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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2018 NASA has picked an ancient river delta as the landing site for its uncrewed Mars 2020 rover, to hunt for evidence of past life on Earth's neighboring planet, officials said Monday. Even though the Red Planet is now cold and dry, the landing site, Jezero Crater, was filled with a 1,600-foot (500-meter) deep lake that opened to a network of rivers some 3.5 to 3.9 billion years ago. The 28-mile (45-kilometer) wide basin "could have collected and preserved ancient organic molecules and other potenti ... read more |
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With each rocket launch, 'I have three heart attacks'Wallops Flight Facility, United States (AFP) Nov 19, 2018 Kurt Eberly has hardly any hair and keeps losing more. His job is to launch, two times per year, a metallic cylinder packed with several tons of supplies, at high speeds toward the International Space Station, 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the Earth. ... more  
Space-inspired speed breeding for crop improvementNorwich UK (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 Technology first used by NASA to grow plants extra-terrestrially is fast tracking improvements in a range of crops. Scientists at John Innes Centre and the University of Queensland have improved the ... more 
Zero G Kitchen prepares to launch its first appliance to SpaceNew York NY (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 Zero G Kitchen LLC, a venture co-founded by Ian and Jordana Fichtenbaum, has announced the specifications and timing of the first appliance of its planned 'kitchen in space,' an open platform for fo ... more  
NASA OSIRIS-REx flexes its "arm" before arriving at Asteroid BennuDenver CO (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 TAGSAM, or Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, completed a successful practice deployment in space on Nov. 14-an important milestone in the OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu. TAGSAM is ... more |
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North Korea tests new 'ultramodern tactical weapon': KCNASeoul (AFP) Nov 19, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen the testing of a "newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon", Pyongyang's state media reported Friday, in a move that will raise the temperature over denuclearisation talks. ... more  
Finland summons Russian ambassador over GPS blocking claimsHelsinki (AFP) Nov 17, 2018 Finland has summoned Russia's ambassador to answer allegations that Moscow was behind the jamming of GPS signals in Lapland during recent NATO exercises, the foreign ministry in Helsinki confirmed Saturday. ... more  
Satellites encounter magnetic reconnection in Earth's magnetotailUppsala, Sweden (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 Research published in the respected journal Science presents observations made by NASA's four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites in the Earth's magnetotail. Two scientists from the Swedish I ... more  
New research offers detail and insight into deep-time evolution of animal life on islandsLawrence KS (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 Islands have been vital laboratories for advancing evolutionary theory since the pioneering work of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the 19th century. Now, a new paper appearing in ... more 
Earth's magnetic field measured using artificial stars at 90 kilometers altitudeMainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 The mesosphere, at heights between 85 and 100 kilometers above the Earth's surface, contains a layer of atomic sodium. Astronomers use laser beams to create artificial stars, or laser guide stars (L ... more |
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World's next supercollider design report releasedBeijing, China (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 Scientists working on the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), a planned next-generation particle collider in China, released its Conceptual Design Report (CDR) on Nov. 14 in Beijing. I ... more  |
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'Smart skin' simplifies spotting strain in structuresHouston TX (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 Thanks to one peculiar characteristic of carbon nanotubes, engineers will soon be able to measure the accumulated strain in an airplane, a bridge or a pipeline - or just about anything - over the en ... more 
Infinite-dimensional symmetry opens up possibility of a new physics and new particlesWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 The symmetries that govern the world of elementary particles at the most elementary level could be radically different from what has so far been thought. This surprising conclusion emerges from new ... more 
Epoxy compound gets a graphene bumpHouston TX (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 Rice University scientists have built a better epoxy for electronic applications. Epoxy combined with "ultrastiff" graphene foam invented in the Rice lab of chemist James Tour is substantially ... more  
New space industry emerges: on-orbit servicingWashington (AFP) Nov 17, 2018 Imagine an airport where thousands of planes, empty of fuel, are left abandoned on the tarmac. That is what has been happening for decades with satellites that circle the Earth. ... more 
Rocket Lab announces $140 Million in new fundingHuntington Beach CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 US orbital launch provider, Rocket Lab, has closed a Series E financing round of $140 million (USD). The funding round closed last month, prior to the launch of the successful mission 'It's Business ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 15, 2018 
Windy weather pushed back until Saturday the planned launch of a US cargo ship loaded with supplies for astronauts living at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday.
The delay to 4:01 am (0901 GMT) on November 17 from Wallops Island, Virginia marks the second time launch managers have postponed the mission from its initial flight plan of Thursday.
