World’s best telescopes target asteroids for ESA’s Hera mission

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(5 March 2019 - ESA) In the coming days the largest and most powerful telescopes in Europe and South America will be trained on...

NASA, SpaceX launch first flight test of space system designed for...

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(4 March 2019 - NASA) For the first time, a commercially-built and operated American crew spacecraft and rocket, which launched from American soil, has...

Italy’s Rai to start 8K broadcasts in time for 2020 Tokyo...

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Italian public service broadcaster Rai will begin broadcasting 4K and 8K content from next year,  starting with the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The announcement...

NASA selects mission to study space weather from Space Station

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(25 February 2019 - NASA) NASA has selected a new mission that will help scientists understand and, ultimately, forecast the vast space weather system...

ALMA differentiates two birth cries from a single star

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(26 February 2019 - ALMA) Astronomers have unveiled the enigmatic origins of two different gas streams from a baby star. Using ALMA, they found that...

Old stars live longer than we thought

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(25 February 2019 - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias) Towards the end of their lives some 95% of stars evolve into red giants which...

New test facility for Ariane 6 upper stage

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(26 February 2019 - ESA) Today, the DLR German Aerospace Center in Lampoldshausen inaugurated a new test facility that simulates launch for the complete...

Orbit unveils newest dual-band maritime satcom solution

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(26 February 2019 - Orbit Communication Systems) Orbit Communication Systems unveiled today its latest dual-band Ku/Ka terminal extending Orbit’s multi-band maritime satellite communications solutions. Developed...

Dark matter may be hitting the right note in small galaxies

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(26 February 2019 - Kavli IPMU) Dark matter may scatter against each other only when they hit the right energy, say researchers in Japan,...

Anaemic galaxy reveals deficiencies in ultra-diffuse galaxy formation theory

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(26 February 2019 - W M Keck Observatory) A team of astronomers led by the University of California Observatories (UCO) have studied in great...