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Australian fossil reveals new plant species - Phys.org 18-Jun-2020

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Australian fossil reveals new plant species - Phys.org Antoine Champreux, a Ph.D. student in the Global Ecology Lab at Flinders University, has cataloged the discovery of the new fern-like plant species as part of an international effort to examine the Australian fossil in greater detail. More...

Over Australia noticed a strange glow in the sky - The Times Hub 18-Jun-2020

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Over Australia noticed a strange glow in the sky - The Times Hub More...

SpaceX Starlink To Begin Beta Testing Soon; Applications Open Now - Gizbot 18-Jun-2020

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SpaceX Starlink To Begin Beta Testing Soon; Applications Open Now - Gizbot The SpaceX Starlink project is getting closer to its mission to provide internet connectivity from space with its satellite megaconstellation. The private space company is gearing up for a beta test later this year, after which, a wider rollout is expected. More...

Rocket Science in 60 Seconds: How and Why Are the SLS Rocket Boosters Insulated? - NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center 18-Jun-2020

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Rocket Science in 60 Seconds: How and Why Are the SLS Rocket Boosters Insulated? - NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Rocket Science in 60 Seconds gives you an inside look at the work being done at NASA to explore deep space. Chelsea Walker is a Northrop Grumman materials an... More...

New Species of Diamond Frog Discovered in Madagascar | Biology - Sci-News.com 18-Jun-2020

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New Species of Diamond Frog Discovered in Madagascar | Biology - Sci-News.com German herpetologist Mark Scherz has discovered a new species of diamond frog living in northern Madagascar. More...

“Amazing!” – Black Hole’s Heart Still Beating - SciTechDaily 18-Jun-2020

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“Amazing!” – Black Hole’s Heart Still Beating - SciTechDaily The first confirmed heartbeat of a supermassive black hole is still going strong more than ten years after first being observed. X-ray satellite observations spotted the repeated beat after its signal had been blocked by our Sun for a number of years. Astrono… More...

How fish got onto land, and stayed there - Phys.org 18-Jun-2020

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How fish got onto land, and stayed there - Phys.org Research on blennies, a family of fish that have repeatedly left the sea for land, suggests that being a 'jack of all trades' allows species to make the dramatic transition onto land but adapting into a 'master of one' allows them to stay there. The findings … More...

Scientists uses seismic waves used to explore deep space to find out what is deep inside the Earth's mantle - Firstpost 18-Jun-2020

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Scientists uses seismic waves used to explore deep space to find out what is deep inside the Earth's mantle - Firstpost Scientists deployed the Sequencer and were able to identify the seismic echoes and use them to create a map. More...

Rocket Lab sets new record in satellite launch turnaround - Geospatial World 18-Jun-2020

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Rocket Lab sets new record in satellite launch turnaround - Geospatial World Satellite manufacturer Rocket Lab has announced its next Electron mission is scheduled to launch just three weeks after its most recent mission in a demonstration of the company’s rapid launch capability. The mission, ‘Pics Or It Didn’t Happen,’ is scheduled … More...

Hubble captured a galaxy being gravitationally lensed by a cluster of closer galaxies - Tech Explorist 18-Jun-2020

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Hubble captured a galaxy being gravitationally lensed by a cluster of closer galaxies - Tech Explorist NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a starburst galaxy formally known as PLCK G045.1+61.1. The galaxy appears as multiple reddish dots near the center of the image. More...

NASA's Cassini observes volcano-like features near the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan - Firstpost 18-Jun-2020

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NASA's Cassini observes volcano-like features near the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan - Firstpost Researchers think these cryovolcanoes are created as water-ice crust melts into liquid water, which then erupts onto Titan's surface. More...

Complex landscapes made land animals smarter than their aquatic ancestors: Study - Firstpost 18-Jun-2020

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Complex landscapes made land animals smarter than their aquatic ancestors: Study - Firstpost Moving onto land 'poured jet fuel on the evolution of the brain', say researchers, since it demanded the hardest possible cognitive operation – envisioning the future. More...

SpaceX Starship: stunning image shows how it may deploy 240 Starlink craft - Inverse 18-Jun-2020

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SpaceX Starship: stunning image shows how it may deploy 240 Starlink craft - Inverse A new visualization shows the SpaceX Starship releasing new Starlink satellites. More...

Geoscientists create deeper look at processes below Earth's surface with 3-D images - Phys.org 18-Jun-2020

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Geoscientists create deeper look at processes below Earth's surface with 3-D images - Phys.org Geoscientists at The University of Texas at Dallas recently used massive amounts of earthquake data and supercomputers to generate high-resolution, 3-D images of the dynamic geological processes taking place far below the Earth's surface. More...

Four of Our Favorite SOHO-discovered Comets - NASA Goddard 18-Jun-2020

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Four of Our Favorite SOHO-discovered Comets - NASA Goddard On June 15, 2020, a citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO — the 4,000th comet disc... More...