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 Huntington Beach CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 
US orbital launch provider, Rocket Lab, has closed a Series E financing round of $140 million (USD). The funding round closed last month, prior to the launch of the successful mission 'It's Business Time,' and was led by existing investor Future Fund, with strong participation from current investors including Greenspring Associates, Khosla Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, DCVC (Data Collecti ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 
Today, most of the water on Mars is locked away in frozen ice caps. But billions of years ago it flowed freely across the surface, forming rushing rivers that emptied into craters, forming lakes and seas. New research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found evidence that sometimes the lakes would take on so much water that they overflowed and burst from the sides of their basins, crea ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018 
The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment components on Friday.
The selection of space equipment components involves reliability verification, data collection, transmission and comparison.
The smart solution will help shorten the time to ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 15, 2018 
ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) has confirmed the continued operations of ten scientific missions in the Agency's fleet up to 2022.
After a comprehensive review of their scientific merits and technical status, the SPC has decided to extend the operation of the five missions led by ESA's Science Programme: Cluster, Gaia, INTEGRAL, Mars Express, and XMM-Newton. The SPC also confirmed ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 17, 2018 
Imagine an airport where thousands of planes, empty of fuel, are left abandoned on the tarmac. That is what has been happening for decades with satellites that circle the Earth.
When satellites run out of fuel, they can no longer maintain their precise orbit, rendering them useless even if their hardware is still intact.
"It's literally throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars," Al ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 
In 1974, the Arecibo Observatory made history by beaming the most powerful radio message into deep space ever made. The famous Arecibo Message was designed by the AO 74's staff, led by Frank Drake, and with the help of the astronomer and famed science communicator Carl Sagan. It contained information about the human race and was intended to be our intergalactic calling card.
"Our society a ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
A letter authored by SETI Institute scientist Oliver White was published by Nature Astronomy today. Co-authors included researchers Jeff Moore, Tanguy Bertrand and Kimberly Ennico at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
The letter "Washboard and Fluted Terrains on Pluto as Evidence for Ancient Glaciation" focuses on these distinctive landscapes that border the vast nitrogen ice p ... more |
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 Saint Louis MO (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
Slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates under the ocean drag about three times more water down into the deep Earth than previously estimated, according to a first-of-its-kind seismic study that spans the Mariana Trench.
The observations from the deepest ocean trench in the world have important implications for the global water cycle, according to researchers in Arts and Sciences at Washi ... more |
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 Oslo (AFP) Nov 13, 2018 
Oslo on Tuesday pointed a finger squarely at Russia, accusing it of jamming GPS signals in Norway's Far North when it hosted NATO's massive exercises in October and early November.
"We know that jamming was observed between October 19 and November 7, originating from Russian ground forces in (the) Kola" peninsula, a region of northwestern Russia close to Norway, the Norwegian defence ministr ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Nov 17, 2018 
A potential mission to the moon in 2028 was presented Thursday to the US National Space Council's (NSC) Users' Advisory Group in response to US President Donald Trump's idea of going to the Moon.
The NSC Users' Advisory Group - a group of government and NASA officials headed by Vice President Mike Pence - was presented with a timeline for reaching and settling the moon in the late 2020s, V ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 
On Nov. 14, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft stretched out its robotic sampling arm for the first time in space. The arm, more formally known as the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), is key to the spacecraft achieving the primary goal of the mission: returning a sample from asteroid Bennu in 2023.
As planned, engineers at Lockheed Martin commanded the spacecraft to move the a ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
Research published in the respected journal Science presents observations made by NASA's four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites in the Earth's magnetotail. Two scientists from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Uppsala are co-authors of the article. The lead author is from the University of New Hampshire in USA.
Magnetic reconnection is an energy conversion process im ... more |
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 London UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
A close study of auroras has revealed new ways of understanding the physics of explosive energy releases in space, according to new UCL-led research.
Auroras are an incredible light show caused by electrically charged particles in near-Earth space spiraling down Earth's magnetic field and colliding with gases in the atmosphere, causing them to glow.
They are also a tell-tale sign of ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
Supernovas are the deathly explosions of massive stars. One of the ways that astronomers look for clues about how these stars blow up is to go hunting for what's known as the progenitor to a supernova - the star before it died. They comb through archival telescope images and try to pinpoint the location and identity of the star before it blasted apart.
Now, for the first time, a Caltech-le ... more |
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 Mainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
A reflection always reproduces objects as a complete mirror image, rather than just its individual parts or individual parts in a completely different orientation. It's all or nothing, the mirror can't reflect just a little. This illustrates a fundamental symmetry principle in nature.
For decades, physics assumed that the laws of nature in our world and in the mirror world would be identic ... more |
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