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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2017 As a young scientist, Tony del Genio of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City met Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto. "I thought, 'Wow, this is a one-time opportunity,'" del Genio said. "I'll never meet anyone else who found a planet." That prediction was spectacularly wrong. In 1992, two scientists discovered the first planet around another star, or exoplanet, and since then more people have found planets than throughout all of Earth's preceding history. As ... read more |
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Artificially cooling planet 'risky strategy,' new research showsExeter UK (SPX) Nov 15, 2017 Proposals to reduce the effects of global warming by imitating volcanic eruptions could have a devastating effect on global regions prone to either tumultuous storms or prolonged drought, new resear ... more  
Pluto's hydrocarbon haze keeps dwarf planet colder than expectedSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2017 The gas composition of a planet's atmosphere generally determines how much heat gets trapped in the atmosphere. For the dwarf planet Pluto, however, the predicted temperature based on the compositio ... more 
Closest temperate world orbiting quiet star discoveredParis (ESA) Nov 15, 2017 A temperate Earth-sized planet has been discovered only 11 light-years from the Solar System by a team using ESO's unique planet-hunting HARPS instrument. The new world has the designation Ross 128 ... more  
Space Launch plans UK industry tourLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2017 The UK Space Agency is touring the country with industry workshops and public open evenings on LaunchUK - the campaign to enable small satellite rocket launches and sub-orbital flights from UK space ... more |
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China plans first sea based launch by 2018Beijing (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017 China is expected to complete its first sea launch for commercial payloads in 2018, said Yang Baohua, vice general manager of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC). Yang m ... more  
Russia's Roscosmos may take part in creation of 'Martian Town' in DubaiDubai (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017 The United Arab Emirates are planning to create "Mars Scientific City," an ambitious project that would simulate the conditions of life on Mars. Russia's space corporation Roscosmos will consu ... more  
Baikonur for Russia, Kazakhstan offers UAE Baikonur for launchesDubai (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017 United Arab Emirates Space Agency and Russia's space corporation Roscosmos plan to create a joint technical committee for the implementation of space projects. Roscosmos chief Igor Komarov tol ... more 
Fracture swarms on Mars driven by ancient tectonicsParis (ESA) Nov 16, 2017 ESA's Mars Express has imaged striking features on Mars were caused by the planet's crust stretching apart in response to ancient volcanic activity. The fractures in the Sirenum Fossae region ... more  
Ozone ups and downsParis (ESA) Nov 16, 2017 Climate scientists studying three decades of ozone measurements from seven satellites see a positive trend in global recovery thanks to international efforts to curb ozone-depleting substances. ... more  
Russia claims US poised to turn space into 'warfighting domain'Washington DC (Sputnik) Nov 15, 2017 The US military appears willing to take war to a whole new dimension as the country's Air Force prepares to 'increase its lethality' in space. The US Air Force is now "shifting to space as a w ... more |
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How physicists turned Antarctica into particle detectorMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017 Alexander Novikov, senior researcher at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, explained to RIA Novosti why Russian researchers and their colleagues at NASA travel to Antarctica every year ... more  
FORTIS K-SRD exoskeleton could help soldiers cover inclined terrain quicklyOrlando FL (SPX) Nov 15, 2017 A study by the University of Michigan Human Neuromechanics Laboratory suggests that battle-equipped soldiers would be less fatigued if they wore Lockheed Martin's [NYSE: LMT] FORTIS Knee-Stress Reli ... more  
Physicists mix waves on superconducting qubitsMoscow (SPX) Nov 15, 2017 Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Royal Holloway, University of London, have demonstrated an effect known as quantum wave mixing on an artificial atom. Their ... more 
Essential quantum computer component downsized by 2 orders Vienna, Austria (SPX) Nov 15, 2017 Qubits, or quantum bits, are the key building blocks that lie at the heart of every quantum computer. In order to perform a computation, signals need to be directed to and from qubits. At the ... more |
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  Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 13, 2017 
NASA's Orion spacecraft is scheduled to undergo a design test in April 2019 of the capsule's launch abort system (LAS), which is a rocket-powered tower on top of the crew module built to very quickly get astronauts safely away from their launch vehicle if there is a problem during ascent.
This full-stress test of the LAS, called Ascent Abort Test 2 (AA-2), will see a booster, provided by O ... more Wallops Island, VA (SPX) Nov 14, 2017NanoRacks launches Full External Cygnus Deployer on OA-8 to ISS  Houston TX (SPX) Nov 15, 2017Robotic arm reaches out and grapples Cygnus  San Francisco (AFP) Nov 12, 2017Colossal SoftBank fund could shake up tech world |
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 Dubai (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017 
United Arab Emirates Space Agency and Russia's space corporation Roscosmos plan to create a joint technical committee for the implementation of space projects.
