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AstroNews 9/2018

Un elenco aggiornato quotidianamente con le principali notizie del mese su astronomia, cosmologia, biologia, astrobiologia e paleontologia

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Chandra :: Photo Album :: AM 0644-741 :: September 6, 2018

Not all of the X-ray sources in the image are located in the ring of AM 0644. One of the sources is a rapidly growing…

chandra.si.edu

Chandra :: Photo Album :: Abell 2142 :: September 27, 2018

A bright X-ray tail located in the upper left of the image is aiming straight for Abell 2142. The right panel contains…

chandra.si.edu

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - IAC - Educational Outreach

The study, led by Paula Izquierdo, a doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the…

www.iac.es

Plasma Thruster: New Space Debris Removal Technology

The Earth is currently surrounded by debris launched into space over several decades. This space junk can collide with…

www.tohoku.ac.jp

Mānoa: Did key building blocks for life come from deep space? | University of Hawaii News

All living beings need cells and energy to replicate. Without these fundamental building blocks, living organisms on…

manoa.hawaii.edu

Two Years after Rosetta

On September 30, 2016, the active phase of the ESA's Rosetta mission came to an end with the controlled crash landing…

www.unibe.ch

Where Are They?

"Are we alone in the universe?" The question has fascinated, tantalized and even disconcerted humans for as long as we…

www.news.ucsb.edu

Software finds the best way to stick a Mars landing

Selecting a landing site for a rover headed to Mars is a lengthy process that normally involves large committees of…

news.mit.edu

UCF Selling Experimental Martian Dirt - $20 a Kilogram, Plus Shipping

The University of Central Florida is selling Martian dirt, $20 a kilogram plus shipping. This is not fake news. A team…

today.ucf.edu

Discovery of unlikely neutron star jets shoots down theory

ASTRONOMERS have made a surprise finding emanating from a "stellar corpse" in the far reaches of space - and the…

www.news.com.au

Cosmological constraints from the first-year Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam survey

September 26, 2018 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) Using the powerful…

www.ipmu.jp

China Focus: World's largest telescope more powerful, popular after two years - Xinhua |…

FAST, Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope and was…

www.xinhuanet.com

How Stars Spin

Sun-like stars rotate up to two and a half times faster at the equator than at higher latitudes, NYU Abu Dhabi…

nyuad.nyu.edu

Both Halves of NASA's Webb Telescope Successfully Communicate

Two halves of the James Webb Space Telescope have successfully communicated.

www.nasa.gov

Materia in caduta diretta verso un buco nero - Le Scienze

Un buco nero supermassiccio al centro di una galassia distante attira verso di sé materia senza però generare le…

www.lescienze.it

Ha 558 milioni di anni l'animale più antico - Le Scienze

Dickinsonia , i cui fossili risalgono a 558 milioni di anni fa e sono una delle più antiche testimonianze di organismi…

www.lescienze.it

Che cosa dice veramente sulla realtà la teoria quantistica? - Le Scienze

A quasi un secolo dalla formulazione della teoria quantistica, fisici e filosofi non sanno ancora dare una risposta a…

www.lescienze.it

Making do, at a pinch: Neanderthal used precision grips, not power

Analysis of Neanderthal hands revealed they used them for delicate and precise purposes, not power gripping. Dyani…

cosmosmagazine.com

ZSL names world's largest ever bird - Vorombe titan

Published today (26 September 2018) in Royal Society Open Science - Vorombe titan (meaning 'big bird' in Malagasy and…

www.zsl.org

Retracing Antarctica's Glacial Past

BATON ROUGE - More than 26,000 years ago, sea level was much lower than it is today partly because the ice sheets that…

www.lsu.edu

Chinese Cretaceous fossil highlights avian evolution

A newly identified extinct bird species from a 127 million-year-old fossil deposit in northeastern China provides new…

phys.org

How Earth Sheds Heat into Space

New insights into the role of water vapor may help researchers predict how the planet will respond to warming. Read…

eapsweb.mit.edu

How a Tiny Curiosity Motor Identified a Massive Martian Dust Storm

When dust filled the Martian atmosphere during the recent planet-wide dust storm, observations were plentiful - even…

www.nasa.gov

NASA's latest exoplanet hunter spots dozens of potential new worlds

Astronomers are studying the first batch of possible planets spotted by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite…

www.nature.com

Why were prehistoric insects so big? | EarthSky.org

When you complain about dead bugs on your windshield, be thankful that insects today are considerably smaller than…

earthsky.org

Pulsar discoverer Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3-million Breakthrough Prize

