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Saturn moon has necessary conditions to harbor life: NASA Washington (AFP) April 13, 2017 An ice-encrusted moon orbiting Saturn appears to have the conditions necessary for life, NASA announced Thursday, unveiling new findings made by its unmanned Cassini spacecraft. Cassini has detected hydrogen molecules in vapor plumes emanating from cracks in the surface of Enceladus, a small ocean moon coated in a thick layer of ice, the US space agency said. The plumes have led scientists to infer that hydrothermal chemical reactions between the moon's rocky core and its ocean - located under ... read more |
NASA Scientists Find Dynamo at Lunar Core May Have Formed Magnetic Field Houston TX (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 The moon no longer has a magnetic field, but NASA scientists are publishing new research that shows heat from crystallization of the lunar core may have driven its now-defunct magnetic field some 3 ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 13, 2017 With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine in "Star Wars" looks like a parched, sandy desert world. In real life, thanks to observatories such as NASA's Kepler space telescope, ... more Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 Next-generation sensors to be used in fields as diverse as mineral exploration and climate change will be turbo boosted thanks to University of Queensland and University of Sussex research. Th ... more Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 When humans begin to colonize the moon and Mars, they will need to be able to make everything from small tools to large buildings using the limited surrounding resources. Northwestern Universi ... more |
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ALMA investigates 'DeeDee,' a distant, dim member of our solar system Charlottesville VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have revealed extraordinary details about a recently discovered far-flung member of our solar system, the planetary body 20 ... more McLean VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 Canada is attempting, for the second time, to kick off a project that would put satellites into the Arctic to improve communications for its military and federal departments. But while Canada looks ... more Kamuela HI (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 Keck Observatory has captured the very first successful science data from its newest, cutting-edge instrument, the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI). KCWI captures three-dimensional data, as opposed to ... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 Astronomers have gotten their first look at exactly where most of today's stars were born. To do so, they used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama ... more Waterloo, Canada (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 Researchers at the University of Waterloo have been able to capture the first composite image of a dark matter bridge that connects galaxies together. The scientists publish their work in a new pape ... more Honolulu HI (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), currently under construction on Haleakala, Maui, is expected to start observing the Sun in 2020. When it does, it will rely on two complex infrared inst ... more |
Collisions generate gas in debris disks Washington DC (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 NASA scientists are releasing new global maps of Earth at night, providing the clearest yet composite view of the patterns of human settlement across our planet. This composite image, one of three n ... more Washington (UPI) Apr 11, 2017 Russia's state-owned Rostec corporation announced plans to upgrade the country's Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile systems on Tuesday. ... more McLean VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 Intelsat General (IGC) is constantly working to advance satellite-related technology, to improve performance and to introduce new services for our government customers. An area where exciting progre ... more McLean VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 We have entered a strategic alliance with Airbus Defence and Space that will give our customers access to the X and UHF frequency bands using the Skynet satellite constellation, increasing our capab ... more |
Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 10, 2017 Two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut touched down safely in central Kazakhstan Monday following a 173-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). "Touchdown confirmed," said a commentator on NASA Television, describing it as a "textbook" landing. NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough was accompanied by Russian space agency cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Andrei Borisenko in ... more You Say Tomato, I Say Tomatosphere: ISS Science to the Classroom NASA Invests in 22 Visionary Exploration Concepts No Roscosmos plans to send space tourists to ISS before 2020 |
Paris (ESA) Apr 10, 2017 ESA and a team of European industrial contractors led by QinetiQ have finalised an agreement with Sierra Nevada Corporation for the use of Europe's International Berthing Docking Mechanism on the Dream Chaser spaceplane. The Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Dream Chaser is being developed as a reusable, lifting-body, multimission spacecraft capable of landing at commercial airports or space ... more Europe's largest sounding rocket launched from Esrange Bezos sells $1 bn in Amazon stock yearly to pay for rocket firm US-Russia Venture Hopes to Sell More RD-180 Rocket Engines to US |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2017 Opportunity is heading south to "Perseverance Valley" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover drove on Sols 4686, 4688 and 4691 (March 30, April 1 and April 4, 2017), covering 127 feet (38.79 meters), 44 feet (13.36 meters) and 91 feet (27.82 meters), respectively. Both Navigation Camera (Navcam) and Panoramic Camera (Pancam) panoramas were collected after each drive. There w ... more NASA's MAVEN reveals Mars has metal in its atmosphere Chile desert combed for clues to life on Mars Russia critcal to ExoMars Project says Italian Space Agency Head |
Nanjing (XNA) Mar 31, 2017 Yuanwang space tracking ships, which follows the progress of satellites and other space-bound craft, will carry out 19 maritime space monitoring missions in 2017, according to the maritime satellite measurement and control authority on Wednesday. Yuanwang-5 left port Wednesday and Yuanwang-6 started its journey Monday. Yuanwang-7 and the rocket transporting fleet will set sail in Apr ... more China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes |
McLean VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 We have entered a strategic alliance with Airbus Defence and Space that will give our customers access to the X and UHF frequency bands using the Skynet satellite constellation, increasing our capabilities and services in the Asia Pacific region. "This new partnership will enable Intelsat General to offer Skynet services to their already strong existing customer base," said Richard Frankli ... more Commercial Space Operators To Canada: "We're Here, and We can Help" Antenna Innovation Benefits the Government Customer BRICS States Want to Expand Cooperation to Space Science |