Bose-Einstein condensate is made onboard the International Space Station - physicsworld.com 18-Jun-2020

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Bose-Einstein condensate is made onboard the International Space Station - physicsworld.com Fifth state of matter has distinctive features when created in orbit More...

Watch a Mysterious Blue Fireball Scream Over Australia - Futurism 18-Jun-2020

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Watch a Mysterious Blue Fireball Scream Over Australia - Futurism Scientists still aren't positive what it was. More...

New Organic Molecule Discovered In An Interstellar Cloud - Space Ref 18-Jun-2020

New Organic Molecule Discovered In An Interstellar Cloud - Space Ref New Organic Molecule Discovered In An Interstellar Cloud - SpaceRef More...

Surya Grahan 2020: Star Gazers Are In For A Treat On June 21 - NDTV 18-Jun-2020

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Surya Grahan 2020: Star Gazers Are In For A Treat On June 21 - NDTV Surya Grahan 2020: The annular solar eclipse occurs when the Sun, Moon and the Earth are aligned in a straight line and almost on the same plane. The eclipse, this year, will not be as prominent as it was on December 26 last year. More...

SpaceX Crew Dragon astronaut offers kids inspirational message - Digital Trends 18-Jun-2020

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SpaceX Crew Dragon astronaut offers kids inspirational message - Digital Trends SpaceX Crew Dragon astronaut Bob Behnken offered children around the world an inspirational message in an interview from the International Space Station. More...

Cosmic lighthouses to help space travellers find ways to Moon, Mars - National Herald 18-Jun-2020

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Cosmic lighthouses to help space travellers find ways to Moon, Mars - National Herald Just as lighthouses have helped sailors navigate safely into harbor for centuries, future space travellers may receive similar guidance from the steady signals created by pulsars. More...

Astronomers discover neutron star- a remarkable cosmic baby - ANI News 18-Jun-2020

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Astronomers discover neutron star- a remarkable cosmic baby - ANI News Washington DC [USA], June 18 (ANI): Astronomers discovered a remarkable neutron star known as Swift J1818.0-1607, which according to the new study is only about 240 years old -- a veritable newborn by cosmic standards. More...

Online lecture on 'Eclipse and its Types' held at RSC - Daily Pioneer 18-Jun-2020

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Online lecture on 'Eclipse and its Types' held at RSC - Daily Pioneer An online lecture on ‘Eclipse and its Types’ based on Annular Solar Eclipse was held on Wednesday. It was organised by Regional Science Centre, Bhopal. The Director of Nehru Planetarium, New Delhi Nandivada Rathnashree was keynote speaker on popular online l… More...

Fossils from Mongolia, Argentina show some dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs - Reuters India 18-Jun-2020

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Fossils from Mongolia, Argentina show some dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs - Reuters India Scientists have unearthed the first fossils of soft-shelled eggs laid by dinosaurs - two disparate species from Argentina and Mongolia - in a discovery suggesting that the earliest dinosaurs produced such eggs before some lineages turned to hard shells. More...

SpaceX plans to build floating spaceports for Moon, Mars missions - NewsBytes 18-Jun-2020

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SpaceX plans to build floating spaceports for Moon, Mars missions - NewsBytes We all know ambitions of Elon Musk's SpaceX More...

NASA, ESA Solar Orbiter gets closer to the sun than ever before - 10 Tampa Bay 18-Jun-2020

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NASA, ESA Solar Orbiter gets closer to the sun than ever before - 10 Tampa Bay It came within 48 million miles of the star, a significant milestone of the mission which began in February. More...

Dark matter hunt yields unexplained signal - BBC News 18-Jun-2020

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Dark matter hunt yields unexplained signal - BBC News The Xenon 1T experiment may have found signs of a previously undetected dark matter particle. More...

In the milky Way is 6 billion analogues of the Earth - The Times Hub 18-Jun-2020

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In the milky Way is 6 billion analogues of the Earth - The Times Hub More...

NASA astronauts launch from America in historic test flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon - Pattaya Mail 18-Jun-2020

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NASA astronauts launch from America in historic test flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon - Pattaya Mail For the first time in history, NASA astronauts have launched from American soil in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behn… More...

We Finally Know What The Huge 'Thing' Fossil From Antarctica Actually Is - ScienceAlert 18-Jun-2020

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We Finally Know What The Huge 'Thing' Fossil From Antarctica Actually Is - ScienceAlert Scientists had nicknamed it "The Thing" – a mysterious football-sized fossil discovered in Antarctica that sat in a Chilean museum awaiting someone who could work out just what it was. More...

Getting NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover to Launch During the COVID-19 Pandemic - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 18-Jun-2020

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Getting NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover to Launch During the COVID-19 Pandemic - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Getting a Mars rover built, tested and to the launch pad is a feat that requires the dedication of hundreds of team members. The team behind NASA’s Persevera... More...