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  Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 More than 30 years ago, the European comet mission Giotto flew past Halley's comet. The Bernese ion mass spectrometer IMS, led by Prof. em. Hans Balsiger, was onboard. A key finding from the measurements taken by this instrument was that there appeared to be a lack of nitrogen in Halley's coma - the nebulous covering of comets which forms when a comet passes close to the Sun. Although nitrogen (N) was discovered in the form of ammonia (NH3) and hydrocyanic acid (HCN), the incidence was far removed from ... read more |
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XMM-Newton maps black hole surroundingsParis (ESA) Jan 22, 2020 Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space - and now, for the first time, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has used the reverberating echoes of this radiation to map the dynami ... more 
Astrophysicist finds massive black holes wandering around dwarf galaxiesBozeman MT (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 A new search led by Montana State University has revealed more than a dozen massive black holes in dwarf galaxies that were previously considered too small to host them, and surprised scientists wit ... more  
Warming up for the SunParis (ESA) Jan 22, 2020 Today, the Solar Orbiter control team is simulating launch for the penultimate time, before the Sun-seeking spacecraft lifts-off for real. After months of nerve-wracking simulation training, w ... more 
Outbound comets are likely of alien originTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 Astronomers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have analyzed the paths of two objects heading out of the Solar System forever and determined that they also most likely originat ... more |
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Cosmic origins of phosphorus, a building block for life, traced by scientistsWashington DC (UPI) Jan 15, 2020 Using the combined powers of ALMA, a powerful observatory, and Rosetta, the European Space Agency's comet-studying probe, scientists have for the first time observed the precise cosmic origins of phosphorus, an element essential to life. ... more 
Active asteroid unveils fireball identityTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over Kyoto, Japan. Compared to other fireballs spotted from Earth, it was relatively bright and slow. Now, scientists have det ... more  
Huygens landing spin mystery solvedParis (ESA) Jan 17, 2020 Fifteen years ago today, ESA's Huygens probe made history when it descended to the surface of Saturn's moon Titan and became the first probe to successfully land on another world in the outer Solar ... more 
Astronomers reveal interstellar thread of one of life's building blocksMunich, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 Phosphorus, present in our DNA and cell membranes, is an essential element for life as we know it. But how it arrived on the early Earth is something of a mystery. Astronomers have now traced the jo ... more  
Taking the temperature of dark matterDavis CA (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 Warm, cold, just right? Physicists at the University of California, Davis are taking the temperature of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about a quarter of our universe. We ... more |
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 ASU and Virginia Tech researchers unlock mysteries of grasshopper response to gravity 
Galactic gamma-ray sources reveal birthplaces of high-energy particlesLos Alamos NM (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 Nine sources of extremely high-energy gamma rays comprise a new catalog compiled by researchers with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory. All produce gamma rays with energ ... more  |
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Mission X 2020 Walk to the Moon challenge is open!Paris (ESA) Jan 15, 2020 Mission X: train like an astronaut is an international educational challenge, focusing on health, science, fitness and nutrition, which encourages pupils to train like an astronaut. The perfec ... more 
Final images from Cassini spacecraftLancaster UK (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 Researchers are busy analysing some of the final data sent back from the Cassini spacecraft which has been in orbit around Saturn for more than 13 years until the end of its mission in September 201 ... more 
Cold Neptune" and 2 temperate Super-Earths found orbiting nearby starsWashington DC (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 A "cold Neptune" and two potentially habitable worlds are part of a cache of five newly discovered exoplanets and eight exoplanet candidates found orbiting nearby red dwarf stars, which are reported ... more 
X-rays and gravitational waves will combine to illuminate massive black hole collisionsBirmingham UK (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 A new study by a group of researchers at the University of Birmingham has found that collisions of supermassive black holes may be simultaneously observable in both gravitational waves and X-rays at ... more 
Merger of Milky Way with Dwarf Galaxy DatedGottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 The dwarf galaxy Gaia-Enceladus collided with the Milky Way probably approximately 11.5 billion years ago. A team of researchers including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System R ... 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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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 
Phosphorus, present in our DNA and cell membranes, is an essential element for life as we know it. But how it arrived on the early Earth is something of a mystery. Astronomers have now traced the journey of phosphorus from star-forming regions to comets using the combined powers of ALMA and the European Space Agency's probe Rosetta. Their research shows, for the first time, where molecules conta ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 22, 2020 
Members of the public have an opportunity to vote for their favorite name for NASA's next Mars rover. The nine candidate names were made possible by the "Name the Rover" essay contest, which invited students in kindergarten through 12th grade from across the United States to come up with a fitting name for NASA's Mars 2020 rover (https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020) and write a short essay about it. ... more |
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 Noordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 
A prototype oxygen plant has been set up in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory of the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, based in Noordwijk in the Netherlands.
