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  Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 The Arizona State University-led NASA Psyche mission, which is planned to launch in 2022, will travel to an asteroid named Psyche, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. This asteroid is of particular interest in that it is rich in metal and may be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet, one of the building blocks of the sun's planetary system. While we'll have to wait until the spacecraft arrives at Psyche in 2026 to fully investigate the properties of this unique asteroid, researche ... read more |
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Sellafield research uncovers microbial life in fuel pondsManchester UK (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 Two new research papers from The University of Manchester, working with colleagues at Sellafield Limited and the National Nuclear Laboratory show that microbes can actively colonise some of the most ... more 
Sulfur 'spices' alien atmospheresBaltimore MD (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 They say variety is the spice of life, and now new discoveries from Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that a certain elemental 'variety' - sulfur - is indeed a 'spice' that can perhaps point to sign ... more  
Xplore receives USAF award for innovative commercial capabilities around the MoonSeattle WA (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 Xplore reports it has won an Air Force award to study positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) solutions for cislunar space. The award category, for commercial and technical innovations between the ... more 
NASA unveils more Moon to Mars mission plansWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 07, 2020 NASA's Artemis programme, named after the Greek goddess of the Moon, is part of an ambitious effort to place astronauts on the lunar surface and develop an ongoing human presence there by 2024. ... more |
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Are gamma-ray bursts powered by a star's collapsing magnetic fields?Bath UK (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 When a massive star in a distant galaxy collapses, forming a black hole, two giant jets of light-emitting plasma shoot from its core. These extremely bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powe ... more 
Humans are not the first to repurpose CRISPRCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 In recent years, the development of CRISPR technologies and gene-editing scissors in particular have taken the world by storm. Indeed, scientists have learned how to harness these clever natural sys ... more  
Data from NASA's Cassini may explain Saturn's atmospheric mysteryPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2020 The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants - Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune - are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the ... more 
Year's biggest supermoon to light up Tuesday's night skyWashington DC (UPI) Apr 06, 2020 Tuesday night's full moon will be the biggest of the year, as the moon is quite close to its perigee, its closest approach to Earth. ... more 
NASA Commemorates 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13, 'A Successful Failure'Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 On April 11, 1970, the powerful Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 13 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center propelling astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert on what was intended ... more |
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 BepiColombo Earth flyby enables unique instrument scan of Moon 
The Milky Way's satellites help reveal link between dark matter halos and galaxy formationStanford CA (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 Just as the sun has planets and the planets have moons, our galaxy has satellite galaxies, and some of those might have smaller satellite galaxies of their own. To wit, the Large Magellanic Cloud (L ... more  |
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Researchers zero in on Near-Earth Asteroid deflection simulations ahead of breakthrough missionWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2020 The simulation tests are currently in full swing, as the astrophysicist community is looking forward to the so-called Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission - the first kinetic impact defle ... more  
Spot BepiColombo during its 'goodbye flyby'Paris (ESA) Apr 06, 2020 On 10 April, BepiColombo will be visible to amateur and professional astronomers during its first - and only - Earth flyby, as the spacecraft makes its way to Mercury, the innermost planet of the So ... more 
Why is BepiColombo back?Paris (ESA) Apr 06, 2020 BepiColombo is on its way to Mercury, but for some reason that brings it back to Earth. On 10 April 2020, BepiColombo will make a flyby of Earth, coming within just a couple of thousand kilometres o ... more  
Astronomers detect first double helium-core white dwarf gravitational wave sourceCambridge MA (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the detection of J2322+0509, a detached binary white dwarf composed of two helium-core stars with a short orbital p ... more  
L3Harris Technologies to modernize US capabilities to detect orbital objectsMelbourne FLw (SPX) Apr 03, 2020 L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a $23 million contract to modernize and sustain critical space infrastructure used by the military to keep track of activities and objects in space. The curren ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 
The ice giant Uranus' unusual attributes have long puzzled scientists. All of the planets in our Solar System revolve around the Sun in the same direction and in the same plane, which astronomers believe is a vestige of how our Solar System formed from a spinning disc of gas and dust. Most of the planets in our Solar System also rotate in the same direction, with their poles orientated perpendic ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 
Future technologies that could image Exo Planets, enable quicker trips to Mars and send robots to explore ocean worlds might have started out as NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC). The program, which invests in early-stage technology ideas from NASA, industry and academic researchers across the country, has selected 23 potentially revolutionary concepts with a total award value of $7 milli ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 06, 2020 
If you could bring something back from Mars to Earth, what would you choose? This question is becoming reality, as ESA opens a call for scientists to join a NASA team working to determine which martian samples should be collected and stored by the Perseverance rover set to launch this Summer.
