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  Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 The Australian National University (ANU) is launching a search for a new major planet within our solar system, inviting anyone around the world with access to the Internet to help make the historic discovery. Anyone who helps find the so-called Planet X will work with ANU astronomers to validate the discovery through the International Astronomical Union. ANU astrophysicist Dr. Brad Tucker is leading the project, which is being launched by Professor Brian Cox during a BBC Stargazing Live broa ... read more |
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OSIRIS-REx asteroid search tests instruments, science teamGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 During an almost two-week search, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission team activated the spacecraft's MapCam imager and scanned part of the surrounding space for elusive Earth-Trojan asteroids - objects that ... more  
Invention May Give Spacecraft Improved Damage ReportKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 There are few ways for astronauts to know exactly when the outside of their spacecraft has been damaged, but that may change in the future with an invention that acts like a sensory skin to pick up ... more  
Vietnam set to produce satellites by 2022Hanoi (XNA) Mar 27, 2017 Vietnam targets to self-develop Lotusat-2 by 2022 when its technical facilities for satellite research, assembly, integration and testing are ready to operate, according to the Vietnam National Sate ... more  
Bangladesh to join India's South Asia Satellite initiativeDhaka (IANS) Mar 27, 2017 Bangladesh has signed an agreement with India to formally join New Delhi's 'South Asia Satellite' initiative, through which the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch a communication ... more |
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China to launch new weather satellite in second half of 2017Beijing (XNA) Mar 27, 2017 China will launch a new meteorological satellite in the second half of this year, which will be capable of detecting auroras, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced ... more 
Ancient Art of Weaving Ready to Head to Mars and BeyondGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 Weaving processes created millennia ago are part of the most cutting-edge technology on NASA's Orion spaceship that may one day shield humans from heat as they ride all the way to Mars and back. Tha ... more 
NASA Selects High Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) Processor ContractGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 NASA has selected Boeing Company in St. Louis for the High Performance Spaceflight Computing Processor (Chiplet) contract for the development of prototype Chiplet devices including packaged parts an ... more  
The "Brain" of the Space Launch System RS-25 Engine Passes Critical TestStennis Space Center, MS (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 An RS-25 rocket engine with a new flight-model engine controller and flight configuration software was tested for the first time at NASA's Stennis Space Center last week. Four RS-25 engines, m ... more  
Mars dust storm west of Opportunity starting to abatePasadena CA (JPL) Mar 27, 2017 Opportunity is just outside the rim of Endeavour Crater, heading to the gully, named 'Perseverance Valley.' The large regional dust storm to the west of the rover's site has started to abate, althou ... more  
Surviving the long dark night of the MoonParis (ESA) Mar 27, 2017 Designers of future Moon missions and bases have to contend with a chilling challenge: how might their creations endure the fortnight-long lunar night? ESA has arrived at a low-cost way of surviving ... more |
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Juno Spacecraft Set for Fifth Jupiter FlybyPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 27, 2017 NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its fifth flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops on Monday, March 27, at 1:52 a.m. PDT (4:52 a.m. EDT, 8:52 UTC). At the time of closest approach (called p ... more  
UNSW scientists unveil a giant leap for anti-agingSydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 UNSW researchers have made a discovery that could lead to a revolutionary drug that actually reverses ageing, improves DNA repair and could even help NASA get its astronauts to Mars. In a pape ... more  
Spacewalking French, US astronauts begin upgrade to orbiting labMiami (AFP) March 24, 2017 A French and an American astronaut floated outside the International Space Station Friday for a spacewalk to upgrade the orbiting outpost for the arrival of future space crews. ... more 
Video game study suggests people will remain calm as the world endsWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2017 Many assume the world will end in chaos, a complete breakdown of the social order. The results of a new video game study suggest otherwise. ... more |
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A hybrid computing system developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is the enabling technology behind an ambitious experiment testing a relative navigation and autonomous docking capability known as Raven.
Developed by the Satellite Servicing Projects Division, or SSPD, the carry-on luggage-sized module was launched February 19 aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraf ... more Washington (AFP) March 21, 2017Trump, NASA and a rare consensus: mission to Mars  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2017COBALT Flight Demonstrations Fuse Technologies to Gain Precision Landing Results  Miami (AFP) March 24, 2017Spacewalking French, US astronauts begin upgrade to orbiting lab |
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 Stennis Space Center, MS (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 
An RS-25 rocket engine with a new flight-model engine controller and flight configuration software was tested for the first time at NASA's Stennis Space Center last week.
