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  Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2020 The search for life on planets beyond our solar system has long been the purview of science fiction, but a UC Santa Barbara team supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation is now building the technology to do just that. Over the last three decades astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets. All but a few of these have been detected indirectly, by measuring the tiny effects they have on the light we receive from their host stars. These effects ar ... read more |
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Chandra Data Tests "Theory of Everything"Cambridge MA (SPX) Mar 20, 2020 One of the biggest ideas in physics is the possibility that all known forces, particles, and interactions can be connected in one framework. String theory is arguably the best-known proposal for a " ... more 
Black hole team discovers path to razor-sharp black hole imagesCambridge MA (SPX) Mar 19, 2020 Last April, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) sparked international excitement when it unveiled the first image of a black hole. A team of researchers have published new calculations that predict a ... more  
Solar energy tracker powers down after 17 yearsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2020 After nearly two decades, the Sun has set for NASA's SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), a mission that continued and advanced the agency's 40-year record of measuring solar irradiance a ... more 
The Strange Orbits of 'Tatooine' Planetary DisksCharlottesville VA (SPX) Mar 20, 2020 Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found striking orbital geometries in protoplanetary disks around binary stars. While disks orbiting the most compact ... more |
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Russia eyes Oct 2021 launch for first lunar mission in 45 yearsMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 17, 2020 The launch of the first Russian spacecraft to the Moon after a 45-year hiatus is planned for 1 October 2021, a Russian space scientist announced at a meeting of the Space Council of the Russian Acad ... more  
Jupiter's Great Red Spot shrinking in size, not thicknessParis, France (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is mainly made up of liquids and gases. Its clouds are shaped by jet streams, winds and vortices into numerous parallel bands, as well as coloured pa ... more  
Vast collapsed terrains on Mercury might be windows into ancient habitabilityTucson AZ (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 New research raises the possibility that some parts of Mercury's subsurface, and those of similar planets in the galaxy, once could have been capable of fostering prebiotic chemistry, and perhaps ev ... more  
Proposals selected to study volatile stars, galaxies, cosmic collisionsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 NASA has selected proposals for four missions that would study cosmic explosions and the debris they leave behind, as well as monitor how nearby stellar flares may affect the atmospheres of orbiting ... more 
Photons and electrons one on oneZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 23, 2020 The photoelectric effect, whereby photons impinging on matter cause the emission of electrons, is one of the quintessential effects of quantum mechanics. Einstein famously explained the key mechanis ... more |
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 Beyond the Brim, Sombrero galaxy's halo suggests turbulent past 
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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Time-resolved measurement in a memory deviceZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 At the Department for Materials of the ETH in Zurich, Pietro Gambardella and his collaborators investigate tomorrow's memory devices. They should be fast, retain data reliably for a long time and al ... more 
Scientists describe and emulate new quantum state of entangled photonsSaint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Mar 19, 2020 A research team from ITMO University, with the help of their colleagues from MIPT (Russia) and Politecnico di Torino (Italy), has predicted a novel type of topological quantum state of two photons. ... more 
Frozen-planet states in exotic helium atomsMoscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 19, 2020 Exotic subatomic particles that are like 'normal' particles apart from one, opposite, property - such as the positron, which is like an electron but positively rather than negatively charged - are c ... more 
Dancing electrons solve a longstanding puzzle in the oldest magnetic materialBoston MA (SPX) Mar 19, 2020 Magnetite is the oldest magnetic material known to humans, yet researchers are still mystified by certain aspects of its properties. For example, when the temperature is lowered below125 kelvins, ma ... more 
Scientists discover pulsating remains of a star in an eclipsing double star systemSheffield UK (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 Scientists from the University of Sheffield have discovered a pulsating ancient star in a double star system, which will allow them to access important information on the history of how stars like o ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is mainly made up of liquids and gases. Its clouds are shaped by jet streams, winds and vortices into numerous parallel bands, as well as coloured patches, one of which clearly stands out: the Great Red Spot. This is an Earth-sized anticyclone that has been observed for over 350 years, but has suddenly decreased in size in recent years.
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2020 
The search for life on planets beyond our solar system has long been the purview of science fiction, but a UC Santa Barbara team supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation is now building the technology to do just that.
