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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 11, 2018 Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found eight sites where thick deposits of ice beneath Mars' surface are exposed in faces of eroding slopes. These eight scarps, with slopes as steep as 55 degrees, reveal new information about the internal layered structure of previously detected underground ice sheets in Mars' middle latitudes. The ice was likely deposited as snow long ago. The deposits are exposed in cross section as relatively pure water ice, capped by a laye ... read more |
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Scientist's work may provide answer to Martian mountain mysteryDallas TX (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 By seeing which way the wind blows, a University of Texas at Dallas fluid dynamics expert has helped propose a solution to a Martian mountain mystery. Dr. William Anderson, an assistant professor of ... more  
Scientists take viewers to the center of the Milky WayHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 A new visualization provides an exceptional virtual trip - complete with a 360-degree view - to the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. This project, made using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray ... more 
Space telescopes provide 3-D journey through Orion NebulaBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared vision of the Hubble (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble) and Spitzer (http://www.spitze ... more 
Organic molecule benzonitrile detected in spaceWashington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 Scientists studying a cold molecular cloud of the Taurus region with radio telescopes have detected the presence of a particular organic molecule called benzonitrile. The finding marks the first tim ... more |
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Researchers catch supermassive black hole burpingBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has caught a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy snacking on gas and then "burping" - not once, but twice. CU Boulder Assistant Profess ... more 
ASU astronomers to build space telescope to explore nearby starsTempe AZ (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 In 2021, a spacecraft the size of a Cheerios box will carry a small telescope into Earth orbit on an unusual mission. Its task is to monitor the flares and sunspots of small stars to assess how habi ... more  
Magnetic coil springs accelerate particles on the SunGottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 Why does the Sun sometimes accelerate preferentially helium-3 and iron into space? Researchers have for the first time observed helical solar flares as a source. In April and July 2014, the Su ... more  
Citizen scientists discover five-planet systemPasadena CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 In its search for exoplanets - planets outside of our solar system - NASA's Kepler telescope trails behind Earth, measuring the brightness of stars that may potentially host planets. The instrument ... more 
Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant GalaxyPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2018 An intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack: the farthest galaxy yet seen in an image that has been stret ... more 
Hubble finds substellar objects in the Orion NebulaBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble) have uncovered the largest known population ... more 
Hubble probes the archeology of our Milky Way's ancient hubBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 For many years, astronomers had a simple view of our Milky Way's central hub, or bulge, as a quiescent place composed of old stars, the earliest homesteaders of our galaxy. However, because th ... more |
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 Astronomers Measure More Black Holes, Farther Away 
Dark energy survey publicly releases first three years of dataBatavia IL (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 Also announces discovery of eleven stellar streams, evidence of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way At a special session held during the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washin ... more 
NASA study shows disk patterns can self-generateGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 When exoplanet scientists first spotted patterns in disks of dust and gas around young stars, they thought newly formed planets might be the cause. But a recent NASA study cautions that there may be ... more 
Astronomers detect 'whirlpool' movement in earliest galaxiesCambridge UK (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have formed in the universe. These 'newborns' - observed as they ... more |
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NASA's newly renamed Swift mission spies a comet slowdownGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 Observations by NASA's Swift spacecraft, now renamed the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after the mission's late principal investigator, have captured an unprecedented change in the rotation of a co ... more 
Black hole research could aid understanding of how small galaxies evolvePortsmouth UK (SPX) Jan 10, 2018 Scientists have solved a cosmic mystery by finding evidence that supermassive black holes prevent stars forming in some smaller galaxies. These giant black holes are over a million times more ... more  
A French nano satellite to unveil the mysteries of Beta PictorisParis, France (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 PicSat will be launched into Earth orbit on 12 January 2018 to study the star Beta Pictoris, its exoplanet and its famous debris disk, thanks to a small telescope 5 cm in diameter. The nanosatellite ... more  
Hallmark Seeks to Revolutionize U.S. Space Enterprise Command and ControlWashington DC (SPX) Jan 10, 2018 The growing complexity of space operations coupled with an increased need for timely decisions demands innovative approaches to battle management command and control (BMC2) technologies. To he ... more  
Blue Origin tests rocket engine as US seeks to replace Russian RD-180Washington DC (Sputnik) Jan 11, 2018 The new engine has been in development for seven years already. The US space program currently relies on the RD-180 engine to propel the Atlas V rocket, the only American vehicle capable of sending ... more  
Mass extinctions remove species but not ecological varietyChicago IL (SPX) Jan 10, 2018 Sixty-five million years ago, clouds of ash choked the skies over Earth. Dinosaurs, along with about half of all the species on Earth, staggered and died. But in the seas, a colorful populatio ... more  
3-D printing creates super soft structures that replicate brain and lungsLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 A new 3D printing technique allows researchers to replicate biological structures, which could be used for tissue regeneration and replica organs. Imperial College London researchers have deve ... more |
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 Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth 
Swarm of hydrogen clouds flying away from center of our galaxyGreen Bank WV (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 A team of astronomers has discovered what appears to be a grand exodus of more than 100 hydrogen clouds streaming away from the center of the Milky Way and heading into intergalactic space. This obs ... more 
Extremely bright and fast light emissionZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 An international team of researchers from ETH Zurich, IBM Research Zurich, Empa and four American research institutions have found the explanation for why a class of nanocrystals that has been inten ... more  
Funding runs dry for Indian Google X Prize lunar teamNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 11, 2018 TeamIndus - India's first private aerospace startup that is contending for the Google XPrize, has failed to garner adequate financing for its moon mission. Its inability to pay $35 million to Antrix ... more |
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A Japanese astronaut has sparked hilarity back on Earth after he claimed to have grown nine centimetres in space, making him worried he would not squeeze into the capsule home.
