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  Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 03, 2020 With the development of science and technology, human's activity was and is expanding from land, sea and sky to the space and other planets. In the near future, deep space and other terrestrial planets will become the next main territory of human. Sun is the nearest star in the universe. It affects the (interplanetary-)space of our planets in many time scales. Thus, observing and understanding the solar activity and its evolution in interplanetary space and influence on the space environment of planets ... read more |
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More details of China's space station unveiledBeijing (XNA) Jun 03, 2020 After the successful maiden flight of the Long March-5B large rocket and the testing of China's new-generation manned spaceship, more details of China's space station have been unveiled. The s ... more  
Perseverance Mars Rover's extraordinary sample-gathering systemPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 03, 2020 Two astronauts collected Moon rocks on Apollo 11. It will take three robotic systems working together to gather up the first Mars rock samples for return to Earth. The samples Apollo 11 brough ... more  
JPL Mission breaks record for smallest satellite to detect an exoplanetPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 03, 2020 Long before it was deployed into low-Earth orbit from the International Space Station in Nov. 2017, the tiny ASTERIA spacecraft had a big goal: to prove that a satellite roughly the size of a briefc ... more 
Martian moon orbit hints at ancient ringMountain View CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2020 Scientists from the SETI Institute and Purdue University have found that the only way to produce Deimos's unusually tilted orbit is for Mars to have had a ring billions of years ago. While some of t ... more |
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The Milky Way has one very hot halo, astronomers findColumbus OH (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 The halo that surrounds our own Milky Way galaxy is much hotter than scientists once believed - and it may not be unique among galaxies. The new findings were presented at the annual meeting o ... more 
DARPA selects teams for work on tunable gamma ray inspection technologyWashington DC (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 Two California companies were selected for DARPA's Gamma Ray Inspection Technology (GRIT) program and have begun work to develop a transportable, tunable source of gamma rays for a host of national ... more 
Hot stars are plagued by giant magnetic spots, ESO data showsMunich, Germany (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 Astronomers using European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes have discovered giant spots on the surface of extremely hot stars hidden in stellar clusters. Not only are these stars plagued by mag ... more 
Now complete, Telescope Instrument is poised to begin its search for answers about dark energyBerkeley CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 Even as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, lies dormant within a telescope dome on a mountaintop in Arizona, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the DESI project has moved forward in reach ... more 
K-State study reveals asymmetry in spin directions of galaxiesManhattan KS (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 An analysis of more than 200,000 spiral galaxies has revealed unexpected links between spin directions of galaxies, and the structure formed by these links might suggest that the early universe coul ... more |
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Starliner to go to ISS without crew in November, crewed flight set for next yearMoscow (Sputnik) Jun 02, 2020 Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will refly its uncrewed test mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in November of this year, while the first crewed flight is planned for April 2021, a space ... more  |
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Russia plans rocket tests, lunar programme resumptionMoscow (AFP) May 31, 2020 Russia on Sunday put a brave face on the loss of its space travel monopoly, saying it planned to test two new rockets this year and resume its lunar programme in 2021. ... more  
Get your ticket to the Moon: Europe's lunar lander for science and moreParis (ESA) Jun 02, 2020 Development of Europe's first ever lunar lander was agreed upon by ESA Member States in 2019 and now ESA is seeking your ideas for science and robotic missions on the Moon. Set to launch on an ... more 
For Russia, SpaceX success is 'wakeup call'Moscow (AFP) May 31, 2020 Russia has lost its long-held monopoly as the only country able to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station following the flawless manned launch by US company SpaceX. ... more 
AFRL centrifuge part of NASA's history-making launchWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 When NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken ascended into space on the afternoon of May 30, they were two of 10 astronauts to undergo centrifuge testing in early November 2018 in the Air Force ... more  
Large simulation finds new origin of supermassive black holesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 03, 2020 Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University in Japan, have revealed a new theory for the origin of supermassive black holes. In this theory, the precursors of supermassive ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 29, 2020 
Doug Liman will direct Tom Cruise in the first narrative feature film to be shot in space.
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed Tuesday that Liman, 54, will direct Cruise, 57, in the new movie filmed aboard the International Space Station.
Liman will also write the script, although plot details are being kept under wraps. The project does not currently have a studio or a financier.
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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 
When NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken ascended into space on the afternoon of May 30, they were two of 10 astronauts to undergo centrifuge testing in early November 2018 in the Air Force Research Laboratory.
