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  Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 03, 2021 A team of researchers from the CSIC and the University of Tuscia (Italy) has demonstrated the role that glass played in the historical experiment carried out by Stanley Miller in 1952 to simulate the conditions that would have given rise to life on the early Earth. The results, published in Scientific Reports, open a new way to study the emergence of life. Miller built a glass apparatus into which he poured water to simulate the early ocean and a mixture of gases (methane, ammonia, and hydrogen) t ... read more |
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Rocky Exoplanets Are Even Stranger Than We ThoughtKamuela HI (SPX) Nov 03, 2021 Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets orbiting stars in our galaxy - known as exoplanets. However, it's difficult to know what exactly these planets are made of, or whether any resemble E ... more  
The Road to Launch and Beyond for NASA's James Webb Space TelescopeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 03, 2021 Now that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has safely arrived at its launch site in French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America, technical teams have begun making progress on the final ... more  
Gravitational 'kick' may explain the strange shape at the center of AndromedaBoulder CO (SPX) Nov 03, 2021 When two galaxies collide, the supermassive black holes at their cores release a devastating gravitational "kick," similar to the recoil from a shotgun. New research led by CU Boulder suggests that ... more 
Searching for Earth 2 zoom in on a starNew Haven CT (SPX) Oct 28, 2021 Astronomers searching for Earth-like planets in other solar systems have made a breakthrough by taking a closer look at the surface of stars. A new technique d ... more |
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Building planets from protoplanetary disksBoston MA (SPX) Nov 02, 2021 Planets and their stars form from the same reservoir of nebular material and their chemical compositions should therefore be correlated but the observed compositions of planets do not match complete ... more 
Hubble remains in safe mode, NASA team investigatingWashington DC (SPX) Nov 02, 2021 NASA is continuing to investigate why the instruments in the Hubble Space Telescope recently went into safe mode configuration, suspending science operations. The instruments are healthy and will re ... more  
Physicists discover how particles self-assembleNew York NY (SPX) Nov 02, 2021 A team of physicists has discovered how DNA molecules self-organize into adhesive patches between particles in response to assembly instructions. Its findings offer a "proof of concept" for an innov ... more 
BICEP3 tightens the bounds on cosmic inflationMenlo Park CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2021 Physicists looking for signs of primordial gravitational waves by sifting through the earliest light in the cosmos - the cosmic microwave background (CMB) - have reported their findings: still nothi ... more 
Groundbreaking findings in hunt for new neutrinos in the universeChicago IL (SPX) Nov 02, 2021 Illinois Institute of Technology Associate Professor of Physics Bryce Littlejohn is part of an international team of scientists that has dealt a blow to a popular theory of the existence of a fourth ... more |
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Scientists spot rare neutrino signal for big physics findingUpton NY (SPX) Oct 29, 2021 Did you feel the trillions of neutrinos that just flew through your body? Probably not, because these subatomic particles rarely interact with matter. Neutrinos can travel through a lightyear's wort ... more 
The upside-down orbits of a multi-planetary systemGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 28, 2021 When planets form, they usually continue their orbital evolution in the equatorial plane of their star. However, an international team, led by astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Swit ... more 
Scientists measure the atmosphere of a planet 340 light-years awayTempe AZ (SPX) Oct 28, 2021 An international team of scientists, using the ground-based Gemini Observatory telescope in Chile, is the first to directly measure the amount of both water and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of ... more 
How to find hidden oceans on distant worlds? use chemistryPasadena CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2021 A new study shows how the chemicals in an exoplanet's atmosphere can, in some cases, reveal whether or not the temperature on its surface is too hot for liquid water. In our solar system, plan ... more 
Neutron star collisions are a "goldmine" of heavy elements, study findsBoston MA (SPX) Oct 28, 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 |
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 Lemont IL (SPX) Oct 29, 2021 
Using the Advanced Photon Source, scientists have recreated the structure of ice formed at the center of planets like Neptune and Uranus.
Everyone knows about ice, liquid and vapor - but, depending on the conditions, water can actually form more than a dozen different structures. Scientists have now added a new phase to the list: superionic ice.