Fifty years after discovering pulsars - compact rotating stars that emit beams of radiation - astrophysicist Jocelyn…

www.nature.com

Modified Gravity Could Soon Be Ruled Out, Says New Research On Dwarf Galaxies

Dark matter is our leading theory for a reason. New, detailed studies of the smallest galaxies could kill off the most…

medium.com

Trovata la materia ordinaria mancante dell'universo - Le Scienze

Per decenni, gli astronomi non sono riusciti a individuare dove fosse tutta la materia ordinaria dell'universo. Tre…

www.lescienze.it

What Does Quantum Theory Actually Tell Us about Reality?

Nearly a century after its founding, physicists and philosophers still don’t know-but they’re working on it

blogs.scientificamerican.com

73,000-Year-Old Hashtag Is Oldest Example of Abstract Art

Hashtags have become a standard in communication. They emerged as a way to organize and identify content on social…

blogs.scientificamerican.com

Tiny fossils reveal how shrinking was essential for successful evolution

A new study published today in Nature shows that getting smaller was a key factor contributing to the exceptional…

phys.org

Opportunity Emerges in a Dusty Picture

NASA still hasn't heard from the Opportunity rover, but at least we can see it again.

www.jpl.nasa.gov

Martian moon may have come from impact on home planet, new study suggests - AGU Newsroom

WASHINGTON-The weird shapes and colors of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos have inspired a long-standing debate…

news.agu.org

Gaia finds candidates for interstellar 'Oumuamua's home

Artist impression of 'Oumuamua Gaia finds candidates for interstellar 'Oumuamua's home Using data from ESA's Gaia…

www.esa.int

What powers deep space travel? - USC Viterbi | School of Engineering

Master's student spends summer modeling nuclear generators for space expeditions When Khooshboo Dani grew up dreaming…

viterbischool.usc.edu

Four extremely young asteroid families identified

Brazilian researchers dated the families using a numerical simulation method to process current data to go back in time…

agencia.fapesp.br

NASA Is Taking a New Look at Searching for Life Beyond Earth

Since the beginning of civilization, humanity has wondered whether we are alone in the universe.

www.nasa.gov

Universitat de Barcelona - Gaia detects a shake in the Milky Way

Página principal de la Universitat de Barcelona

www.ub.edu

Scientists ID Three Causes of Earth's Spin Axis Drift

NASA has identified three processes responsible for wobbles in Earth's axis of rotation: water mass loss primarily in…

www.nasa.gov

Ancient Mars had right conditions for underground life, new research suggests

A new study shows that the breakdown of water molecules trapped in ancient Martian rocks likely produced enough…

news.brown.edu

Astronomers use Earth's history as guide to spot vegetation on new worlds

By looking at Earth's full natural history and evolution, astronomers may have found a template for vegetation…

news.cornell.edu

Dust Storms on Titan Spotted for the First Time

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected dust storms on Saturn's largest moon, making Titan the third Solar System body…

www.nasa.gov

Fat from 558 million years ago reveals earliest known animal

Scientists from ANU and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed…

www.anu.edu.au

Earth's oldest animals formed complex ecological communities

A new analysis is shedding light on the earth's first visible animals: the 570-540-million-year-old, enigmatic Ediacara…

news.vanderbilt.edu

Three NASA Missions Return 1st-Light Data

NASA's continued quest to explore our solar system and beyond received a boost of new information this week with three…

www.nasa.gov

Catalogue of planetary maps, past and present, highlights our evolving view of our Solar System

