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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 Preliminary results indicate that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site Nightingale yesterday as part of the mission's Reconnaissance B phase activities. Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx's primary sample collection site, is located within a crater high in asteroid Bennu's northern hemisphere. To perform the pass, the spacecraft left its 0.75-mile (1.2-km) safe home orbit and flew an almost 11-hour transit over the asteroid, aiming its science instruments towa ... read more |
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First building blocks of life on Earth was a big messBoston MA (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 When the Earth was born, it was a mess. Meteors and lightning storms likely bombarded the planet's surface where nothing except lifeless chemicals could survive. How life formed in this chemical may ... more  
New SwRI models reveal inner complexity of Saturn moonSan Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 A Southwest Research Institute team developed a new geochemical model that reveals that carbon dioxide (CO2) from within Enceladus, an ocean-harboring moon of Saturn, may be controlled by chemical r ... more 
How the solar system got its 'Great Divide', and why it matters for life on EarthTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 Scientists from Japan and the USA have finally scaled the solar system's equivalent of the Rocky Mountain range. In a study published recently in Nature Astronomy, the researchers unveil the p ... more 
Astronomers find a way to form 'fast and furious' planets around tiny starsPreston UK (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 New astronomy research from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) suggests giant planets could form around small stars much faster than previously thought. As published in Astronomy and ... more |
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ESA opens oxygen plant - making air out of moondustNoordwijk, 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. ... more  
Scientists pinpoint release of energy that powered series of solar flaresWashington DC (UPI) Jan 17, 2020 Scientists have precisely pinpointed the explosive release of energy that powered a series of solar flares - a first. ... more  
Core of massive dying galaxies formed early after Big BangCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 Astrophysics, Galaxies: The most distant dying galaxy discovered so far, more massive than our Milky Way - with more than a trillion stars - has revealed that the 'cores' of these systems had formed ... more 
NJIT scientists measure the evolving energy of a solar flare's explosive first minutesNewark NJ (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 Toward the end of 2017, a massive new region of magnetic field erupted on the Sun's surface next to an existing sunspot. The powerful collision of magnetic energy produced a series of potent solar f ... more  
Heat wave signals the growth of a stellar embryoHeidelberg, 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 obje ... more |
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 Cosmic origins of phosphorus, a building block for life, traced by scientists 
Borexino experiment releases new data on geoneutrinosJuelich, Germany (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 Scientists involved in the Borexino collaboration have presented new results for the measurement of neutrinos originating from the interior of the Earth. The elusive "ghost particles" rarely interac ... more  |
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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 
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  
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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 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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 Preston UK (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 
New astronomy research from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) suggests giant planets could form around small stars much faster than previously thought.
As published in Astronomy and Astrophysics Journal, Dr Anthony Mercer and Dr Dimitris Stamatellos' new planet formation research challenges our understanding of planet formation.
Red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in ... 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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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 17, 2020 
China's first civilian high-definition mapping satellite Ziyuan III 01 has celebrated its 8th birthday in orbit.
Despite its five-year design life, it continues to collect data, the Ministry of Natural Resources said Wednesday.
Since it was launched in January 2012, the satellite has sent back 3D data covering 79 million square kilometers of the globe as of Dec. 31, 2019.
It ha ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 
Preliminary results indicate that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site Nightingale yesterday as part of the mission's Reconnaissance B phase activities. Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx's primary sample collection site, is located within a crater high in asteroid Bennu's northern hemisphere.
To perform the pass, the spacecraft left its 0.75-mile (1.2 ... 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.
To see what our early ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 23, 2020 
India's space agency the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) is gearing up for its week-long space mission worth $1.31 billion. Four astronauts have been shortlisted from the Indian Air Force after a series of tests conducted in India and Russia.
ISRO Chief K. Sivan said on Wednesday that four shortlisted astronauts would be sent to Russia for an 11-month training program by the end ... 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.
The opposite ... more |
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