|
|
|
  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 05, 2021 The American Astronomical Society (AAS), a major international organization of professional astronomers, astronomy educators, and amateur astronomers, supports the decadal survey report identifying scientific and foundational priorities, opportunities, and funding recommendations for astronomy and astrophysics in the coming decade and beyond. The report of the Astro2020 steering committee, several years in the making, was released this morning in a public briefing webinar by the National Academies of Sc ... read more |
 |
Next space telescope should exceed James Webb' s ability to study planetsWashington DC (UPI) Nov 4, 2021 NASA should begin plan for a massive new space telescope - one bigger than the largest telescope in history, the James Webb Space Telescope, according to a report from scientists around the country released Thursday. ... more 
New great observatories, including Lynx, top ranked by Decadal SurveyBoston MA (SPX) Nov 05, 2021 The 2020 Decadal Survey for Astronomy and Astrophysics has recommended a new series of three Great Observatories - or space-based telescopes - as a top national priority for the future of space astr ... more 
Next Generation Very Large Array strongly endorsed by Decadal SurveyCharlottesville VA (SPX) Nov 05, 2021 The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (Astro2020) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has published its report and the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) received high priority fo ... more  
To find life on other planets, NASA rocket team looks to the starsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 05, 2021 A NASA sounding rocket will observe a nearby star to learn how starlight affects the atmospheres of exoplanets - key information in the hunt for life outside our solar system. Using an updated ... more |
|
|
|
|
| Previous Issues | Nov 04 | Nov 03 | Nov 02 | Nov 01 | Oct 29 |
|
|
|
|
|
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 
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 investigating  |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
 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.
Researchers published several papers o ... more |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 05, 2021 
A NASA sounding rocket will observe a nearby star to learn how starlight affects the atmospheres of exoplanets - key information in the hunt for life outside our solar system.
Using an updated instrument first launched in 2019, the mission has a new target: Procyon A, the brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor. But its question remains the same: How does a star's light affect pote ... more |
|
 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 05, 2021 
The interaction of dust particles in Martian dust storms may cause electric fields that are powerful enough to have charges that induce standing electromagnetic waves known as S?humann resonances. This is the conclusion drawn by physicists from HSE University, the Space Research Institute, and MIPT. The paper was published in Icarus journal.
Mars has been a focus of active study over the l ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 05, 2021 
International isolation experiment SIRIUS-21 to simulate the flight and landing on the moon started on Thursday in Moscow, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Six people went on a conditional trip to the moon: Oleg Blinov, an instructor of the Cosmonaut Training Center; Viktoria Kirichenko, a surgeon at the I ... more |
|
 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 05, 2021 
The 2020 Decadal Survey for Astronomy and Astrophysics has recommended a new series of three Great Observatories - or space-based telescopes - as a top national priority for the future of space astrophysics.
The Lynx X-Ray Observatory is included as part of this vision. Dozens of scientists and engineers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian teamed with colleagues around ... more |
|
|
|
|
 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.
span class="BDL ... more |
|
 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 |
|
|
|
|
 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 |
|
 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 |
|
|
|
|
|
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 05, 2021
The 2020 Decadal Survey for Astronomy and Astrophysics has recommended a new series of three Great Observatories - or space-based telescopes - as a top national priority for the future of space astrophysics.
The Lynx X-Ray Observatory is included as part of this vision. Dozens of scientists and engineers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian teamed with colleagues around ... more |
|
 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 |
|
|
|
|
 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 05, 2021 
NASA and SpaceX continue to review launch and return opportunities for the upcoming crew rotation flights to and from the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program.
Mission teams now are considering whether to return the agency's SpaceX Crew-2 mission from the space station ahead of launching the next crew rotation due to the associated weather considerati ... more |
|
 Paris (ESA) Nov 04, 2021 
As world leaders and decision-makers join forces at COP26 to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement, new research, again, highlights the value of satellite data in understanding and monitoring climate change. This particular new research, which is based on measurements from ESA's CryoSat mission, shows that extreme ice melting events in Greenland have become more frequent and ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Brisbane, Australia (AFP) Nov 4, 2021 
Coral bleaching has affected 98 percent of Australia's Great Barrier Reef since 1998, leaving just a fraction of the world's largest reef system untouched, according to a study published Friday.
The paper in the peer-reviewed journal Current Biology found that just two percent of the vast underwater ecosystem had escaped impacts since the first mass coral bleaching event in 1998 - then the ... more |
|
 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 |
|
|
|
|
| Buy Advertising | About Us | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2020 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement |
