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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2017 A NASA spacecraft begins its search Thursday for an enigmatic class of near-Earth objects known as Earth-Trojan asteroids. OSIRIS-REx, currently on a two-year outbound journey to the asteroid Bennu, will spend almost two weeks searching for evidence of these small bodies. Trojan asteroids are trapped in stable gravity wells, called Lagrange points, which precede or follow a planet. OSIRIS-REx is currently traveling through Earth's fourth Lagrange point, which is located 60 degrees ahead in Earth's ... read more |
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Astronomy team finds more than 100 exoplanet candidatesAn international team of astronomers has released the largest ever compilation of exoplanet-detecting observations made using a technique called the radial velocity method. By making the data public ... more  
Opportunity passes 44 kilometers of surface travel after 13 yearsOpportunity is located on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is making progress towards the next major scientific objective, the gully less than a kilometer south of the current location. ... more  
Why it's time for Australia to launch its own space agencyAny nation that hopes to have a space program needs to be able to keep an eye on its orbiting assets at all times. This means that Australia has become a key link in the global chain of ground-based ... more  
UK may lose access to EU Galileo GPS system after BrexitThe United Kingdom may be cut off the new EU global positioning system (GPS) Galileo, which has been developed with active participation of British companies, and will have to hold separate negotiat ... more |
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Blue jets studied from Space StationFor years, their existence has been debated: elusive electrical discharges in the upper atmosphere that sport names such as red sprites, blue jets, pixies and elves. Reported by pilots, they are dif ... more  
NASA Gives the Webb Telescope a ShakedownScientists and engineers had many challenges in designing the components of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and then had to custom design and build ways to test it. Because of the sheer size and s ... more  
Quest to settle riddle over Einstein's theory may soon be overAstronomy experiments could soon test an idea developed by Albert Einstein almost exactly a century ago, scientists say. Tests using advanced technology could resolve a longstanding puzzle over what ... more 
HSE experts investigate how order emerges from chaosIgor Kolokolov and Vladimir Lebedev, scientific experts from HSE's Faculty of Physics and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, have developed an analytical th ... more 
Possibility of Silicon-Based Life GrowsScience fiction has long imagined alien worlds inhabited by silicon-based life, such as the rock-eating Horta from the original Star Trek series. Now, scientists have for the first time shown that n ... more 
Asteroid resembles dungeons and dragons diceRadar images of asteroid 2017 BQ6 were obtained on Feb. 6 and 7 with NASA's 70-meter (230-foot) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California. They reveal an irregular, an ... more |
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Scientists shortlist three landing sites for Mars 2020Participants in a landing site workshop for NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission have recommended three locations on the Red Planet for further evaluation. The three potential landing sites for N ... more  
Orbit Logic Software to be used for BridgeSat Laser Comm SchedulingOrbit Logic has announced that BridgeSat has awarded Orbit Logic a contract to provide software for its optical ground telescope network to plan laser communication contacts with satellites using it ... more  
NASA studies growing Louisiana deltasThe Louisiana coastline is sinking under the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of about one football field of land every hour (about 18 square miles of land lost in a year). But within this sinking region, ... more  
New, long-lasting flow battery could run for more than a decade with minimum upkeepResearchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new flow battery that stores energy in organic molecules dissolved in neutral pH water ... more |
  
NASA may have to book seats for American astronauts on Russian Soyuz spaceships in 2018. Radio Sputnik discussed the issue with John Logsdon, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.
"The relationship between NASA and the former Soviet Union goes back a long way with the highlight being the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz project. But with Russia ... more Progress Underway for First Commercial Airlock on Space Station A new recruit for ESA's astronaut corps The Outer Space Treaty has been remarkably successful - but is it fit for the modern age? |
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Private space travel company SpaceX lifted it's Falcon 9 rocket at Florida's Kennedy Space Center to undergo testing in preparation for a potential launch.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, shared a photo of the rocket in its upright position at the launchpad in Cape Canaveral where the first manned mission to the moon was launched.
"Falcon 9 rocket now vertical at Cape Canaveral on launch c ... more Russian Space Agency Develops Program to Improve Carrier Rocket Assembly Quality Commercial Launch of Proton-M Carrier Rocket Planned For Early April - Roscosmos India to launch record 104 satellites next week |
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Scientists from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) have successfully executed crucial orbital maneuvering on Mars spacecraft to give it another lease of life.
The Mission was facing imminent death as it was to face an eclipse during which dark shadows of Mars would block light to spacecraft's solar panel.
After hours long remotely controlled execution which activated onboard t ... more Opportunity passes 44 kilometers of surface travel after 13 years Scientists shortlist three landing sites for Mars 2020 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter plays crucial role in search for landing sites |
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China's plans for deep-space exploration included two Mars missions and one Jupiter probe.
China plans its first Mars probe by 2020, said Wu Yanhua, vice director of the China National Space Administration.
A second Mars probe will bring back samples and conduct research on the planet's structure, composition and environment, Wu said.
