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  Providence RI (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 A new study of satellite data finds that numerous volcanic deposits distributed across the surface of the Moon contain unusually high amounts of trapped water compared with surrounding terrains. The finding of water in these ancient deposits, which are believed to consist of glass beads formed by the explosive eruption of magma coming from the deep lunar interior, bolsters the idea that the lunar mantle is surprisingly water-rich. Scientists had assumed for years that the interior of the Moon had ... read more |
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Fear is powerful enough to wipe out a speciesWashington (UPI) Jul 24, 2017 New research highlights the immense power of fear. The emotion was strong enough to curb eating and reproduction among groups of fruit flies, increasing the likelihood of extinction. ... more  
NASA mission surfs through waves in space to understand space weatherGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 The space surrounding our planet is full of restless charged particles and roiling electric and magnetic fields, which create waves around Earth. One type of wave, plasmaspheric hiss, is particularl ... more 
Moon could be wetter than thought, say scientistsParis (AFP) July 24, 2017 The Moon, long thought to be a dry, inhospitable orb, hosts surprisingly large sub-surface water reserves, which one day may quench the thirst of lunar explorers from Earth, scientists said Monday. ... more  
Dark matter is likely cold not fuzzySeattle WA (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 Dark matter is the aptly named unseen material that makes up the bulk of matter in our universe. But what dark matter is made of is a matter of debate. Scientists have never directly detected ... more |
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'Mystery' signal from space is solved. It's not aliensMiami (AFP) July 21, 2017 Astronomers have finally solved the mystery of peculiar signals coming from a nearby star, a story that sparked intense public speculation this week that perhaps, finally, alien life had been found. ... more 
Superluminous supernova marks the death of a star at cosmic high noonLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 The death of a massive star in a distant galaxy 10 billion years ago created a rare superluminous supernova that astronomers say is one of the most distant ever discovered. The brilliant explosion, ... more  
A Final Farewell to LISA PathfinderPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 25, 2017 With the push of a button, final commands for the European Space Agency's LISA Pathfinder mission were beamed to space on July 18, a final goodbye before the spacecraft was powered down. LISA ... more  
Manmade aerosols identified as driver in shifting global rainfall patternsMiami FL (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 In a new study, scientists found that aerosol particles released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels are a primary driver of changes in rainfall patterns across the globe. The ... more  
Russian sanctions won't affect cooperation in spaceWashington (Sputnik) Jul 25, 2017 US anti-Russian sanctions should not affect the work of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and damage bilateral cooperation in space, the bill published on the website of the US Co ... more  
Saturn surprises as Cassini continues its Grand FinalePasadena CA (JPL) Jul 25, 2017 As NASA's Cassini spacecraft makes its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, scientists are finding - so far - that the planet's magnetic field has no discernible tilt. ... more |
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 Hyperloop or hyperbole? Musk promises NY-DC run in 29 mins  
Vortex photons from electrons in circular motionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 Researchers at IMS and their coworkers have shown theoretically and experimentally that a high energy electron in circular/spiral motion radiates vortex photons in the entire wavelength range from t ... more  
Ultrathin device harvests electricity from human motionNashville TN (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 Imagine slipping into a jacket, shirt or skirt that powers your cell phone, fitness tracker and other personal electronic devices as you walk, wave and even when you are sitting. A new, ultrat ... more  
How enzymes produce hydrogenBochum, Germany (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 Researchers at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum and the Freie Universitat Berlin have clarified the crucial catalytic step in the production of hydrogen by enzymes. The enzymes, called [FeFe]-hydrogenases, e ... more 
The first light atomic nucleus with a second faceWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 To some degree of approximation, atomic nuclei look like spheres which in most cases are distorted to a greater or lesser extent. When the nucleus is excited, its shape may change, but only for an e ... more |
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  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 20, 2017 
When astronauts return to Earth from destinations beyond the moon in NASA's Orion spacecraft and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, they'll still need to safely get out of the spacecraft and back on dry land. Using the waters off the coast of Galveston, Texas, a NASA and Department of Defense team tested Orion exit procedures in a variety of scenarios July 10-14.