"Having our own facility allows us to focus on oxygen production, measuring it with a mass spectrometer as it is extracted from the regolith simulant," Beth Lomax of the University of Glasgow, whos ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 
An international research team with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) participating has detected a propagating heat wave near a massive protostar. It confirms the scenario that such objects grow in bursts. This wave became visible by observing naturally generated microwave lasers, whose spatial arrangement changed unexpectedly rapid.
Although the basic principles of star format ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 
Capella Space, an information services company providing Earth observation data on demand, has unveiled its evolved satellite design to enable on-demand observations of anywhere on Earth.
Informed by extensive customer feedback and findings from the launch of Denali, Capella's testbed satellite, the re-engineered design features a suite of technological innovations to deliver timely, flexi ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 
At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over Kyoto, Japan. Compared to other fireballs spotted from Earth, it was relatively bright and slow. Now, scientists have determined not only what the fireball was, but also where it came from.
"We uncovered the fireball's true identity," says Toshihiro Kasuga, paper author and visiting scientist at the National Astro ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 22, 2020 
Today, the Solar Orbiter control team is simulating launch for the penultimate time, before the Sun-seeking spacecraft lifts-off for real.
After months of nerve-wracking simulation training, which has seen the control team play out a range of scenarios where something goes wrong, mission control is almost "green for launch".
On 6 February (CET), Solar Orbiter will begin its loopy jou ... more |
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 Wenchang (XNA) Jan 22, 2020 
A core module prototype of China's space station and a prototype of China's new-generation manned spacecraft arrived at the launch site in south China's Hainan Province after a week of ocean and rail transport, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced Monday.
The core module will take part in joint rehearsals with the Long March-5B carrier rocket at the Wenchang Space La ... more |
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Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2020
An international research team with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) participating has detected a propagating heat wave near a massive protostar. It confirms the scenario that such objects grow in bursts. This wave became visible by observing naturally generated microwave lasers, whose spatial arrangement changed unexpectedly rapid.
Although the basic principles of star format ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 17, 2020  Neanderthals were capable of chomping on hard plants, like nuts and seeds, according to a new study.
Several recent studies have highlighted the resourcefulness of Neanderthals, capable of diving for clams and starting their own fires. But to take advantage of nuts, tough plants and other hardy food resources, Neanderthals would have needed resilient teeth.
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 
At 1:33 p.m. EST, Expedition 61 Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Christina Koch of NASA concluded their third spacewalk together. During the six hour and 58-minute spacewalk, the two NASA astronauts successfully completed the battery upgrade for one channel on one pair of the station's solar arrays.
[Today's] work included removing the last two nickel-hydrogen batteries from this area of ... more |
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 Toulouse, France (AFP) Jan 20, 2020 
Glaciers nestled in the lofty crags of the Pyrenees mountains separating France and Spain could disappear within 30 years as temperatures rise, upending ecosystems while putting local economies at risk, scientists say.
"We can't set a precise date but the Pyrenees glaciers are doomed," Pierre Rene, a glaciologist with the region's Moraine glacier study association, told AFP.
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 Miami Beach, United States (AFP) Jan 17, 2020 
Dozens of trucks have started dumping hundreds of thousands of tons of sand on Miami Beach as part of US government measures to protect Florida's tourist destinations against the effects of climate change.
"We have erosion hotspots," said Stephen Leatherman, an expert on beaches and the environment at Florida International University.
"When the beach is critically narrow, there's not en ... 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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