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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2020 On Feb. 11, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft safely executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of the backup sample collection site Osprey as part of the mission's Reconnaissance B phase activities. Preliminary telemetry, however, indicates that the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) did not operate as expected during the 11-hour event. The OLA instrument was scheduled to provide ranging data to the spacecraft's PolyCam imager, which would allow the camera to focus while imaging the area around the sample coll ... read more |
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Kazan University's telescope assists in discovering a binary star system Gaia16ayeKazan, Russia (SPX) Feb 14, 2020 A co-author from Kazan University, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Chair of the Department of Astronomy and Space Geodesy Ilfan Bikmaev, explains how the new sy ... more  
Astroscale teams with JAXA for Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration ProjectTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 13, 2020 Astroscale has been selected as the commercial partner for Phase I of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) first debris removal project, a groundbreaking step by Japan to commercialize sp ... more  
Scientists pick up pattern of space radio signals for 1st time, study saysWashington DC (UPI) Feb 12, 2020 For the first time in history, researchers say they picked up a radio signal from a single source in outer space that repeated at certain intervals for more than a year - and in this case, the pattern came and went roughly every two weeks. ... more 
Leiden astronomers discover potential near-earth objectsAmsterdam, The Netherlands (SPX) Feb 13, 2020 Three astronomers from Leiden University (the Netherlands) have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with the Earth in the future. They did their research with ... more |
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ESA's next Sun mission will be shadow-casting pairParis (ESA) Feb 11, 2020 After Solar Orbiter, ESA's next mission observing the Sun will not be one spacecraft but two: the double satellites making up Proba-3 will fly in formation to cast an artificial solar eclipse, openi ... more  
NASA commits to returning astronauts to the moon by 2024Washington DC (UPI) Feb 11, 2020 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to land the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024. "We are ushering in an unprecedented era of human spaceflight," NASA Admin ... more 
Supercharged light pulverises asteroids, study findsWarwick UK (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 The majority of stars in the universe will become luminous enough to blast surrounding asteroids into successively smaller fragments using their light alone, according to a University of Warwick ast ... more 
NASA Administrator Statement on Moon to Mars Initiative, FY 2021 BudgetWashington DC (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 "President Donald Trump's Fiscal Year 2021 budget for NASA is worthy of 21st century exploration and discovery. The President's budget invests more than $25 billion in NASA to fortify our innovative ... more 
Distant giant planets form differently than 'failed stars'Waimea, HI (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 Maunakea, Hawaii - A team of astronomers led by Brendan Bowler of The University of Texas at Austin has probed the formation process of giant exoplanets and brown dwarfs, a class of objects that are ... more |
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Artificial intelligence can spot when correlation does mean causationNew York NY (SPX) Feb 07, 2020 A new Artificial Intelligence (AI) has allowed AI researchers, for the first time, to demonstrate a useful and reliable way of sifting through masses of correlating data to spot when correlation mea ... more  |
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One small grain of moon dust, one giant leap for lunar studiesChicago IL (SPX) Feb 10, 2020 Back in 1972, NASA sent their last team of astronauts to the Moon in the Apollo 17 mission. These astronauts brought some of the Moon back to Earth so scientists could continue to study lunar soil i ... more 
Galaxy formation simulated without dark matterBonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 10, 2020 For the first time, researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Strasbourg have simulated the formation of galaxies in a universe without dark matter. To replicate this process on the computer, th ... more 
Amazon wins suspension of $10 bn 'JEDI' contract to MicrosoftSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 14, 2020 A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the US military from awarding a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, after Amazon claimed the process was tainted by politics. ... more 
Pitt study uncovers new electronic state of matterPittsburgh PA (SPX) Feb 14, 2020 A research team led by professors from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Physics and Astronomy has announced the discovery of a new electronic state of matter. Jeremy Levy, a distingu ... more 
Method combination allows deep insights into ultrafast light-induced processesGraz, Austria (SPX) Feb 14, 2020 Since the 1990s, femtochemistry has been researching ultrafast processes at the molecular level. In the last few years, the research group Femtosecond Dynamics at TU Graz's Institute of Experimental ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2020 
The farthest, most primitive object in the Solar System ever to be visited by a spacecraft - a bi-lobed Kuiper Belt Object known as Arrokoth - is described in detail in three new reports. The reports expand upon the first published results on this object, announced in a May 2019 issue of Science, and which were based on just a small amount of data downlinked from the New Horizons spacecraft afte ... more |
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 Waimea, HI (SPX) Feb 11, 2020  Maunakea, Hawaii - A team of astronomers led by Brendan Bowler of The University of Texas at Austin has probed the formation process of giant exoplanets and brown dwarfs, a class of objects that are more massive than giant planets, but not massive enough to ignite nuclear fusion in their cores to shine like true stars.
