, planets that orbit stars outside the solar system, has been one of the most significant developments in modern astronomy. Several exoplanets lie in the "habi ... more |
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How does the Milky Way get its spiral formColumbia MD (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 A question that has long puzzled scientists is how our Milky Way galaxy, which has an elegant spiral shape with long arms, took this form. Universities Space Research Association has announced ... more  |
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Asteroid collisions trigger cascading formation of subfamilies, study concludesSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 Billions of years ago, asteroid collisions resulted in the ejection of fragments hundreds of kilometers across and sharing similar orbits. The resulting groups are known as asteroid families. ... more 
Researchers spy on planets as fluffy as cotton candyBoulder CO (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 Meet what may be the largest carnival delights known to science: the "super-puff" worlds of the Kepler 51 star system. As their confectionary name suggests, these planets are as lightweight as ... more 
Self-Reflection Through StarlightTucson AZ (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 Students thought in silence as they worked out the age of a distant star. When it came time to vote on the answer, only about 50% of the class answered correctly. "Nope. You're not there yet. ... more 
A warm Space Station welcome for cool new hardwarePasadena CA (JPL) Dec 18, 2019 Astronaut Christina Koch recently gave a warm welcome to a very cool arrival to the International Space Station: a new piece of hardware for the Cold Atom Lab, an experimental physics facility that ... more
Scientists closer to solving Newton's 'three-body problem'Washington (UPI) Dec 18, 2019 For more than three centuries, Newton's laws of motion have helped scientists understand the relationships between body of mass and the forces that act on it, like the forces acting on a planet orbiting the sun. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 
Jupiter's south pole has a new cyclone. The discovery of the massive Jovian tempest occurred on Nov. 3, 2019, during the most recent data-gathering flyby of Jupiter by NASA's Juno spacecraft. It was the 22nd flyby during which the solar-powered spacecraft collected science data on the gas giant, soaring only 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) above its cloud tops. The flyby also marked a victory for ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
Meet what may be the largest carnival delights known to science: the "super-puff" worlds of the Kepler 51 star system.
As their confectionary name suggests, these planets are as lightweight as cotton candy - literally. The fluffy globes are the lowest density exoplanets ever discovered beyond Earth's solar system.
"They're very bizarre," said Jessica Libby-Roberts, a graduate student ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 24, 2019 
A series of ground-based tests designed to check the extraction of the ExoMars 2020 mission's parachutes from their bags have started successfully with promising results to keep the mission on track for next year's launch.
Landing on Mars is a high-risk endeavour with no room for error. In just six minutes, a descent module with its precious cargo cocooned inside has to slow from around 21 ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 
Macao's first space exploration satellite was named Macao Science 1, the special administrative region (SAR)'s Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Tam Chon Weng announced Sunday at an opening ceremony of an aerospace exhibition.
During the opening ceremony, vice administrator of China National Space Administration (CNSA) Wu Yanhua also announced that the CNSA would set up Macao Space ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 
The solar wind that pummels the Earth's dayside magnetosphere causes turbulence, like air over a wing. Physicists at Rice University have developed new methods to characterize how that influences space weather on the nightside.
It's rarely quiet up there. The solar wind streams around the Earth and cruises off into the night, but closer to the planet, parcels of plasma get caught in the tu ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
The Earth's inner core is hot, under immense pressure and snow-capped, according to new research that could help scientists better understand forces that affect the entire planet.
The snow is made of tiny particles of iron - much heavier than any snowflake on Earth's surface - that fall from the molten outer core and pile on top of the inner core, creating piles up to 200 miles thick that ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
Billions of years ago, asteroid collisions resulted in the ejection of fragments hundreds of kilometers across and sharing similar orbits. The resulting groups are known as asteroid families.
Other asteroid groups formed as a result of rotational fission, which happens when a rapidly spinning body reaches critical rotation speed and splits into relatively small fragments only a few kilomet ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never been seen before. In the scorching upper reaches of the Sun's atmosphere, a prominence - a large loop of material launched by an eruption on the solar surface - started falling back to the surface of the Sun. But before it could make it, the prominence ran into a snarl of magnetic field lines, spark ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Dec 19, 2019 
The Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province will host around 20 launch missions in 2020, including two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), according to an official from the center.
Wang Zemin, deputy director of the launch center, made the remarks after China successfully sent two BDS satellites into space from Xichang on Monday.
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Houston TX (SPX) Dec 24, 2019
The solar wind that pummels the Earth's dayside magnetosphere causes turbulence, like air over a wing. Physicists at Rice University have developed new methods to characterize how that influences space weather on the nightside.
It's rarely quiet up there. The solar wind streams around the Earth and cruises off into the night, but closer to the planet, parcels of plasma get caught in the tu ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Dec 26, 2019 
Of the many people who made history in 2019, some surprised themselves and the world by emerging from obscurity to make their mark, though one remains anonymous for the time being - "The Whistleblower" behind the impeachment probe into US President Donald Trump.
Following are brief profiles of eight history-makers in politics, climate and humanitarian activism, music and astronomy who were ... more |
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 Cologne, Germany (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 
The intensity of space radiation is much greater outside Earth's protective magnetic field. This causes problems for the human body and represents a challenge for future crewed space missions to the Moon and Mars. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is conducting research to determine the radiation risk for crewed spaceflight. One of the projects that the ... more |
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 Rovaniemi, Finland (AFP) Dec 24, 2019 
In Finland's remote Lapland region, the Santa Claus Village amusement park is a snowy wonderland of reindeer rides, ice castles, snowmobiles and igloo hotels where Christmas holds sway 365 days a year.
At its centre, a wooden, fairytale-esque cabin houses Santa's grotto - since the 1980s, tourism chiefs have set out to market the main town, Rovaniemi, as the world's official home of Santa C ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 
Every school child learns about the water cycle - evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. But what if there were a deep Earth component of this process happening on geologic timescales that makes our planet ideal for sustaining life as we know it?
New work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Carnegie's Yanhao Lin and Michael Walter - along ... more |
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 Jerusalem (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 
It's been nearly 350 years since Sir Isaac Newton outlined the laws of motion, claiming "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." These laws laid the foundation to understand our solar system and, more broadly, to understand the relationship between a body of mass and the forces that act upon it. However, Newton's groundbreaking work also created a pickle that has baffled scie ... more |
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