Norishige Kanai, who is aboard the International Space Station, tweeted: "We had our bodies measured after reaching space, and wow, wow, wow, I had actually grown by as much as 9 centimetres (3.5 inches)!"
"I have ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Life-saving NASA Communications System Turns 20  Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 09, 2018NASA Deep Space Exploration Systems looks ahead to action-packed 2018  Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 8, 2018Tech faithful gather to worship at mecca of innovation |
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The new engine has been in development for seven years already. The US space program currently relies on the RD-180 engine to propel the Atlas V rocket, the only American vehicle capable of sending heavy payloads into orbit.
American aerospace company Blue Origin has released video footage showing a recent test of its Blue Engine 4 (BE-4) next-generation rocket engine, which is planned to ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2018Dragon space truck set for departure from Space Station  Evry, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Arianespace begins building final 10 Ariane 5s ahead of Ariane 6 operational debut  Miami (AFP) Jan 09, 2018SpaceX says rocket worked fine as spy satellite reported lost |
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Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found eight sites where thick deposits of ice beneath Mars' surface are exposed in faces of eroding slopes.
These eight scarps, with slopes as steep as 55 degrees, reveal new information about the internal layered structure of previously detected underground ice sheets in Mars' middle latitudes.
The ice was likely deposi ... moreDallas TX (SPX) Jan 12, 2018Scientist's work may provide answer to Martian mountain mystery  Paris (ESA) Jan 11, 2018Exploring alien worlds with lasers  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 09, 2018Opportunity Takes Images Over the Holiday Period |
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China is poised to begin a comprehensive lunar exploration program which is expected to kick off with the launch of the Long March 5 rocket in June. Professor Heino Falcke, an astrophysicist at Radboud University in the Netherlands, explained during an interview with Radio Sputnik why this mission is so important.
Radio Sputnik: Please tell us about your radio telescope, which you are plan ... more Wuhan, China (XNA) Jan 02, 2018China's Kuaizhou-11 rocket scheduled to launch in first half of 2018  Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017Nation 'leads world' in remote sensing technology  Beijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017China plans for nuclear-powered interplanetary capacity by 2040 |
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 Evry, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2018 
Arianespace signed an agreement to launch two satellites for longtime customer Intelsat, one of the world's largest satellite operators. This continues the longstanding relationship between Intelsat and Arianespace that dates back to 1983.
The first launch will carry the Galaxy 30 satellite together with the Orbital ATK Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (MEV- 2) as a stacked pair. Galaxy 30 will ... more Bethesda, MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2018Aerospace Workforce Training - National Mandate for 2018  London, UK (SPX) Jan 02, 2018Nationwide search begins for young space entrepreneurs  Moscow (AFP) Dec 29, 2017Russia restores contact with Angolan satellite |
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A new 3D printing technique allows researchers to replicate biological structures, which could be used for tissue regeneration and replica organs.
Imperial College London researchers have developed a new method for creating 3D structures using cryogenics (freezing) and 3D printing techniques.
This builds on previous research, but is the first to create structures that are soft enough ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jan 03, 2018New lensless camera creates detailed 3-D images without scanning  Dulles VA (SPX) Jan 05, 2018Orbital ATK receives order for 2nd In-Orbit Satellite Servicing Vehicle  Paris (ESA) Jan 10, 2018ESA researching see-through metals |
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In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble) have uncovered the largest known population of brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars. Looking in the vicinity of the survey stars, researchers not only found several very-low-mass brown dwarf companions, but also three giant planets. They ... more Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2018SETI project homes in on strange 'fast radio bursts'  Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Iron-Rich Stars Host Shorter-Period Planets  Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2018Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 05, 2018 
In just under a year - shortly after midnight Eastern Time on Jan. 1, 2019 - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will buzz by the most primitive and most distant object ever explored. New Horizons' encounter with Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, which orbits a billion miles beyond Pluto, will offer the first close-up look at such a pristine building block of the solar system - and will be performed in a ... more Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2017Study explains why Jupiter's jet stream reverses course on a predictable schedule  Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 11, 2017New Horizons Corrects Its Course in the Kuiper Belt  Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2017Does New Horizons' Next Target Have a Moon? |
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 Leeds UK (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 
Scientists have found fossil evidence of deep-sea marine life burrowing up to eight metres below the seabed - four times the previously observed depth for modern deep-sea life.