During the crew egress testi ... more Zhukovskiy (Sputnik) Jul 21, 2017Space Tourist From Asian Country to Travel to ISS in 2019 Washington (Sputnik) Jul 25, 2017Russian sanctions won't affect cooperation in space  Centennial CO (SPX) Jul 21, 2017ULA to launch Dream Chaser for cargo runs to ISS for Sierra Nevada |
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 Washington (AFP) July 20, 2017 
SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk has downplayed the chances of a successful inaugural flight for his Falcon Heavy space launch vehicle, admitting there is a "good chance it would not make it to orbit in its first launch."
Development of the booster rocket, which is powered by 27 engines, has proven to be "way harder than the team initially thought," he told the International Space Station Re ... more Zhukovskiy (Sputnik) Jul 21, 2017Russia to Supply Largest Ever Number of Space Rocket Engines to US This Year  New Delhi (Sputnik) Jul 18, 2017ISRO Develops Ship-Based Antenna System to Track Satellite Launches  Sacramento CA (SPX) Jul 10, 2017Aerojet Rocketdyne tests Advanced Electric Propulsion System |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2017 
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded a panoramic view before entering the upper end of a fluid-carved valley that descends the inner slope of a large crater's rim.
The scene includes a broad notch in the crest of the crater's rim, which may have been a spillway where water or ice or wind flowed over the rim and into the crater. Wheel tracks visible in the area of the notch we ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 20, 2017Sol 1756: Closing time  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Hubble sees Martian moon orbiting the Red Planet  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2017For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017 
China has a clear plan to provide sea launches for commercial payloads to be carried by Long March rockets, according to an aerospace official.
Tang Yagang, vice head of the aerospace division of the No.1 institute of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC), said that the technology is not difficult and a sea launch platform can be built based on modifying 10,000-ton ... more Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2017Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit  Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Space Program: From Setback, to Manned Flights, to the Moon  Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Rocket Fizzles Out, Puts Other Launches on Hold |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
LISA Pathfinder has been switched off as planned on the evening of 18thof July, ending its successful mission which surpassed all expectations
After 16 months of science measurements an international team deactivated the LISA Pathfinder satellite on the evening of the 18th of July 2017. The gravitational-wave laboratory in space powered down after receiving the last commands in the evening ... morePasadena CA (JPL) Jul 25, 2017A Final Farewell to LISA Pathfinder  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 18, 2017ASTROSCALE Raises a Total of $25 Million in Series C Led by Private Companies  Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017LISA Pathfinder: bake, rattle and roll |
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 Chapel Hill NC (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University have created the first general-purpose method for using machine learning to predict the properties of new metals, ceramics and other crystalline materials and to find new uses for existing materials, a discovery that could save countless hours wasted in the trial-and-error process of creating new and better materia ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 21, 2017Cleanup Time: Russia Launches Satellite to Remove Space Junk from Orbit  Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Using water displacement as the 3-D shape sensor for complex objects  Santa Barbara CW (SPX) Jul 21, 2017A plastic planet |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
The MASCARA (Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA) station at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile has achieved first light. This new facility will seek out transiting exoplanets as they pass in front of their bright parent stars and create a catalogue of targets for future exoplanet characterisation observations.
In June 2016, ESO reached an agreement with Leiden University to site a station of MASCA ... more Mountain View CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2017SETI Institute-Unistellar Partnership Promises to Revolutionize Amateur Astronomy  Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Holographic imaging could sample and identify living microbes in the outer solar system  Kobe, Japan (SPX) Jul 25, 2017New non-photosynthesizing plant species discovered on Ishigaki island, Japan |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 20, 2017 
A primitive solar system object that's more than four billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers) away passed in front of a distant star as seen from Earth. Just before midnight Eastern Time Sunday (12:50 a.m. local time July 17), several telescopes deployed by the New Horizons team in a remote part of Argentina were in precisely the right place at the right time to catch its fleeting shadow - an eve ... more Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2017New Horizons Video Soars over Pluto's Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2017Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot  Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 13, 2017New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis |
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 Corvallis OR (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
Robotics researchers have found a way for autonomous underwater vehicles to navigate strong currents with greater energy efficiency, which means the AUVs can gather data longer and better.