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 The U.S. government has always had an interest in developing and maintaining a strategic understanding of events, situations, and trends around the world. In recent years, however, information complexity has exceeded the capacity of analysts to glean meaningful or actionable insights as data pours in from disparate sources, across a variety of genres, and a mixture of structured and unstructured ... more Humans to Mars Official NASA Goal, But What About Radiation New method for 3-D printing extraterrestrial materials NASA Fellow studies new heatshield-making technique |
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Cape Cod MA (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish are famous for engaging in complex behavior, from unlocking an aquarium tank and escaping to instantaneous skin camouflage to hide from predators. A new study suggests their evolutionary path to neural sophistication includes a novel mechanism: Prolific RNA editing at the expense of evolution in their genomic DNA. The study, led by Joshua J.C. Rosenthal of th ... more Scientists look for life's building blocks in outer space Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable The earliest animals were marine jellies |
Charlottesville VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have revealed extraordinary details about a recently discovered far-flung member of our solar system, the planetary body 2014 UZ224, more informally known as DeeDee. At about three times the current distance of Pluto from the Sun, DeeDee is the second most distant known trans-Neptunian object (TNO) with a confirmed ... more When Jovian Light and Dark Collide Nap Time for New Horizons Hubble spots auroras on Uranus |
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Onna, Japan (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 The Crown-of-Thorns Starfish - or COTS - is a familiar sight for scuba divers in tropical waters: the starfish, resembling the biblical that gave it its name, swarms over coral reefs around the world in huge spawning and destructive events. In the modern era, COTS were first reported in 1957 from the very shores in front of OIST, in the village of Onna-son, Okinawa where it is locally known as " ... more Powers of attraction could decimate deadly starfish 'Zero recovery' for corals in back-to-back Australia bleaching Most deep-sea animals produce their own light, research shows |
Paris (ESA) Apr 10, 2017 Europe's Galileo satnav network does more than let us find our way - it is also helping to save lives. Today sees a spotlight cast on Galileo's Search and Rescue service, which pinpoints people in distress on land or sea. The service is Europe's contribution to the Cospas-Sarsat international satellite-based locating system that has helped to rescue more than 42 000 people since 1982 - the ... more Russia inaugurates GPS-type satellite station in Nicaragua Northrop Grumman, Honeywell receive EGI-M contracts China's BeiDou system to expand cooperation to SE Asia |
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Houston TX (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 The moon no longer has a magnetic field, but NASA scientists are publishing new research that shows heat from crystallization of the lunar core may have driven its now-defunct magnetic field some 3 billion years ago. Magnetized lunar rocks returned to Earth during the Apollo missions established that the moon once had a magnetic field. The moon's magnetic field lasted for more than a billi ... more How a young-looking lunar volcano hides its true age Surviving the long dark night of the Moon Team Indus To Send Seven Experiments To The Moon Including Three From India |
San Francisco CA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 Researchers have found signs of fault displacement at well-known rock outcrops in Colorado that mark the end-Cretaceous asteroid impact that may have hurried the extinction of the dinosaurs. They will present their results in a poster at the 2017 Seismological Society of America's (SSA) Annual Meeting. Norm Sleep of Stanford University and colleagues suggest that the impact, which occurred ... more Asteroid to fly safely past Earth on April 19 Rosetta's intimate portrait of a comet: read all about it Ceres' temporary atmosphere linked to solar activity |
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Washington DC (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 NASA scientists are releasing new global maps of Earth at night, providing the clearest yet composite view of the patterns of human settlement across our planet. This composite image, one of three new full-hemisphere views, provides a view of the Americas at night. The clouds and sun glint - added here for aesthetic effect - are derived from MODIS instrument land surface and cloud cover products ... more Satellites map carbon sequestered by forests, with accuracy of up to 10 meters Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth Climate change to increase severe aircraft turbulence |
Honolulu HI (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), currently under construction on Haleakala, Maui, is expected to start observing the Sun in 2020. When it does, it will rely on two complex infrared instruments being built by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA). Their goal is to measure the Sun's weak magnetic field. The first of these to be completed is called the Cryogenic ... more Charting the skies of history Discovery of a source of fast magnetic reconnection Waves on sun give NASA new insight into space weather forecasting |
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Madison WI (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 Like a lot of pioneering science, the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) got its start as the shoestring project of a curious young researcher. Sawing a hole in the ceiling of an office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Physical Sciences Laboratory in the late 1970s, astrophysicist Ron Reynolds pointed a specially built spectrometer skyward for the first time and discovered a previously unkn ... more Waterloo Researchers Capture First "Image" of a Dark Matter Web that Connects Galaxies ALMA Team Up to Give First Look at Birthplaces of Most Current Star The making of a supernova |
Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 Next-generation sensors to be used in fields as diverse as mineral exploration and climate change will be turbo boosted thanks to University of Queensland and University of Sussex research. Theoretical physicist Dr Stuart Szigeti, of UQ's School of Mathematics and Physics, said future precision sensing technology would exploit unusual effects of quantum mechanics. "Our research showe ... more Brightness of the universe with NASA's New Horizons spacecraft Scientists make progress on unravelling the puzzle of merging black holes Proton-nuclei smashups yield clues about 'quark gluon plasma' |
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