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  Paris (ESA) Apr 13, 2018 Next time you eat a tomato or sweet pepper, take a closer look, because there's a good chance that its healthy appearance is thanks to one of former US President Barack Obama's speeches and ESA research for sending people on long-duration space missions. Inspired by an Obama speech in 2010 on human missions to Mars, Dutch company Groen Agro Control started investigating the best way to grow and fertilise plants in space, and whether that could also lead to improving the growth of vegetables on Ear ... read more |
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Astrophysics CubeSat Demonstrates Big Potential in a Small PackagePasadena CA (JPL) Apr 13, 2018 The ASTERIA satellite, which was deployed into low-Earth orbit in November, is only slightly larger than a box of cereal, but it could be used to help astrophysicists study planets orbiting other st ... more  
Searching for Continuous Gravitational WavesHannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 A permanent Max Planck Independent Research Group under the leadership of Dr. M. Alessandra Papa has been established at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute ... more  
Boeing HorizonX Invests in Reaction Engines, a UK Hypersonic Propulsion CompanyChicago IL (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 Boeing has announced its investment in Reaction Engines Limited, a leader in advanced propulsion systems based in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Reaction Engines' technology will contribute to the nex ... more 
First Steps to Space: Yuri Gagarin's Military Service Archive DeclassifiedMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 13, 2018 The newly declassified archival documents were released just in time for Cosmonautics Day, celebrating cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's historic April 12, 1961 flight aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. T ... more |
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Pluto's largest moon, Charon, gets its first official feature namesMunich, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for naming celestial bodies and their surface features, recently approved a dozen names proposed by NASA's New Ho ... more  
An amazingly wide variety of disksZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 An instrument, which was partially developed and built at ETH Zurich, has now been particularly successful at studying new born stars still surrounded by gas and dust. With SPHERE (Spectro-Pol ... more 
Circumbinary castaways: Short-period binary systems can eject orbiting worldsSeattle WA (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 Planets orbiting "short-period" binary stars, or stars locked in close orbital embrace, can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their host stars' evolution, according to new research from ... more  
The background hum of space could reveal hidden black holesMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 Deep space is not as silent as we have been led to believe. Every few minutes a pair of black holes smash into each other. These cataclysms release ripples in the fabric of spacetime known as gravit ... more 
What in the World is an 'Exoplanet?'Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 13, 2018 Step outside on a clear night, and you can be sure of something our ancestors could only imagine: Every star you see likely plays host to at least one planet. The worlds orbiting other stars a ... more |
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Airbus has shipped SES-12 highly innovative satellite to launch baseToulouse, France (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 The SES-12 all-electric communications satellite, built by Airbus for SES, has been shipped from the Airbus Defence and Space facilities in Toulouse, France, to Cape Canaveral, Florida. SES-12 ... more  |
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'Devastating' ocean heatwaves on the riseParis (AFP) April 12, 2018 Ocean heatwaves which can have "devastating and long-term impacts" on ecosystems have become longer and more frequent over the past century, according to an international study published Tuesday. ... more  
Cheaper, less toxic and recyclable light absorbers for hydrogen productionParis, France (SPX) Apr 12, 2018 Mimicking photosynthesis in plants, using light to convert stable and abundant molecules like water and CO2 into a high energy fuel (hydrogen) or into chemicals of industrial interest, is a major re ... more  
Diamond-based circuits can take the heat for advanced applicationsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 12, 2018 When power generators like windmills and solar panels transfer electricity to homes, businesses and the power grid, they lose almost 10 percent of the generated power. To address this problem, scien ... more  
Mars Express to get major software updateParis (ESA) Apr 12, 2018 Every so often, your smartphone or tablet receives new software to improve its functionality and extend its life. Now, ESA's Mars Express is getting a fresh install, delivered across over 150 millio ... more 
The Rock Outcrop 'Tome' Continues to Garner Interest On MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2018 Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned about halfway down the approximately 656 feet (200-meter) valley ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Apr 11, 2018 
Elon Musk's SpaceX reportedly has two people signed up for a trip around the Moon (although these plans have been delayed slightly), and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has advanced plans to launch space tourists from 2018 for a mere US$250,000 each - hundreds of people have already registered.
