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  Moscow (AFP) Dec 20, 2018 Three astronauts landed back on Earth on Thursday after a troubled stint on the ISS marred by an air leak and the failure of a rocket set to bring new crew members. A Soyuz spacecraft ferrying Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, NASA's Serena Aunon-Chancellor and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos landed safely in Kazakhstan, Russia's space agency said. "There's been a landing... The crew of the manned Soyuz MS-09 has returned safely to Earth after 197 days," Roscosmos said on Twitter. ... read more |
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Queen guitarist Brian May releases tribute to NASA spacecraftWashington (AFP) Dec 19, 2018 Jamming and astrophysics go hand-in-hand for Queen lead guitarist Brian May, who announced Wednesday he is releasing a musical tribute to a far-flung NASA spacecraft that is about to make history. ... more  
HyperScout demonstrates that satellite imagery can be processed in spaceAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 HyperScout 1, the first miniaturized hyperspectral imager for space, successfully demonstrated that it is possible to process the images that are gathered by a satellite on board. By knowing the pos ... more 
ICESat-2 helps scientists measure ice thickness in the Weddell SeaWashington (UPI) Dec 17, 2018 Measurements by NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 are helping scientists map ice thickness across the Southern Ocean's Weddell Sea. ... more  
NEOWISE satellite observes adolescent star going through a growth spurtWashington (UPI) Dec 19, 2018 New images captured by NASA's NEOWISE satellite revealed a pattern of brightening emanating from a newfound star named Gaia 17bpi. The brightening suggests the young star is experiencing a growth spurt. ... more |
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System monitors radiation damage to materials in real-timeBoston MA (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 In order to evaluate a material's ability to withstand the high-radiation environment inside a nuclear reactor, researchers have traditionally used a method known as "cook and look," meaning the mat ... more  
Graphene's magic is in the defectsNew York NY (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 A team of researchers at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and NYU Center for Neural Science has solved a longstanding puzzle of how to build ultra-sensitive, ultra-small electroc ... more  
New Horizons Takes the Inside Course to Ultima ThuleLaurel MD (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 With no apparent hazards in its way, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has been given a "go" to stay on its optimal path to Ultima Thule as it speeds closer to a Jan. 1 flyby of the Kuiper Belt object ... more  
BepiColombo's first routine firing in spaceParis (ESA) Dec 19, 2018 On Monday this week, BepiColombo began its very first routine electric propulsion firing. After meticulous testing of the spacecraft's four high-tech ion thrusters, the mission team have now f ... more  
Israeli spacecraft gets special passenger before moon journeyYehud, Israel (AFP) Dec 17, 2018 Israeli scientists making final preparations to launch the country's first spacecraft to the moon added a special passenger on Monday that will accompany the journey. ... more |
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NASA's Plum Brook Station Completes Acoustic Test for SLSSandusky, OH (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 Researchers at NASA's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, recently completed a development test on a proposed design of acoustic panels for the Space Launch System's (SLS) Universal Stage Adapter. ... more  |
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Mystery of coronae around supermassive black holes deepensTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 Researchers from RIKEN and JAXA have used observations from the ALMA radio observatory located in northern Chile and managed by an international consortium including the National Astronomical Observ ... more 
Fossil Gas Cloud from the Big Bang Discovered with Keck ObservatoryKamuela HI (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 A relic cloud of gas, orphaned after the Big Bang, has been discovered in the distant universe by astronomers using the world's most powerful optical telescope, the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunake ... more 
Young Star Caught in a Fit of GrowthPasadena CA (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 Researchers have discovered a young star in the midst of a rare growth spurt - a dramatic phase of stellar evolution when matter swirling around a star falls onto the star, bulking up its mass. The ... more  
Xi warns no one can 'dictate' China's path, 40 years on from reformsBeijing (AFP) Dec 18, 2018 President Xi Jinping warned Tuesday that no one can "dictate" China's economic development path as the Communist Party marked 40 years of its historic "reform and opening up" policy amid a stern challenge from the United States. ... more 
Fake plastic atomsParis (ESA) Dec 19, 2018 Our world is made of atoms and molecules, but even with the most powerful microscopes we can only see snapshots, never how they move and interact with each other. To model how atoms behave, research ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 19, 2018 
Jamming and astrophysics go hand-in-hand for Queen lead guitarist Brian May, who announced Wednesday he is releasing a musical tribute to a far-flung NASA spacecraft that is about to make history.
The US space agency's New Horizon's spacecraft will soon make the most distant flyby of a cosmic object ever, zipping by an object called Ultima Thule - a billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) be ... more |
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 Sandusky, OH (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 
Researchers at NASA's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, recently completed a development test on a proposed design of acoustic panels for the Space Launch System's (SLS) Universal Stage Adapter.
