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  London, UK (SPX) Apr 26, 2017 A supervoid is unlikely to explain a 'Cold Spot' in the cosmic microwave background, according to the results of a new survey, leaving room for exotic explanations like a collision between universes. The researchers, led by postgraduate student Ruari Mackenzie and Professor Tom Shanks in Durham University's Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, publish their results in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The cosmic microwave background (CMB), a relic of the Big Bang, covers the whole ... read more |
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SES Offers Panoramic Glimpse into the Future of TV with Live Virtual Reality DemoLuxembourg (SPX) Apr 26, 2017 SES, together with Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI and Newtec, will demonstrate an immersive Virtual Reality (VR) experience with a live 360-degree Ultra HD VR satellite broadcast this week ... more  
India seeks status as a major space power with more satellite launchesNew Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2017 Aiming to lower the cost of access to space, the Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO) chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar has said the space agency is aiming to increase the number of satellite launc ... more  
SwRI-led team discovers lull in Mars' giant impact historyBoulder CO (SPX) Apr 26, 2017 From the earliest days of our solar system's history, collisions between astronomical objects have shaped the planets and changed the course of their evolution. Studying the early bombardment histor ... more  
Indian Space Agency Comes Up With an App Indicating Solar Power PotentialNew Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2017 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed an Android app that will show the solar potential of a given location in any part of the country. The app was developed to support the cle ... more |
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Electric Boat selected for $95.6 million ballistic missile tube contractWashington (UPI) Apr 24, 2017 The U.S. Navy announced it is moving forward with it's Ohio Replacement Program, designed to replace the venerable Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine. ... more  
UHP To Provide High-Availability VSAT Network to Major European Utility CompanyMontreal, Canada (SPX) Apr 26, 2017 UHP Networks Inc, a leading manufacturer of innovative VSAT equipment, reports it has been selected to provide VSAT network solution to a major electrical utility company in the European Union. The ... more 
Man-Made Space Junk Puts Astronauts, Operational Spacecraft in Serious DangerMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2017 The European Space Agency (ESA) has warned that man-made junk in space is getting out of hand. Radio Sputnik discussed the space debris problem with former head of the Space Debris Office of the Eur ... more  
ESA boosting its Argentine link with deep spaceParis (ESA) Apr 26, 2017 Thanks to some high-tech improvements, ESA's radio dish in Argentina will be ready to receive the rising torrent of scientific data beamed back by future missions exploring deep in our Solar System. ... more  
2 SOPS says goodbye to GPS satelliteSchriever AFB CO (SPX) Apr 26, 2017 At 25-years old, Global Positioning System Satellite Vehicle Number 27 completed its time in orbit before the 2nd Space Operations Squadron said goodbye via final command and disposal here April 18. ... more  
Stanford scientist's new approach may accelerate design of high-power batteriesStanford CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 Research led by a Stanford scientist promises to increase the performance of high-power electrical storage devices, such as car batteries. In work published recently in Applied Physics Letters ... more |
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 New quantum liquid crystals may play role in future of computers 
Two-dimensional melting of hard spheres experimentally unravelled after 60 yearsOxford, UK (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 After extensive research, scientists from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford have found experimental evidence that sheds new light on the melting of two-dimensional substances. ... more 
Nature: 3-D-printing of glass now possibleKarlsruher, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 Glass is one of mankind's oldest materials. It was used as far back as in ancient Egypt and ancient Rome and has found a place now also in manufacturing technology of the 21st century. An interdisci ... more 
Engineering technique is damaging materials research revealsOxford, UK (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 A technique that revolutionised scientists' ability to manipulate and study materials at the nano-scale may have dramatic unintended consequences, new Oxford University research reveals. Focused Ion ... more 
Electrochemical performance of lithium-ion capacitorsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 How do internal short circuit? Researcher Minho Kim has published his paper "A fast and efficient pre-doping approach to high energy density lithium-ion hybrid capacitors". Internal short-circ ... more |
  Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 25, 2017 
While astronauts have successfully grown plants and vegetables aboard the International Space Station, NASA scientists at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are collaborating with a university team to develop long-term methods that could help sustain pioneers working in deep space.
