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August 08, 2016

Astronomers catalogs most likely 'second-Earth' candidates
San Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2016
Looking for another Earth? An international team of researchers has pinpointed which of the more than 4,000 exoplanets discovered by NASA's Kepler mission are most likely to be similar to our rocky home. The research, detailed in an article to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, outlines 216 Kepler planets located within the "habitable zone" - the area around a star in which a planet's surface could hold liquid water. Of those, they list 20 that are the best candidates to be habitable rocky ... read more

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NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative Opens Space to Educators, Nonprofits Accredited education institutions, nonprofit organizations and NASA centers can join the adventure and challenges of space while helping the agency achieve its exploration goals through the next rou ... more		What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data In the tens of thousands of photos returned by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the interior of Ceres isn't visible. But scientists have powerful data to study Ceres' inner structure: Dawn's own motion. ... more		Decades of Discovery: NASA's Exploration of Jupiter Launched five years ago on Aug. 5, 2011, NASA's Juno mission maneuvered into orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016, joining a long tradition of discovery at the gas giant. One of the brightest ... more
				Is the OneWeb-Intelsat network the answer to Canada's Arctic needs Using the U.S. wideband global satellite (WGS) model, Canada's military plans a two-satellite constellation to fill its communications voids in the remote but fast-changing Arctic, a Canadian offici ... more		Iran, Roscosmos Discuss Price of Remote-Sensing Satellite Construction, Launch Iranian Communications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi said that Tehran is in talks with the Roscosmos corporation on the implementation details of the nuclear project in Iran and is trying to agree on a sui ... more

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Autonomous interplanetary travel one step closer to reality An accurate method for spacecraft navigation takes a leap forward today as the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Leicester publish a paper that reveals a spacecraft's position ... more		IceCube Search for 'Sterile Neutrino' Draws a Blank In an effort to fill in the blanks of the Standard Model of particle physics, science has been conducting a diligent search for a hypothesized particle known as the "sterile neutrino." Now, with the ... more		AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power Global Invacom unveils XRJ transceiver for government and defense satcom		China prepares for new round of manned space missions The rockets expected to carry China's second orbiting space lab Tiangong-2 and the Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft into space have been delivered to Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. ... more
				New robot overcomes obstacles Students at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences have developed "Ourobot". / Their project was supervised by a professor at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and a CITEC researcher. ... more		Phoenix Nuclear Lab gets U.S. Army bomb detection contract Phoenix Nuclear Labs has been awarded $3.6 million in U.S. Army contracts to build systems to detect defective munitions and concealed bombs. ... more

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General Dynamics gets DARPA classified network contract The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a follow-on contract to General Dynamics Mission Systems for classified network services, the company announced Tuesday. ... more		NASA releases Twins Study video update ahead of National Twins Days NASA has a set of twins among its astronauts, and is using the opportunity to learn more about exposure to the stresses of spaceflight and how those lessons can be applied to personalized medicine on Earth. ... more		AI tool accelerates SAR image analysis with automated object detection Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study Ethiopia's mega-dam ranks 15th globally		University of Leicester discovery sheds light on how vertebrates see New research led by the University of Leicester has overturned a long-standing theory on how vertebrates evolved their eyes by identifying remarkable details of the retina in the eyes of 300 million ... more
Bridging the gap between the quantum and classical worlds In the quantum world, physicists study the tiny particles that make up our classical world - neutrons, electrons, photons - either one at a time or in small numbers because the behaviour of the part ... more		New metamaterials can change properties with a flick of a light-switch Invisibility cloaks have less to do with magic than with metamaterials. These human-engineered materials have properties that don't occur in nature, allowing them to bend and manipulate light in wei ... more		New silicon structures could make better biointerfaces A team of researchers from the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have engine ... more		Swapping substrates improves edges of graphene nanoribbons It is now feasible to make a prized material for spintronic devices and semiconductors - monolayer graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges. Miniscule ribbons of graphene are highly sought-after ... more

	Chemists create vitamin-driven battery A team of University of Toronto chemists has created a battery that stores energy in a biologically derived unit, paving the way for cheaper consumer electronics that are easier on the environment. ... more		A mini-antenna for the data processing of tomorrow With the rapid advance of miniaturization, data processing using electric currents faces tough challenges, some of which are insurmountable. Magnetic spin waves are a promising alternative for the t ... more

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Turbulence brings together Germany, Ukraine, and Russia

US company gets historic nod to send lander to moon

NASA Spacecraft to Map Surface of 'Doomsday' Earth-Crushing Asteroid

SwRI space scientists observe Io's atmospheric collapse during eclipse

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A Giant Stellar Void in the Milky Way

Aladin wind probe ready for Aeolus

Mapping the exotic matter inside neutron stars

After Deadly Crash, Virgin Galactic to Fly Its Spaceplane Once More

Astrobiologists study Mars on Earth

China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies in blaze of online glory

Bravura receives $305 million aerostat support contract

WorldView-4 Earth Imaging Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg Air Force Base for Sept 15 Launch

Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water

Five Years Post-Launch, Juno Is at a Turning Point

NASA Orders Second SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station

Progress is Heard as RS-25 Engine Roars to Life for NASA's Space Launch System

Opportunity Surpasses 43 Kilometers on the Odometer

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