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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 A 30th birthday is a big milestone for anyone, and a spacecraft is no exception. Tomorrow, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 30th year in space, but it didn't get to this point without having to overcome its fair share of challenges. Over the years, it has not only been fixed, but continuously upgraded to make it the discovery-producing machine that it is today. Servicing (refueling, fixing and upgrading) spacecraft helps make spaceflight more sustainable, affordable and resilient. In honor of ... read more |
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Population of Interstellar Asteroids Found Hiding in Plain SightLondon, UK (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 A new study has identified the first known permanent population of asteroids originating from outside our solar system. The objects are believed to have been captured from other stars billions of ye ... more  
Promising signs for Perseverance rover in its quest for past Martian lifeStanford CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 New research indicates river delta deposits within Mars' Jezero crater - the destination of NASA' Perseverance rover on the Red Planet - formed over time scales that promoted habitability and enhanc ... more 
Interstellar comet Borisov reveals its chemistry and possible originsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 On Aug. 30, 2019, when amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov gazed upward with his homemade telescope, he spotted an object moving in an unusual direction. Now called 2I/Borisov, this runaway point of ... more 
Asteroid visiting Earth's neighborhood brings its own face maskOrlando FL (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is following an asteroid approaching Earth this week and while it poses no threat, it appears to know our planet is facing a pandemic. "The small-scale t ... more |
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Jupiter probe JUICE: Final integration in full swingFriedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 JUICE, the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, has reached its next milestone: On its Earthly journey via different Airbus sites in Europe the spacecraft has arrived at Airbus' satellite integration ... more  
Atmospheric tidal waves maintain Venus' super-rotationSapporo, Japan (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 Images from the Akatsuki spacecraft unveil what keeps Venus's atmosphere rotating much faster than the planet itself. An international research team led by Takeshi Horinouchi of Hokkaido Unive ... more  
Large scale survey telescope to be built in northwest ChinaXining, China (XNA) Apr 24, 2020 Chinese experts will build a survey telescope with wide field and high resolution in Lenghu (Cold Lake) Town, in northwest China's Qinghai Province, sources here said. On April 16, the Univers ... more  
A gravitational-wave signal like none beforeHannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 The expectations of the gravitational-wave research community have been fulfilled: gravitational-wave discoveries are now part of their daily work as they have identified in the past observing run, ... more  
Study may explain the source of nitrogen in Earth's atmosphereLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 Nitrogen makes up approximately 78% of the air we breathe. But scientists have never fully understood how it came to be present in the atmospheres around Earth and other planets. Along with ca ... more |
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Turned-down temperatures boost crops' penchant for productionUrbana IL (SPX) Apr 15, 2020 Drought and heat put stress on plants and reduce grain yield. For some farmers, irrigation is the answer. Many of us assume the practice boosts crop yields by delivering soil water, but it turns out ... more  |
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When it comes to water, you have to think globalGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 Earth is a pale, blue dot when seen from space. Its blue color is due to our home planet being 71% covered in water. NASA monitors Earth's water from space, the skies, ground stations on land, ships ... more 
Heavy iron isotopes leaking from Earth's coreDavis CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 Earth's molten core may be leaking iron, according to researchers who analyzed how iron behaves inside our planet. The boundary between the liquid iron core and the rocky mantle is located som ... more  
Unusually clear skies drove record loss of Greenland ice in 2019New York NY (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 Last year was one of the worst years on record for the Greenland ice sheet, which shrunk by hundreds of billions of tons. According to a study published in The Cryosphere, that mind-boggling ice los ... more  
USGS releases first-ever comprehensive geologic map of the moonFlagstaff AZ (USGS) Apr 23, 2020 Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old histo ... more 
The birth of a "Snowman" at the edge of the Solar SystemNew York NY (SPX) Apr 23, 2020 A model developed at the Faculty of Physics at the Technion, in collaboration with German scientists at Tubingen, explains the unique properties of Arrokoth - the most distant object ever imaged in ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 23, 2020 
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir rocks her CAVES shirt on board the International Space Station. Jessica was the first woman to participate in ESA's underground astronaut training programme in 2016. It might not be obvious, but there are many similarities between working deep underground and in outer space.
