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  Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 This summer, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will undertake NASA's first-ever attempt to touch the surface of an asteroid, collect a sample of it, and safely back away. But since arriving at asteroid Bennu over a year ago, the mission team has been tackling an unexpected challenge: how to accomplish this feat at an asteroid whose surface is blanketed in building-sized boulders. Using these hazardous boulders as signposts, the mission team developed a new precision navigation method to overcome the chall ... read more |
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Over 9,000 asteroids feasible for mining may help ignite new space raceMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 10, 2020 The report also suggests that asteroid mining efforts might help prevent space rocks from colliding with Earth, helping ensure our planet's safety. Mankind's efforts to study and conquer the d ... more  
Safety zone saves giant moons from fatal plungeTokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 Numerical simulations showed that the temperature gradient in the disk of gas around a young gas giant planet could play a critical role in the development of a satellite system dominated by a singl ... more 
New technique could elucidate earliest stages of planet's lifeWashington DC (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 A new kind of astronomical observation helped reveal the possible evolutionary history of a baby Neptune-like exoplanet. To study a very young planet called DS Tuc Ab a Harvard and Smithsonian ... more  
New type of pulsating star discoveredSydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 A star that pulsates on just one side has been discovered in the Milky Way about 1500 light years from Earth. It is the first of its kind to be found and scientists expect to find many more similar ... more |
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First official names given to features on asteroid BennuGreenbelt 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 de ... more 
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 
A puzzle piece from stellar chemistry could change our measurements of cosmic expansionHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 Astronomers led by Maria Bergemann (Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy) have performed chemical measurements on stars that could markedly change the way cosmologists measure the Hubble constant and ... more |
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Cosmos: Possible WorldsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 Cosmos the popular TV series is back with a new season, Cosmos: Possible Worlds. This season the emphasis is on storytelling and exploration of possible worlds outside earth. Humans thro ... more  |
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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 
Longest microwave quantum linkZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 Collaboration is everything - also in the quantum world. To build powerful quantum computers in the future, it will be necessary to connect several smaller computers to form a kind of cluster or loc ... more  
Magnetic whirls in future data storage devicesHalle-Wittenberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 Magnetic (anti)skyrmions are microscopically small whirls that are found in special classes of magnetic materials. These nano-objects could be used to host digital data by their presence or absence ... more 
Beyond the Brim, Sombrero galaxy's halo suggests turbulent pastBaltimore MD (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 Surprising new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggests the smooth, settled "brim" of the Sombrero galaxy's disk may be concealing a turbulent past. Hubble's sharpness and sensitivity resolv ... more 
Salmon parasite is world's first non-oxygen breathing animalWashington DC (UPI) Feb 26, 2020 Scientists have discovered an unusual species of parasite hiding the muscles of salmon. The tiny species, comprised of just ten cells, is unlike all other animals known to science. The species, Henneguya salminicola, doesn't breathe oxygen. ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 
A new kind of astronomical observation helped reveal the possible evolutionary history of a baby Neptune-like exoplanet.
To study a very young planet called DS Tuc Ab a Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics-led team that included six Carnegie astronomers - Johanna Teske, Sharon Wang, Stephen Shectman, Paul Butler, Jeff Crane, and Ian Thompson - developed a new observational model ... 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 10, 2020 
This summer, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will undertake NASA's first-ever attempt to touch the surface of an asteroid, collect a sample of it, and safely back away. But since arriving at asteroid Bennu over a year ago, the mission team has been tackling an unexpected challenge: how to accomplish this feat at an asteroid whose surface is blanketed in building-sized boulders.
Using these hazar ... 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) Mar 06, 2020 
In a new study, scientists successfully observed the neural signatures of recalled memories in real time.
For the study, researchers at the National Institutes of Health monitored the neural activity of epilepsy patients while they learned word pairings.
Scientists spotted the electrical signature of a forming memory as patients first learned a word pairing. Then, during follow u ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 
The joint NASA and Boeing Independent Review Team formed following the anomalies during the company's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test as a part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program has completed its initial investigation. The team was tasked with reviewing three primary anomalies experienced during the mission: two software coding errors and unanticipated loss of space-to-ground communication ca ... 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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 New York NY (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
A study published Tuesday in Scientific Reports shows that stony corals, which provide food and shelter for almost a quarter of all ocean species, are preparing for a major extinction event.
The research team - which includes scientists from The Graduate Center, CUNY; Baruch College; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; University of Haifa; University of Leeds; and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre ... 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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