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July 24, 2015

Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 24, 2015
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the "habitable zone" around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable-zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another "Earth." The newly discovered Kepler-452b is the smallest planet to date discovered orbiting in the habitable zone - the area around a star where liquid water could pool on the surface of an orbiting planet - of a G2-type star, like our ... read more

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Could 'Windbots' Someday Explore the Skies of Jupiter? Among designers of robotic probes to explore the planets, there is certainly no shortage of clever ideas. There are concepts for robots that are propelled by waves in the sea. There are ideas for tu ... more		Bleach a possible key to life on earth Hydrogen peroxide - commonly used as hair bleach - may have provided the energy source for the development of life on Earth, two applied mathematicians have found. The heat from ancient geothermal v ... more		Russia Extends Life of International Space Station Until 2024 The Russian government has agreed to prolong life of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2024, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos Igor Komarov said. "The government has approv ... more
				ALMA witnesses assembly of galaxies in the early universe When the first galaxies started to form a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the Universe was full of a fog of hydrogen gas. But as more and more brilliant sources - both stars and quasar ... more		Deja-vu, new theory says dark matter acts like well-known particle A new theory says dark matter acts remarkably similar to subatomic particles known to science since the 1930s. We owe a lot to dark matter - it is the thing keeping galaxies, stars, our solar system ... more

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Curiosity Rover Inspects Unusual Bedrock Approaching the third anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has found a target unlike anything it has studied before - bedrock with surprisingly high levels of silica. Sili ... more		India Earned Over $100Mln Launching Foreign Satellites The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is promoting its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), a launch system initially developed to allow India to achieve its domestic space goals. To ... more		N. Korea's Kim oversees test of multiple rocket launcher UK slaps fresh sanctions on Iran after Israel attack China warns Blinken over deteriorating ties in talks		NASA Could Return Humans to the Moon by 2021 Humans could return to the Moon in the next decade, and for "approximately 90% less than the previously estimated $100 billion," according to a new study by NextGen Space. NASA can cut the cos ... more
				Seeing triple: New 3-D model could solve supernova mystery Giant stars die a violent death. After a life of several million years, they collapse into themselves and then explode in what is known as a supernova. How these stars explode remains a mystery. How ... more		Making Space Technology Cutting Edge AND Affordable The current budgetary climate has forced a change in how the DoD handles space acquisition. As highlighted in this recent National Defense magazine article, programs in the past were often plagued b ... more

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SBIRS GEO-3 Satellite Delivered The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center announced the delivery of the third Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite into storage at the Lockheed Martin facility ... more		The Friendly Unmanned Skies The use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) is rising rapidly worldwide. Long known only for their military applications, UAS are increasingly being deployed by civilian governments for use in scient ... more		High-resolution lidar unveils droplet formation in clouds Pakistan horror zoo is reborn as rehab centre The Indian villagers who lost their homes to the sea		50 SW Completes DMSP Flight 13 Rupture Review Officials from the 50th Space Wing have completed their operations review of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight 13 that was permanently shut down Feb. 3, 2015, precipitating a debri ... more
Vesta's Potassium-to-Thorium Ratio Reveals Hot Origins Studies of materials on the surface of Vesta offer new evidence that the giant asteroid is the source of howardite, eucrite and diogenite (HED) basaltic meteorites, supporting current models of sola ... more		Russia Launches New Crew to International Space Station Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren are expected to make a six-hour trip to the space station and dock to the Rassvet mini-research modu ... more		Scientist develops model for robots with bacteria-controlled brains Forget the Vulcan mind-meld of the Star Trek generation - as far as mind control techniques go, bacteria is the next frontier. In a paper published in Scientific Reports, which is part of the Natur ... more		Software program recognises sketches more accurately than a human Known as Sketch-a-Net, the program is capable of correctly identifying the subject of sketches 74.9 per cent of the time compared to humans that only managed a success rate of 73.1 per cent. As sket ... more

	A most singular nano-imaging technique Just as proteins are one of the basic building blocks of biology, nanoparticles can serve as the basic building blocks for next generation materials. In keeping with this parallel between biology an ... more		NASA discovers closest Earth-twin yet Astronomers hunting for another Earth have found the closest match yet, a potentially rocky planet circling its star at the same distance as our home orbits the Sun, NASA said Thursday. ... more

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