Over the last three decades astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets. All but a few of these have been detected indir ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2020 
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recently set a record for the steepest terrain it's ever climbed, cresting the "Greenheugh Pediment," a broad sheet of rock that sits atop a hill. And before doing that, the rover took a selfie, capturing the scene just below Greenheugh.
In front of the rover is a hole it drilled while sampling a bedrock target called "Hutton." The entire selfie is a 360-degree ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 17, 2020 
The launch of the first Russian spacecraft to the Moon after a 45-year hiatus is planned for 1 October 2021, a Russian space scientist announced at a meeting of the Space Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The last Soviet interplanetary automatic station was Luna-24, launched in 1976. Russia in its history has not yet sent a spacecraft to the moon.
"Therefore, the name of ou ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 19, 2020 
A new camera design, using arrayed telescopes, could capture images of celestial objects simultaneously and with great detail, a study released on Wednesday said.
The camera would potentially allow hypertelescopes, small units arranged in multi-field patterns, instead of standard telescopes with a single and massive mirrored lens, to obtain of planets, pulsars, and distant galaxies outside ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Mar 18, 2020 
In 2016, scientists at MIT and elsewhere observed the first signs of healing in the Antarctic ozone layer. This environmental milestone was the result of decades of concerted effort by nearly every country in the world, which collectively signed on to the Montreal Protocol. These countries pledged to protect the ozone layer by phasing out production of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons, which ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Mar 19, 2020 
SpaceX, the largest commercial satellite constellation operator in the world, has ambitious plans of installing 12,000 satellites in low-orbit over a span of several years, as part of its Starlink project to provide low-cost broadband internet service.
A well-known astronomer and satellite tracker has voiced concerns that efforts to scan the skies for potentially dangerous near-Earth aster ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2020 
After nearly two decades, the Sun has set for NASA's SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), a mission that continued and advanced the agency's 40-year record of measuring solar irradiance and studying its influence on Earth's climate.
The SORCE team turned off the spacecraft on February 25, 2020, concluding 17 years of measuring the amount, spectrum and fluctuations of solar energ ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 18, 2020 
The first of China's new medium-sized carrier rocket Long March-7A suffered a failure Monday.
The rocket blasted off at 9:34 p.m. Beijing Time from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of south China's Hainan Province, but a malfunction occurred later.
Chinese space engineers will investigate the cause of the failure.
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Washington DC (UPI) Mar 19, 2020
A new camera design, using arrayed telescopes, could capture images of celestial objects simultaneously and with great detail, a study released on Wednesday said.
The camera would potentially allow hypertelescopes, small units arranged in multi-field patterns, instead of standard telescopes with a single and massive mirrored lens, to obtain of planets, pulsars, and distant galaxies outside ... more |
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 New York (AFP) March 19, 2020 
With governments clamping down on social interactions to contain the coronavirus spread, dating sites are discouraging dates and asking users to get to know each other virtually instead.
"We don't know who needs to hear this, but now is NOT the time to go out with your date to a bar," leading match-maker OkCupid tweeted on Monday.
"FaceTime, Skype, call, text, call, message on our app.. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2020 
To protect the health and safety of the NASA workforce as the nation responds to coronavirus (COVID-19), agency leadership recently completed the first assessment of work underway across all missions, projects, and programs. The goal was to identify tasks that can be done remotely by employees at home, mission-essential work that must be performed on-site, and on-site work that will be paused. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 19, 2020 
During the exceptionally warm Arctic summer of 2019, Greenland lost 600 billion tons of ice - enough to raise global sea levels by nearly a tenth of an inch (2.2 millimeters) in just two months, a new study shows.
Led by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California, Irvine, the study also concludes that Antarctica continues to lose mass, particularly in t ... more |
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 Corvallis OR (SPX) Mar 23, 2020 
Tapping into 35 years of satellite imagery, researchers at Oregon State University have dramatically enlarged the database regarding how climate change is affecting kelps, near-shore seaweeds that provide food and shelter for fish and protect coastlines from wave damage.
And the Landsat pictures paved the way to some surprising findings: A summer of warm water isn't automatically bad news ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 19, 2020 
Researchers have developed a new type of deformable mirror that could increase the sensitivity of ground-based gravitational wave detectors such as the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Advanced LIGO measures faint ripples in space time called gravitational waves, which are caused by distant events such as collisions between black holes or neutron stars.
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