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  San Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain (SPX) Mar 12, 2020 This exoplanet, 390 light years away towards the constellation Pisces, has days when its surface temperatures exceed 2,400 Celsius, sufficiently hot to evaporate metals. Its nights, with strong winds, cool down the iron vapour so that it condenses into drops of iron. This is the first result with the high resolution spectrograph ESPRESSO, an instrument co-directed by the IAC and installed on teh Very Large Telescope (VLT) of ESO, in Chile. With ESPRESSO (Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets a ... read more |
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Turbulent convection at the heart of stellar activityGottingen, Germany (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 In their interiors, stars are structured in a layered, onion-like fashion. In those with solar-like temperatures, the core is followed by the radiation zone. There, the heat from within is led outwa ... more 
How big is a neutron starHannover, Germany (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 An international research team led by members of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) has obtained new measurements of how big neutron stars are. To do ... more 
'Strange' glimpse into neutron stars and symmetry violationUpton NY (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 New results from precision particle detectors at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) offer a fresh glimpse of the particle interactions that take place in the cores of neutron stars and give ... more 
ESO telescope observes exoplanet where it rains ironMunich, Germany (SPX) Mar 12, 2020 Researchers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have observed an extreme planet where they suspect it rains iron. The ultra-hot giant exoplanet has a day side where temperatures climb above 2400 ... 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 
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 |
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 Radar and ice could help detect an elusive subatomic particle 
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  |
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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  
UNM scientists find Earth and moon not identical oxygen twinsAlbuquerque NM (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 Scientists at The University of New Mexico have found that the Earth and Moon have distinct oxygen compositions and are not identical in oxygen as previously thought according to a new study release ... more  
Breakthrough made towards building the world's most powerful particle acceleratorUlsan, South Korea (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 An international team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has for the first time succeeded in demonstrating the ionization cooling of muons. Regarded as a major step in being able to create the wo ... more 
Paper sheds light on infant Universe and origin of matterAnn Arbor MI (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 A new study, conducted to better understand the origin of the universe, has provided insight into some of the most enduring questions in fundamental physics: How can the Standard Model of particle p ... 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 |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Mar 12, 2020 
Using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), researchers have found more than 300 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), minor planets located in the far reaches of the solar system, including more than 100 new discoveries. Published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, the study also describes a new approach for finding similar types of objects and could aid future searches for the hypothe ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 12, 2020 
Researchers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have observed an extreme planet where they suspect it rains iron. The ultra-hot giant exoplanet has a day side where temperatures climb above 2400 degrees Celsius, high enough to vaporise metals. Strong winds carry iron vapour to the cooler night side where it condenses into iron droplets.
"One could say that this planet gets rainy in the ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 12, 2020 
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Roscosmos Space Corporation have decided to postpone the launch of the second ExoMars mission to study the Red Planet to 2022.
The joint ESA-Roscosmos project team evaluated all the activities needed for an authorisation to launch, in order to analyse the risks and schedule. With due consideration of the recommendations provided by European and Russi ... more |
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 Albuquerque NM (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
Scientists at The University of New Mexico have found that the Earth and Moon have distinct oxygen compositions and are not identical in oxygen as previously thought according to a new study released in Nature Geoscience.
The paper, titled Distinct oxygen isotope compositions of the Earth and Moon, may challenge the current understanding of the formation of the Moon.
Previous researc ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
An international research team led by members of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) has obtained new measurements of how big neutron stars are. To do so, they combined a general first-principles description of the unknown behavior of neutron star matter with multi-messenger observations of the binary neutron star merger GW170817.
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 Konstanz, Germany (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
Second attempt - the German-Russian International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space (ICARUS) experiment, which is installed on the International Space Station (ISS), will be put into operation on 10 March 2020. Originally planned for July 2019, the start of the experiment was postponed due to a technical malfunction.
This joint project between the Russian space agency Roscosmos a ... 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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Hannover, Germany (SPX) Mar 11, 2020
An international research team led by members of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) has obtained new measurements of how big neutron stars are. To do so, they combined a general first-principles description of the unknown behavior of neutron star matter with multi-messenger observations of the binary neutron star merger GW170817.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 11, 2020 
When the heart beats, it causes the human brain to jiggle. According to a new study, the phenomenon has helped scientists classify different types of neurons.
"The beginning of the study was the realization that spike waveforms measured in the brains of epilepsy patients showed robust and periodic - i.e. repeatable - changes in their shape that lined up with the EKG," Costas Anastassi ... 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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 Paris (AFP) March 11, 2020 
Greenland and Antarctica are shedding six times more ice than during the 1990s, driving sea level rise that could see annual flooding by 2100 in regions home today to some 400 million people, scientists have warned.
The kilometres-thick ice sheets atop land masses at the planet's extremities sloughed off 6.4 trillion tonnes of mass from 1992 through 2017, adding nearly two centimetres (an in ... 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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