Given the extreme sound produced by the world's most powerful rocket, this test series, conducted at Plum Brook's Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility, provided data for acoustic modeling that wi ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 19, 2018 
NASA's InSight lander is due to set its first science instrument on Mars in the coming days. But engineers here on Earth already saw it happen - last week.
Like NASA's Curiosity rover, InSight has a full-scale working model at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. This sister lander, aptly named ForeSight, lets the team test all operations before they happen on Ma ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 13, 2018 
China's Chang'e-4 probe decelerated and entered the lunar orbit Wednesday, completing a vital step on its way to make the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced.
After flying about 110 hours from earth, an engine on the probe was ignited when it was 129 km above the surface of the moon, in line with instructions sent fr ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 17, 2018 
The decision of UK OneWeb company to scale back the constellation of its communications satellites will not affect the number of Russia's Soyuz carrier rockets contracted by the company for the launches, a source in the space industry told Sputnik on Friday.
According to the source, each carrier rocket was expected to bring to the orbit from 32 to 36 satellites at a time, and engineers hav ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 
Different eras of civilization are defined by the discovery of new materials, as new materials drive new capabilities. And yet, identifying the best material for a given application - catalysts, light-harvesting structures, biodiagnostic labels, pharmaceuticals and electronic devices - is traditionally a slow and daunting task.
The options are nearly infinite, particularly at the nanoscale ... more |
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 Columbus OH (SPX) Dec 18, 2018 
Humankind's exploration of space has for years pondered one central question: Is there another world somewhere in the universe where human beings could survive?
And as astrophysicists and astronomers have searched for the answer, they've traditionally looked for a world that has water.
But Wendy Panero, professor of earth sciences at The Ohio State University, has developed a new way ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 18, 2018 
A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant body ever observed in our solar system. It is the first known solar system object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the Sun.
The new object was announced on Monday, December 17, 2018, by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center [https://www.minorplanetcenter.net ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 19, 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, a crescent-shaped trench in the Western Pacific that measures 1,500 miles long and is the deepest ocean trench in the world.
The observations from the trench have importa ... more |
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 Titusville, FL (SPX) Dec 12, 2018 
The U.S. Air Force's first Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)-built GPS III satellite is now encapsulated for its planned December 18 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
GPS III Space Vehicle 01 (GPS III SV01) underwent pre-launch processing, fueling and encapsulation at Astrotech Space Operations, in Titusville, Florida. During encapsulation, GPS I ... more |
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 Yehud, Israel (AFP) Dec 17, 2018 
Israeli scientists making final preparations to launch the country's first spacecraft to the moon added a special passenger on Monday that will accompany the journey.
A time capsule of three digital discs containing thousands of files was ceremoniously placed within the space pod by organisers wearing white dust coats at the plant where it is being constructed and tested.
They included d ... more |
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 Kobe, Japan (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 
Using the infrared satellite AKARI, a Japanese research team has detected the existence of water in the form of hydrated minerals in a number of asteroids for the first time. This discovery will contribute to our understanding of the distribution of water in our solar system, the evolution of asteroids, and the origin of water on Earth.
The findings were made by the team led by the Project ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 17, 2018 
Measurements by NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 are helping scientists map ice thickness across the Southern Ocean's Weddell Sea.
By mapping and tracking changes in the thickness of sea ice surrounding Antarctica, scientists hope to pinpoint when and where seasonal sea ice first grows.
"We know a lot less about the sea ice in the Antarctic than the Arctic," Ron K ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 
Weeks after Parker Solar Probe made the closest-ever approach to a star, the science data from the first solar encounter is just making its way into the hands of the mission's scientists. It's a moment many in the field have been anticipating for years, thinking about what they'll do with such never-before-seen data, which has the potential to shed new light on the physics of our star, the Sun. ... more |
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 Providence, RI (SPX) Dec 18, 2018 
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter detector, which will soon start its search for the elusive particles thought to account for a majority of matter in the universe, had its first set of "eyes" delivered Thursday.
The first of two large arrays of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) - powerful light sensors that can detect the faintest of flashes - completed a 2,000-mile journey by truck from Rhode Is ... more |
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 Kiel, Germany (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 
The properties of the matter, which surrounds us in our everyday life, are typically the result of complex interactions between electrons. These electrically-charged particles are one of the fundamental building blocks of nature.
By now, they are well researched, and theoretical physics has determined the electronic structure of the majority of matter. However, how matter behaves under ext ... more |
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