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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 27, 2021 NASA's Cold Atom Lab is a first-of-its-kind physics laboratory operating in Earth orbit. About the size of a mini-fridge, it hosts multiple experiments that explore the fundamental nature of atoms by cooling them down to nearly absolute zero (the coldest temperature matter can reach). The ultracold atoms provide a window into the quantum realm, where matter exhibits strange behaviors that underpin many modern technologies. In 2020, during her extended stay aboard the space station, NASA astronaut ... read more |
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Need for Larger Space Telescope inspires lightweight flexible holographic lensTroy NY (SPX) Oct 27, 2021 Inspired by a concept for discovering exoplanets with a giant space telescope, a team of researchers is developing holographic lenses that render visible and infrared starlight into either a focused ... more 
Magnetic 'balding' of black holes saves general relativity predictionNew York NY (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 Black holes aren't what they eat. Einstein's general relativity predicts that no matter what a black hole consumes, its external properties depend only on its mass, rotation and electric charge. All ... more  
Could this be a planet in another galaxy?Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 Using ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescopes, astronomers have made an important step in the quest to find a planet outside of the Milky Way. Spotting a planet in another galaxy ... more 
Astrophysicists reveal largest-ever suite of universe simulationsNew York NY (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 Collectively clocking in at nearly 60 trillion particles, a newly released set of cosmological simulations is by far the biggest ever produced. The simulation suite, dubbed AbacusSummit, will be ins ... more |
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Breakthrough Listen releases analysis of previously detected signalSan Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 An intriguing candidate signal picked up last year by the Breakthrough Listen project has been subjected to intensive analysis that suggests it is unlikely to originate from the Proxima Centauri sys ... more 
Neutron star collisions are a "goldmine" of heavy elements, study findsBoston MA (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 Most elements lighter than iron are forged in the cores of stars. A star's white-hot center fuels the fusion of protons, squeezing them together to build progressively heavier elements. But beyond i ... more 
Astronomers provide 'Field Guide' to Exoplanets known as Hot JupitersTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 25, 2021 Hot Jupiters - giant gas planets that race around their host stars in extremely tight orbits - have become a little bit less mysterious thanks to a new study combining theoretical modeling with obse ... more 
A radical shift to link soot formation and interstellar evolutionThuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Oct 25, 2021 Rethinking the formation and growth of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), key contributors to harmful soot particles formed during fuel combustion and the smallest dust grains in interstellar ... more 
NEID Spectrometer Lights Up Path to Exoplanet ExplorationGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 21, 2021 As NASA expands its quest to discover exoplanets - planets beyond our solar system - it also grows its toolbox. Over the summer, a new tool called NEID (pronounced NOO-id) delivered its first batch ... more |
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Trapping light with disorderRamat Gan, Israel (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 Like a pinball game in the hands of a good player, a collection of obstacles randomly positioned can be sufficient to trap light without the need for an optical cavity. By adding amplification, at n ... more 
Controlling light with a material three atoms thickPasadena CA (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 Most of us control light all the time without even thinking about it, usually in mundane ways: we don a pair of sunglasses and put on sunscreen, and close-or open-our window blinds. But the co ... more 
Researchers call for armchair astronomers to help find unknown hidden worlds Belfast UK (SPX) Oct 25, 2021 Astronomers at Queen's University Belfast have launched a new online initiative, calling for volunteers to come forward and help to search for extrasolar planets. The online citizen project, h ... more  
New spin on space researchParis (ESA) Oct 07, 2021 The ESA-owned Short Arm Human Centrifuge has been upgraded, installed and inaugurated at the Olympic Sport Centre Planica facility near Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Soon to be home to ESA bedrest studie ... more 
Uncovering the secrets of ultra-low frequency gravitational wavesBirmingham UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2021 New methods of detecting ultra-low frequency gravitational waves can be combined with other, less sensitive measurements to deliver fresh insights into the early development of our universe, accordi ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 25, 2021 
New Horizons remains healthy and continues to send valuable data from the Kuiper Belt, even as it speeds farther and farther from Earth and the Sun. Our team has been extremely busy since I last wrote in the spring. One of the most important activities since then has been ground testing, uploading and flight-testing new software for our Alice ultraviolet spectrometer and our main (Command and Da ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 
An intriguing candidate signal picked up last year by the Breakthrough Listen project has been subjected to intensive analysis that suggests it is unlikely to originate from the Proxima Centauri system. Instead, it appears to be an artifact of Earth-based interference from human technologies, the Breakthrough Initiatives announced Monday. Two research papers, published in Nature Astronomy, discu ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 27, 2021 
Artificial intelligence, or AI, has enormous potential to change the way NASA's spacecraft study the universe. But because all machine learning algorithms require training from humans, a recent project asks members of the public to label features of scientific interest in imagery taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
Called AI4Mars, the project is the continuation of one launched last y ... more |
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 Nashville TN (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 
Karan Jani, research assistant professor of physics and astronomy, co-chaired the first international workshop focused on gravitational wave detection on the moon. The workshop builds on Jani's recent studies that make the case for building a crewed, lunar-based observatory.
