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  Boston MA (SPX) Sep 15, 2020 The search for life beyond Earth has largely revolved around our rocky red neighbor. NASA has launched multiple rovers over the years, with a new one currently en route, to sift through Mars' dusty surface for signs of water and other hints of habitability. Now, in a surprising twist, scientists at MIT, Cardiff University, and elsewhere have observed what may be signs of life in the clouds of our other, even closer planetary neighbor, Venus. While they have not found direct evidence of living orga ... read more |
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Jupiter's moons could be warming each otherTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 Jupiter's moons are hot. Well, hotter than they should be, for being so far from the sun. In a process called tidal heating, gravitational tugs from Jupiter's moons and the planet itself stretch and ... more  
Northrop's 'life extension' spacecraft heads to the rescueOrlando FL (UPI) Sep 14, 2020 A second spacecraft designed by Northrop Grumman to extend the life of satellites in orbit is headed toward a rescue some 22,200 miles above Earth. The spacecraft is part of Northrop's new in- ... more  
"Mighty Mice" in space could lead to new therapies for muscle and bone loss on EarthKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 Findings from the "Mighty Mice" investigation on the International Space Station (ISS) may help "save the day" both for earthbound patients with muscle and bone loss as well as astronauts on prolong ... more  
New small satellites to rendezvous with binary asteroidsBoulder CO (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 CU Boulder and Lockheed Martin will lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at a mysterious class of solar system objects: binary asteroids. These bodies are pairs of a ... more |
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Hints of life on VenusCardiff UK (SPX) Sep 15, 2020 An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Jane Greaves of Cardiff University, have announced the discovery of a rare molecule - phosphine - in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is ... more 
Possible marker of life spotted on VenusWashington DC (SPX) Sep 15, 2020 "When we got the first hints of phosphine in Venus's spectrum, it was a shock!", says team leader Jane Greaves of Cardiff University in the UK, who first spotted signs of phosphine in observations f ... more  
Holding up a mirror to a dark matter discrepancyNew Haven CT (SPX) Sep 14, 2020 The universe's funhouse mirrors are revealing a difference between how dark matter behaves in theory and how it appears to act in reality. Dark matter is the invisible glue that keeps stars bo ... more 
Hubble observations suggest a missing ingredient in dark matter theoriesBaltimore MD (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 Astronomers have discovered that there may be a missing ingredient in our cosmic recipe of how dark matter behaves. They have uncovered a discrepancy between the theoretical models of how dark ... more 
Earth's Van Allen radiation belts double as particle acceleratorWashington DC (UPI) Sep 10, 2020 Electrons in the radiation belts surrounding Earth can be accelerated to extreme speeds across short distances, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications. ... more |
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 NASA funds eight new projects exploring connections between the environment and COVID-19 
Astronomers characterize Uranian moons using new imaging analysisWashington DC (UPI) Sep 14, 2020 Using new image processing techniques, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy were able to characterize the physical properties of Uranus' five moons, according to a study published Monday in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. ... more  |
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A warm Jupiter orbiting a cool starUniversity Park PA (SPX) Sep 15, 2020 A planet observed crossing in front of, or transiting, a low-mass star has been determined to be about the size of Jupiter. While hundreds of Jupiter-sized planets have been discovered orbiting larg ... more 
Dark matter destruction ruled out in galactic centerKashiwa, Japan (SPX) Sep 15, 2020 The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of an excess of high-energy radiation in the center of the Milky Way convinced some physicists that they were seeing evide ... more 
Announcing Homestead: satellite ground station coming soon to Chippewa CountyKinross MI (SPX) Sep 15, 2020 Oakman Aerospace, Inc. (OAI) and Chippewa County Economic Development Corporation (CCEDC) are pleased to announce a partnership to establish a ground station, referred to as the Homestead ground sta ... more  
MOSAiC Arctic expedition reaches North PoleParis (ESA) Sep 10, 2020 On 19 August 2020, the world's largest and longest polar research expedition - known as MOSAiC - reached the North Pole after making an unplanned detour owing to lighter-than-usual sea ice condition ... more 
New small satellite mission to rendezvous with binary asteroidsDenver CO (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 The University of Colorado Boulder and Lockheed Martin will soon lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at a mysterious class of solar system objects: binary asteroids. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 
When many NASA employees transitioned to a mandatory work-from-home status in March 2020, because of COVID-19, the agency prepared to launch its first-ever fully virtual internship to ensure students would still have a summer learning opportunity. Interns who successfully worked for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, shared their experiences.
