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May 10, 2015

Ancient Star Raises Prospects of Intelligent Life
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 09, 2015
Can life survive for billions of years longer than the expected timeline on Earth? As scientists discover older and older solar systems, it's likely that before long we'll find an ancient planet in a habitable zone. Knowing if life is possible on this exoplanet would have immense implications for habitability and the development of ancient life, one researcher says. In January, a group led by Tiago Campante - an astroseismology or "starquake" researcher at the University of Birmingham in the Unite ... read more

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Student Mars Rover team will compete in Utah desert A team of Cornell engineering students has advanced to the finals of the University Rover Challenge, a competition to build and operate a prototype radio-controlled vehicle that could assist astrona ... more		Space radiation: CSU studies risks for astronauts journeying to Mars A new research facility at Colorado State University - the only one of its kind in the world - will be established with a $9 million grant from NASA to help reveal the effects of long-term exposure ... more		Hubble finds massive halo around the Andromeda Galaxy University of Notre Dame astrophysicist Nicolas Lehner has led a team of scientists who have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to identify an immense halo of gas surrounding the Andromeda Galaxy, t ... more
				Geochemical process on Saturn's moon linked to life's origin New work from a team including Carnegie's Christopher Glein has revealed the pH of water spewing from a geyser-like plume on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Their findings are an important step toward dete ... more		15 million euro boost for European astronomy Astronomers and astroparticle physicists today are celebrating a 15 million euro EU funding boost European telescopes with the launch of the ASTERICS project, which will help solve the Big Data chal ... more

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'Team Patrick-Cape' supports Pad Abort Test The 45th Space Wing supported Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) and NASA's successful Pad Abort Test Mission from Launch Complex 40 here Wednesday at 9 a.m., helping to further open the door ... more		Pollution Monitoring Instrument Passes Critical NASA Review A space-based instrument that will monitor major air pollutants across North America on an hourly basis passed a major milestone by successfully completing a critical NASA review. The instrume ... more		Japan, US sign agreement to develop hypersonic missile interceptor Xi, Putin hail ties as 'stabilising' force in chaotic world US forces lose strategic African position in Niger		Star Explosion is Lopsided, Finds NASA's NuSTAR NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has found evidence that a massive star exploded in a lopsided fashion, sending ejected material flying in one direction and the core of the s ... more
				Manned mission to ISS to be delayed due to cargo spacecraft's failure Russian federal space agency Roscosmos said Wednesday that the upcoming manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) would be re-scheduled due to the recent failure of the Progress M-27M ... more		Aitech Provides Subsystem and Computing Boards for Commercial Crew Aitech Defense Systems Inc. was recently awarded a contract by The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) to provide space-grade products and services to support the Commercial Crew Transportation System (CCTS) ... more

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Latin America EO Data Market To Exceed $350 Million By 2024 According to Euroconsult's newly released report, Earth Observation Requirements and Solutions in Latin America, the Latin American Earth observation market is undergoing significant expansion broug ... more		Saturn Moon's Activity Could Be 'Curtain Eruptions' New research using data from NASA's Cassini mission suggests most of the eruptions from Saturn's moon Enceladus might be diffuse curtains rather than discrete jets. Many features that appear to be i ... more		Indonesia raises volcano alert level to highest after huge eruption Gov. Ron DeSantis signs law erasing climate change from Florida policy Climate change could force Bangkok to move, official warns		Proto super star cluster - a cosmic 'dinosaur egg' about to hatch Globular clusters - dazzling agglomerations of up to a million ancient stars - are among the oldest objects in the universe. Though plentiful in and around many galaxies, newborn examples are vanish ... more
IBM's Watson strives to be jack of all trades Watson already has won a major TV game show, is looking for a cure for cancer and has ambitious gastronomy ambitions including devising a recipe for chocolate-beef burritos. ... more		AKARI far-infrared all-sky data released The AKARI space telescope's far-infrared all-sky image data are now available to researchers everywhere. The new all-sky maps have four to five times better spatial resolution than conventional far- ... more		Meteors from Halley's Comet As May of 2015 unfolds, Halley's Comet is more than 5 billion kilometers from Earth, receding into the inky blackness of the outer solar system, where its looping orbit takes it every 76 years. Dim ... more		Astronomers detect drastic atmospheric change in super Earth Researchers have detected the first major atmospheric shift outside our solar system. Over the course of two years, scientists have observed a three-fold temperature shift in the atmosphere of a super Earth called 55 Cancri e. ... more

	New model for the thermo-elasto-plasticity deformation of crystals Researchers have proposed a new thermo-elasto-plasticity constitutive model based on the interatomic potential and solid mechanics for metal crystals. Through this new model, the material behavior a ... more		Scientists create cheaper magnetic material for cars, wind turbines Karl A. Gschneidner and fellow scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have created a new magnetic alloy that is an alternative to traditional rare-earth permanent magnets. ... more

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