Agency researchers believe while there are many challenges for human exploration beyond Earth, they are conv ... more Washington (AFP) April 24, 2017'Better you than me,' Trump tells record-breaking astronaut  Houston TX (SPX) Apr 23, 2017Cygnus docks with ISS, delivering 28 Cubesats from multiple customers  Miami (AFP) April 22, 2017Orbital cargo ship arrives at space station |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2017 
Aiming to lower the cost of access to space, the Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO) chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar has said the space agency is aiming to increase the number of satellite launches from the existing seven to 12 per year. Experts said that increasing the number of launches will help India tap a fast-growing commercial space market.
"Earlier, we were doing 2-3 (launches) ... moreNew Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2017India to Launch Carrier Rocket With Higher Payload Capacity in May  Sacramento CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Aerojet Rocketdyne completes qualification tests on reusable rocket engine  Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2017Russian MoD to Further Develop Plesetsk Cosmodrome Infrastructure |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 26, 2017 
From the earliest days of our solar system's history, collisions between astronomical objects have shaped the planets and changed the course of their evolution. Studying the early bombardment history of Mars, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the University of Arizona have discovered a 400-million-year lull in large impacts early in Martian history.
This discovery is pu ... more Copenhagen (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2017Danish Martian Experts Get Their Hands on a Piece of 'Black Beauty'  Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 24, 2017New Look at 2004's Martian Hole-in-One Site  Providence RI (SPX) Apr 21, 2017Researchers Produce Detailed Map of Potential Mars Rover Landing Site |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2017 
As astronauts continue to break records for time spent in space and manned Mars exploration is under discussion, scientists in China have begun a groundbreaking study to determine if humans can reproduce in space.
Scientists will for the first time conduct an experiment to induce the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into germ cells on China's first cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-1 ... more Beijing (AFP) April 22, 2017China's first cargo spacecraft docks with space lab  Wenchang, China (AFP) April 20, 2017China launches first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 Wenchang, China (Sputnik) Apr 21, 2017Tianzhou-1 space truck soars into orbit |
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Thanks to some high-tech improvements, ESA's radio dish in Argentina will be ready to receive the rising torrent of scientific data beamed back by future missions exploring deep in our Solar System.
Since 2012, ESA's deep-space tracking station at Malargue, about 1200 km west of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has provided critical links to some of Europe's most important missions, including ExoM ... more McLean VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017Airbus and Intelsat team up for more capacity  McLean VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017Commercial Space Operators To Canada: "We're Here, and We can Help"  McLean VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017Antenna Innovation Benefits the Government Customer |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2017 
The European Space Agency (ESA) has warned that man-made junk in space is getting out of hand. Radio Sputnik discussed the space debris problem with former head of the Space Debris Office of the European Space Agency, Dr. Heiner Klinkrad.
During a conference on space debris, held in Germany this week, the ESA expressed concerns over the increasing danger of orbiting space trash. Some exper ... moreLuxembourg (SPX) Apr 26, 2017SES Offers Panoramic Glimpse into the Future of TV with Live Virtual Reality Demo Karlsruher, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Nature: 3-D-printing of glass now possible Oxford, UK (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Engineering technique is damaging materials research reveals |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 20, 2017 
An exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth may be the new holder of the title "best place to look for signs of life beyond the Solar System". Using ESO's HARPS instrument at La Silla, and other telescopes around the world, an international team of astronomers discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting in the habitable zone around the faint star LHS 1140.
This world is a litt ... more New York NY (SPX) Apr 21, 2017Breakthrough Listen Publishes Initial Results  Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (SPX) Apr 25, 2017Rocky super-earth found in habitable zone of small red star  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 20, 2017Lack of Oxygen Not a Showstopper For Life |
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 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 Laurel MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2017Nap Time for New Horizons  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2017Hubble spots auroras on Uranus  Leicester, UK (SPX) Apr 12, 2017Cold' Great Spot discovered on Jupiter |
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 Vienna (AFP) April 25, 2017 
Human activity risks contaminating pristine water stockpiled deep underground since the age of the mammoths, said a study Tuesday that warns of a looming threat to a critical life source.
So-called "fossil" groundwater - more than 12,000 years old - trickled into sub-surface aquifers long before it could be tarnished by pollution from farming and factory chemicals.
Generally stored at ... more Bloomington IN (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Research sheds new light on forces that threaten sensitive coastlines  Mexico City (AFP) April 26, 2017In Mexico City, water a rare commodity  Karlovac, Croatia (AFP) April 19, 2017Croatian rivers face hydroelectric peril |
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 Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Apr 26, 2017 
At 25-years old, Global Positioning System Satellite Vehicle Number 27 completed its time in orbit before the 2nd Space Operations Squadron said goodbye via final command and disposal here April 18. SVN 27 was launched in 1992, meaning it performed more than triple its design life of 7.5 years.