Roscosmos chief Igor Komarov told Sputnik that Russia's space corporation Roscosmos and its Kazakh colleagues have offered the United Arab Emirates Space Agency use of the Baikonur space center for launch services. Additionally, he ... more Washington DC (AFP) Nov 12, 2017Orbital ATK launches eighth cargo mission to space  Bethesda, MD (SPX) Nov 14, 2017The state of commercial spaceports in 2017  Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Nov 09, 2017Vega launches Earth observation satellite for Morocco |
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ESA's Mars Express has imaged striking features on Mars were caused by the planet's crust stretching apart in response to ancient volcanic activity.
The fractures in the Sirenum Fossae region in the southern hemisphere were imaged by ESA's Mars Express in March. They extend for thousands of kilometres in length, far beyond the boundaries of this image.
The fractures divide the crust ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2017Mars 2020 Mission performs first supersonic parachute test  Mountain View CA (SPX) Nov 15, 2017New partnership on Mars drone applications research Dubai (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017Russia's Roscosmos may take part in creation of 'Martian Town' in Dubai |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017 
China is expected to complete its first sea launch for commercial payloads in 2018, said Yang Baohua, vice general manager of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC).
Yang made the remarks at an annual academic conference on space science held from November 1 to 2 in Beijing.
The service will also be provided in other regions in addition to its four major sites in Jiuqu ... more Beijing (XNA) Nov 02, 2017China's reusable spacecraft to be launched in 2020  Beijing (XNA) Oct 23, 2017Space will see Communist loyalty: Chinese astronaut  Beijing (XNA) Oct 02, 2017China launches three satellites |
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 London, UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2017 
The UK Space Agency is touring the country with industry workshops and public open evenings on LaunchUK - the campaign to enable small satellite rocket launches and sub-orbital flights from UK spaceports.
The Government wants to make the UK a world-leading destination for companies offering launch services. New legislation to regulate launch is currently before Parliament and in early 2018 ... more Paris (ESA) Nov 14, 2017Astronaut meets volcano  Talinn, Estonia (ESA) Nov 03, 2017European Space Week starts in Estonia  Beijing (XNA) Nov 01, 2017New Chinese sat comms company awaits approval |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 12, 2017 
Leonardo over the weekend announced a contract with the British Ministry of Defense for equipment that will simulate radar threats to the Royal Air Force's Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft.
The deal, announced Saturday, calls for the company to simulate radar threats to the A400M prior to take off.
The Royal Air Force plans to use the system to test radar the defens ... more Beijing (AFP) Nov 14, 2017China maintains reign over world supercomputer rankings  Exeter UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2017Research highlights ethical sourcing of materials for modern technology  Boston MA (SPX) Nov 14, 2017A new way to mix oil and water |
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 Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Nov 10, 2017 
A team of mainly Dutch astronomers has observed moving shadows on a dust disk around a star. On multiple days they took a 'photo' of the star and its disk. They used the SPHERE instrument, partially built in the Netherlands, on the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Probably, processes in the inner disk cast their shadows at the outer disk. The astronomers publish their findings in The Astrophysical ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2017Our Living Planet Shapes the Search for Life Beyond Earth  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 15, 2017NASA plans mission to study why planets lose their atmospheres Paris (ESA) Nov 15, 2017Closest temperate world orbiting quiet star discovered |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2017 
The gas composition of a planet's atmosphere generally determines how much heat gets trapped in the atmosphere. For the dwarf planet Pluto, however, the predicted temperature based on the composition of its atmosphere was much higher than actual measurements taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.
A new study published November 16 in Nature proposes a novel cooling mechanism contr ... more Washington DC (SPX) Nov 13, 2017Jupiter's Stunning Southern Hemisphere  Boston MA (SPX) Nov 07, 2017Watching Jupiter's multiple pulsating X-ray Aurora  Mountain View CA (SPX) Nov 07, 2017Help Nickname New Horizons' Next Flyby Target |
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 Kathmandu Nov 14, 2017 
Nepal has cancelled an agreement with a Chinese company to build the largest hydroelectric plant in the impoverished landlocked country, which suffers from chronic energy shortages.
The project, agreed in June, would have nearly have doubled Nepal's current hydropower production and cost an estimated $2.5 billion.