This type of ice forms at extremely hi ... more |
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 Kamuela HI (SPX) Nov 03, 2021 
Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets orbiting stars in our galaxy - known as exoplanets. However, it's difficult to know what exactly these planets are made of, or whether any resemble Earth. To try to find out, astronomer Siyi Xu of NSF's NOIRLab partnered with geologist Keith Putirka of California State University, Fresno, to study the atmospheres of what are known as polluted whit ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 28, 2021 
The successful 14th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took place shortly after 1:18 a.m. PDT Oct. 24 at Jezero Crater. As planned, the helicopter executed its first 2,700 rpm flight, proving that Ingenuity is capable of flying in the weeks and months ahead on Mars, during which seasonal changes on the surface will result in decreases in air density.
The short 23-second flight incl ... more |
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 Munster, Germany (SPX) Nov 03, 2021 
The lunar surface is covered by numerous craters that date back to the impacts of asteroids. Age determinations on lunar rocks formed during these impacts show a surprising clustering at ages of about 3.9 billion years before present, or about 500 million years after the Moon was formed. These observations have led to the theory of a Late Heavy Bombardment of the Moon (or LHB).
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 03, 2021 
Now that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has safely arrived at its launch site in French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America, technical teams have begun making progress on the final checklist of preparations before liftoff later this year.
These preparations are expected to last 55 days from the observatory's arrival by ship to the day of launch.
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 London, UK (SPX) Nov 03, 2021 
The UK Space Agency has provided new funding for a joint British and French MicroCarb mission dedicated to monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide - the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change.
Dr Paul Bate, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency, and Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, Director of Sustainable Development of the French space agency, CNES, signed an implementation arrangement ... more |
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 Providence RI (SPX) Nov 03, 2021 
Around 12,000 years ago, something scorched a vast swath of the Atacama Desert in Chile with heat so intense that it turned the sandy soil into widespread slabs of silicate glass. Now, a research team studying the distribution and composition of those glasses has come to a conclusion about what caused the inferno.
In a study published in the journal Geology, researchers show that samples o ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Nov 02, 2021 
NASA has selected the CubeSat Imaging X-Ray Solar Spectrometer (CubIXSS), led by Southwest Research Institute, to measure the elemental composition of hot, multimillion-degree plasmas in the Sun's corona - its outermost atmosphere. The nanosatellite is expected to be launched in 2024 as a secondary payload on another satellite launch. CubIXSS will determine the origins of hot plasma - highly ion ... 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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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 03, 2021
Now that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has safely arrived at its launch site in French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America, technical teams have begun making progress on the final checklist of preparations before liftoff later this year.
These preparations are expected to last 55 days from the observatory's arrival by ship to the day of launch.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 28, 2021  The link that early anthropologists hoped would neatly bridge the gap between apes and humankind probably doesn't exist, most scientists now agree. Human evolution, it turns out, looks more like a "braided stream" of diverging and converging lineages than an inclined plane of slowly improving posture.
To map this braided stream, one group of researchers urge a closer look at Middle Plei ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 02, 2021 
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is announcing new leadership roles, as well as the merging of two offices into the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS), in support of Biden-Harris Administration priorities and the focus on space strategy.
OTPS is being established to provide data- and evidence-driven technology, policy, and strategy advice to NASA leadership. The office is a me ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 03, 2021 
Warm circumpolar deep waters flowing toward the Antarctic continental shelf were recently identified as causing ice shelf melting on the eastern half of the continent, not just in the west. But the precise mechanism of transport of these warm water flows from further offshore has until now remained unknown.
Japanese scientists from the National Institute of Polar Research have now however ... more |
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Nov 03, 2021 
A new study from Svalbard gas hydrate mounds shows that microbes are able to consume more methane from marine sediments than expected before it is leaking to the ocean and causing unwanted consequences to the environment.
Microbes play an important role in suppressing release of methane from marine sediments and thus prevent consequences such as ocean acidification (if methane is converted ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 03, 2021 
When two galaxies collide, the supermassive black holes at their cores release a devastating gravitational "kick," similar to the recoil from a shotgun. New research led by CU Boulder suggests that this kick may be so powerful it can knock millions of stars into wonky orbits.
The research, published Oct. 29 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, helps solve a decades-old mystery surrounding ... more |
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