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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 Asteroid Bennu's most prominent boulder, a rock chunk jutting out 71 ft (21.7 m) from the asteroid's southern hemisphere, finally has a name. The boulder - which is so large that it was initially detected from Earth - is officially designated Benben Saxum after the primordial hill that first arose from the dark waters in an ancient Egyptian creation myth. Benben Saxum and 11 other features on the asteroid are the first to receive official Bennu feature names approved by the International Astronomi ... read more |
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Radar and ice could help detect an elusive subatomic particleColumbus OH (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 One of the greatest mysteries in astrophysics these days is a tiny subatomic particle called a neutrino, so small that it passes through matter - the atmosphere, our bodies, the very Earth - without ... more 
Dimming Betelgeuse likely isn't cold, just dusty, new study showsSeattle WA (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 Late last year, news broke that the star Betelgeuse was fading significantly, ultimately dropping to around 40% of its usual brightness. The activity fueled popular speculation that the red supergia ... more 
Where there's one, there's one hundred moreTucson AZ (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 Although it may have a difficult designation to remember, PSO J030947.49+271757.31, its importance is unique. It is the most distant blazar observed to date. The light we see from it began its journ ... more  
Is life a game of chance?Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 To help answer one of the great existential questions - how did life begin? - a new study combines biological and cosmological models. Professor Tomonori Totani from the Department of Astronomy look ... more |
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New telescope observations shed new light on black hole ejectionsManchester UK (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 A black hole, ejecting material at close to the speed of light, has been observed using e-MERLIN, the UK's radio telescope array based at Jodrell Bank Observatory. A research team based at Oxf ... 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 
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 
Why is there any matter in the universe at all? New Sussex study sheds lightSussex UK (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 Scientists at the University of Sussex have measured a property of the neutron - a fundamental particle in the universe - more precisely than ever before. Their research is part of an investigation ... 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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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  |
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Join the Artemis GenerationWashington 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 ... more 
What if mysterious 'cotton candy' planets actually sport rings?Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 Some of the extremely low-density, "cotton candy like" exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have rings, according to new research published in The Astronomical Journal by Carnegie's Anthony Pi ... more 
Two stars merged to form massive white dwarfWarwick UK (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 A massive white dwarf star with a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere could be two white dwarfs merged together according to an international team led by University of Warwick astronomers, and only narro ... more 
Milky Way's warp caused by galactic collision, Gaia suggestsParis (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, ... more 
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 |
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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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 
To help answer one of the great existential questions - how did life begin? - a new study combines biological and cosmological models. Professor Tomonori Totani from the Department of Astronomy looked at how life's building blocks could spontaneously form in the universe - a process known as abiogenesis.
If there's one thing in the universe that is certain, it's that life exists. It must h ... more |
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 Pullman WA (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 
Organic compounds called thiophenes are found on Earth in coal, crude oil and oddly enough, in white truffles, the mushroom beloved by epicureans and wild pigs.
Thiophenes were also recently discovered on Mars, and Washington State University astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch thinks their presence would be consistent with the presence of early life on Mars.
Schulze-Makuch and Jacob ... 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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the very moment when an old star first starts to alter its environment. The star has ejected high-speed bipolar gas jets which are now colliding with the surrounding material; the age of the observed jet is estimated to be less than 60 years. These features help scientists understand h ... more |
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 Broomfield CO (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 
World View, the stratospheric data and information services company, has announced their plans to build and deploy a fleet of Stratollites, known as World View Orbits, over North and Central America starting this summer.
After a series of successful test and development flights to sharpen vehicle flight and navigation capabilities, World View is in final preparations to offer customers hig ... more |
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Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 05, 2020
NASA's first asteroid-sampling spacecraft just got its best look yet at asteroid Bennu. Yesterday, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft executed a very low pass over sample site Nightingale, taking observations from an altitude of 820 feet (250 m), which is the closest that OSIRIS-REx has f ... more |
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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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Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 06, 2020
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the very moment when an old star first starts to alter its environment. The star has ejected high-speed bipolar gas jets which are now colliding with the surrounding material; the age of the observed jet is estimated to be less than 60 years. These features help scientists understand h ... 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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 Houghton MI (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 
More than half of the planet's fresh water is in Antarctica. While most of it is frozen in the ice sheets, underneath the ice pools and streams of water flow into one another and into the Southern Ocean surrounding the continent. Understanding the movement of this water, and what is dissolved in it as solutes, reveals how carbon and nutrients from the land may support life in the coastal ocean. ... more |
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 Champaign IL (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
A study that relied on citizen scientists to monitor the health of corals on Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean from 2012 to 2018 found that 35 key coral species remained resilient during a 2014-17 global coral-bleaching event that harmed coral reefs around the world. Even corals that experienced bleaching quickly recovered, the researchers found. Some corals appeared healthier in 2017 th ... 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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