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  Warwick UK (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 Astronomers from the University of Warwick have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours, the shortest orbital period ever observed for a planet of its type. It means that a single year for this hot Jupiter - a gas giant similar in size and composition to Jupiter in our own solar system - passes in less than a day of Earth time. The discovery is detailed in a new paper published 20 February for the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and the scientists believ ... read more |
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Vice President, Administrator visit NASA Langley for Artemis UpdateHampton VA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 Vice President Mike Pence, chair of the National Space Council, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine got a glimpse Wednesday into how NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia is at the ... more  
Findings from Juno Update Jupiter Water MysteryPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 19, 2020 NASA's Juno mission has provided its first science results on the amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere. Published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy, the Juno results estimate that at the e ... more 
Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the habitable-zone planet finderUniversity Park PA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State team and rec ... more  
A Cosmic Jekyll and HydeBoston MA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 A double star system has been flipping between two alter egos, according to observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation's Karl F. Jansky Very Large Array ( ... more |
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NASA selects university teams to build technologies for the Moon's darkest areasWashington DC (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 Almost a quarter of a million miles away from home, the Moon's permanently shadowed regions are the closest extraterrestrial water source. These craters have remained dark for billions of years, but ... more 
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 15th lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Feb 19, 2020 The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 15th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night. The lander woke up at 6:57 a. ... more 
New technologies, strategies expanding search for extraterrestrial lifeCharlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 Emerging technologies and new strategies are opening a revitalized era in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). New discovery capabilities, along with the rapidly-expanding number of ... more  
First research results on the 'spectacular meteorite fall' of FlensburgMunster, Germany (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 A fireball in the sky, accompanied by a bang, amazed hundreds of eyewitnesses in northern Germany in mid-September last year. The reason for the spectacle was a meteoroid entering the Earth's atmosp ... more  
First Solar Orbiter instrument sends measurementsParis (ESA) Feb 18, 2020 First measurements by a Solar Orbiter science instrument reached the ground on Thursday 13 February providing a confirmation to the international science teams that the magnetometer on board is in g ... more |
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Rules of life: From a pond to the beyondTempe AZ (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 The Cuatro Cienegas Basin, located in Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico, was once a shallow sea that became isolated from the Gulf of Mexico around 43 million years ago. This basin has an unusual ch ... more  |
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Solar wind samples suggest new physics of massive solar ejectionsManoa HI (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 A new study led by the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Manoa has helped refine understanding of the amount of hydrogen, helium and other elements present in violent outbursts from the Sun, and other t ... more 
Hyper-Kamiokande Project is officially approvedTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 13, 2020 Hyper-Kamiokande (HK or Hyper-K) project is the world-leading international scientific research project hosted by Japan aiming to elucidate the origin of matter and the Grand Unified Theory of eleme ... more 
Looking for aliens who might be looking for usUniversity Park PA (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 Data from a massive search for cosmic radio emission released Feb 14. by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative - the most comprehensive survey yet of radio emissions from the Milky Way - has allowed as ... more 
NASA awards contract to launch Lunar CubeSatWashington DC (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 NASA has selected Rocket Lab of Huntington Beach, California, to provide launch services for the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) Cub ... more 
Citizen scientists discover rare cosmic pairing via Backyard Worlds projectNew York NY (SPX) Feb 13, 2020 Citizen scientists have uncovered a bizarre pairing of two brown dwarfs, objects much smaller than the Sun that lack enough mass for nuclear fusion. The discovery, reported in The Astrophysical Jour ... more |
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 Columbia, MD (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 
NASA recently announced that it has selected four science investigations as a step in choosing one or two missions for flight opportunities in the 2020's as part of its Discovery program.
Among these are the Trident and DAVINCI+ mission concepts. Trident's Principal Investigator is the Universities Space Research Association's (USRA) Louise Prockter, Director of the Lunar and Planetary Ins ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 
Emerging technologies and new strategies are opening a revitalized era in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). New discovery capabilities, along with the rapidly-expanding number of known planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, are spurring innovative approaches by both government and private organizations, according to a panel of experts speaking at a meeting of the American ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2020 
From Feb. 17 to Feb. 29, 2020, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will go on hiatus from its science mission and its relay operations while engineers on Earth conduct long-distance maintenance. During the hiatus, other orbiters will relay data from the Mars Curiosity rover and Mars InSight lander to Earth.
The maintenance work involves updating battery parameters in the spacecraft's ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 19, 2020 
The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 15th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night.
The lander woke up at 6:57 a.m. Tuesday (Beijing time), and the rover awoke at 5:55 p.m. Monday. Both are in normal working order, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administra ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 
An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion Clouds. These images reveal new details about the birthplaces of planets and the earliest stages of star formation.
Most of the stars in the universe are accompanied by planets. These planets a ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 
A stratospheric sudden warming is perhaps one of the most radical changes of weather that is observed on our planet. As numerical weather prediction models have improved, including better representation of the stratosphere, an extensive amount of studies have been investigating forecasts for major stratospheric sudden warmings (MSSWs), which affect all layers of the atmosphere, changing wind cir ... more |
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 Munster, Germany (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 
A fireball in the sky, accompanied by a bang, amazed hundreds of eyewitnesses in northern Germany in mid-September last year. The reason for the spectacle was a meteoroid entering the Earth's atmosphere and partially burning up. One day after the observations, a citizen in Flensburg found a stone weighing 24.5 grams and having a fresh black fusion crust on the lawn of his garden.
Dieter He ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 18, 2020 
First measurements by a Solar Orbiter science instrument reached the ground on Thursday 13 February providing a confirmation to the international science teams that the magnetometer on board is in good health following a successful deployment of the spacecraft's instrument boom.
Solar Orbiter, ESA's new Sun-exploring spacecraft, launched on Monday 10 February. It carries ten scientific ins ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Feb 21, 2020 
China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-5 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province Thursday for a maritime space monitoring mission.
It is the first voyage of the ship this year.
Before the end of the Spring Festival, the mission members were gathered and quarantined on the ship to prevent the novel coronavirus infection. They completed the prepa ... more |
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Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020
An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion Clouds. These images reveal new details about the birthplaces of planets and the earliest stages of star formation.
Most of the stars in the universe are accompanied by planets. These planets a ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 19, 2020 
How did human beings end up as one of the most successful species on Earth?
New research suggests the unique nature of the human microbiome may have shaped human evolution and the dispersal of humans across the globe.
For the study, published Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, an interdisciplinary team of scientists compiled a range of previously publish ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Feb 20, 2020 
US astronauts will launch into space from American soil using American-built rockets before the summer, Vice President Mike Pence told workers at NASA's Langley Research Centre on Wednesday.
"Before we even get to the summer... the United States will return American astronauts to space on American rockets from American soil. We're going back and we're going back from the USA", Pence said. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2020 
The Arctic is one of the fastest warming places on the planet. As temperatures rise, the perpetually frozen layer of soil, called permafrost, begins to thaw, releasing methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. These methane emissions can accelerate future warming - but to understand to what extent, we need to know how much methane may be emitted, when and what environmental factors ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 20, 2020 
The massive Colorado River, which provides water for seven US states, has seen its flow reduced by 20 percent over the course of a century - and more than half of that loss is due to climate change, according to new research published Thursday.
Two scientists at the US Geological Survey developed a mathematical model of the water movements - snowfall, rainfall, run-off, evaporation - in t ... 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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