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  Beijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2020 China's first Mars exploration mission has been named Tianwen-1, announced the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Friday, China's Space Day. The name comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Questions to Heaven, written by Qu Yuan (about 340-278 BC), one of the greatest poets of ancient China. In "Tianwen," Qu Yuan raised a series of questions in verse involving the sky, stars, natural phenomena, myths and the real world, showing his doubts about some traditional concepts and t ... read more |
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Russian 'Victory Rocket' cargo flight docks at ISSMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2020 The cargo rocket MS-14 will deliver food, medical supplies, fuel and other equipment to the International Space Station, along with a flash drive containing the names of the Soviet soldiers who took ... more 
Russian cargo capsule docks with ISSMoscow (AFP) April 25, 2020 A Russian cargo capsule with 2.5 tons of supplies docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday after the fastest such trip yet from earth, the national space agency Roscosmos said. ... more  
Dream Chaser spaceplane set to get wingsSparks NV (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), the global aerospace and national security leader owned by Eren and Fatih Ozmen, uncrated both wings for its Dream Chaser spaceplane this month at the company's Loui ... more  
Want to transfer into the Space Force? Application period opens May 1Arlington VA (SPX) Apr 23, 2020 The U.S. Space Force announced recently the opportunity for U.S. Air Force active duty members to volunteer to officially transfer into the new service begins May 1. "This is an historic time ... more |
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US Military not sure if Iran's launch of 'military' satellite was successfulWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2020 Tehran earlier announced that it had launched a new military satellite into low Earth orbit, after the country failed in several previous attempts to send a civilian-made device in space. Vice ... more  
New study reveals life's earliest evolution was more complicated than previously suspectedOxford UK (SPX) Apr 23, 2020 Biologists have long hoped to understand the nature of the earliest living organisms on Earth. If they could, they might then be able to say something about how, when, and where life arose on Earth, ... more  
Star survives close call with a black holeHuntsville AL (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star that had a brush with a giant black hole and lived to tell the tale through exclamations of X-rays. Data from NASA's Chandr ... more 
Scientists find microbes eating ethane spewing from deep-sea ventsWashington DC (UPI) Apr 21, 2020 Scientists in Germany have discovered a community of microbes that subsist on the ethane seeping from hot deep-sea vents at the bottom of the Gulf of California. They described their findings Tuesday in the journal mBio. ... more 
Exoplanet apparently disappears in latest Hubble observationsBaltimore MD (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 Now you see it, now you don't. What astronomers thought was a planet beyond our solar system has now seemingly vanished from sight. Though this happens in science fiction, such as Superman's home pl ... more |
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Hungry galaxies grow fat on the flesh of their neighborsCanberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 23, 2020 Galaxies grow large by eating their smaller neighbours, new research reveals. Exactly how massive galaxies attain their size is poorly understood, not least because they swell over billions of ... more  |
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High value targets found in minutes versus days during Wake-Cho Feasibility StudySan Clemente CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 Teams from Swift Tactical Systems, in partnership with its Japanese counterpart, Swift-Xi, both subsidiaries of Swift Engineering, completed personnel search and rescue and animal identification mis ... more 
BlackSky announces secure bundle for intelligence analystsHerndon VA (SPX) Apr 23, 2020 BlackSky has announced its new Spectra On-Demand Secure Bundle service to support remote work options for intelligence analysts. The new Spectra solution allows analysts to securely share unclassifi ... more  
Wiring the quantum computer of the futureTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 Quantum computing is increasingly becoming the focus of scientists in fields such as physics and chemistry, and industrialists in the pharmaceutical, airplane, and automobile industries. Globally, r ... more 
NSF Funds Astrophysicists to Develop Code for "Einstein Toolkit"New York NY (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 The National Science Foundation recently awarded researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Louisiana State University, Georgia Tech and West V ... more  
Linking self-driving cars to traffic signals might help pedestrians give them the green lightAnn Arbor MI (The Conversation) Apr 22, 2020 Automated vehicles don't have human operators to communicate their driving intentions to pedestrians at intersections. My team's research on pedestrians' perceptions of safety shows their trust of t ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) April 25, 2020 
A Russian cargo capsule with 2.5 tons of supplies docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday after the fastest such trip yet from earth, the national space agency Roscosmos said.
The Progress capsule was launched atop a giant Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, reaching the space station in just three hours and 20 minutes, making it "the fastest spacec ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2020 
Tehran earlier announced that it had launched a new military satellite into low Earth orbit, after the country failed in several previous attempts to send a civilian-made device in space.
