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  Noordwijk, Netherlands (ESA) Jul 26, 2018 Evidence for the Red Planet's watery past is prevalent across its surface in the form of vast dried-out river valley networks and gigantic outflow channels clearly imaged by orbiting spacecraft. Orbiters, together with landers and rovers exploring the Martian surface, also discovered minerals that can only form in the presence of liquid water. But the climate has changed significantly over the course of the planet's 4.6-billion-year history and liquid water cannot exist on the surface today, so sc ... read more |
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Mars Passes Closest to Earth Since 2003 on July 31stBoston MA (SPX) Jul 26, 2018 After a slow crawl across the predawn darkness earlier this year, Mars is finally moving into the evening sky - just as it comes its closest to Earth in 15 years. According to Sky and Telescope maga ... more  
NASA to Name Astronauts Assigned to First Boeing, SpaceX FlightsWashington DC (SPX) Jul 26, 2018 NASA will announce on Friday, Aug. 3, the astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon, and begin a new era in American spac ... more  
Arianespace orbits four more Galileo satellites, as Ariane 5 logs its 99th missionKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 26, 2018 Arianespace has successfully launched four more satellites in the Galileo constellation. Liftoff was at 8:25 a.m. (local time) July 25, 2018 from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in Kouro ... more  
What Looks Like Ceres on EarthPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2018 With its dark, heavily cratered surface interrupted by tantalizing bright spots, Ceres may not remind you of our home planet Earth at first glance. The dwarf planet, which orbits the Sun in the vast ... more |
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Preparing to fly the wind mission AeolusKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 25, 2018 The launch of Aeolus - ESA's mission to map Earth's wind in real-time - is getting tantalisingly close, with the satellite due for lift-off on 21 August from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Gui ... more  
'Ribbon' wraps up mystery of Jupiter's magnetic equatorLeicester UK (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 The discovery of a dark ribbon of weak hydrogen ion emissions that encircles Jupiter has overturned previous thinking about the giant planet's magnetic equator. An international team of scient ... more  
Russia's Khrunichev Center Develops Concept of Reusable RocketMoscow (Sputnik) Jul 25, 2018 Russia's Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center has finished the development of a blueprint for Russia's reusable launch vehicle and sent the relevant materials to Roscosmos' Central ... more  
Russia Hunting Leaker of Hypersonic Missile Details to Western AgenciesMoscow (Sputnik) Jul 24, 2018 Russian intelligence officers have raided the offices of two missile development facilities of the Roscosmos Corporation in search of the person who leaked classified information on hypersonic missi ... more 
Sky's no limit: Japan firm to fly wedding plaques into spaceTokyo (AFP) July 24, 2018 The sky is no longer the limit for lovers looking for unusual ways to commemorate their nuptials, with a Japanese company now offering to blast commemorative wedding plaques into space. ... more |
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 NASA Marshall Awards 43 New Small Innovation and Technology Research Proposals 
Scientists at Johns Hopkins Discover Why Mars Is So DustyBaltimore MD (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 The dust that coats much of the surface of Mars originates largely from a single thousand-kilometer-long geological formation near the Red Planet's equator, scientists have found. A study publ ... more  |
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Vessel tracking exposes the dark side of trading at seaLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 24, 2018 First ever large-scale analysis of fishing vessel interactions exposes the potential extent of the unmanaged exchange of goods at sea, raising global concerns over illegal fishing and human rights a ... more  
Nanocrystals emit light by efficiently 'tunneling' electronsSan Diego CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2018 Using advanced fabrication techniques, engineers at the University of California San Diego have built a nanosized device out of silver crystals that can generate light by efficiently "tunneling" ele ... more 
Young galaxy's halo offers clues to its growth and evolutionMaunakea HI (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 A team of astronomers has discovered a new way to unlock the mysteries of how the first galaxies formed and evolved. In a study published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, lead author Dawn Erb ... more 
The Milky Way's long-lost sibling finally foundAnn Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 Scientists at the University of Michigan have deduced that the Andromeda galaxy, our closest large galactic neighbor, shredded and cannibalized a massive galaxy two billion years ago. Even tho ... more 
Agreement Provides Access for Korea Astronomers to Gemini ObservatoryHilo HI (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 An agreement between the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) and the agencies that own and operate the International Gemini Observatory was signed Tuesday that established the Republi ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) July 24, 2018 
The sky is no longer the limit for lovers looking for unusual ways to commemorate their nuptials, with a Japanese company now offering to blast commemorative wedding plaques into space.
Warpspace, a start-up based in Tsukuba City outside Tokyo, is introducing the new service in partnership with a local hotel popular for wedding banquets.
For about 30,000 yen ($270), newly-weds marrying a ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 25, 2018 
Russia's Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center has finished the development of a blueprint for Russia's reusable launch vehicle and sent the relevant materials to Roscosmos' Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMash) for assessment, the Khrunichev center's press office told Sputnik.
