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The Art of Exoplanets Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2017 The moon hanging in the night sky sent Robert Hurt's mind into deep space - to a region some 40 light years away, in fact, where seven Earth-sized planets crowded close to a dim, red sun. Hurt, a visualization scientist at Caltech's IPAC center, was walking outside his home in Mar Vista, California, shortly after he learned of the discovery of these rocky worlds around a star called TRAPPIST-1 and got the assignment to visualize them. The planets had been revealed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ... read more |
Rosetta finds comet connection to Earth's atmosphere Paris (ESA) Jun 12, 2017 The challenging detection, by ESA's Rosetta mission, of several isotopes of the noble gas xenon at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has established the first quantitative link between comets and the ... more Paris (ESA) Jun 12, 2017 Using a system developed under an ESA contract, the Greek NELIOTA project has begun to detect flashes of light caused by small pieces of rock striking the Moon's surface. NELIOTA is the first system ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jun 09, 2017 NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) has awarded rides for three small spacecraft on the agency's newest rocket, and $20,000 each in prize money, to the winning teams of citizen solver ... more Beijing (XNA) Jun 08, 2017 China will develop and launch a two-meter-caliber space telescope, which will share the same orbit with the country's future space station, said Yang Liwei, deputy director of China Manned Space Age ... more |
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In atomic propellers, quantum phenomena can mimic everyday physics Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Jun 08, 2017 In molecules there are certain groups of atoms that are able to rotate. This movement occurs under the influence of random stimuli from the environment and is not continuous but occurs in jumps. It ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 12, 2017 Opportunity is at the top of "Perseverance Valley" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The plan before proceeding down the valley is to perform a walk-about survey above the valley. To start the w ... more Paris (ESA) Jun 09, 2017 This 70 km-wide crater and its surrounds offer a window into the watery past of the Red Planet. The scene, captured by ESA's Mars Express, is a composite of two images taken in March 2007 and Februa ... more Beijing (XNA) Jun 12, 2017 China is working on reusable launch vehicles and has achieved progress in some key areas, a carrier rocket official said Thursday. The processes under development include parachute-landing and ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 12, 2017 NASA scientists have found a wide diversity of minerals in the initial samples of rocks collected by the Curiosity rover in the lowermost layers of Mount Sharp on Mars, suggesting that conditions ch ... more Beijing (XNA) Jun 12, 2017 Back in 1969, Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, uttered his famous words: "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind." The statement has inspired ever s ... more |
To Be or Not to Be: At 20 ISS Goes Strong, But for How Long Beijing (XNA) Jun 12, 2017 China will open its space station to scientists worldwide after the station is completed around 2022, according to a Chinese space expert. Wei Chuanfeng, a researcher at the Institute of Manne ... more Houston TX (SPX) Jun 09, 2017 A wide variety of research relies on growing cells in culture on Earth, but handling these cells is challenging. With better techniques, scientists hope to reduce loss of cells from culture media, c ... more Medford MA (SPX) Jun 12, 2017 Flatworms that spent five weeks aboard the International Space Station are helping researchers led by Tufts University scientists to study how an absence of normal gravity and geomagnetic fields can ... more Hiroshima, Japan (SPX) Jun 08, 2017 Hiroshima University and Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited (MIFS) has announced the development of a low-power millimeter-wave amplifier that feeds on 0.5 V power supply and covers the frequency ran ... more |
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 12, 2017 The International Space Station has become a genuinely global project proving that despite political differences, economic problems and social changes countries can work in concert sharing experience, overcoming problems and finding compromises. That said, even top space energy representatives taking part in this year's international conference on space exploration (GLEX-2017) found it har ... more Pence hails new NASA astronauts as 'best of us' Additional Astronaut on the Space Station Means Dozens of New Team Members on the Ground Roscosmos Says Cooperation With NASA Unaffected by 'Political Outbursts' |
Miami (AFP) June 5, 2017 SpaceX's first-ever recycled spaceship arrived Monday at the International Space Station, two days after the unmanned Dragon cargo capsule launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Live images on NASA television showed the spaceship approaching the orbiting outpost, then being grabbed with the station's robotic arm at 9:52 am (1352 GMT). "Capture complete," said NASA ... more India shows off space prowess with launch of mega-rocket NASA awards Universal Stage Adapter contract for SLS Proton returns to flight with US satellite after 12 month hiatus |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 12, 2017 Opportunity is at the top of "Perseverance Valley" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The plan before proceeding down the valley is to perform a walk-about survey above the valley. To start the walkabout, on Sol 4746 (May 31, 2017) Opportunity drove about 82 feet (24.9 meters) mostly south toward a chosen waypoint. Images for extensive panoramas were collected with the Navigation Camera (Navc ... more Window to a watery past on Mars Study estimates amount of water needed to carve Martian valleys NASA Finds Evidence of Diverse Environments in Curiosity Samples |
Beijing (XNA) Jun 12, 2017 Back in 1969, Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, uttered his famous words: "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind." The statement has inspired ever since. More than 500 astronauts have entered space in the nearly five decades that have followed, and over 10 have landed on the moon. Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the moon and Arms ... more China to open space station to scientists worldwide China achieves key breakthrough in multiple launch vehicles China's space station to help maintain co-orbital telescope |
