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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 |
Venus's turbulent atmosphere 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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Vega to launch two Earth Observation Satellites for Italy, Israel and France 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 |
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 |
Zhukovskiy (Sputnik) Jul 21, 2017 A yet unidentified space tourist from an Asian country will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) as a member of the crew in 2019, Russia's Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia Director General Vladimir Solntsev said Tuesday. "The new space tourist, who is set to travel to the ISS in 2019, is being trained already. He is a national of one of the Asian countries," Solntsev ... more 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 |
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 civil and military applications: OPTSAT-3000 for the Italian Ministry of Defence; and Venus, a mission of the Israel Space Agency (ISA) - a government body sponsored by the country's Ministry of Science a ... more 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 NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded a panoramic view before entering the upper end of a fluid-carved valley that descends the inner slope of a large crater's rim. The scene includes a broad notch in the crest of the crater's rim, which may have been a spillway where water or ice or wind flowed over the rim and into the crater. Wheel tracks visible in the area of the notch we ... more Hubble sees Martian moon orbiting the Red Planet For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun Tributes to wetter times on Mars |
Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017 China has a clear plan to provide sea launches for commercial payloads to be carried by Long March rockets, according to an aerospace official. Tang Yagang, vice head of the aerospace division of the No.1 institute of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC), said that the technology is not difficult and a sea launch platform can be built based on modifying 10,000-ton ... more 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 |
Hannover, Germany (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 LISA Pathfinder has been switched off as planned on the evening of 18thof July, ending its successful mission which surpassed all expectations After 16 months of science measurements an international team deactivated the LISA Pathfinder satellite on the evening of the 18th of July 2017. The gravitational-wave laboratory in space powered down after receiving the last commands in the evening ... more 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 |
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 and iodine, which conducts electricity and emits white light when exposed to electricity. The team's new approach could help generate a range of reliable stimuli-responsive materials, which can be used ... more 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 The SETI Institute and French startup Unistellar, have announced a partnership to commercialize a new telescope that promises to deliver an unparalleled view of the cosmos to amateur astronomers, and provide the opportunity to contribute directly to cutting-edge science. Unistellar's new eVscope leverages "Enhanced Vision" imaging technology and now provides three unique features never before o ... more 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 |
Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2017 In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons - amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a flight over the distant worlds' icy terrain might be like. Wonder no more. Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer s ... more 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 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 years over north central India. This heightened monsoon activity has reversed a 50-year drying period during which the monsoon season brought relatively little rain to northern and central India. Si ... more A super-algae to save our seas Coral gardening is benefiting Caribbean reefs Vietnam says four fishermen wounded by Indonesian navy |
Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 21, 2017 Russia and China are set to establish a pilot zone to test the Russian GLONASS and Chinese BeiDou satellite navigation systems on passenger and freight transportation routes going through Kraskino - Hunchun and Poltavka - Dongning checkpoints on the border in Russia's Primorsky Territory, the Russian Transport Ministry said. The issue was discussed during a meeting of a bilateral working g ... more 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 The Moon, long thought to be a dry, inhospitable orb, hosts surprisingly large sub-surface water reserves, which one day may quench the thirst of lunar explorers from Earth, scientists said Monday. "We found the signature of the lunar interior water globally using satellite data," Shuai Li, co-author of a study by scientists at Brown University in the United States, told AFP. "Such wate ... more 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 |
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 kilom ... more 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 In a new study, scientists found that aerosol particles released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels are a primary driver of changes in rainfall patterns across the globe. The results of the climate system-model simulations conducted by researchers Brian Soden and Eui-Seok Chung from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science revealed ... more NASA Solves a Drizzle Riddle Airbus built Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite ready for launch Early Airborne Results Address South Korean Air Quality |
Miami (AFP) July 21, 2017 Millions of people, from students to rocket scientists, are poised to contribute to a massive scientific effort to study the total solar eclipse that will sweep across the United States August 21. The entire country will fall into shadow as the "Great American Eclipse" passes, though the darkest path, or "totality," will be contained in a 70-mile (113-kilometer) ribbon that moves from Oregon ... more 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 A research team led by Adler Planetarium astronomer Dr. Grace Wolf-Chase has discovered new evidence of stars forming in our Milky Way Galaxy. By using a telescope equipped to detect infrared light invisible to our eyes, this exciting new science is revealing how stars, including our very own Sun, grow up within clusters and groups. The Astrophysical Journal has published a paper on the subject ... more 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 |
Stanford CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 In 1928, physicist Paul Dirac made the stunning prediction that every fundamental particle in the universe has an antiparticle - its identical twin but with opposite charge. When particle and antiparticle met they would be annihilated, releasing a poof of energy. Sure enough, a few years later the first antimatter particle - the electron's opposite, the positron - was discovered, and antimatter ... more 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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