Since 2011, ESA's Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and p ... more |
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 Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
Four 50th Wing Staff Agency Airmen attended a SpaceX briefing on its latest developments and future travel plans to the International Space Station, by Soichi Noguchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut, at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, April 17.
Col. Jack Fischer, 50th Space Wing vice commander and former NASA astronaut, shared the conference, "Preparing for flight aboard ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
New research indicates river delta deposits within Mars' Jezero crater - the destination of NASA' Perseverance rover on the Red Planet - formed over time scales that promoted habitability and enhanced preservation of evidence.
Undulating streaks of land visible from space reveal rivers once coursed across the Martian surface - but for how long did the water flow? Enough time to record evid ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 22, 2020 
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites on time at 3:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday into a clear blue sky from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
It was the seventh such launch for SpaceX's communications satellite network, which is the largest constellation in history. The company has launched 422 of the spacecraft in a little over a year.
The space company also landed the missi ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 13, 2020 
Bacterial pathogens can live on surfaces for days. What if frequently touched surfaces such as doorknobs could instantly kill them off?
Purdue University engineers have created a laser treatment method that could potentially turn any metal surface into a rapid bacteria killer - just by giving the metal's surface a different texture.
In a study published in the journal Advanced Materi ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
Astrophysical observations have shown that Neptune-like water-rich exoplanets are common in our galaxy. These "water worlds" are believed to be covered with a thick layer of water, hundreds to thousands of miles deep, above a rocky mantle.
While water-rich exoplanets are common, their composition is very different from Earth, so there are many unknowns in terms of these planets' structure, ... more |
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 Friedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
JUICE, the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, has reached its next milestone: On its Earthly journey via different Airbus sites in Europe the spacecraft has arrived at Airbus' satellite integration centre in Friedrichshafen (Germany) for final integration. Until the end of 2020 it will be kitted out with its final components including harness, power electronics, onboard computer, communication ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
Weakened wind patterns likely spurred the wave of extreme ocean heat that swept the North Pacific last summer, according to new research led by the University of Colorado Boulder and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. The marine heat wave, named the "Blob 2.0" after 2013's "Blob," likely damaged marine ecosystems and hurt coastal fisheries. Waters ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
Your phone's GPS, the WiFi in your house and communications on aircraft are all powered by radio-frequency waves, or RF waves, which carry information from a transmitter at one point to a sensor at another. The sensors interpret this information in different ways. For example, a GPS sensor uses the angle at which it receives an RF wave to determine its own relative location. The more precisely i ... more |
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 Flagstaff AZ (USGS) Apr 23, 2020 
Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history of our nearest neighbor in space.
For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified by scientists from the USGS, in collaboration with NASA and ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 
On Aug. 30, 2019, when amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov gazed upward with his homemade telescope, he spotted an object moving in an unusual direction. Now called 2I/Borisov, this runaway point of light turned out to be the first confirmed comet to enter our solar system from some unknown place beyond our Sun's influence. Astronomers everywhere rushed to take a look with some of the most powerf ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 22, 2020 
We are all too aware that COVID-19 is a serious threat to health, is putting huge pressure on healthcare systems and it could leave the global economy struggling for years to come. With lockdown measures in force across the globe, the pandemic is also affecting aspects of everyday life that may not be so obvious. The drop in commercial flights, for example, has led to fewer measurements for weat ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Apr 15, 2020 
When a fire extinguisher is opened, the compressed carbon dioxide forms ice crystals around the nozzle, providing a visual example of the physics principle that gases and plasmas cool as they expand. When our sun expels plasma in the form of solar wind, the wind also cools as it expands through space - but not nearly as much as the laws of physics would predict.
In a study published April ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 
NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), planned for launch in the mid-2020s, will create enormous cosmic panoramas. Using them, astronomers will explore everything from our solar system to the edge of the observable universe, including planets throughout our galaxy and the nature of dark energy.
Though it's often compared to the Hubble Space Telescope, which turns 30 years ol ... more |
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 Lancaster UK (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 
Lancaster physicists working on the T2K major international experiment in Japan are closing in on the mystery of why there is so much matter in the Universe, and so little antimatter.
The Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the early Universe but instead the Universe is made of matter. One of the greatest challenges in physics is to determine what happene ... more |
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