A team of scientists from the University of Leeds and the National Oceanography Centre examined remains of deep-sea burrows in rocky outcrops that were part of the ocean floor roughly 250 million years ago.
Th ... more Toulouse, France (AFP) Jan 9, 2018French cop cleared over death of anti-dam protester  Cairo (AFP) Jan 8, 2018Egypt building huge water treatment plant amid supply concerns  bLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2018European sampling sheds light on massive diversity of freshwater plankton |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 03, 2018  Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated that quantum physics might enable communications and mapping in locations where GPS and ordinary cellphones and radios don't work reliably or even at all, such as indoors, in urban canyons, underwater and underground.
The technology may help mariners, soldiers and surveyors, among others. GPS signals ... more Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2017Raytheon to provide GPS-guided artillery shells  Washington DC (SPX) Dec 26, 2017DARPA Subterranean Challenge Aims to Revolutionize Underground Capabilities  Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 19, 2017New satellite tracking of in-flight aircraft to improve safety |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 11, 2018 
TeamIndus - India's first private aerospace startup that is contending for the Google XPrize, has failed to garner adequate financing for its moon mission. Its inability to pay $35 million to Antrix- the commercial wing of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for leasing a platform for the satellite launch has rendered the project almost dead. Sources say the startup is hoping to strike a d ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jan 05, 2018Astronauts: Trump's proposed Lunar mission will take time  Beijing (XNA) Jan 02, 2018China Prepares for Breakthrough Chang'e 4 Moon Landing in 2018  Beijing (XNA) Dec 26, 2017China solicits messages to be sent to moon |
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Observations by NASA's Swift spacecraft, now renamed the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after the mission's late principal investigator, have captured an unprecedented change in the rotation of a comet. Images taken in May 2017 reveal that comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak - 41P for short - was spinning three times slower than it was in March, when it was observed by the Discovery Channel Telesc ... more Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2017NASA image showcases Ceres mountain named for Kwanzaa  Osaka, Japan (SPX) Dec 27, 2017Development on muon beam analysis of organic matter in samples from space  Washington DC (SPX) Dec 27, 2017Arecibo radar returns with asteroid Phaethon images |
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 Taiyuan (XNA) Jan 10, 2018 
China launched a pair of 0.5-meter high-resolution remote sensing satellites Tuesday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province.
The satellites, SuperView-1 03/04, blasted off at 11:24 a.m. Beijing time on the back of a Long March 2D rocket, according to the center.
The mission aims to promote the country's commercial use of high-resolution remote sensi ... more Sydney (AFP) Jan 10, 2018Australia swelters through one of hottest years on record  Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 11, 2018Scientists examine how aerosol types influence cloud formation  Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Soil freeze-thaw stimulates nitrous oxide emissions from alpine meadows |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 
Why does the Sun sometimes accelerate preferentially helium-3 and iron into space? Researchers have for the first time observed helical solar flares as a source.
In April and July 2014, the Sun emitted three jets of energetic particles into space, that were quite exceptional: the particle streams contained such high amounts of iron and helium-3, a rare variety of helium, as have been obser ... more Wallops Island, VA (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Sounding rockets study space x-ray emissions and create polar mesospheric cloud  Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2018Eclipse megamovie projects seeks public's help analyzing 50,000 photos  Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Jan 08, 2018Special star is a Rosetta Stone for understanding the sun's variability and climate effect |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 10, 2018 
The SCHOTT melting team has started casting the first mirror segments that will make up the 39-meter primary mirror (M-1) of the European Large Telescope (ELT). To make the segments, liquid glass heated to over 1400 degrees Celsius will be poured directly into molds, and transferred into a cooling furnace and subjected to a ceramicization process lasting several weeks.
The result is ZERODU ... morePasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2018Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant Galaxy Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 11, 2018ASU astronomers to build space telescope to explore nearby stars  Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 11, 2018New stellar streams confirm 'melting pot' history of the galaxy |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2018 
How far away is that galaxy? Our entire understanding of the universe is based on knowing the distances to other galaxies, yet this seemingly-simple question turns out to be fiendishly difficult to answer. The best answer came more than 100 years ago from an astronomer who was mostly unrecognized in her time - and today, another astronomer has used Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data to make th ... more Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Supermassive Black Holes Can Overpower Even the Smallest Galaxies  Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Astronomers Measure More Black Holes, Farther Away Cambridge UK (SPX) Jan 11, 2018Astronomers detect 'whirlpool' movement in earliest galaxies |
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