"The most interesting thing about this process for me, was the ability to do some experimentatio ... more Houston TX (SPX) Apr 18, 2017Researchers working toward indoor location detection  Paris (ESA) Apr 10, 2017Galileo's search and rescue service in the spotlight  Managua (AFP) April 7, 2017Russia inaugurates GPS-type satellite station in Nicaragua |
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Apr 23, 2017 
On April 7, the Swedish Institute of Space Physics successfully delivered the flight model of the Advanced Small Analyzer for Neutrals (ASAN) instrument to the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China.
The ASAN instrument will be launched at the end of 2018 onboard the Chinese Chang'e 4 mission to the Moon. Chang'e 4 consists of an orbiter, lander ... more New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2017India dreams of harvesting lunar dust to power fusion rectors  Houston TX (SPX) Apr 13, 2017NASA Scientists Find Dynamo at Lunar Core May Have Formed Magnetic Field  Providence RI (SPX) Mar 30, 2017How a young-looking lunar volcano hides its true age |
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 Paris (AFP) April 19, 2017  A peanut-shaped asteroid 1.3 kilometres (3,280 feet) across streaked past Earth on Wednesday, giving astronomers a rare chance to check out a big space rock up close.
But not too close.
Dubbed 2014-JO25, the asteroid came nearest at 12:20 GMT and is now hurtling away from the centre of our solar system, said Ian Carnelli, an astronomer from the European Space Agency (ESA).
"It does ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 20, 2017Landslides on Ceres Reflect Ice Content  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 20, 2017New study ranks hazardous asteroid effects from least to most destructive  Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 20, 2017NASA images Asteroid 2014 JO25 using radar prior to flyby |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 24, 2017 
Thanks to social media and the power of citizen scientists chasing the northern lights, a new feature was discovered recently. Nobody knew what this strange ribbon of purple light was, so ... it was called Steve. ESA's Swarm magnetic field mission has now also met Steve and is helping to understand the nature of this new-found feature. Speaking at the recent Swarm science meeting in Canada, Eric ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 18, 2017'Detergent' Molecules May Drive Recent Methane Changes  Bristol, UK (SPX) Apr 18, 2017Banned industrial solvent sheds new light on methane mystery  Aurora CO (SPX) Apr 18, 2017Raytheon speeds delivery and secures satellite weather data |
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 Beijing CA (SPX) Apr 25, 2017 
The solar flux is considered the fundamental energy source of earth's climate system on long time scales. In recent decades, some studies have noted that the tiny variations in solar activity could be amplified by the nonlinear process in climate system.
Therefore, the astronomy factors, such as solar activity, present intriguing and cutting-edge questions to better understand climate chan ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 20, 2017NASA and Partners Survey Space Weather Science  Honolulu HI (SPX) Apr 13, 2017Hawaii-built Infrared Instrument for World's Largest Solar Telescope Catches its First Rays  Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Apr 10, 2017Charting the skies of history |
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 Durham, UK (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 
Observations of the Coma cluster carried out by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in 1933 implied that the system's total gravitating mass was far larger than that which could be detected from starlight or emission from intra-cluster gas. He proposed "dunkle Materie," or dark matter, as a binding agent for the cluster.
As years passed, new and more refined observations of clusters and of indiv ... more Paris (ESA) Apr 21, 2017Gaia's Snapshot Of Another Galaxy  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Hubble's cosmic bubbles  Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 21, 2017A New Angle on Two Spiral Galaxies for Hubble's 27th Birthday |
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 London, UK (SPX) Apr 26, 2017 
A supervoid is unlikely to explain a 'Cold Spot' in the cosmic microwave background, according to the results of a new survey, leaving room for exotic explanations like a collision between universes. The researchers, led by postgraduate student Ruari Mackenzie and Professor Tom Shanks in Durham University's Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, publish their results in Monthly Notices of the Royal ... more Boston MA (SPX) Apr 20, 2017The Arrhythmic Beating of a Black Hole Heart  Mumbai, India (SPX) Apr 21, 2017Can we see a singularity, the most extreme object in the universe?  Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Apr 19, 2017Supermassive black holes found in 2 tiny galaxies |
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