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Sep 14, 2020 
Optical remote-sensing satellite Jilin-1 Gaofen 02C, which was launched aboard the Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 13:02 p.m. (Beijing time) on Saturday, failed to enter the preset orbit.
Abnormal performance was identified during the rocket's flight, said the launch center.
The cause of the failure is under investigation.
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 Beijing (XNA) Sep 14, 2020 
China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled 137 million km, said sources with the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
As of 9 a.m. Friday, the probe was in stable condition at a distance of more than 15.3 million km away from Earth, according to a center statement.
The probe captured a photo of Earth and the moon in late July, and comp ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 11, 2020 
The People's Republic successfully launched a reusable spacecraft into space atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert last Friday, with Chinese media reporting the experimental spacecraft's successful return to Earth on Sunday.
The mysterious Chinese reusable spacecraft which made a trip into space last week launched an unknown object ... more |
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 Cape Town, South Africa (SPX) Sep 02, 2020  Dragonfly Aerospace picks up the flag in the latest chapter in the proud history of South African space engineering and space missions.
This history starts with the national space program of the 1980s and plots a path through seven satellites and another six payloads built and launched with local and international customers along the way. Most recently, the team delivered a hyperspectral i ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 
The Earth's magnetic field is trapping high energy particles. When the first satellites were launched into space, scientists led by James Van Allen unexpectedly discovered the high energy particle radiation regions, which were later named after its discoverer Van Allen Radiation Belts. Visualized, these look like two donut-shaped regions encompassing our planet.
Now, a new study led by res ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 14, 2020 
The atmosphere of Venus contains a gas that on Earth can be attributed to living organisms, scientists said Monday, a discovery the head of NASA called "the most significant development yet" in the hunt for extraterrestrial life.
Conditions on our planetary neighbour are often described as hellish with daytime temperatures hot enough to melt lead and an atmosphere comprised almost entirely o ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 14, 2020 
Using new image processing techniques, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy were able to characterize the physical properties of Uranus' five moons, according to a study published Monday in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Previously, astronomers have had to rely on long-distant space missions, space probes like Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini-Huygens and New Horizons, ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 11, 2020 
The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan is among numerous ships, aircraft and military personnel involved in Valiant Shield, a Pacific Ocean training exercise.
The 12-day exercise of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command begins on Tuesday in Guam and at the Mariana Islands Range Complex. Approximately 100 aircraft and about 11,000 personnel of the Navy, Army, Air Force and Marines will be involv ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 18, 2020 
Global acceptance and application of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System will gather momentum on the back of further integration with telecom technologies like 5G and the internet of things, company executives and experts said.
Their comments came after Beidou started offering full-scale global services on July 31. More importantly, navigation technologies are increasingly intertwin ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 
As we at NASA are working aggressively to meet our near-term goal of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, our Artemis program also is focused on taking steps that will establish a safe and sustainable lunar exploration architecture.
Moreover, leveraging commercial involvement as part of Artemis will enhance our ability to safely return to the Moon in a sustainable, inn ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 
A new study published this month in JGR Planets posits that the major particle ejections off the near-Earth asteroid Bennu may be the consequence of impacts by small, sand-sized particles called meteoroids onto its surface as the object nears the Sun. The study's primary author is Southwest Research Institute scientist Dr. William Bottke, who used data from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 
GHGSat, the global leader in high-resolution greenhouse gas monitoring from space, has successfully completed the first tranche of Series B funding, raising US$30m and more than doubling the total amount raised since GHGSat was founded to over US$55m. This latest funding has secured the growth trajectory of the company, enabling it to accelerate construction of its unique fleet of emissions dete ... more |
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 Brena Baja, Spain (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 
Sunspots are darker regions which often appear on the Sun's surface. They are caused by strong concentrations of magnetic field, and can be as big as the Earth, or even much bigger.
From the end of the 1960's the presence of oscillations in the atmospheres of these spots has been known, and interpreted as evidence for magnetic waves. These waves have attracted the interest of the researche ... more |
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 Tallahassee FL (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 
One-hundred million light years away from Earth, an unusual supernova is exploding.
That exploding star - which is known as "supernova LSQ14fmg" - was the faraway object discovered by a 37-member international research team led by Florida State University Assistant Professor of Physics Eric Hsiao. Their research, which was published in the Astrophysical Journal, helped uncover the origins ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration recently announced the discovery of GW190521, the most massive gravitational wave binary observed to date, and Rochester Institute of Technology scientists played an important role in identifying and analyzing the event.
They detected the signal with the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Obser ... more |
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