"It's exciting that our centrifuge was one of several steps along the way to prepare these two astronauts for this upcoming launch," said Brig. Gen. James Dienst, 711th Huma ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2020 
Scientists from the SETI Institute and Purdue University have found that the only way to produce Deimos's unusually tilted orbit is for Mars to have had a ring billions of years ago. While some of the more massive planets in our solar system have giant rings and numerous big moons, Mars only has two small, misshapen moons, Phobos and Deimos. Although these moons are small, their peculiar orbits ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 03, 2020 
After the successful maiden flight of the Long March-5B large rocket and the testing of China's new-generation manned spaceship, more details of China's space station have been unveiled.
The space station, expected to be completed around 2022, will operate in the low-Earth orbit at an altitude from 340 km to 450 km for more than 10 years, supporting large-scale scientific, technological an ... more |
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 Harwell UK (SPX) May 25, 2020 
The Harwell Space Cluster, Europe's most concentrated group of space organisations, located at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, has released its 10-year growth strategy. Already recognised internationally as the UK Space Gateway, the strategy supports the cluster's ambition to become the most compelling global gateway to the space sector, making it an even more powerful engine of growth, i ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 03, 2020 
By combining data from telescopes with supercomputer simulations and virtual reality (VR), a new visualization allows you to experience 500 years of cosmic evolution around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
This visualization, called "Galactic Center VR", is the latest in a series from astrophysicists, and is based on data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ... more |
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 Swarthmore PA (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 
Observations of planetary nebulae have revealed unusual molecular content and surprising enrichments of rare isotopes, challenging both chemical models as well as our current understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis.
Using the Arizona Radio Observatory 12-m and submillimeter telescopes and the IRAM 30-m telescope near Granada, Spain, astronomers at the University of Arizona discovered an u ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 14, 2020 
When the New Horizons spacecraft passed by Pluto in 2015, one of the many fascinating features its images revealed was that this small, frigid world in the distant solar system has a hazy atmosphere. Now, new data helps explain how Pluto's haze is formed from the faint light of the Sun 3.7 billion miles away as it moves through an unusual orbit.
Remote observations of Pluto by NASA's teles ... more |
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 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 
Urbanization could cause 26 percent more rain to fall over Jeddah city than over the surrounding desert during storms. The coastal city of Jeddah, located on the Red Sea, has a population of around 4 million and is the commercial center of Saudi Arabia. Its main weather threat is winter storms that bring heavy rains, strong winds and flash flooding.
In 2009, a severe storm in the city clai ... more |
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 Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Jun 03, 2020 
The 2nd Space Operations Squadron performed the first station keeping maneuver on a GPS III satellite to Satellite Vehicle Number 75 at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, May 14.
The maneuver set a new standard for how GPS maneuvers should be conducted for the squadron that provides precision, navigation and timing signals to billions of users around the world.
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Jun 02, 2020  The 49ers who panned for gold during California's Gold Rush didn't really know where they might strike it rich. They had word of mouth and not much else to go on.
Researchers at the University of Central Florida want to give prospectors looking to mine the moon better odds of striking gold, which on the moon means rich deposits of water ice that can be turned into resources, like fuel, for ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 03, 2020 
Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May has teamed up with asteroid researchers to investigate striking similarities and a puzzling difference between separate bodies explored by space probes. The research team ran a supercomputer-based 'fight club' involving simulated large asteroid collisions to probe the objects' likely origins. Their work is reported in Nature Communications.
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jun 03, 2020 
As the Earth orbits the sun, it plows through a stream of fast-moving particles that can interfere with satellites and global positioning systems. Now, a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University has reproduced a process that occurs in space to deepen understanding of what happens when the Earth encounters this ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 03, 2020 
With the development of science and technology, human's activity was and is expanding from land, sea and sky to the space and other planets. In the near future, deep space and other terrestrial planets will become the next main territory of human. Sun is the nearest star in the universe. It affects the (interplanetary-)space of our planets in many time scales. Thus, observing and understanding t ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 
A Monash-University-led collaboration has, for the first time, observed the full, 12-day process of material spiralling into a distant neutron star, triggering an X-ray outburst thousands of times brighter than our Sun.
The research, led by PhD candidate Adelle Goodwin from the Monash School of Physics and Astronomy will be featured at the American Astronomical Society meeting this week be ... more |
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 Maunakea HI (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 
Determined to find a needle in a cosmic haystack, a pair of astronomers time traveled through archives of old data from W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauankea in Hawaii and old X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to unlock a mystery surrounding a bright, lensed, heavily obscured quasar.
This celestial object, which is an active galaxy emitting enormous amounts of energy due to a b ... more |
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