Four RS-25 engines, manufactured by Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc., will help propel NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, America's next generation heavy-lift launch vehicle, and ... more Seoul (AFP) March 20, 2017N.Korea rocket test shows 'meaningful progress': South  Esrange, Sweden (SPX) Mar 23, 2017MAXUS - Europe's largest sounding rocket to be launched from Esrange  Spaceport America NM (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Spaceport America sets new record for student launched sounding rocket |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017 
New NASA research reveals that the giant Martian volcano Arsia Mons produced one new lava flow at its summit every 1 to 3 million years during the final peak of activity. The last volcanic activity there ceased about 50 million years ago - around the time of Earth's Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, when large numbers of our planet's plant and animal species (including dinosaurs) went extinct. ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2017Breaks observed in Curiosity rover wheel treads  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 27, 2017Mars dust storm west of Opportunity starting to abate  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017 
Chinese state media is reporting that the country's space program has developed a craft capable of both landing on the moon and flying in low-Earth orbit.
The new spacecraft is claimed to be able to accommodate multiple astronauts, according to spaceship engineer Zhang Bainian, who Science and Technology Daily cited as comparing the forthcoming ship to the Orion craft currently in developm ... more Wenchang, China (XNA) Mar 13, 2017Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft  Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes  Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2017Riding an asteroid: China's next space goal |
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 Hanoi (XNA) Mar 27, 2017 
Vietnam targets to self-develop Lotusat-2 by 2022 when its technical facilities for satellite research, assembly, integration and testing are ready to operate, according to the Vietnam National Satellite Center (VNSC).
Pham Anh Tuan, director of VNSC, was quoted by local Nhan Dan (People) newspaper as saying on Friday that after developing one-kilogram PicoDragon, the first Vietnamese self ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Start-Ups at the Final Frontier  Moscow (AFP) March 20, 2017Russia probes murder of senior space official in jail  Davie FL (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Globalsat Sky and Space Global sign MoU for testing and offering satellite service in Latin America |
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There are few ways for astronauts to know exactly when the outside of their spacecraft has been damaged, but that may change in the future with an invention that acts like a sensory skin to pick up signs of damage in real-time. The invention uses a series of several technologies to create circuits printed on thin layers and that can be embedded in a spacecraft's structure, scientists behind the ... more Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Rare-earths become water-repellent only as they age  Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2017New study maps space dust in 3-D  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 27, 2017Ancient Art of Weaving Ready to Head to Mars and Beyond |
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Newly formed stars are surrounded by a disc of dense gas and dust. This is called the protoplanetary disc, as material sticks together within it to form planets. Stars of different shapes and sizes are all born in huge star-forming regions. Scientists know that when a protoplanetary disc around a relatively small star is very close to a massive star, the larger star can evaporate parts of the pr ... more Tallahassee FL (SPX) Mar 16, 2017Fossil or inorganic structure? Scientists dig into early life forms  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2017Gigantic Jupiter-type planet reveals insights into how planets evolve  Utrecht, Netherlands (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Operation of ancient biological clock uncovered |
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 27, 2017  The Australian National University (ANU) is launching a search for a new major planet within our solar system, inviting anyone around the world with access to the Internet to help make the historic discovery.
Anyone who helps find the so-called Planet X will work with ANU astronomers to validate the discovery through the International Astronomical Union.
ANU astrophysicist Dr. Brad T ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 27, 2017Juno Spacecraft Set for Fifth Jupiter Flyby  Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Scientists make the case to restore Pluto's planet status  Paris (ESA) Mar 17, 2017ESA's Jupiter mission moves off the drawing board |
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 Exeter, UK (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 
Important microscopic creatures which produce half of the oxygen in the atmosphere can rapidly adapt to global warming, new research suggests. Phytoplankton, which also act as an essential food supply for fish, can increase the rate at which they take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen while in warmer water temperatures, a long-running experiment shows.