A catalogue that provides an overview of over 2,200 planetary maps produced worldwide between 1600 and 2018 was…

www.europlanet-eu.org

NASA's MAVEN Selfie Marks Four Years in Orbit at Mars

To mark MAVEN's fourth anniversary, the team released a selfie image of the spacecraft at Mars.

www.nasa.gov

A new twist on stellar rotation

Researchers use oscillations to determine how distant suns circle around their axes Stars, however, do not rotate like…

www.mpg.de

Matter is Going Into this Black Hole at 30% the Speed of Light - Universe Today

A team of researchers in the UK have observed matter falling into a black hole at 30% the speed of light. This is much…

www.universetoday.com

NASA Balloon Mission Captures Electric Blue Clouds

Scientists share mesmerizing new images of electric blue clouds from NASA's PMC Turbo balloon mission that flew in over…

www.nasa.gov

ScanMars demonstrates water detection device for astronauts on Mars

Analogue astronauts have successfully trialed a radar that could help future Mars explorers identify where to dig for…

www.europlanet-eu.org

Small Satellite Demonstrates Possible Solution for 'Space Junk'

The International Space Station deployed this small satellite for the NanoRacks-Remove Debris investigation, designed…

www.nasa.gov

Astronomers witness birth of new star from stellar explosion

The explosions of stars, known as supernovae, can be so bright they outshine their host galaxies. They take months or…

www.purdue.edu

Research news - Famous theory of the living Earth upgraded to 'Gaia 2.0' - University of Exeter

The original Gaia Theory was developed in the late 1960's by James Lovelock, a British scientist and inventor. It…

www.exeter.ac.uk

AI helps track down mysterious cosmic radio bursts

Artificial intelligence is invading many fields, most recently astronomy and the search for intelligent life in the…

news.berkeley.edu

Looking Back in Time to Watch for a Different Kind of Black Hole

Black holes form when stars die, allowing the matter in them to collapse into an extremely dense object from which not…

www.news.gatech.edu

Recent tectonics on Mars

Recent tectonics on Mars These prominent trenches were formed by faults that pulled the planet's surface apart less…

www.esa.int

ESA Science & Technology: Gaia hints at our Galaxy's turbulent life

19 September 2018 ESA's star mapping mission, Gaia, has shown our Milky Way galaxy is still enduring the effects of a…

sci.esa.int

What recipes produce a habitable planet?

NASA has awarded a $7.7 million grant for a Rice University-led team to join the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science…

news.rice.edu

Hubble Uncovers Never-Before-Seen Features Around a Neutron Star

An unusual infrared light emission from a nearby neutron star detected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could indicate…

www.nasa.gov

Hit-and-run heist of water by terrestrial planets in the early Solar System

A study simulating the final stages of terrestrial planet formation shows that 'hit-and-run' encounters play a…

www.europlanet-eu.org

Where Does India's First Exoplanet Discovery Fit In?

Discovering exoplanets has become an everyday occurrence these days. According to the NASA Exoplanets website, over…

thewire.in

How the octopus got its smarts

Did the octopus evolve its unique intelligence by playing fast and free with the genetic code? Elizabeth Finkel…

cosmosmagazine.com

A galactic near-miss set stars on an unexpected path around the Milky Way

A close pass from the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy sent ripples through the Milky Way that are still visible today. Ben…

cosmosmagazine.com

Is this the oldest animal on Earth?