Perseverance is a standalone mission seeking signs of habitable conditions on our neighbour planet ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 07, 2020 
NASA's Artemis programme, named after the Greek goddess of the Moon, is part of an ambitious effort to place astronauts on the lunar surface and develop an ongoing human presence there by 2024.
NASA'S ambitious Artemis programme aimed at returning astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024 has just been expanded even further, aiming to maintain a human presence on the Moon and, potentially, M ... more |
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 Bath UK (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 
When a massive star in a distant galaxy collapses, forming a black hole, two giant jets of light-emitting plasma shoot from its core. These extremely bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions in the universe, and when a jet points towards Earth, the afterglow can be detected from ground and space-borne telescopes.
Material does not simply catapult from an exploding st ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 
A dataset of large-scale aerial images produced by Intelinair, a spinout from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, aims to give farmers visibility into the conditions of their fields. The dataset, called Agriculture-Vision, will enable agricultural pattern analysis of aerial images, providing farmers with actionable insights into the performance of their crops to improve decision-maki ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 
The Arizona State University-led NASA Psyche mission, which is planned to launch in 2022, will travel to an asteroid named Psyche, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. This asteroid is of particular interest in that it is rich in metal and may be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet, one of the building blocks of the sun's planetary system.
While we'll have to wait until t ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 
NASA has selected a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms - known as solar particle storms - into planetary space. Not only will such information improve understanding of how our solar system works, but it ultimately can help protect astronauts traveling to the Moon and Mars by providing better information on how the Sun's radiation affects the space ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 07, 2020 
China has been testing high-tech parachutes to control rocket debris and make space launches safer, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
During the March 9 launch of a Long March-3B rocket carrying a satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, a booster was equipped with parachutes and control devices.
After the booster separated from the rocke ... more |
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Bath UK (SPX) Apr 08, 2020
When a massive star in a distant galaxy collapses, forming a black hole, two giant jets of light-emitting plasma shoot from its core. These extremely bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions in the universe, and when a jet points towards Earth, the afterglow can be detected from ground and space-borne telescopes.
Material does not simply catapult from an exploding st ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 
Genetic information from an 800.000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results from the University of Copenhagen shed light on one of the branching points in the human family tree, reaching much further back in time than previously possible.
An important advancement in human evolution studies has been achieved after scientists retrieved the oldest human geneti ... more |
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 Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 8, 2020 
A three-man space crew finished preparations on Wednesday for a mission to the International Space Station, which is going ahead despite the coronavirus pandemic.
Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Russia's Roscosmos space agency and NASA's Chris Cassidy will blast off from Kazakhstan for a six-month mission at 08:05 GMT Thursday.
But with journalists and relatives unable to travel t ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 03, 2020 
Previous research studies have revealed how rising temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic may impact the rest of Earth's climate over seasons, years and even longer. Now, two researchers from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, are making the argument that the effects may actually be felt in a matter of weeks, but more robust, observational-based analysis is needed to fully understand how q ... more |
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 Nova Scotia, Canada (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 
GeoSpectrum Technologies announces the debut of a new and compact version of its Towed Reelable Active Passive Sonar (TRAPS) suitable for Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs). Named TRAPS-USV, this lighter-weight variant is designed to fit on almost any size vessel, including patrol boats and USVs, while retaining full active sonar acoustic capabilities and providing ground breaking low frequency act ... more |
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 Cambridge MA (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 
Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the detection of J2322+0509, a detached binary white dwarf composed of two helium-core stars with a short orbital period. It is the first gravitational wave source of its kind ever detected.
"Theories predict that there are many double helium-core white dwarf binaries out there," said Dr. Warren Brown, CfA a ... more |
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