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Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2017 Comets that take more than 200 years to make one revolution around the Sun are notoriously difficult to study. Because they spend most of their time far from our area of the solar system, many "long-period comets" will never approach the Sun in a person's lifetime. In fact, those that travel inward from the Oort Cloud - a group of icy bodies beginning roughly 186 billion miles (300 billion kilometers) away from the Sun - can have periods of thousands or even millions of years. NASA's WISE spacecra ... read more |
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![]() Cologne, Germany (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 Venus is often referred to as Earth's twin because both planets share a similar size and sur-face composition. Also, they both have atmospheres with complex weather systems. But that is about where ... more ![]() ![]() Paris, France (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 Veritable shields against high-energy particles, planets' magnetic fields are produced by iron moving in their liquid core. Yet the dominant model for explaining this system does not fit the smalles ... more ![]() ![]() Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 The Norwegian Space Centre has announced successful deployment of critical antennas and probes on the NORsat-1 and NORsat-2 microsatellites built by Canada's Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) and launch ... more ![]() ![]() Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 High up in the clear blue noontime sky, the sun appears to be much the same day-in, day-out, year after year. But astronomers have long known that this is not true. The sun does change. Proper ... more |
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![]() Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 26, 2017 For its eighth launch of the year, and the 10th Vega mission since this launcher began its career at the Guiana Space Center in 2012, Arianespace will orbit two Earth observation satellites for civi ... more ![]() ![]() Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 For most viewers, the Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse will last less than two and half minutes. But for one team of NASA-funded scientists, the eclipse will last over seven minutes. Their secret? ... more ![]() ![]() Portsmouth UK (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 New maps of dark matter dynamics in the Universe have been produced by a team of international cosmologists. Using advanced computer modelling techniques, the research team has translated the ... more ![]() ![]() Washington (AFP) July 24, 2017 The US military is preparing to conduct another test of a missile-intercept system in Alaska, the Pentagon said Monday, amid continued tensions with North Korea over its ballistic missile program. ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (AFNS) Jul 25, 2017 It's been a "dynamic year" for Army space and missile defense, with a multi-domain task force being formed, a new nanosatellite set to launch soon, and more powerful laser weapons in the works, said ... more ![]() ![]() Moss Landing CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 An article just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B describes two remarkably different hydrothermal vent fields discovered in the southern Gulf of California. Despite being relativel ... more |
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![]() ![]() New non-photosynthesizing plant species discovered on Ishigaki island, Japan ![]() ![]() Boston MA (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 An MIT study published in Nature Climate Change finds that the Indian summer monsoons, which bring rainfall to the country each year between June and September, have strengthened in the last 15 year ... more ![]() ![]() Konstanz, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 Using the largest and most informative molecular phylogenetic dataset ever analysed, evolutionary biologists were able to construct a new phylogenetic tree of jawed vertebrates. This new tree resolv ... more ![]() ![]() Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 Scientists at Nagoya University have developed a new way to make stimuli-responsive materials in a predictable manner. They used this method to design a new material, a mixture of carbon nanorings a ... more ![]() ![]() Stanford CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 Imagine rescuers searching for people in the rubble of a collapsed building. Instead of digging through the debris by hand or having dogs sniff for signs of life, they bring out a small, air-tight c ... more |
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![]() Zhukovskiy (Sputnik) Jul 21, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Russian sanctions won't affect cooperation in space ![]() ![]() Astronauts grow cucumbers in space to help scientists understand root growth ![]() ![]() NASA Offers Space Station as Catalyst for Discovery in Washington |
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![]() Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 26, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Elon Musk says successful maiden flight for Falcon Heavy unlikely ![]() ![]() Russia to Supply Largest Ever Number of Space Rocket Engines to US This Year ![]() ![]() ISRO Develops Ship-Based Antenna System to Track Satellite Launches |
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![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Hubble sees Martian moon orbiting the Red Planet ![]() ![]() For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun ![]() ![]() Tributes to wetter times on Mars |
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![]() Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit ![]() ![]() Chinese Space Program: From Setback, to Manned Flights, to the Moon ![]() ![]() Chinese Rocket Fizzles Out, Puts Other Launches on Hold |
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![]() Hannover, Germany (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() A Final Farewell to LISA Pathfinder ![]() ![]() ASTROSCALE Raises a Total of $25 Million in Series C Led by Private Companies ![]() ![]() LISA Pathfinder: bake, rattle and roll |
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![]() Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Cleanup Time: Russia Launches Satellite to Remove Space Junk from Orbit ![]() ![]() Using water displacement as the 3-D shape sensor for complex objects ![]() ![]() A plastic planet |
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![]() Mountain View CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Holographic imaging could sample and identify living microbes in the outer solar system ![]() ![]() New non-photosynthesizing plant species discovered on Ishigaki island, Japan ![]() ![]() Turbulence in planetary cores excited by tides |
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![]() Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot ![]() ![]() New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis ![]() ![]() NASA's New Horizons Team Strikes Gold in Argentina |
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![]() Boston MA (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() A super-algae to save our seas ![]() ![]() Coral gardening is benefiting Caribbean reefs ![]() ![]() Vietnam says four fishermen wounded by Indonesian navy |
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![]() Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 21, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() IAI, Honeywell Aerospace team for GPS anti-jam system ![]() ![]() India Plans to Roll Out National GPS Next Year ![]() ![]() Orbital Alliance Techsystems receives contract for GPS artillery |
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![]() Paris (AFP) July 24, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Living in Deep Space: Lockheed Martin to Build Full-Scale Prototype of NASA Cislunar Habitat ![]() ![]() Scientists spy new evidence of water in the moon's interior ![]() ![]() Neil Armstrong moon bag sells for $1.8mn in New York |
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![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Ancient, massive asteroid impact could explain Martian geological mysteries ![]() ![]() Pitted Materials in Craters Could Indicate Buried Ice on Asteroids ![]() ![]() Bizarro comet challenging researchers |
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![]() Miami FL (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() NASA Solves a Drizzle Riddle ![]() ![]() Airbus built Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite ready for launch ![]() ![]() Early Airborne Results Address South Korean Air Quality |
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![]() Miami (AFP) July 21, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Chasing the Total Solar Eclipse from NASA's WB-57F Jets ![]() ![]() The moon is front and center during a total solar eclipse ![]() ![]() Solar Minimum is Coming |
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![]() Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Superluminous supernova marks the death of a star at cosmic high noon ![]() ![]() 'Mystery' signal from space is solved. It's not aliens ![]() ![]() Ground-Breaking Ground-Based Images of Planets from Pro-Am Team |
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![]() Stanford CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Evidence of the Higgs particle's decay in quarks ![]() ![]() Spiral arms allow school children to weigh black holes ![]() ![]() Stanford researchers discover biological hydraulic system in tuna fins |
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