Monitoring of one species, a green ... more Dehradun, India (AFP) March 21, 2017India grants sacred rivers status of 'legal persons'  Brussels (AFP) March 26, 2017Brexit plunges EU fishing into troubled waters  Indianapolis IN (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Study of non-rainfall water in Namib Desert reveals unexpected origins |
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 London, UK (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 
Using a satnav to get to your destination 'switches off' parts of the brain that would otherwise be used to simulate different routes, reveals new UCL research.
The study, published in Nature Communications and funded by Wellcome, involved 24 volunteers navigating a simulation of Soho in central London while undergoing brain scans. The researchers investigated activity in the hippocampus, ... more London (UPI) Mar 13, 2017Technology can reduce GPS outages from Northern Lights, researchers say  Los Angeles CA (UPI) Mar 07, 2017DevOps process reduces GPS OCX development time for Raytheon  Beijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2017Police in China's restive Xinjiang to track cars by GPS |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 27, 2017 
Designers of future Moon missions and bases have to contend with a chilling challenge: how might their creations endure the fortnight-long lunar night? ESA has arrived at a low-cost way of surviving.
During prolonged night, when the surface is lit only by blue Earthlight, temperatures dip below -170+ C. Some locations at higher latitudes have shorter nights, though others have much longer ... more Bengaluru, India (IANS) Mar 17, 2017Team Indus To Send Seven Experiments To The Moon Including Three From India  Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Sun Devils working for a chance to induce photosynthesis on our lunar neighbor  Washington (UPI) Mar 10, 2017NASA finds missing LRO, Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiters |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2017 
Dwarf planet Ceres may be hundreds of millions of miles from Jupiter, and even farther from Saturn, but the tremendous influence of gravity from these gas giants has an appreciable effect on Ceres' orientation. In a new study, researchers from NASA's Dawn mission calculate that the axial tilt of Ceres - the angle at which it spins as it journeys around the sun - varies widely over the course of ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 27, 2017OSIRIS-REx asteroid search tests instruments, science team  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2017The many faces of Rosetta's comet 67P  Paris (ESA) Mar 22, 2017Collapsing cliff reveals comet's interior |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2017 
One of our planet's few exposed lava lakes is changing, and artificial intelligence is helping NASA understand how. On January 21, a fissure opened at the top of Ethiopia's Erta Ale volcano - one of the few in the world with an active lava lake in its caldera. Volcanologists sent out requests for NASA's Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) spacecraft to image the eruption, which was large enough to begin re ... more Beijing (XNA) Mar 27, 2017China to launch new weather satellite in second half of 2017  Paris (ESA) Mar 23, 2017Unravelling Earth's magnetic field  Paris (ESA) Mar 21, 2017Beautiful science with astronaut aurora |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 
For 15 days starting on March 7, 2017, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, returned visible light images of a yolk-like spotless sun.
This is the longest stretch of spotlessness since the last solar minimum in April 2010, indicating the solar cycle is marching on toward the next minimum, which scientists predict will occur between 2019-2020.
The sun goes through a natural 11-y ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017NASA Satellites Ready When Stars and Planets Align  Ithaca NY (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Cornell's FOTON studies 'space weather' to improve satellite communication  Bath, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2017New research on northern lights will improve satellite navigation accuracy |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 
A UC Riverside-led team of astronomers have taken us a step closer to better understand the formation and destruction mechanisms of dust molecules in the distant universe. A molecule found in car engine exhaust fumes that is thought to have contributed to the origin of life on Earth has made astronomers heavily underestimate the amount of stars that were forming in the early Universe, a Universi ... more Washington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2017With astronomy rewind, citizen scientists will bring zombie astrophotos back to life  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Hubble discovery of runaway star yields clues to breakup of multiple-star system  Perth, Australia (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Astronomers hazard a ride in a 'drifting carousel' to understand pulsating stars |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 
Astronomers from Bonn and Tautenburg in Thuringia (Germany) used the 100-m radio telescope at Effelsberg to observe several galaxy clusters. At the edges of these large accumulations of dark matter, stellar systems (galaxies), hot gas, and charged particles, they found magnetic fields that are exceptionally ordered over distances of many million light-years. This makes them the most extended mag ... more Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Finding the 'ghost particles' might be more challenging than what we thought  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017NASA's swift mission maps a star's 'death spiral' into a Black Hole  Los Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Breaking the supermassive black hole speed limit |
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