Fossil find pushes back the emergence of animals by millions of years. Andrew Masterson reports.

cosmosmagazine.com

Saturn's hexagon may tower to the stratosphere

New findings based on Cassini data paint a stunning picture of the planet. Andrew Masterson reports.

cosmosmagazine.com

Faster-than-light detection following cosmic collision not what it appears

Jets moving super-fast were an optical illusion, but could explain the highest energy explosions in the universe. Alan…

cosmosmagazine.com

Causality disappears at the flick of a switch

Researchers demonstrate superpositions using a device comprising a single atom. Andrew Masterson reports.

cosmosmagazine.com

NASA's Lucy in the sky with Trojans

The agency prepares to launch a mission to investigate swarms of asteroids orbiting with Jupiter. Richard A Lovett…

cosmosmagazine.com

First Light Data for NASA's Parker Solar Probe

Just over a month into its mission, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has returned first-light data from each of its four…

www.nasa.gov

Japanese Probe Drops Tiny Hopping Robots Toward Big Asteroid Ryugu

Two tiny hopping robots have begun their historic attempt to land on a big asteroid in deep space. Japan's Hayabusa2…

www.space.com

A Hot Polar Planet

Perhaps the biggest lesson we've had from the exoplanetary discoveries of the past quarter century is to always expect…

blogs.scientificamerican.com

Discovery of Galileo's long-lost letter shows he edited his heretical ideas to fool the Inquisition

It had been hiding in plain sight. The original letter - long thought lost - in which Galileo Galilei first set down…

www.nature.com

Questo satellite pesca i rifiuti spaziali con una rete - Il Post

Il satellite sperimentale britannico RemoveDEBRIS ha dimostrato con successo la capacità di bloccare con una rete un…

www.ilpost.it

ExoMars highlights radiation risk for Mars astronauts, and watches as dust storm subsides

Astronauts on a mission to Mars would be exposed to at least 60% of the total radiation dose limit recommended for…

www.esa.int

Exploring Strange New Worlds: "Star Trek" Planet Vulcan Found

New planet could be Spock's home world, astronomers say Among the TV series Star Trek's many charms are its rich…

news.ufl.edu

NASA's GOLD instrument captures its first image of the Earth|LASP|CU-Boulder

NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, instrument powered on and opened its cover to scan the…

lasp.colorado.edu

Magellanic Clouds duo may have been a trio - ICRAR

Two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way-the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds-may have had a third companion…

www.icrar.org

Nuclear pasta, the hardest known substance in the universe

A team of scientists has calculated the strength of the material deep inside the crust of neutron stars and found it to…

www.mcgill.ca

Orion's first Service Module integration complete

Last week at the Airbus integration hall in Bremen, Germany, technicians installed the last radiator on the European…

www.esa.int

Spacecraft bound for the Sun due to leave Stevenage factory for testing

The UK is at the heart of this European Space Agency (ESA) mission to uncover the secrets of our planet's star. Solar…

www.gov.uk

Cryovolcanism Helped Shape Dwarf Planet Ceres

The prominent mountain Ahuna Mons is visible here on Ceres' limb. Ahuna Mons has been interpreted as a cryovolcanic…

www.psi.edu

Ceres Takes Life an Ice Volcano at a Time

Every year throughout its 4.5-billion-year life, ice volcanoes on the dwarf planet Ceres generate enough material on…

uanews.arizona.edu

When is a star not a star?

Washington, DC-The line that separates stars from brown dwarfs may soon be clearer thanks to new work led by Carnegie's…

carnegiescience.edu

TESS Shares 1st Science Image in Hunt to Find New Worlds

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which began science operations in July, has released its first full frame…

www.nasa.gov

Scientists receive $1.3 million to study new propulsion idea for spacecraft

Spacecraft and satellites could in future be launched into space without the need for fuel, thanks to a revolutionary…

www.plymouth.ac.uk

Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas

Mark the one-year anniversary of Cassini's final plunge into Saturn's atmosphere with a look at the spacecraft's final…

www.jpl.nasa.gov

BUFFALO charges towards the earliest galaxies - New Hubble project provides wide-field view of the…

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has started a new mission to shed light on the evolution of the earliest galaxies…

www.spacetelescope.org

Uncovering the birthplaces of stars in the Milky Way - English

13 September 2018. An international team of scientists led by Ivan Minchev of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics…

www.aip.de

Biggest river delta ever discovered on Mars hints at an ancient ocean

Researchers have found evidence that suggests Mars once had an ancient ocean and a water cycle similar to Earth's.