But the finance ministry recommended it be scrapped, saying it had been aw ... more Dhaka (AFP) Nov 14, 2017New islands could solve Bangladesh land crisis: experts  Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Nov 14, 2017How a 'shadow zone' traps the world's oldest ocean water  Washington (UPI) Nov 6, 2017Researchers use forensic science to track turtles |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 10, 2017 
China launched the first two of the BeiDou-3 satellites into space on Sunday evening, indicating that its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System has begun to expand into a global network, Cyol.com reported on November 6.
Positioning accuracy of the BeiDou-3 satellites have an accuracy of 2.5 to five meters, which is comparable with that of GPS, said Xie Jun, chief designer of the satellite at ... more Melbourne FL (SPX) Nov 10, 2017Harris develops fully digital navigation payload for future GPS III sats  Beijing (XNA) Nov 07, 2017Better rubidium clocks increase BeiDou satnav accuracy  Xichang, China (XNA) Nov 07, 2017China launches two BeiDou-3 navigation satellites on single carrier rocket |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 15, 2017 
Russia has successfully tested a simulator of the spaceship, with the objective of reaching the moon. The experiment's goal was to create conditions similar to those encountered by a mixed crew during a long autonomous interplanetary flight.
Three of the six crew members of the SIRIUS project (an experiment simulating a flight to the moon) successfully carried out the first tests of the si ... more Bristol UK (The Conversation) Nov 10, 2017China and the US are both shooting for the moon  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 10, 2017NASA Team Studies CubeSat Mission to Measure Water on the Moon  Moscow (AFP) Nov 7, 2017Russia locks up six for Moon flight simulation |
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 Sendai, Japan (SPX) Nov 13, 2017 
An asteroid, also known as the Chicxulub Impactor, hit Earth some 66 million years ago, causing a crater 180 km wide. The impact of the asteroid heated organic matter in rocks and ejected it into the atmosphere, forming soot in the stratosphere.
Soot is a strong, light-absorbing aerosol that caused global climate changes that triggered the mass extinction of dinosaurs, ammonites, and other ... more Washington (UPI) Nov 9, 2017Unlucky dinosaurs: Scientists say asteroid had 13 percent chance of triggering extinction  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 10, 2017Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 06, 2017Return of the Comet: 96P Spotted by ESA, NASA Satellites |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 16, 2017 
Climate scientists studying three decades of ozone measurements from seven satellites see a positive trend in global recovery thanks to international efforts to curb ozone-depleting substances.
The part of Earth's atmosphere with high concentrations of ozone gas protects life on Earth from the Sun's ultraviolet radiation. However, pollutants can break down ozone, thinning this ozone layer ... more Washington (UPI) Nov 14, 2017NASA readies for another JPSS-1 launch attempt  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 10, 2017NASA CubeSat to Test Miniaturized Weather Satellite Technology  Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Nov 14, 2017How ice in clouds is born |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 10, 2017 
On Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, NASA's Parker Solar Probe spacecraft arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for environmental tests. During the spacecraft's stay at Goddard, engineers and technicians will simulate extreme temperatures and other physical stresses that the spacecraft will be subjected to during its historic mission to the Sun.
Before arriving at Godda ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 15, 2017Proposed NASA mission would investigate where space weather begins  Garching, Germany (SPX) Nov 14, 2017View the 2019 solar eclipse from La Silla Observatory  London, UK (SPX) Nov 06, 2017UK space science mission SMILE gets first round of funding |
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 Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Nov 16, 2017 
An international team of astronomers led by the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) suspects that neutron stars with a strong magnetic field can still launch so-called jets. Since the 1980s, it was thought that strong magnetic fields inhibit the formation of these plasma streams. But observations with more advanced telescopes indicate jet-like radiation. The astronomers publish their findi ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 15, 2017Hitomi mission glimpses cosmic 'recipe' for the nearby universe Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017How physicists turned Antarctica into particle detector  Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Nov 13, 2017Winds blowing off a dying star |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Nov 08, 2017 
The concept of "valence" - the ability of a particular atom to combine with other atoms by exchanging electrons - is one of the cornerstones of modern chemistry and solid-state physics.
Valence controls crucial properties of molecules and materials, including their bonding, crystal structure, and electronic and magnetic properties.
Four decades ago, a class of materials called "mixed ... more Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2017A quasiparticle quest  Chicago IL (SPX) Nov 09, 2017University of Chicago scientists see fireworks from atoms at ultra-low temperatures  Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 09, 2017Theoretical physicists are modeling complex quantum processes with cold atoms and ions |
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