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  Cleveland OH (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 An engineering model of the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is tested in the Simulated Lunar Operations Laboratory at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. About the size of a golf cart, VIPER is a mobile robot that will roam around the Moon's South Pole looking for water ice in the region and for the first time ever, actually sample the water ice at the same pole where the first woman and next man will land in 2024 under the Artemis program. The large, ... read more |
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Russian spy satellite has broken up in space says harvard astronomerMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 14, 2020 Russia launched the Kosmos-2491 military satellite into orbit in 2013, with few details made available regarding its capabilities and mission, leading to speculation about its true purpose. Ru ... more  
Experiments into amorphous carbon monolayer lend new evidence to physics debateNashville TN (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 Plastic, glass and gels, also known as bulk amorphous materials, are everyday objects to all of us. But for researchers, these materials have long been scientific enigmas - specifically when it come ... more  
Dancing debris, moveable landscape shape Comet 67PIthaca NY (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 A comet once thought to be a quiet dirty snowball cruising through the solar system becomes quite active when seen up close. Photography from the Rosetta mission reveals dancing gravel, whirli ... more 
Meteorite contains the oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardustChicago IL (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 Stars have life cycles. They're born when bits of dust and gas floating through space find each other and collapse in on each other and heat up. They burn for millions to billions of years, and then ... more |
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Telescope upgrade, move will aid in search for exoplanetsIthaca NY (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 Thousands of planets orbiting stars other than our own - known as extrasolar planets, or exoplanets - have been detected and cataloged over the last 30 years. A new effort will set the stage for the ... more 
A stripped helium star solves the massive black hole mysteryNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 Stellar black holes form when massive stars end their life in a dramatic collapse. Observations have shown that stellar black holes typically have masses of about ten times that of the Sun, in accor ... more  
First sighting of hot gas sloshing in galaxy clusterParis (ESA) Jan 13, 2020 ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has spied hot gas sloshing around within a galaxy cluster - a never-before-seen behaviour that may be driven by turbulent merger events. Galaxy clusters are ... more 
Experiment on beta-decay sheds light on fate of intermediate-mass starsDarmstadt, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 A group of scientists, among them several from GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung and from Technical University of Darmstadt, succeeded to experimentally determine characteristics of nucl ... more 
NASA's Lucy mission confirms discovery of Eurybates SatelliteWashington DC (SPX) Jan 10, 2020 NASA's Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft has targeted for flyby in 2027, has a small satellite. This "bonus" science exploration opport ... more |
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ASU and Virginia Tech researchers unlock mysteries of grasshopper response to gravityTempe AZ (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 If you jump out of bed too quickly, you might feel a bit light-headed. That's because when you're lying down, gravity causes your blood to pool in the lower parts of your body rather than in y ... more  |
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Influential electrons? Physicists uncover a quantum relationshipNew York NY (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 A team of physicists has mapped how electron energies vary from region to region in a particular quantum state with unprecedented clarity. This understanding reveals an underlying mechanism by which ... more 
Scientists transform a BBQ lighter into a high-tech lab deviceAtlanta GA (SPX) Jan 10, 2020 Researchers have devised a straightforward technique for building a laboratory device known as an electroporator - which applies a jolt of electricity to temporarily open cell walls - from inexpensi ... more 
Indeterminist physics for an open worldGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 08, 2020 Classical physics is characterised by the precision of its equations describing the evolution of the world as determined by the initial conditions of the Big Bang - meaning there is no room for chan ... more 
Hubble marks 30th anniversary with portrait of massive spiral galaxyWashington (UPI) Jan 6, 2020 The Hubble Space Telescope kicked off its 30th anniversary year with a new portrait of UGC 2885, a barred spiral galaxy that astronomers estimate is one of the largest in the local universe. ... more 
Goldilocks stars are best places to look for lifeBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2020 In the search for life beyond Earth, astronomers look for planets in a star's "habitable zone" - sometimes nicknamed the "Goldilocks zone" - where temperatures are just right for liquid water to exi ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 06, 2020 
Safe to say, 2020 came in more quietly for many members of the New Horizons mission team than did 2019.
A year ago, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (now known as Arrokoth) in the early hours of New Year's Day, ushering in an era of exploration of the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 
Thousands of planets orbiting stars other than our own - known as extrasolar planets, or exoplanets - have been detected and cataloged over the last 30 years. A new effort will set the stage for the discovery of fundamentally different kinds of planets - very young and very large.
