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  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 NASA has selected the first two scientific investigations to fly aboard the Gateway, an orbital outpost which will support Artemis lunar operations while demonstrating the technologies necessary to conduct a historic human mission to Mars. The instruments selected for Gateway will observe space weather and monitor the Sun's radiation environment. "Building the Gateway with our commercial and international partners is a critical component of sustainable lunar exploration and the Artemis program," s ... read more |
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Puzzle about nitrogen solved thanks to cometary analoguesBern, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 Comets and asteroids are objects in our solar system that have not developed much since the planets were formed. As a result, they are in a sense the archives of the solar system, and determining th ... more  
Continued Gravitational-Wave Discoveries from Public DataHannover, Germanyw/dd Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) in Hannover together with international colleagues have published their second Open Gravitational ... 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  
Observed: An exoplanet where it rains ironSan 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 wind ... more |
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Orbital tilt measurements in youngest planetary star system everCambridge MA (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have, for the first time, measured the orbital tilt of an exoplanet younger than 45 million years. While observing DS Tuc Ab - a r ... more 
Slime mold simulations map the Universe's dark matterBaltimore MD (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 The behavior of one of nature's humblest creatures is helping astronomers probe the largest structures in the universe. The single-cell organism, known as slime mold (Physarum polycephalum), b ... more 
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 
Bennu's boulders shine as beacons for NASA's OSIRIS-RExTucson 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 Benn ... more 
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 |
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 Safety zone saves giant moons from fatal plunge 
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  |
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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 
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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 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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 Moscow (AFP) March 12, 2020 
A joint Russian-European expedition to find life on Mars has been postponed for two years, the Russian and European space agencies said Thursday, citing the novel coronavirus and multiple technical issues.
The unmanned ExoMars, whose mission is to land a robot on the Red Planet to seek out signs of life, was scheduled to launch later this year after experiencing several delays. But even that ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 
NASA has selected the first two scientific investigations to fly aboard the Gateway, an orbital outpost which will support Artemis lunar operations while demonstrating the technologies necessary to conduct a historic human mission to Mars. The instruments selected for Gateway will observe space weather and monitor the Sun's radiation environment.
"Building the Gateway with our commercial a ... 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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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 
Comets and asteroids are objects in our solar system that have not developed much since the planets were formed. As a result, they are in a sense the archives of the solar system, and determining their composition could also contribute to a better understanding of the formation of the planets.
One way to determine the composition of asteroids and comets is to study the sunlight reflected b ... 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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 Moscow (AFP) March 12, 2020 
Astronauts awaiting a space mission are banned from leaving Star City training centre outside Moscow due to the novel coronavirus and will skip traditional pre-launch rituals, the centre's head said Thursday.
The next launch to the International Space Station is due to blast off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on April 9 with Russian cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin and NASA astronau ... 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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 Hannover, Germanyw/dd 
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) in Hannover together with international colleagues have published their second Open Gravitational-wave Catalog (2-OGC). They used improved search methods to dig deeper into publicly available data from LIGO's and Virgo's first and second observation runs.
Apart from confirming the 10 known ... more |
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