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  Paris (AFP) July 27, 2018 The longest "blood moon" eclipse this century will coincide with Mars' closest approach in 15 years on Friday to offer skygazers a thrilling astronomical double bill. Viewers will need no protective eye gear to observe the spectacle - unlike when watching solar eclipse. "All you have to do is... go outside!" the Royal Astronomical Society in London advises. For about half the world, the moon will be partly or fully in Earth's shadow from 1714 to 2328 GMT - six hours and 14 minutes in all. ... read more |
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At 60, NASA shoots for revival of moon glory daysTampa (AFP) July 27, 2018 Sixty years ago, spurred by competition with the Soviet Union, the United States created NASA, launching a journey that would take Americans to the moon within a decade. ... more  
SpaceX launches, lands rocket in challenging conditionsWashington (UPI) Jul 25, 2018 SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket carried 10 Iridium satellites into orbit on Wednesday. The rocket blasted-off early Wednesday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. ... more  
NASA to Name Astronauts Assigned to First Boeing, SpaceX FlightsWashington DC (SPX) Jul 27, 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  
NASA's Most Technically Complex Space Observatory Requires PrecisionGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 26, 2018 The James Webb Space Telescope is of one the most ambitious and technically complex missions NASA has ever set its focus upon. Building an infrared observatory of this magnitude, power and complexit ... more |
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N. Korea still making nuclear material: PompeoWashington (AFP) July 25, 2018 North Korea is still making nuclear material, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told lawmakers Wednesday, six weeks after President Donald Trump said the nuclear threat from Pyongyang was over. ... more 
North Korea's Dismantlement of Satellite Launching Station Can be ReversedMoscow (Sputnik) Jul 26, 2018 Despite recent reports showing North Korea's initiative to dismantle its Sohae Satellite Launching Station, US intelligence sources have indicated that all efforts put forth could be reversed. ... more  
GRAVITY Confirms Predictions of General Relativity Near Galactic CenterParis, France (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 Observations made with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have, for the first time, detected the effects of general relativity predicted by Einstein, in the mo ... more 
Enduring 'radio rebound' powered by jets from gamma-ray burstCharlottesville VA (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 In the blink of an eye, a massive star more than 2 billion light-years away lost a million-year-long fight against gravity and collapsed, triggering a supernova and forming a black hole at its cente ... more 
Researchers discover thin gap on stellar family portraitAtlanta GA (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 A thin gap has been discovered on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (HRD), the most fundamental of all maps in stellar astronomy, a finding that provides new information about the interior structures ... more |
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Local Winds Play Key Role in Some MegafiresPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2018 Although drought and overgrown forests are often blamed for major fires in the western United States, new research using unique NASA before-and-after data from a megafire site indicates that highly ... more  |
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Writing the future of rewritable memoryEdmonton, Canada (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 Scientists at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada have created the most dense, solid-state memory in history that could soon exceed the capabilities of current hard drives by 1,000 times. ... more  
Scientists develop proteins that self-assemble into supramolecular complexesMatsumoto, Japan (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 A collaborative research team based in Japan has designed new proteins that can self-assemble into the complex structures underlying biological organisms, laying the groundwork for leading-edge appl ... more 
Manipulating single atoms with an electron beamVienna, Austria (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 All matter is composed of atoms, which are too small to see without powerful modern instruments including electron microscopes. The same electrons that form images of atomic structures can also be u ... more  
Is Mars' Soil Too Dry to Sustain Life?Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 Life as we know it needs water to thrive. Even so, we see life persist in the driest environments on Earth. But how dry is too dry? At what point is an environment too extreme for even microorganism ... more 
Mars Express Detects Liquid Water Hidden Under Planet's South PoleNoordwijk, 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. Orb ... 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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 Washington (UPI) Jul 25, 2018 
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket carried 10 Iridium satellites into orbit on Wednesday. The rocket blasted-off early Wednesday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
"All 10 satellites have deployed into an on-target orbit," Spaceflight Now's Stephen Clark reported at 8:53 a.m. ET.
As usual, SpaceX safely landed the rocket's reusable first stage. The rocket stage landed on ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 
Life as we know it needs water to thrive. Even so, we see life persist in the driest environments on Earth. But how dry is too dry? At what point is an environment too extreme for even microorganisms, the smallest and often most resilient of lifeforms, to survive? These questions are important to scientists searching for life beyond Earth, including on the planet Mars. To help answer this questi ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 23, 2018 
China is developing a space vehicle to help transport orbiting satellites that have run out of fuel, Science and Technology Daily reported Thursday.
Fuel is a key factor limiting the life of satellites. Most satellites function for years after entering orbit, but eventually, they have to end their missions and burn up into the atmosphere due to fuel exhaustion.
The vehicle is being d ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Jul 24, 2018 
Iridium Communications Inc. has announced Rockwell Collins as the newest Iridium Certus service provider for the aviation industry. Rockwell Collins will be adding the service to its comprehensive suite of aircraft connectivity applications for commercial, government and ARINCDirect business customers.
In addition to being a service provider, Rockwell Collins is also a value added manufact ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Jul 24, 2018 
Metallic hydrogen is one of the rarest materials on Earth, yet more than 80 percent of planets - including Jupiter, Saturn, and hundreds of extrasolar planets - are composed of this exotic form of matter.
Its abundance in our solar system - despite its rarity on Earth - makes metallic hydrogen an intriguing focus for researchers at the University of Rochester's Laboratory of Laser Energeti ... 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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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jul 24, 2018 
Major abrupt shifts occurred in the climate of ancient northern Europe, according to a new study from University of Helsinki, Finland. The research reports that sudden cold spells, lasting hundreds of years, took place in the middle of the warm Eemian climate period, about 120 thousand years ago.
These cold intervals saw a fall in temperature of a few degrees, and replacement of forests by ... 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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 Tampa (AFP) July 27, 2018 
Sixty years ago, spurred by competition with the Soviet Union, the United States created NASA, launching a journey that would take Americans to the moon within a decade.
Since then, the US space agency has seen glorious achievements and crushing failures in its drive to push the frontiers of space exploration, including a fatal launch pad fire in 1967 that killed three and two deadly shuttle ... 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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 Paris (AFP) July 27, 2018  The longest "blood moon" eclipse this century will coincide with Mars' closest approach in 15 years on Friday to offer skygazers a thrilling astronomical double bill.
Viewers will need no protective eye gear to observe the spectacle - unlike when watching solar eclipse.
"All you have to do is... go outside!" the Royal Astronomical Society in London advises.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 26, 2018 
NASA launched a prototype telescope and instrument to observe the X-rays emitted by Cassiopeia A, the expanding debris of an exploded star. The High-Resolution Microcalorimeter X-ray Imaging Rocket (Micro-X) launched July 22 aboard a sub-orbital launch vehicle called a sounding rocket and successfully tested its detector technology.
"The flight time of a sounding rocket is short compared t ... 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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