www.nhm.ac.uk

VLBA Measures Asteroid's Characteristics - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

In an unusual observation, astronomers used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to study…

public.nrao.edu

Radio Observations Confirm Superfast Jet of Material From Neutron Star Merger - National Radio…

Precise measurement using a continent-wide collection of National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes has…

public.nrao.edu

The Tools Astronauts Will Use to Explore Distant Worlds

Tools that can quickly reveal a terrain's chemistry and form will help astronauts explore new worlds.

www.nasa.gov

SpaceX says it will send someone around the Moon on its future monster rocket

SpaceX has signed its first customer to fly on the company's huge new rocket, the BFR, the company says. The passenger…

www.theverge.com

Magnetic Waves Create Chaos in Star-Forming Clouds

New research by Stella Offner, assistant professor of astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin, finds that…

cns.utexas.edu

Landslides, Avalanches May Be Key To Long-Term Comet Activity

The Rosetta spacecraft observed many mass wasting events on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, including…

www.psi.edu

Water in small dust grains can explain large amounts of water on earth

Water trapped in dust grains from which the Earth formed can explain the current large amount of water on Earth. This…

www.rug.nl

Exploring the Solar System? You May Need to Pack an Umbrella

Gearing up for its first flight test, NASA's Adaptable Deployable Entry Placement Technology, or ADEPT, is no ordinary…

www.nasa.gov

College of Graduate Studies

The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid, according to new research from the University of Central Florida…

graduate.ucf.edu

SwRI scientists find evidence for early planetary shake-up

Scientists at Southwest Research Institute studied an unusual pair of asteroids and discovered that their existence…

www.swri.org

Black hole disks may be hiding in the centers of galaxies

Galactic nuclei are teeming with black holes. Earlier this year, 12 X-ray binaries were discovered at the Milky Way's…

www.elte.hu

Telescope maps cosmic rays in Large and Small Magellanic Clouds - ICRAR

A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to observe radiation from cosmic rays in two neighbouring…

www.icrar.org

A new exoplanet is discovered by an international team led by a young master's student

A size comparison of the Earth, Wolf 503b and Neptune. The color blue for Wolf 503b is imaginary; nothing is yet known…

nouvelles.umontreal.ca

Veiled Supernovae Provide Clue to Stellar Evolution

At the end of its life, a red supergiant star explodes in a hydrogen-rich supernova. By comparing observation results…

www.nao.ac.jp

Chilean scientists using Blanco telescope discover crucial event right before the death of a star

Research will change what we know about supernova explosions. The scientists detected a brightness prior to the…

www.ctio.noao.edu

Legacy of NASA's Dawn, Near the End of its Mission

Now drawing to a close, the mission that explored the planet-like worlds of Vesta and Ceres revealed Solar System time…

www.jpl.nasa.gov

Falling Stars hold Clue for Understanding Dying Stars

An international team of researchers has proposed a new method to investigate the inner workings of supernovae…

www.nao.ac.jp

Success in Critical Communications Tests for NASA's James Webb Space T

When NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launches in 2021, it will write a new chapter in cosmic history.

www.nasa.gov

Curiosity Surveys a Mystery Under Dusty Skies - NASA's Mars Exploration Program

After snagging a new rock sample on Aug. 9, NASA's Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on Mars, producing a…

mars.nasa.gov

Satellites more at risk from fast solar wind than a major space storm

Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new…

www.bas.ac.uk

New Horizons

But that's not our big news. The big news is that as of August 16, we've spotted Ultima using the LORRI telescopic…

pluto.jhuapl.edu

Mysterious "Lunar Swirls" Point to Moon's Volcanic, Magnetic Past

The mystery behind lunar swirls, one of the solar system's most beautiful optical anomalies, may finally be solved…

news.rutgers.edu

ESA Science & Technology: Saturn's famous hexagon may tower above the clouds

The long-lived international Cassini mission has revealed a surprising feature emerging at Saturn's northern pole as it…

sci.esa.int

The quest to conquer Earth's space junk problem

On Monday 2 July, the CryoSat-2 spacecraft was orbiting as usual, just over 700 kilometres above Earth's surface. But…

www.nature.com

Little star sheds light on young planets | The University of Tokyo

Astronomers from the Department of Physics at the University of Tokyo discovered a dense disk of material around a…

www.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Tributo al Padre dell'astrofisica