Dmitry Savransky, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is a co-investigator on a $2.6 ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 14, 2020 
NASA's Mars 2020 rover is one step closer to having its own name after 155 students across the U.S. were chosen as semifinalists in the "Name the Rover" essay contest. Just one will be selected to win the grand prize - the exciting honor of naming the rover and an invitation to see the spacecraft launch in July 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The currently unnamed ro ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 
An engineering model of the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is tested in the Simulated Lunar Operations Laboratory at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
About the size of a golf cart, VIPER is a mobile robot that will roam around the Moon's South Pole looking for water ice in the region and for the first time ever, actually sample the water ice at t ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 
Astrophysicists have come a step closer to understanding the origin of a faint glow of gamma rays covering the night sky. They found that this light is brighter in regions that contain a lot of matter and dimmer where matter is sparser - a correlation that could help them narrow down the properties of exotic astrophysical objects and invisible dark matter.
The glow, known as unresolved gam ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 
Deep below the Earth's surface lies a thick rocky layer called the mantle, which makes up the majority of our planet's volume. While Earth's mantle is too deep for humans to observe directly, certain meteorites can provide clues to this unreachable layer.
In a study recently published in Science Advances, an international team of scientists, including Sang-Heon Dan Shim and Thomas Sharp of ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 10, 2020 
NASA's Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft has targeted for flyby in 2027, has a small satellite. This "bonus" science exploration opportunity for the project was discovered using images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 in September 2018, December 2019, and January 2020.
Launching in October 2021, Lucy wi ... more |
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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Jan 06, 2020 
A Florida Tech physicist has been awarded a $550,000 NASA grant to try to solve one of astronomy's most vexing and dangerous problems: predicting when and where harmful doses of solar energetic particle radiation will occur.
Whether from solar flares, solar wind, corona mass ejections or other phenomena, radiation from solar energy particles can affect astronauts working in space, spacecra ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 06, 2020 
China's aerospace industry will see a busy year in 2020, with the number of space launches expected to exceed 40, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).
The highlights of the space activities include the launch of China's first Mars probe, the Chang'e-5 lunar probe, which is expected to bring moon samples back to Earth, the final step of China's current ... more |
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Stanford CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2020
Astrophysicists have come a step closer to understanding the origin of a faint glow of gamma rays covering the night sky. They found that this light is brighter in regions that contain a lot of matter and dimmer where matter is sparser - a correlation that could help them narrow down the properties of exotic astrophysical objects and invisible dark matter.
The glow, known as unresolved gam ... more |
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 Kent UK (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 
Early Stone Age populations living between 1.8 - 1.2 million years ago engineered their stone tools in complex ways to make optimised cutting tools, according to a new study by University of Kent and UCL.
The research, published in the Journal of Royal Society Interface, shows that Palaeolithic hominins selected different raw materials for different stone tools based on how sharp, durable ... more |
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 Houston (AFP) Jan 12, 2020 
Jasmin "Jaws" Moghbeli earned her fierce nickname during her time as a decorated helicopter gunship pilot who flew more than 150 missions in Afghanistan.
The Marine Corps major, MIT graduate and college basketball player can now add another accomplishment to her burgeoning resume: the first Iranian-American astronaut.
Speaking to AFP after graduating in NASA's latest cohort, the 36-year ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 
A new study identifies the non-native species most likely to invade the Antarctic Peninsula region over the next decade. It provides a baseline for all operators in the region to look at mitigation measures. The study is published in the journal Global Change Biology (13th January 2020).
Fragile polar biological communities in marine and terrestrial Antarctic habitats are vulnerable to inv ... more |
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 Norwich UK (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 
A researcher at the University of East Anglia (UEA) has helped design a sea-going robot to deploy research equipment in remote and inaccessible ocean locations.
The AutoNaut - an unmanned surface vessel - has been specially-adapted to carry and release an underwater Seaglider. The gliders carry a range of sensors to collect data for research on ocean processes that are important for climat ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 
If you jump out of bed too quickly, you might feel a bit light-headed.
That's because when you're lying down, gravity causes your blood to pool in the lower parts of your body rather than in your brain. Fortunately, when you stand up, within a fraction of a second, your heart begins beating faster, moving the blood to your brain and allowing you to maintain your balance.
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