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  Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 wo exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system have been identified as most likely to be habitable, a paper by PSI Senior Scientist Amy Barr says. The TRAPPIST-1 system has been of great interest to observers and planetary scientists because it seems to contain seven planets that are all roughly Earth-sized, Barr and co-authors Vera Dobos and Laszlo L. Kiss said in "Interior Structures and Tidal Heating in the TRAPPIST-1 Planets" that appears in Astronomy and Astrophysics. "Because the TRAPPIST-1 st ... read more |
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Successful first test for the Ariane 6 Vulcain engineParis (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 The Vulcain 2.1 engine, developed by ArianeGroup to power the main stage of the Ariane 6 launcher, for which the maiden flight is scheduled for 2020, has just been successfully tested by the DLR (Ge ... more  
Russia at work on new station, lunar trips: says top rocket scientistMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 24, 2018 Russia is set to spend the next decade working on a potential new station that might be built if the International Space Station (ISS) project is terminated, as well as a spacecraft capable of makin ... more 
India seeks to reduce satellite launch costNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 24, 2018 The GSAT-11 to be launched by Arianespace may be India's last communication satellite to use foreign boosters as the country's space agency is set to launch its own rockets with double the payload c ... more  
Asteroid to pass by Earth in Feb.Washington (UPI) Jan 22, 2018 A half-mile-wide asteroid is scheduled to make a close pass by Earth next month. ... more |
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Two US spacewalkers replace latching end of robotic armMiami (AFP) Jan 23, 2018 Two US astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Tuesday for a seven-hour, 24-minute spacewalk to repair the orbiting outpost's aging robotic arm, NASA said. ... more 
ULA to market Atlas V commercial launchesCentennial CO (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 United Launch Alliance has assumed responsibility for the marketing and sales of Atlas V, the world's most reliable launch vehicle, from Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services. In addition to pe ... more 
Explorer 1: The Beginning of American Space SciencePasadena CA (JPL) Jan 24, 2018 Sixty years ago next week, the hopes of Cold War America soared into the night sky as a rocket lofted skyward above Cape Canaveral, a soon-to-be-famous barrier island off the Florida coast. Th ... more  
Breakthrough study shows how plants sense the worldBirmingham AL (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 Plants lack eyes and ears, but they can still see, hear, smell and respond to environmental cues and dangers - especially to virulent pathogens. They do this with the aid of hundreds of membrane pro ... more  
Mystery Solved for Mega-Avalanches in Tibet - and Perhaps on MarsTucson Az (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 An international scientific effort determined the cause of a highly unusual and deadly glacier avalanche in Tibet in 2016, a new Nature Geoscience paper says. In July 2016, a glacier in Tibet ... more 
Irish first as Elfordstown tracks and monitors Rocket Lab satellite deploymentElfordstown, Ireland (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 US space launch provider Rocket Lab successfully reached orbit this weekend with the test flight of its second Electron orbital launch vehicle 'Still Testing' deploying 3 client satellites safely in ... more  
No space for China's stay-at-home taikonautsBeijing (XNA) Jan 23, 2018 On an evening in November 2016, Deng Qingming went home to find his wife and his daughter had prepared a lavish spread of his favorite dishes and wine. He ran to the bathroom, turned on the faucet, ... more |
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US nuclear review calls for development of low-yield weaponsWashington (AFP) Jan 17, 2018 The US military wants to overhaul its atomic arsenal and develop a new type of low-yield weapon that experts worry could lead to greater proliferation and heighten the risk of nuclear war. ... more  
Clamour of calls for more UK military funds amid Russia, cyber threatLondon (AFP) Jan 23, 2018 Former defence secretary Michael Fallon joined calls Monday for more British military spending, as the head of the army said the country may struggle to match Russian battlefield capabilities and another security chief warned a major cyber-attack on the UK is likely by 2020. ... more  
Novel hypothesis on why animals diversified on EarthLund, Sweden (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 Can tumors teach us about animal evolution on Earth? Researchers believe so and now present a novel hypothesis of why animal diversity increased dramatically on Earth about half a billion years ago. ... more |
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Using crumpled graphene balls to make better batteriesChicago IL (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 Lithium metal-based batteries have the potential to turn the battery industry upside down. With the theoretically ultra-high capacity of lithium metal used by itself, this new type of battery could ... more  
Siberian chemists have improved hydrogen sensorsKrasnoyarsk, Russia (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 A group of scientists from the Siberian Federal University (SFU, Krasnoyarsk, Russia) and the Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (NIIC, Novosibirsk, Russia) combined the useful properties of ... more  