C'è chi pensa che dovrebbe essere ricordato tra i fondatori dell'astronomia moderna, assieme a Galileo e Newton, eppure…

www.media.inaf.it

Legge di Hubble, è ora di cambiarle nome

Approvata a Vienna la settimana scorsa, in chiusura dell'Assemblea generale dell'Unione astronomica internazionale, una…

www.media.inaf.it

Con gli antineutrini nel cuore delle supernove

Uno studio pubblicato su Physical Review Letters propone un nuovo metodo per studiare i processi che avvengono in una…

www.media.inaf.it

Padme all'inseguimento del fotone oscuro

"Padme entrerà in presa dati nelle prossime settimane e si metterà subito a caccia del fotone oscuro, una particella…

www.media.inaf.it

Voglio una stella spericolata

Il telescopio spaziale Hubble ha immortalato l'enigmatica nebulosa Iras 05437+2502, una piccola regione di formazione…

www.media.inaf.it

Jupiter had growth disorders

Researchers of the Universities of Bern and Zürich and of ETH Zürich show how Jupiter was formed. Data collected from…

www.unibe.ch

Press Release

The first-ever mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defense has moved into the final…

www.jhuapl.edu

Mammal Forerunner that Reproduced Like a Reptile Sheds Light on Brain Evolution

Compared with the rest of the animal kingdom, mammals have the biggest brains and produce some of the smallest litters…

news.utexas.edu

settembre 2018

AstroNews 9/2018

Un elenco aggiornato quotidianamente con le principali notizie del mese su astronomia, cosmologia, biologia, astrobiologia e paleontologia

Chandra :: Photo Album :: AM 0644-741 :: September 6, 2018

Not all of the X-ray sources in the image are located in the ring of AM 0644. One of the sources is a rapidly growing…

Chandra :: Photo Album :: Abell 2142 :: September 27, 2018

A bright X-ray tail located in the upper left of the image is aiming straight for Abell 2142. The right panel contains…

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - IAC - Educational Outreach

The study, led by Paula Izquierdo, a doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the…

Plasma Thruster: New Space Debris Removal Technology

The Earth is currently surrounded by debris launched into space over several decades. This space junk can collide with…

Mānoa: Did key building blocks for life come from deep space? | University of Hawaii News

All living beings need cells and energy to replicate. Without these fundamental building blocks, living organisms on…

Two Years after Rosetta

On September 30, 2016, the active phase of the ESA's Rosetta mission came to an end with the controlled crash landing…

Where Are They?

"Are we alone in the universe?" The question has fascinated, tantalized and even disconcerted humans for as long as we…

Software finds the best way to stick a Mars landing

Selecting a landing site for a rover headed to Mars is a lengthy process that normally involves large committees of…

UCF Selling Experimental Martian Dirt - $20 a Kilogram, Plus Shipping

The University of Central Florida is selling Martian dirt, $20 a kilogram plus shipping. This is not fake news. A team…

Discovery of unlikely neutron star jets shoots down theory

ASTRONOMERS have made a surprise finding emanating from a "stellar corpse" in the far reaches of space - and the…

Cosmological constraints from the first-year Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam survey

September 26, 2018 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) Using the powerful…

China Focus: World's largest telescope more powerful, popular after two years - Xinhua |…

FAST, Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope and was…

How Stars Spin

Sun-like stars rotate up to two and a half times faster at the equator than at higher latitudes, NYU Abu Dhabi…

Both Halves of NASA's Webb Telescope Successfully Communicate

Two halves of the James Webb Space Telescope have successfully communicated.