Is there anyone reading this who didn't want to be an astronaut when they were a child? I was ... more |
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 New Delhi (IANS) Apr 13, 2018 
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is not facing any funds crunch for its ongoing activities, the agency Chairman said on Thursday.
ISRO Chairman K.Sivan made the remark while was speaking to reporters here after the successful launch of the navigation satellite IRNSS-1I, a part of the NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation) series, earlier in the day.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2018 
Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
The rover is positioned about halfway down the approximately 656 feet (200-meter) valley near an apparent flow stream island.
A set of outcrops is garnering great interest and discussion among the science team. The rover is position on a surface target called "Tome."
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 13, 2018 
China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe is expected to do many things unprecedented in space history after it launches later this year, such as touching down softly on the far side of the Moon and taking the first flowers to blossom on the lifeless lunar surface.
The probe will carry a tin containing seeds of potato and arabidopsis, a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard, and probabl ... more |
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 
The SES-12 all-electric communications satellite, built by Airbus for SES, has been shipped from the Airbus Defence and Space facilities in Toulouse, France, to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
SES-12 is the largest and most powerful all electric satellite ever produced. It is based on the highly reliable Eurostar platform in its E3000e variant, which uses electric propulsion for orbit raising (EO ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
IMAGE's signal remains too weak to achieve frame lock, which is necessary to retrieve data from the spacecraft. But important steps have been taken this week to be prepared in case of re-established contact.
Last week, the engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, successfully established network connections with both the antennas at NASA's Wallops Flight Faci ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 12, 2018 
New images from the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope are revealing the dusty discs surrounding nearby young stars in greater detail than previously achieved. They show a bizarre variety of shapes, sizes and structures, including the likely effects of planets still in the process of forming.
The SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile allows astronomers ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2018 
Scientists working on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter shared a 3-D infrared movie depicting densely packed cyclones and anticyclones that permeate the planet's polar regions, and the first detailed view of a dynamo, or engine, powering the magnetic field for any planet beyond Earth. Those are among the items unveiled during the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, on We ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 12, 2018 
Ocean heatwaves which can have "devastating and long-term impacts" on ecosystems have become longer and more frequent over the past century, according to an international study published Tuesday.
From 1925 to 2016, the number of annual marine heatwave days globally jumped by 54 percent, with a noticeable acceleration over the last three decades, a paper in the journal Nature Communications s ... more |
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 Sriharikota, India (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 
In its forty third flight, ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C41 successfully launched the 1425 kg IRNSS-1I Navigation Satellite April 12, 2018 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.
PSLV-C41 lifted off at 0404 hrs (4:04 am) IST, as planned, from the First Launch Pad. After a flight lasting about 19 minutes, the vehicle achieved a Sub Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit with ... more |
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 Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
NAU assistant professor of planetary science Christopher Edwards co-authored a paper recently published in Nature Geoscience that has generated interest among scientists in the field as well as in mainstream science news, such as Science Daily and Outer Places.
The researchers analyzed remote-sensing data from two lunar missions and concluded that water appears to be evenly spread across t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 5, 2018 
After years of searching, scientists are confident they're finally closing in on the location of the crater left by a meteorite that struck Australasia 800,000 years ago.
When the 12-mile-wide meteor struck Earth, debris was exploded in the sky and deposited across the region. The fragments have not been hard to come by, and yet, scientists have failed to locate the crater.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 
For centuries, the thinking has been that all the nitrogen available for plant growth worldwide comes from the atmosphere. But a new study by National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded researchers at the University of California (UC), Davis, shows that more than a quarter of that nitrogen is derived from the weathering of Earth's bedrock.
The results, published this week in the journal Scien ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for its launch to the Sun, scheduled for July 31, 2018.
In the middle of the night on April 2, the spacecraft was driven from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to nearby Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. From there, it was flown by the United States Air Force's 436th Airlift Wing to Space Co ... more |
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 Liverpool UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 
Astronomers are back in the dark about what dark matter might be, after new observations showed the mysterious substance may not be interacting with forces other than gravity after all. Dr Andrew Robertson of Durham University will today present the new results at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool.
Three years ago, a Durham-led international team of researchers ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Scientists have decoded faint distortions in the patterns of the universe's earliest light to map huge tubelike structures invisible to our eyes - known as filaments - that serve as superhighways for delivering matter to dense hubs such as galaxy clusters.
The international science team, which included researchers from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berke ... more |
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