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  Leeds UK (SPX) Dec 17, 2019 The existence of habitable alien worlds has been a mainstay of popular culture for more than a century. In the 19th century, astronomers believed that Martians might be using canal-based transport links to traverse the red planet. Now, despite living in an age when scientists can study planets light years from our own solar system, most new research continues to diminish the chances of finding other worlds on which humans could live. The biggest stumbling block may be oxygen - human settlers would need ... read more |
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Get ready for a new periodic tableJerusalem (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 Are you ready for the future? Back in 1869, Russia's Dmitri Mendeleev began to classify the elements according to their chemical properties, giving rise to the Periodical Table of Elements. "I saw i ... more  
'DNA' of Twin Stars Helps Reveal Family History of Milky WayAustin TX (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 Twin stars appear to share chemical "DNA" that could help scientists map the history of the Milky Way galaxy, according to new research by astronomer Keith Hawkins of The University of Texas at Aust ... more 
New Image of Candy Cane-Shaped Feature in Center of Milky WayLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 A team of astronomers has produced a new image of an arc-shaped object in the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The feature, which resembles a candy cane, is a magnetic structure that covers an enormo ... more  
From airport approaches to eCall in cars in 10 years with EGNOSParis (ESA) Dec 24, 2019 The Galileo satellite navigation system has been providing Initial Services for three years now. Meanwhile Europe's other satnav system has marked its tenth anniversary: EGNOS has been delivering en ... more |
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NASA airborne campaign catches the drift of snow waterGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 It's the most wonderful time of the year - the time NASA's SnowEx campaign hits the skies and ground of the world's snowy places, measuring snow properties to understand how much water is contained ... more  
Shedding light in the dark: radar satellites lead the wayParis (ESA) Dec 18, 2019 Spare a thought this Christmas for researchers hunkered down on their Polarstern icebreaker, adrift in the frozen Arctic Ocean. Subjected to temperatures as low as -45 C and the perpetual darkness o ... more  
Ancient events are still impacting mammals worldwideHouston TX (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 In the first study of its kind, researchers have discovered that events from 20,000 years ago or more are still impacting the diversity and distribution of mammal species worldwide. "Our study ... more 
Laser-based prototype probes cold atom dynamicsWashington DC (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 By tracking the motions of cold atom clouds, astronomers can learn much about the physical processes which play out in the depths of space. To make these measurements, researchers currently use inst ... more 
Massive gas disk raises questions about planet formation theoryTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas. The star, called 49 Ceti, is 40 million years old, and conventi ... more |
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 Carbon cocoons surround growing galaxies far beyond previous beliefs 
RIT and IAR observe pulsars for the first time from South AmericaRochester UK (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 Rochester Institute of Technology and the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia (IAR) have collaborated to make the first pulsar observations from South America. A new paper published in Astr ... more  |
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Galaxy gathering brings warmthBoston MA (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 As the holiday season approaches, people in the northern hemisphere will gather indoors to stay warm. In keeping with the season, astronomers have studied two groups of galaxies that are rushing tog ... more 
Distant Milky Way-like galaxies reveal star formation history of the universeCharlottesville VA (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The brightest spots are galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes and shine bright in radio light. But ... more 
Nightside barrier gently brakes 'bursty' plasma bubblesHouston TX (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 The solar wind that pummels the Earth's dayside magnetosphere causes turbulence, like air over a wing. Physicists at Rice University have developed new methods to characterize how that influences sp ... more  
A box of Apollo lunar soilGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 Fortunately for today's scientists, Apollo-era leaders had the foresight to save much of the 842 pounds (382 kilograms) of Moon soil and rocks retrieved by NASA astronauts 50 years ago for future ge ... more  
Promising progress for ExoMars parachutesParis (ESA) Dec 24, 2019 A series of ground-based tests designed to check the extraction of the ExoMars 2020 mission's parachutes from their bags have started successfully with promising results to keep the mission on track ... more |
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 Cologne, Germany (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 
The intensity of space radiation is much greater outside Earth's protective magnetic field. This causes problems for the human body and represents a challenge for future crewed space missions to the Moon and Mars. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is conducting research to determine the radiation risk for crewed spaceflight. One of the projects that the ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Dec 22, 2019 
The first Ariane space rocket lifted off over the forests of French Guiana 40 years ago, enabling Europe to at last take its place as an independent player in the international race for space.
