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  Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have made a new contribution to the ongoing search into the possibility of life on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Using quantum mechanical calculations, they have shown that azotosomes, a proposed alternative to cell membranes, could not form under the conditions there. Their research is published in the journal Science Advances. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has a dynamic surface, with seasonal rainfall, and lakes and seas at its polar re ... read more |
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An iron-clad asteroidJena, Germany (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 Itokawa would normally be a fairly average near-Earth asteroid - a rocky mass measuring only a few hundred metres in diameter, which orbits the sun amid countless other celestial bodies and repeated ... more 
NASA approves development of universe-studying, planet-finding missionGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) project has passed a critical programmatic and technical milestone, giving the mission the official green light to begin hardware development and ... more  
NASA's OSIRIS-REx students catch unexpected glimpse of newly discovered black holeTucson AZ (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30 thousand light years away. Last fall, the student-bu ... more  
China's lunar rover travels nearly 400 meters on moon's far sideBeijing (XNA) Mar 03, 2020 China's lunar rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, has driven 399.788 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration of the virgin territory. Both the lander and the rover of ... more |
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Scientists seize rare chance to watch faraway star system evolveSydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 A young planet located 150 light-years away has given UNSW Sydney astrophysicists a rare chance to study a planetary system in the making. The findings, recently published in The Astronomical ... more 
Iron 'whiskers' found covering Itokawa asteroid samplesWashington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020 Scientists have found iron "whiskers" on particles from the asteroid samples returned by the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa mission. ... more 
Using light to put a twist on electronsBoston MA (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 Some molecules, including most of the ones in living organisms, have shapes that can exist in two different mirror-image versions. The right- and left-handed versions can sometimes have different pr ... more 
Scientists 'film' a quantum measurementStockholm, Sweden (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 Quantum physics describes the inner world of individual atoms, a world very different from our everyday experience. One of the many strange yet fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics is the role o ... more 
Quantum researchers able to split one photon into threeWaterloo, Canada (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo report the first occurrence of directly splitting one photon into three. The occurrence, the first of i ... more |
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Suited up for gravityParis (ESA) Feb 28, 2020 When it comes to grasping an object, our eyes, ears and hands are intimately connected. Our brain draws information from different senses, such as sight, sound and touch, to coordinate hand movement ... more  |
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Large Exoplanet Could Have the Right Conditions for LifeCambridge UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. ... more 
Gemini Telescope Images "Minimoon" Orbiting EarthHilo HI (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 Astronomers using the international Gemini Observatory, on Hawaii's Maunakea, have imaged a very small object in orbit around the Earth, thought to be only a few meters across. According to Grigori ... more 
Astronomy student discovers 17 new planets, including Earth-sized worldVancouver, Canada (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA's Kep ... more 
Joining forces to solve the neutrino mass puzzleMainz, Germany (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 Among the most exciting challenges in modern physics is the identification of the neutrino mass ordering. Physicists from the Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+ at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JG ... more 
Gemini South telescope captures exquisite planetary nebulaHilo HI (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 The latest image from the international Gemini Observatory showcases the striking planetary nebula CVMP 1. This object is the result of the death throes of a giant star and is a glorious but relativ ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
An ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is the first scientific instrument to be delivered for integration onto the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft. Scheduled to launch in 2022 and arrive at Jupiter in 2030, JUICE will spend at least three years making detailed observations in the Jovian system before going ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 
NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) project has passed a critical programmatic and technical milestone, giving the mission the official green light to begin hardware development and testing.
The WFIRST space telescope will have a viewing area 100 times larger than that of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which will enable it to detect faint infrared signals from across the c ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
Scientists have devised new analytical tools to break down the enigmatic history of Mars' atmosphere - and whether life was once possible there.
A paper detailing the work was published in the journal Science Advances. It could help astrobiologists understand the alkalinity, pH and nitrogen content of ancient waters on Mars, and by extension, the carbon dioxide composition of the planet's ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 
We're celebrating our 20th year of continuous presence aboard the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit this year, and we're on the verge of sending the first women and next men to the Moon as part of our Artemis lunar exploration program so we can prepare for human missions to Mars.
It's an incredible time in human spaceflight! Often the dream to be an astronaut is the spark that ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 03, 2020 
Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped. Data from ESA's star-mapping satellite Gaia suggest the distortion might be caused by an ongoing collision with another, smaller, galaxy, which sends ripples through the galactic disc like a rock thrown into water.
Astronomers have known since the late 1950s that the Milky Way's disc - where most of its hundreds ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 2, 2020 
NASA satellite images show a dramatic fall in pollution over China that is "partly related" to the economic slowdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, the space agency said.
The reduction in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution was first noticed near Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, but eventually spread across China, according to NASA scientists who examined data collected by their and Euro ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020  Scientists have found iron "whiskers" on particles from the asteroid samples returned by the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa mission.
In 2005, JAXA's Hayabusa probe hunted down and landed on the near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa. Five years later, the spacecraft returned to Earth with soil samples collected from the asteroid's surface - something that had never been done before.
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 Hoboken NJ (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 
Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have created a 3D imaging system that uses light's quantum properties to create images 40,000 times crisper than current technologies, paving the way for never-before seen LIDAR sensing and detection in self-driving cars, satellite mapping systems, deep-space communications and medical imaging of the human retina.
The work, led by Yuping Huang ... 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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Paris (ESA) Mar 03, 2020
Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped. Data from ESA's star-mapping satellite Gaia suggest the distortion might be caused by an ongoing collision with another, smaller, galaxy, which sends ripples through the galactic disc like a rock thrown into water.
Astronomers have known since the late 1950s that the Milky Way's disc - where most of its hundreds ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 26, 2020 
The foot's longitudinal arch has long been credited with providing the stability needed for bipedalism, but new research suggests a different one, the transverse arch, is much more important.
When humans walk and run, a significant amount of pressure is placed on the foot - a force exceeding several times the body's weight. Despite this pressure, the foot doesn't significantly bend. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 
Hydrogen has been used as a fuel for things like city buses for a while now, but the problem has been that it's simply too expensive to use a main source of energy. This will likely change. Hydrogen technologies could provide 20 percent of the world's CO2 abatement needs by 2050.
NASA a href="https://www.nasa.gov/content/space-applications-of-hydrogen-and-fuel-cells"> font color="#0000FF" ... more |
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 
Inland Antarctic ice contains volumes of water that can raise global sea levels by several metres. A new study published in the journal Nature shows that glacier ice walls are vital for the climate, as they prevent rising ocean temperatures and melting glacier ice.
The ocean can store much more heat than the atmosphere. The deep sea around Antarctica stores thermal energy that is the equiv ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 2, 2020 
Climate change and sea level rise are currently on track to wipe out half the world's sandy beaches by 2100, researchers warned Monday.
Even if humanity sharply reduces the fossil fuel pollution that drives global warming, more than a third of the planet's sandy shorelines could disappear by then, crippling coastal tourism in countries large and small, they reported in the journal Nature Cli ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 28, 2020 
When it comes to grasping an object, our eyes, ears and hands are intimately connected. Our brain draws information from different senses, such as sight, sound and touch, to coordinate hand movements.
Researchers think that, on Earth, gravity is also part of the equation - it provides a set of anchoring cues for the central nervous system. Human evolution has balanced its way across millen ... more |
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