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  Boston MA (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 For all its brilliant complexity, the Milky Way is rather unremarkable as galaxies go. At least, that's how Mark Vogelsberger sees it. "Our galaxy has a couple features that might be a bit surprising, like the exact number of structures and satellites around it," Vogelsberger muses. "But if you average over a lot of metrics, the Milky Way is actually a rather normal place." He should know. Vogelsberger, a newly tenured associate professor in MIT's Department of Physics, has spent much of his caree ... 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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Key role of the reactor surface in Miller's experiment on the molecular origin of lifeMadrid, 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 th ... more 
A new way to generate light using pre-existing defects in semiconductorsBoston MA (SPX) Nov 02, 2021 Researchers from the Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES) interdisciplinary research group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, ... more 
New results from MicroBooNE provide clues to particle physics mysteryLos Alamos NM (SPX) Nov 03, 2021 New results from a more-than-decade long physics experiment offer insight into unexplained electron-like events found in previous experiments. Results of the MicroBooNE experiment, while not confirm ... 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 |
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Astronomers discover massive galaxy 'shipyard' in the distant universeTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 29, 2021 Even galaxies don't like to be alone. While astronomers have known for a while that galaxies tend to congregate in groups and clusters, the process of going from formation to friend groups has remai ... more 
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 |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 29, 2021 
New findings from NASA's Juno probe orbiting Jupiter provide a fuller picture of how the planet's distinctive and colorful atmospheric features offer clues about the unseen processes below its clouds. The results highlight the inner workings of the belts and zones of clouds encircling Jupiter, as well as its polar cyclones and even the Great Red Spot.
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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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 Bremen, Germany (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 
AMADEE-20: That is the name of the simulated Mars mission of the Austrian Space Forum, which was carried out in the Israeli Negev Desert. More than 25 experiments were carried out there. Two projects from the University of Bremen, namely INTERTEAM and MarsLock, were also involved in the research.
b>What are team processes like when the crew is on Mars? br> /b>
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 4, 2021 
A US federal judge on Thursday ruled against Blue Origin brought by Jeff Bezos' company in a bid to overturn a NASA contract awarded to rival SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, to build the next craft for Moon landings.
The ruling put an end to a months-long legal battle that had prevented the US space agency from working with SpaceX on the lunar lander called Starship, which will allow Americans ... 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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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Nov 04, 2021 
China launched a group of remote-sensing satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Wednesday.
The second group of the Yaogan-32 satellite family was launched by a Long March-2C rocket with an attached upper stage at 3:43 p.m. (Beijing Time) and entered the planned orbit.
This was the 394th mission of the Long March rocket series.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 
Comets are icy and dusty snowballs of material that have remained relatively unchanged since they first formed billions of years ago. Studying the small bodies provides clues about the formation of the solar system.
In Review of Scientific Instruments, by AIP Publishing, researchers from the Technische Universitat Braunschweig, the Austrian Academy of Science, the University of Bern, the G ... 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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 Moss Landing CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 
The sheer expanse of the deep sea and the technological challenges of working in an extreme environment make these depths difficult to access and study. Scientists know more about the surface of the moon than the deep seafloor. MBARI is leveraging advancements in robotic technologies to address this disparity.
An autonomous robotic rover, Benthic Rover II, has provided new insight into lif ... 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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