Paris (ESA) Jun 05, 2017 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet landed on the steppe of Kazakhstan today with Russian commander Oleg Novitsky in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft after six months in space. Touchdown was at 14:10 GMT after a four-hour flight from the International Space Station. The return was routine - or as routine as you can get for a ride that requires braking from 28 800 km/h to zero. The heatshield copes wi ... more Propose a course idea for the CU space minor Leading Global Air And Space Law Group Joins Reed Smith New Horizons for Alexander Gerst |
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 07, 2017 Researchers in Canada have taken a significant step towards enabling secure quantum communication via moving satellites, as announced by the Canadian Government in April 2017. Their study, published in the new journal Quantum Science and Technology, demonstrates the first quantum key distribution transmissions from a ground transmitter to a quantum payload on a moving aircraft. To en ... more Indian Space Agency to Work on Electric Propulsion for Large Satellites Metal-ion catalysts and hydrogen peroxide could green up plastics production New sound diffuser is 10 times thinner than existing designs |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2017 The moon hanging in the night sky sent Robert Hurt's mind into deep space - to a region some 40 light years away, in fact, where seven Earth-sized planets crowded close to a dim, red sun. Hurt, a visualization scientist at Caltech's IPAC center, was walking outside his home in Mar Vista, California, shortly after he learned of the discovery of these rocky worlds around a star called TRAPPI ... more Discovery reveals planet almost as hot as the Sun A planet hotter than most stars ALMA Finds Ingredient of Life Around Infant Sun-like Stars |
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2017 arly science results from NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet's surface than previously thought. "We are excite ... more First results from Juno show cyclones and massive magnetism Jupiters complex transient auroras NASA's Juno probe forces 'rethink' on Jupiter |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 07, 2017 Wearing white sneakers, a cowboy hat and overalls, Bernie Fowler walks into Maryland's Patuxent River every June to see how deep he can go and still see the tops of his shoes. As a young man he could see his feet on the river bottom as he stood chest-deep to net blue crabs. Now in his nineties, he ventures into the river to assess the water clarity. Fowler has been collecting this data point for ... more Boeing, Huntington Ingalls giving boost to Navy UUV program Stony corals more resistant to climate change than thought, Rutgers study finds At UN ocean conference, US takes aim at illegal fishing |
Washington DC (SPX) May 30, 2017 Although computer models of archaeological sites are ideal software tools for managing spatially referenced data and commonly used to yield insights which contribute to the protection of heritage materials, some scientists question their credibility, calling for these long-term trends be 'ground truthed' in order to ensure that calculated rates of change reflect observed phenomena 'in the field' ... more Japan launches satellite in bid for super accurate GPS system exactEarth Broadens Small Vessel Tracking Offering Chinese firms develop BeiDou navigation applications |
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Paris (ESA) Jun 12, 2017 Using a system developed under an ESA contract, the Greek NELIOTA project has begun to detect flashes of light caused by small pieces of rock striking the Moon's surface. NELIOTA is the first system that can determine the temperature of these impact flashes. Studies such as NELIOTA are important because Earth and its Moon are constantly bombarded by natural space debris. Most of this mater ... more Cube Quest Challenge Team Spotlight: Cislunar Explorers Winning plans for CubeSats to the Moon Printing bricks from moondust using the Sun's heat |
Paris (ESA) Jun 12, 2017 The challenging detection, by ESA's Rosetta mission, of several isotopes of the noble gas xenon at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has established the first quantitative link between comets and the atmosphere of Earth. The blend of xenon found at the comet closely resembles U-xenon, the primordial mixture that scientists believe was brought to Earth during the early stages of Solar System format ... more Scientists solve meteorite mystery with high-pressure X-ray experiments High-pressure experiments solve meteorite mystery NASA's Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft a Discovery Machine |
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Washington (UPI) Jun 8, 2017 New satellite images from the Global Precipitation Measurement mission offers a visualization of the extreme rainfall that has accumulated in Florida over the past week. GPM is a joint mission between NASA and Japan's space agency JAXA. It consists of a GPM core observatory satellite and a constellation of cooperating probes. As the GPM core observatory satellite passed above Sou ... more The heat is on for Sentinel-3B exactEarth Launches Revolutionary Global Real-Time Maritime Tracking and Information Service Earth is a jewel, says astronaut after six months away |
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2017 On May 25, 2017, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun. The lunar transit lasted almost an hour, between 2:24 and 3:17 p.m. EDT, with the moon covering about 89 percent of the sun at the peak of its journey across the sun's face. The moon's crisp horizon can be seen from this view because the moon has n ... more A real scorcher: NASA probe to fly into sun's atmosphere NASA renames Solar mission to honor Eugene Parker CLASP Sounding Rocket Mission Opens New Research Window in Solar Physics |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 07, 2017 Boosted by natural magnifying lenses in space, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured unique close-up views of the universe's brightest infrared galaxies, which are as much as 10,000 times more luminous than our Milky Way. The galaxy images, magnified through a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, reveal a tangled web of misshapen objects punctuated by exotic patterns such as rings ... more Celestial boondocks: Study supports the idea we live in a void CU Boulder researchers explain mystery of 'banging' galaxy clusters Device designed to exploit scattering of light by mechanical vibrations |
Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Jun 05, 2017 Sixteenth century scientist Galileo Galilei threw two spheres of different mass from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to establish a scientific principle. Now nearly four centuries later, a team of Italian physicists has applied the same principle to quantum objects using a novel scientific method proposed by UQ physicist Dr Magdalena Zych, reported in Nature Communications. Dr Z ... more RIT study suggests dying stars give newborn black holes a swift kick Cosmic inflation: Higgs says goodbye to his 'little brother' Muon magnet's moment has arrived |
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