Following a number of delays and technical setbacks, Ariane 1 finally left the launch pad in Kourou at 2:13 pm local time on December 24, 1979.
Its maiden flight was a so-called qualification fligh ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 24, 2019 
A series of ground-based tests designed to check the extraction of the ExoMars 2020 mission's parachutes from their bags have started successfully with promising results to keep the mission on track for next year's launch.
Landing on Mars is a high-risk endeavour with no room for error. In just six minutes, a descent module with its precious cargo cocooned inside has to slow from around 21 ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Dec 19, 2019 
The Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province will host around 20 launch missions in 2020, including two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), according to an official from the center.
Wang Zemin, deputy director of the launch center, made the remarks after China successfully sent two BDS satellites into space from Xichang on Monday.
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Dec 24, 2019 
Tech giant Apple has been quietly collecting experts for a project to potentially develop a satellite-based network that would render it independent from wireless carriers, according to a Bloomberg report.
Apple has hired some of the biggest minds in the aerospace and communications fields to work on a "special project" that could yield a satellite-based network for the tech maker, accordi ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 
Recently established Australian ground segment operator Capricorn Space and Japanese Ground Segment as a Service provider Infostellar have signed an agreement that will enable Infostellar customers access to their satellite constellations from the Australian Ground Network - West (AGN-W) site near Mingenew in Western Australia.
Established by Capricorn Space to provide global satellite ope ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
Meet what may be the largest carnival delights known to science: the "super-puff" worlds of the Kepler 51 star system.
As their confectionary name suggests, these planets are as lightweight as cotton candy - literally. The fluffy globes are the lowest density exoplanets ever discovered beyond Earth's solar system.
"They're very bizarre," said Jessica Libby-Roberts, a graduate student ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 
Jupiter's south pole has a new cyclone. The discovery of the massive Jovian tempest occurred on Nov. 3, 2019, during the most recent data-gathering flyby of Jupiter by NASA's Juno spacecraft. It was the 22nd flyby during which the solar-powered spacecraft collected science data on the gas giant, soaring only 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) above its cloud tops. The flyby also marked a victory for ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 
Every school child learns about the water cycle - evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. But what if there were a deep Earth component of this process happening on geologic timescales that makes our planet ideal for sustaining life as we know it?
New work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Carnegie's Yanhao Lin and Michael Walter - along ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 24, 2019 
The Galileo satellite navigation system has been providing Initial Services for three years now. Meanwhile Europe's other satnav system has marked its tenth anniversary: EGNOS has been delivering enhanced positioning to users across our continent, including safety-critical services such as aircraft landings for a growing number of European airports.
The purpose of the European Geostationar ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 
Macao's first space exploration satellite was named Macao Science 1, the special administrative region (SAR)'s Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Tam Chon Weng announced Sunday at an opening ceremony of an aerospace exhibition.
During the opening ceremony, vice administrator of China National Space Administration (CNSA) Wu Yanhua also announced that the CNSA would set up Macao Space ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
Billions of years ago, asteroid collisions resulted in the ejection of fragments hundreds of kilometers across and sharing similar orbits. The resulting groups are known as asteroid families.
Other asteroid groups formed as a result of rotational fission, which happens when a rapidly spinning body reaches critical rotation speed and splits into relatively small fragments only a few kilomet ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
The Earth's inner core is hot, under immense pressure and snow-capped, according to new research that could help scientists better understand forces that affect the entire planet.
The snow is made of tiny particles of iron - much heavier than any snowflake on Earth's surface - that fall from the molten outer core and pile on top of the inner core, creating piles up to 200 miles thick that ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never been seen before. In the scorching upper reaches of the Sun's atmosphere, a prominence - a large loop of material launched by an eruption on the solar surface - started falling back to the surface of the Sun. But before it could make it, the prominence ran into a snarl of magnetic field lines, spark ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 
The solar wind that pummels the Earth's dayside magnetosphere causes turbulence, like air over a wing. Physicists at Rice University have developed new methods to characterize how that influences space weather on the nightside.
It's rarely quiet up there. The solar wind streams around the Earth and cruises off into the night, but closer to the planet, parcels of plasma get caught in the tu ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 
By tracking the motions of cold atom clouds, astronomers can learn much about the physical processes which play out in the depths of space. To make these measurements, researchers currently use instruments named 'cold atom inertial sensors' which, so far, have largely been operated inside the lab.
In new work published in EPJ D, a team of physicists at Muquans and LNE-SYRTE (the French nat ... more |
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