Materia in caduta diretta verso un buco nero - Le Scienze

Un buco nero supermassiccio al centro di una galassia distante attira verso di sé materia senza però generare le…

Ha 558 milioni di anni l'animale più antico - Le Scienze

Dickinsonia , i cui fossili risalgono a 558 milioni di anni fa e sono una delle più antiche testimonianze di organismi…

Che cosa dice veramente sulla realtà la teoria quantistica? - Le Scienze

A quasi un secolo dalla formulazione della teoria quantistica, fisici e filosofi non sanno ancora dare una risposta a…

Making do, at a pinch: Neanderthal used precision grips, not power

Analysis of Neanderthal hands revealed they used them for delicate and precise purposes, not power gripping. Dyani…

ZSL names world's largest ever bird - Vorombe titan

Published today (26 September 2018) in Royal Society Open Science - Vorombe titan (meaning 'big bird' in Malagasy and…

Retracing Antarctica's Glacial Past

BATON ROUGE - More than 26,000 years ago, sea level was much lower than it is today partly because the ice sheets that…

Chinese Cretaceous fossil highlights avian evolution

A newly identified extinct bird species from a 127 million-year-old fossil deposit in northeastern China provides new…

How Earth Sheds Heat into Space

New insights into the role of water vapor may help researchers predict how the planet will respond to warming. Read…

How a Tiny Curiosity Motor Identified a Massive Martian Dust Storm

When dust filled the Martian atmosphere during the recent planet-wide dust storm, observations were plentiful - even…

NASA's latest exoplanet hunter spots dozens of potential new worlds

Astronomers are studying the first batch of possible planets spotted by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite…

Why were prehistoric insects so big? | EarthSky.org

When you complain about dead bugs on your windshield, be thankful that insects today are considerably smaller than…

Pulsar discoverer Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3-million Breakthrough Prize

Fifty years after discovering pulsars - compact rotating stars that emit beams of radiation - astrophysicist Jocelyn…

Modified Gravity Could Soon Be Ruled Out, Says New Research On Dwarf Galaxies

Dark matter is our leading theory for a reason. New, detailed studies of the smallest galaxies could kill off the most…

Trovata la materia ordinaria mancante dell'universo - Le Scienze

Per decenni, gli astronomi non sono riusciti a individuare dove fosse tutta la materia ordinaria dell'universo. Tre…

What Does Quantum Theory Actually Tell Us about Reality?

Nearly a century after its founding, physicists and philosophers still don&rsquo;t know-but they&rsquo;re working on it

73,000-Year-Old Hashtag Is Oldest Example of Abstract Art

Hashtags have become a standard in communication. They emerged as a way to organize and identify content on social…

Tiny fossils reveal how shrinking was essential for successful evolution

A new study published today in Nature shows that getting smaller was a key factor contributing to the exceptional…

Opportunity Emerges in a Dusty Picture

NASA still hasn't heard from the Opportunity rover, but at least we can see it again.

Martian moon may have come from impact on home planet, new study suggests - AGU Newsroom

WASHINGTON-The weird shapes and colors of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos have inspired a long-standing debate…

Gaia finds candidates for interstellar 'Oumuamua's home

Artist impression of 'Oumuamua Gaia finds candidates for interstellar 'Oumuamua's home Using data from ESA's Gaia…

What powers deep space travel? - USC Viterbi | School of Engineering

Master's student spends summer modeling nuclear generators for space expeditions When Khooshboo Dani grew up dreaming…

Four extremely young asteroid families identified

Brazilian researchers dated the families using a numerical simulation method to process current data to go back in time…

NASA Is Taking a New Look at Searching for Life Beyond Earth

Since the beginning of civilization, humanity has wondered whether we are alone in the universe.

Universitat de Barcelona - Gaia detects a shake in the Milky Way

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Scientists ID Three Causes of Earth's Spin Axis Drift

Nearly a century after its founding, physicists and philosophers still don’t know-but they’re working on it