"The materials on reusable subjects were sent to TsNIIMash. They should stud ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 23, 2018 
In June, one of these dust events rapidly engulfed the planet. Scientists first observed a smaller-scale dust storm on May 30. By June 20, it had gone global.
For the Opportunity rover, that meant a sudden drop in visibility from a clear, sunny day to that of an overcast one. Because Opportunity runs on solar energy, scientists had to suspend science activities to preserve the rover's batt ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (SPX) Jul 23, 2018 
China launched two satellites for Pakistan on a Long March-2C rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 11:56 a.m. Monday.
The PRSS-1 is China's first optical remote sensing satellite sold to Pakistan and the 17th satellite developed by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) for an overseas buyer.
After entering orbit, the PRSS-1 is in good condition ... more |
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 Farnborough, United Kingdom (AFP) July 20, 2018  Never mind Brexit: For a remote peninsula in the Scottish highlands, the buzz is all about hi-tech rocket launchers firing satellites into space.
In just three years' time, rockets will send satellites into orbit from the rugged stretch of coastline, under British government plans unveiled this week.
The sleepy county of Caithness and Sutherland has been selected as the site of the count ... more |
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 Menlo Park CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 
An extremely fast "electron camera" at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has produced the most detailed atomic movie of the decisive point where molecules hit by light can either stay intact or break apart.
The results could lead to a better understanding of how molecules respond to light in processes that are crucial for life, like photosynthesis and vision, ... more |
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 Pullman WA (SPX) Jul 24, 2018 
While the Moon is uninhabitable today, there could have been life on its surface in the distant past.
In fact, there may have been two early windows of habitability for Earth's Moon, according to a study online in the journal Astrobiology by Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Washington State University.
Schulze-Makuch and Ian Crawford, a professor of planetary science and ast ... more |
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 Leicester UK (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 
The discovery of a dark ribbon of weak hydrogen ion emissions that encircles Jupiter has overturned previous thinking about the giant planet's magnetic equator.
An international team of scientists led by the University of Leicester has identified the weakened ribbon of H3+ emissions near the jovigraphic equator using the NSFCam instrument at the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility, the first ... more |
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 Tallahassee FL (SPX) Jul 19, 2018 
Deep in the ocean's twilight zone, swarms of ravenous single-celled organisms may be altering Earth's carbon cycle in ways scientists never expected, according to a new study from Florida State University researchers.
In the area 100 to 1,000 meters below the ocean's surface - dubbed the twilight zone because of its largely impenetrable darkness - scientists found that tiny organisms calle ... more |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 26, 2018 
Arianespace has successfully launched four more satellites in the Galileo constellation. Liftoff was at 8:25 a.m. (local time) July 25, 2018 from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Today's launch was the 99th mission by the Ariane 5 heavy launcher. It was carried out on behalf of the European Commission as part of a contract with the European Space Agency ... more |
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 Yehud, Israel (AFP) July 10, 2018 
An Israeli organisation announced plans Tuesday to launch the country's first spacecraft to the moon in December, with hopes of burnishing Israel's reputation as a small nation with otherworldly high-tech ambitions.
The unmanned spacecraft, shaped like a pod and weighing some 585 kilogrammes (1,300 pounds) at launch, will land on the moon on February 13, 2019 if all goes according to plan, o ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2018 
Next time when your kids ask you to bring them a star from the sky, you don't have to shrug and walk away. Tell them to wait, instead.
A group of Chinese scientists are mulling a bold idea to capture a small near-Earth asteroid, which might be a potential threat, and bring it back to Earth to exploit its resources.
"Sounds like science-fiction, but I believe it can be realized," said ... more |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 25, 2018 
The launch of Aeolus - ESA's mission to map Earth's wind in real-time - is getting tantalisingly close, with the satellite due for lift-off on 21 August from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. With the wind in their sails, mission teams are busily preparing this unique satellite for its upcoming journey.
Aeolus will carry a sophisticated atmospheric laser Doppler instrument, dubb ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 19, 2018 
In 1610, Galileo redesigned the telescope and discovered Jupiter's four largest moons. Nearly 400 years later, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope used its powerful optics to look deep into space - enabling scientists to pin down the age of the universe.
Suffice it to say that getting a better look at things produces major scientific advances.
In a paper published on July 18 in The Astroph ... more |
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 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 
Scientists at the University of Michigan have deduced that the Andromeda galaxy, our closest large galactic neighbor, shredded and cannibalized a massive galaxy two billion years ago.
Even though it was mostly shredded, this massive galaxy left behind a rich trail of evidence: an almost invisible halo of stars larger than the Andromeda galaxy itself, an elusive stream of stars and a separa ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jul 23, 2018 
Researchers have created the fastest man-made rotor in the world, which they believe will help them study quantum mechanics.
At more than 60 billion revolutions per minute, this machine is more than 100,000 times faster than a high-speed dental drill.
"This study has many applications, including material science," said Tongcang Li, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and ... more |
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