AUVs such as underwater gliders are valuable research tools limited primarily by their energy budget - every bit of battery power wasted via inefficient trajectories cuts into the time they can spend wor ... more University of New South WalesA super-algae to save our seas  Boston MA (SPX) Jul 25, 2017A 50-year Indian dry spell has reversed, with more rain to come  Fairbanks AK (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Mountain glaciers recharge vital aquifers |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 21, 2017 
Russia and China are set to establish a pilot zone to test the Russian GLONASS and Chinese BeiDou satellite navigation systems on passenger and freight transportation routes going through Kraskino - Hunchun and Poltavka - Dongning checkpoints on the border in Russia's Primorsky Territory, the Russian Transport Ministry said.
The issue was discussed during a meeting of a bilateral working g ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2017IAI, Honeywell Aerospace team for GPS anti-jam system  New Delhi (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017India Plans to Roll Out National GPS Next Year  Washington (UPI) Jul 7, 2017Orbital Alliance Techsystems receives contract for GPS artillery |
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 Paris (AFP) July 24, 2017 
The Moon, long thought to be a dry, inhospitable orb, hosts surprisingly large sub-surface water reserves, which one day may quench the thirst of lunar explorers from Earth, scientists said Monday.
"We found the signature of the lunar interior water globally using satellite data," Shuai Li, co-author of a study by scientists at Brown University in the United States, told AFP.
"Such wate ... more Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Living in Deep Space: Lockheed Martin to Build Full-Scale Prototype of NASA Cislunar Habitat  Providence RI (SPX) Jul 25, 2017Scientists spy new evidence of water in the moon's interior New York (AFP) July 20, 2017Neil Armstrong moon bag sells for $1.8mn in New York |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 24, 2017 
New research highlights the immense power of fear. The emotion was strong enough to curb eating and reproduction among groups of fruit flies, increasing the likelihood of extinction.
Scientists at Canada's McGill University exposed fruit flies to a pheromone produced by praying mantises, one of the species main predators. The smell was enough to inspire fear. Fruit flies exposed to the ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2017Ancient, massive asteroid impact could explain Martian geological mysteries  Tucson, AZ (SPX) Jul 10, 2017Pitted Materials in Craters Could Indicate Buried Ice on Asteroids  Orlando FL (SPX) Jul 06, 2017Bizarro comet challenging researchers |
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 Miami FL (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
In a new study, scientists found that aerosol particles released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels are a primary driver of changes in rainfall patterns across the globe.
The results of the climate system-model simulations conducted by researchers Brian Soden and Eui-Seok Chung from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science revealed ... more Stevenage UK (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Airbus built Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite ready for launch  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 20, 2017Early Airborne Results Address South Korean Air Quality  Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 21, 2017North American monsoon storms fewer but more extreme |
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 Miami (AFP) July 21, 2017 
Millions of people, from students to rocket scientists, are poised to contribute to a massive scientific effort to study the total solar eclipse that will sweep across the United States August 21.
The entire country will fall into shadow as the "Great American Eclipse" passes, though the darkest path, or "totality," will be contained in a 70-mile (113-kilometer) ribbon that moves from Oregon ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 24, 2017The moon is front and center during a total solar eclipse Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 25, 2017NASA mission surfs through waves in space to understand space weather Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 21, 2017NASA looks to solar eclipse to help understand Earth's energy system |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
A research team led by Adler Planetarium astronomer Dr. Grace Wolf-Chase has discovered new evidence of stars forming in our Milky Way Galaxy. By using a telescope equipped to detect infrared light invisible to our eyes, this exciting new science is revealing how stars, including our very own Sun, grow up within clusters and groups. The Astrophysical Journal has published a paper on the subject ... moreLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Superluminous supernova marks the death of a star at cosmic high noon Miami (AFP) July 21, 2017'Mystery' signal from space is solved. It's not aliens  London, UK (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Ground-Breaking Ground-Based Images of Planets from Pro-Am Team |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
In 1928, physicist Paul Dirac made the stunning prediction that every fundamental particle in the universe has an antiparticle - its identical twin but with opposite charge. When particle and antiparticle met they would be annihilated, releasing a poof of energy. Sure enough, a few years later the first antimatter particle - the electron's opposite, the positron - was discovered, and antimatter ... moreWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Jul 24, 2017The first light atomic nucleus with a second face Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Vortex photons from electrons in circular motion  Freiburg, Germany (SPX) Jul 20, 2017Evidence of the Higgs particle's decay in quarks |
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