Also on the agenda are an asteroid explorat ... more China's first cargo spacecraft to leave factory China launches commercial rocket mission Kuaizhou-1A China Space Plan to Develop "Strength and Size" |
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Any nation that hopes to have a space program needs to be able to keep an eye on its orbiting assets at all times. This means that Australia has become a key link in the global chain of ground-based tracking stations. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a deep space tracking facility at Tidbinbilla in the ACT, managed by the CSIRO, and the European Space Agency (ESA) ... more NASA seeks partnerships with US companies to advance commercial space technologies An exciting year in space for Intelsat Iridium Adds Eighth Launch with SpaceX for Satellite Rideshare |
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Astronomers at Lomonosov Moscow State University in cooperation with their French colleagues and with the help of citizen scientists have released "The Reference Catalog of galaxy SEDs" (RCSED), which contains value-added information about 800,000 galaxies. The catalog is accessible on the web and its description has been published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement (impact factor - 11.257) ... more New high-performance computing cluster at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam Orbit Logic Software to be used for BridgeSat Laser Comm Scheduling Most stretchable elastomer for 3-D printing |
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The search for life beyond Earth starts in habitable zones, the regions around stars where conditions could potentially allow liquid water - which is essential for life as we know it - to pool on a planet's surface. New NASA research suggests some of these zones might not actually be able to support life due to frequent stellar eruptions - which spew huge amounts of stellar material and radiatio ... more Dwarf star 200 light years away contains life's building blocks Possibility of Silicon-Based Life Grows Astronomy team finds more than 100 exoplanet candidates |
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A report on the potential science value of a lander on the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa has been delivered to NASA, and the agency is now engaging the broader science community to open a discussion about its findings.
In early 2016, in response to a congressional directive, NASA's Planetary Science Division began a pre-Phase A study to assess the science value and engineering desig ... more New Horizons Refines Course for Next Flyby It's Never 'Groundhog Day' at Jupiter Public to Choose Jupiter Picture Sites for NASA Juno |
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The Louisiana coastline is sinking under the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of about one football field of land every hour (about 18 square miles of land lost in a year). But within this sinking region, two river deltas are growing. The Atchafalaya River and its diversion channel, Wax Lake Outlet, are gaining about one football field of new land every 11 and 8 hours, respectively (1.5 and 2 square m ... more RE2 Robotics to further develop EOD underwater manipulator system Litter is piling up on the Arctic sea floor Study: Deep-sea mining causes long-lasting ecological damage |
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Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals are critical tools for industries requiring exact precision and high confidence. Now, Geoscience Australia, an agency of the Commonwealth of Australia, and Lockheed Martin have entered into a collaborative research project to show how augmenting signals from multiple GNSS constellations can enhance positioning, navigation, and timing for a range ... more UK may lose access to EU Galileo GPS system after Brexit U.S. Air Force, Boeing extend GPS sustainment pact India's Satnav Goes Out of Whack as Orbiting Atomic Clocks Break |
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The Moon may be peppered with oxygen transmitted by life on Earth, according to a scientific study, opening up the possibility that the Earth's atmosphere of billions of years ago may be preserved on the present-day lunar surface.
It has long been speculated that the Moon has been intermittently sprayed with the Earth's oxygen, with some researchers suggesting the nitrogen and noble gases ... more Private Space Race Heats Up, Moon Landing Expected in Late 2017 LunaH-Map CubeSat to map the Moon's water deposits India, Israel among five teams fighting for first private Moon landing |
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Radar images of asteroid 2017 BQ6 were obtained on Feb. 6 and 7 with NASA's 70-meter (230-foot) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California. They reveal an irregular, angular-appearing asteroid about 660 feet (200 meters) in size that rotates about once every three hours. The images have resolutions as fine as 12 feet (3.75 meters) per pixel.
"The radar images ... more NASA's OSIRIS-REx Begins Earth-Trojan Asteroid Search New research shows Ceres may have vanishing ice volcanoes Earth Narrowly Dodges Three Large Asteroids |
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Igor Kolokolov and Vladimir Lebedev, scientific experts from HSE's Faculty of Physics and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, have developed an analytical theory, which binds the structure of coherent vortices formed due to inverse cascades in 2-D turbulence with the statistical properties of hydrodynamic fluctuations.
Uncovering this link can be us ... more NASA spacecraft prepares to fly to new heights Blue jets studied from Space Station SpaceKnow raises $4 Million in Series A funding |
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An international team led by researchers at Nagoya University, along with US and Swiss colleagues, has identified a new type of solar event and dated it to the year 5480 BC; they did this by measuring carbon-14 levels in tree rings, which reflect the effects of cosmic radiation on the atmosphere at the time. They have also proposed causes of this event, thereby extending knowledge of how the sun ... more Friday Night's Deep Penumbral Lunar Eclipse NASA Scientist Studies Whether Solar Storms Cause Animal Beachings Eclipse 2017: NASA Supports a Unique Opportunity for Science in the Shadow |
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Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new technique to discover the faintest galaxies yet seen in the early universe -10 times fainter than any previously seen. These galaxies will help astronomers probe a little-understood, but important period in cosmic history. Their new technique helps probe the time a billion years after the Big Bang, when the early, dark univers ... more Protostar displays a strange geometry New evidence in favor of dark matter Pure iron grains are rare in the universe |
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All known black holes fall into two categories: small, stellar-mass black holes weighing a few Suns, and supermassive black holes weighing millions or billions of Suns. Astronomers expect that intermediate-mass black holes weighing 100 - 10,000 Suns also exist, but so far no conclusive proof of such middleweights has been found. Today, astronomers are announcing new evidence that an intermediate ... more Measuring time without a clock Quest to settle riddle over Einstein's theory may soon be over Stars align in test supporting 'spooky action at a distance' |
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