Vice-chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General John Hyten, stated that the 'Noor' ('Light' in Farsi) Iranian satellite "went a very long way" but refused to confirm that it was able to reach its d ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
New research indicates river delta deposits within Mars' Jezero crater - the destination of NASA' Perseverance rover on the Red Planet - formed over time scales that promoted habitability and enhanced preservation of evidence.
Undulating streaks of land visible from space reveal rivers once coursed across the Martian surface - but for how long did the water flow? Enough time to record evid ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2020 
China's first Mars exploration mission has been named Tianwen-1, announced the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Friday, China's Space Day.
The name comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Questions to Heaven, written by Qu Yuan (about 340-278 BC), one of the greatest poets of ancient China.
In "Tianwen," Qu Yuan raised a series of questions in verse involving the sky ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 22, 2020 
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites on time at 3:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday into a clear blue sky from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
It was the seventh such launch for SpaceX's communications satellite network, which is the largest constellation in history. The company has launched 422 of the spacecraft in a little over a year.
The space company also landed the missi ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
A 30th birthday is a big milestone for anyone, and a spacecraft is no exception. Tomorrow, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 30th year in space, but it didn't get to this point without having to overcome its fair share of challenges. Over the years, it has not only been fixed, but continuously upgraded to make it the discovery-producing machine that it is today.
Servicing (refueling, fi ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
Astrophysical observations have shown that Neptune-like water-rich exoplanets are common in our galaxy. These "water worlds" are believed to be covered with a thick layer of water, hundreds to thousands of miles deep, above a rocky mantle.
While water-rich exoplanets are common, their composition is very different from Earth, so there are many unknowns in terms of these planets' structure, ... more |
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 Friedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
JUICE, the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, has reached its next milestone: On its Earthly journey via different Airbus sites in Europe the spacecraft has arrived at Airbus' satellite integration centre in Friedrichshafen (Germany) for final integration. Until the end of 2020 it will be kitted out with its final components including harness, power electronics, onboard computer, communication ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
A new study shows that "hotspots" of nutrients surrounding phytoplankton - which are tiny marine algae producing approximately half of the oxygen we breathe every day - play an outsized role in the release of a gas involved in cloud formation and climate regulation.
The new research quantifies the way specific marine bacteria process a key chemical called dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
Your phone's GPS, the WiFi in your house and communications on aircraft are all powered by radio-frequency waves, or RF waves, which carry information from a transmitter at one point to a sensor at another. The sensors interpret this information in different ways. For example, a GPS sensor uses the angle at which it receives an RF wave to determine its own relative location. The more precisely i ... more |
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 Flagstaff AZ (USGS) Apr 23, 2020 
Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history of our nearest neighbor in space.
For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified by scientists from the USGS, in collaboration with NASA and ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 
On Aug. 30, 2019, when amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov gazed upward with his homemade telescope, he spotted an object moving in an unusual direction. Now called 2I/Borisov, this runaway point of light turned out to be the first confirmed comet to enter our solar system from some unknown place beyond our Sun's influence. Astronomers everywhere rushed to take a look with some of the most powerf ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
Earth can sometimes feel like the last place you'd want to be. Indeed, a number of explorers have devised inventive ways to move civilization off this planet.
It's no surprise: The promise of a better life in the mysterious beyond can be seductive. But the fact is the more we learn about out there the more we realize how special it is here. The first astronauts to look from space back at E ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Apr 15, 2020 
When a fire extinguisher is opened, the compressed carbon dioxide forms ice crystals around the nozzle, providing a visual example of the physics principle that gases and plasmas cool as they expand. When our sun expels plasma in the form of solar wind, the wind also cools as it expands through space - but not nearly as much as the laws of physics would predict.
In a study published April ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 
NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), planned for launch in the mid-2020s, will create enormous cosmic panoramas. Using them, astronomers will explore everything from our solar system to the edge of the observable universe, including planets throughout our galaxy and the nature of dark energy.
Though it's often compared to the Hubble Space Telescope, which turns 30 years ol ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
The National Science Foundation recently awarded researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Louisiana State University, Georgia Tech and West Virginia University grants totaling more than $2.3 million to support further development of the Einstein Toolkit (https://einsteintoolkit.org).
The Einstein Toolkit is a community-developed code ... more |
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