Method uses DNA, nanoparticles and lithography to make optically active structuresChicago IL (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 Northwestern University researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind technique for creating entirely new classes of optical materials and devices that could lead to light bending and cloaking devi ... more  
Building molecular wires, one atom at a timeOnna, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Electronic devices are getting smaller and smaller. Early computers filled entire rooms. Today you can hold one in the palm of your hand. Now the field of molecular electronics is taking miniaturiza ... more 
Looking up a century ago, a vision of the future of space explorationMelbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Jan 23, 2018 In the early years of the 20th century a Russian scientist - now known as the father of astronautics and rocketry - wrote a fable exploring what life in space might be like in the future. Kons ... more 
Orion Spacecraft Recovery Rehearsal UnderwayKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 NASA's new deep space exploration systems will send crew 40,000 miles beyond the Moon, and return them safely home. After traveling through space at 25,000 miles per hour, the Orion spacecraft will ... more 
Italy's First Female Astronaut: 'No Room for Conflicts in Space'Rome (Sputnik) Jan 23, 2018 While Earth is seized by geopolitical tensions and friction, up in space there are endless possibilities to work together for more important common goals, such were the conclusions during a recent c ... more |
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 Opportunity gets dust cleaning and passes 45 kilometers of driving 
Asteroid 2002 AJ129 to Fly Safely Past Earth February 4Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 23, 2018 Asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make a close approach to Earth on Feb. 4, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. PST (4:30 p.m. EST / 21:30 UTC). At the time of closest approach, the asteroid will be no closer than 10 times th ... more  
Most Powerful Dutch Supercomputer Boosts New Radio TelescopeAmsterdam, Netherland (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 Every day, thousands of enormous explosions go off in the sky: so-called Fast Radio Bursts. To better understand the flashes and the gigantic energies behind them, ASTRON - the Netherlands Institute ... more 
China Focus: The making of heroes - the women and men of China's space programBeijing (XNA) Jan 23, 2018 Taikonaut Zhang Xiaoguang prepared for 15 years to go into space. Zhang, one of the 14 pilots recruited as China's first batch of taikonauts, was 32 when he joined the Taikonaut Corps of Peopl ... more |
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Two US astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Tuesday for a seven-hour, 24-minute spacewalk to repair the orbiting outpost's aging robotic arm, NASA said.
During what NASA commentator Rob Navias described as a "textbook" spacewalk, NASA flight engineers Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle replaced a faulty latching end on the 57-foot (17-meter) Canadian-made robotic arm, c ... more |
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 Elfordstown, Ireland (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 
US space launch provider Rocket Lab successfully reached orbit this weekend with the test flight of its second Electron orbital launch vehicle 'Still Testing' deploying 3 client satellites safely into space. The separation of the payload from the rocket was remotely tracked and monitored from Elfordstown Earthstation in Cork. This is the first time a satellite orbital insertion has been monitore ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 
wo exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system have been identified as most likely to be habitable, a paper by PSI Senior Scientist Amy Barr says.
The TRAPPIST-1 system has been of great interest to observers and planetary scientists because it seems to contain seven planets that are all roughly Earth-sized, Barr and co-authors Vera Dobos and Laszlo L. Kiss said in "Interior Structures and Tidal H ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 17, 2018 
ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer - JUICE - passed an important milestone, the ground segment requirements review, with flying colours, demonstrating that the teams are on track in the preparation of the spacecraft operations needed to achieve the mission's ambitious science goals.
Planned to launch in 2022, JUICE will embark on a 7.5-year long journey through the Solar System before arrivi ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 
Scientists are using SOFIA to survey young stars more than ten-times the mass of the Sun in an ongoing study to understand how massive stars form in our galaxy.
Astronomers are observing star-forming regions in our galaxy with NASA's flying telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, to understand the processes and environments required to create the largest kno ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 
Astronomers using ESO's MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered a star in the cluster NGC 3201 that is behaving very strangely. It appears to be orbiting an invisible black hole with about four times the mass of the Sun - the first such inactive stellar-mass black hole found in a globular cluster and the first found by directly detecting its gravitational pull. This ... more |
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