Using direct imaging with ground-based telescopes in Hawaii - W. M. Kec ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 10, 2020 
NASA is sending a new laser-toting robot to Mars. But unlike the lasers of science fiction, this one is used for studying mineralogy and chemistry from up to about 20 feet (7 meters) away. It might help scientists find signs of fossilized microbial life on the Red Planet, too.
One of seven instruments aboard the Mars 2020 rover that launches this summer, SuperCam was built by a team of hun ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 
"President Donald Trump's Fiscal Year 2021 budget for NASA is worthy of 21st century exploration and discovery. The President's budget invests more than $25 billion in NASA to fortify our innovative human space exploration program while maintaining strong support for our agency's full suite of science, aeronautics, and technology work.
"The budget proposed represents a 12 percent increase ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 10, 2020 
For the first time, researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Strasbourg have simulated the formation of galaxies in a universe without dark matter. To replicate this process on the computer, they have instead modified Newton's laws of gravity. The galaxies that were created in the computer calculations are similar to those we actually see today. According to the scientists, their assumption ... more |
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 Riyadh (AFP) Feb 13, 2020 
Saudi Arabia is experiencing its coldest weather since 2016, meteorologists said Thursday, with overnight temperatures dropping below zero in the country's north over the past two days.
In Tarif, on the border with Jordan, the temperature hit minus 5 degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the weather services. It dropped to minus three in Hail further southeast, and minus 2 in ... more |
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 
The majority of stars in the universe will become luminous enough to blast surrounding asteroids into successively smaller fragments using their light alone, according to a University of Warwick astronomer.
Electromagnetic radiation from stars at the end of their 'giant branch' phase - lasting just a few million years before they collapse into white dwarfs - would be strong enough to spin ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 11, 2020 
After Solar Orbiter, ESA's next mission observing the Sun will not be one spacecraft but two: the double satellites making up Proba-3 will fly in formation to cast an artificial solar eclipse, opening up the clearest view yet of the Sun's faint atmosphere - probing the mysteries of its million degree heat and magnetic eruptions.
Aiming for launch in mid-2022, Proba-3 comprises two small me ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 07, 2020 
China's Long March-5B carrier rocket arrived at the launch site in southern China's Hainan Province Wednesday after a week of ocean and rail transport, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
The rocket will take part in a joint rehearsal with the prototype of the Chinese space station's core module at the Wenchang Space Launch Center. It is scheduled to make i ... more |
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 10, 2020
For the first time, researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Strasbourg have simulated the formation of galaxies in a universe without dark matter. To replicate this process on the computer, they have instead modified Newton's laws of gravity. The galaxies that were created in the computer calculations are similar to those we actually see today. According to the scientists, their assumption ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2020 
Ancestors of modern West Africans interbred with a yet-undiscovered species of archaic human, similar to how ancient Europeans mated with Neanderthals, researchers report. Their work helps inform how archaic hominins added to the genetic variation of present-day Africans, which has been poorly understood, in part because of the sparse fossil record in Africa and the difficulty of obtaining ancie ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2020 
NASA has selected four Discovery Program investigations to develop concept studies for new missions. Although they're not official missions yet and some ultimately may not be chosen to move forward, the selections focus on compelling targets and science that are not covered by NASA's active missions or recent selections. Final selections will be made next year.
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 Sao Paulo (AFP) Feb 13, 2020 
Scientists in Antarctica have recorded a new record temperature of 20.75 degrees Celsius (69.35 Fahrenheit), breaking the barrier of 20 degrees for the first time on the continent, a researcher said Thursday.
"We'd never seen a temperature this high in Antarctica," Brazilian scientist Carlos Schaefer told AFP.
He cautioned that the reading, taken at a monitoring station on an island off ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 12, 2020 
White sharks have been living in the waters of the Mediterranean for much longer than previously estimated.
According to a study published this week in the Journal of Biogeography, the apex predators have been living in the Mediterranean for 3.2 million years.
To trace their evolutionary origins, researchers at the University of Bologna used mathematical models to analyze the DNA ... 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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