"We are at the dawn of a new space age, with the moon at the center of our campaign for the next several years," Jan ... more |
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 Troy NY (SPX) Oct 27, 2021 
Inspired by a concept for discovering exoplanets with a giant space telescope, a team of researchers is developing holographic lenses that render visible and infrared starlight into either a focused image or a spectrum. The experimental method, detailed in an article appearing in Nature Scientific Reports, could be used to create a lightweight flexible lens, many meters in diameter, that could b ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 25, 2021 
Earth observation provides a wealth of information to benefit our daily lives. As the demand for satellite data grows to address the challenges of climate change and a growing population, ESA, under the leadership of the European Commission, along with its key European partners, are developing high precision digital models of Earth to monitor and simulate both natural and human activity, to enab ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Oct 25, 2021 
In the heavens above, it's raining dirt. Every second, millions of pieces of dirt that are smaller than a grain of sand strike Earth's upper atmosphere. At about 100 kilometers altitude, bits of dust, mainly debris from asteroid collisions, zing through the sky vaporizing as they go 10 to 100 times the speed of a bullet. The bigger ones can make streaks in the sky, meteors that take our breath a ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 
A joint NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory experiment dedicated to studying the origins of solar energetic particles - the Sun's most dangerous form of radiation - is ready for launch.
UVSC Pathfinder - short for Ultraviolet Spectro-Coronagraph Pathfinder - will hitch a ride to space aboard STPSat-6, the primary spacecraft of the Space Test Program-3 (STP-3) mission for the Department of ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 16, 2021 
Three astronauts successfully docked with China's new space station on Saturday on what is set to be Beijing's longest crewed mission to date and the latest landmark in its drive to become a major space power.
The three blasted off shortly after midnight (1600 GMT Friday) from the Jiuquan launch centre in northwestern China's Gobi desert, the China Manned Space Agency said, with the team exp ... more |
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Troy NY (SPX) Oct 27, 2021
Inspired by a concept for discovering exoplanets with a giant space telescope, a team of researchers is developing holographic lenses that render visible and infrared starlight into either a focused image or a spectrum. The experimental method, detailed in an article appearing in Nature Scientific Reports, could be used to create a lightweight flexible lens, many meters in diameter, that could b ... more |
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 Jena, Germany (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 
The longest lasting tool-making tradition in prehistory, known as the Acheulean, appears more than 1.5 million years ago in Africa and 1.2 million years ago in India, and mainly consists of stone handaxes and cleavers. New research led by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History has re-examined a key Acheulean site at the margins of the monsoon zone in the Thar Desert, Rajasthan ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 22, 2021 
NASA has chosen 18 companies to continue developing space food that astronauts could eat on long-term, Deep Space missions to Mars or other planets, such as 3D-printed steak and ingredients including insect protein, fungus and algae.
The space agency believes its ongoing Deep Space Food Challenge is vital to keeping astronauts healthy and in good spirits during long isolation. NASA anno ... more |
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 Cape Cod MA (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 
Changes in the northern Alaskan Arctic ocean environment have reached a point at which a previously rare phenomenon-widespread blooms of toxic algae-could become more commonplace, potentially threatening a wide range of marine wildlife and the people who rely on local marine resources for food. That is the conclusion of a new study about harmful algal blooms (HABs) of the toxic algae Alexandrium ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 27, 2021 
After a successful test run in May, a NASA campaign is deploying aircraft, a research vessel and several kinds of autonomous ocean robots to study small ocean whirlpools, eddies and currents. Using instruments at sea and in the sky, the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) team aims to understand the role these ocean processes play in vertical transport, the movement of heat, nutrien ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 07, 2021 
The ESA-owned Short Arm Human Centrifuge has been upgraded, installed and inaugurated at the Olympic Sport Centre Planica facility near Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Soon to be home to ESA bedrest studies, this recently enhanced clinical research centre will help further scientists' knowledge of human physiology in space.
Run by the Jozef Stefan Institute on behalf of ESA, bedrest studies at th ... more |
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