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  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 Life on Earth would not be possible without the Moon; it keeps our planet's axis of rotation stable, which controls seasons and regulates our climate. However, there has been considerable debate over how the Moon was formed. The popular hypothesis contends that the Moon was formed by a Mars-sized body colliding with Earth's upper crust which is poor in metals. But new research suggests the Moon's subsurface is more metal-rich than previously thought, providing new insights that could challenge our ... read more |
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China eyes July 20-25 launch for Mars roverBeijing (AFP) July 1, 2020 China's first Mars rover should launch later this month, authorities said Wednesday, as the country races to catch up with the US dominance of space. ... more  
Exolaunch and NanoAvionics sign two launch agreements for SpaceX's rideshare missionsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 01, 2020 Exolaunch, a rideshare launch and deployment solutions provider, signed launch agreements with NanoAvionics, a nano-satellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, to launch two 6U nano-satellite ... more  
Advanced Rockets Corporation granted Space Vehicle System patentsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 Advanced Rockets Corporation (ARC) report it has been granted a Space Vehicle Systems patent featuring a unique architecture for multiple applications, including space launch, national defense, and ... more  
Senate offers more funding for hypersonic weapons trackingWashington DC (UPI) Jun 26, 2020 The U.S. Senate's defense bill adds $120 million to the Defense Department's space-based anti-hypersonic weapons program, despite no request for an increase. ... more |
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ESO telescope captures the disappearance of a massive starMunich, Germany (SPX) Jul 01, 2020 Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered the absence of an unstable massive star in a dwarf galaxy. Scientists think this could indicate that ... more  
Are black holes responsible for excess neutrinos and missing gamma raysUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jul 01, 2020 The origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos observed by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, whose detector is buried deep in the Antarctic ice, is an enigma that has perplexed physicists and astronomer ... more  
NASA's TESS delivers new insights into an ultrahot worldGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 01, 2020 Measurements from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of the hottest plane ... more 
TESS mission discovers massive ice giantBoston MA (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 The "ice giant" planets Neptune and Uranus are much less dense than rocky, terrestrial planets such as Venus and Earth. Beyond our solar system, many other Neptune-sized planets, orbiting distant st ... more  
Russian cosmonaut votes on Putin's reforms from ISSMoscow (AFP) June 30, 2020 Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin became the first person to vote online from the International Space Station on Tuesday, the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos announced. ... more |
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South Pole warming three times faster than rest of Earth: studyParis (AFP) June 29, 2020 The South Pole has warmed three times faster than the rest of the planet in the last 30 years due to warmer tropical ocean temperatures, new research showed Monday. ... more  |
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MagLab geochemists solve mystery of Earth's vanishing crustTallahassee FL (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 Thank goodness for the Earth's crust: It is, after all, that solid, outermost layer of our planet that supports everything above it. But much of what happens below that layer remains a mystery ... more 
The nature of nuclear forces imprinted in photonsCracow, Poland (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 IFJ PAN scientists together with colleagues from the University of Milano (Italy) and other countries confirmed the need to include the three-nucleon interactions in the description of electromagnet ... more  
Laser allows solid-state refrigeration of a semiconductor materialSeattle WA (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 To the general public, lasers heat objects. And generally, that would be correct. But lasers also show promise to do quite the opposite - to cool materials. Lasers that can cool materials could revo ... more 
Radar points to Moon being more metallic than researchers thoughtLaurel MD (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 What started out as a hunt for ice lurking in polar lunar craters turned into an unexpected finding that could help clear some muddy history about the Moon's formation. Team members of the Min ... more  
One galaxy, two asteroidsParis (ESA) Jul 02, 2020 At first sight, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope portrays the sparkling stars of AGC111977, a dwarf galaxy located around 15 million light years away and visible in the lower left ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 02, 2020 
NASA concluded a spacewalk of 6 hours and 1 minute on Wednesday to replace aging batteries on the International Space Station.
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy braved the extreme conditions of outer space for the second time in six days.
Three hours into the spacewalk, which started around 7:20 a.m, NASA reported that Wednesday's battery work was completed. The astronaut ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
Advanced Rockets Corporation (ARC) report it has been granted a Space Vehicle Systems patent featuring a unique architecture for multiple applications, including space launch, national defense, and high-speed civil aviation.
The patent also addresses critical factors for reducing the cost of access to space, including, high-utilization, Continuous Intact Abort Capability (CIAC), and reusab ... more |
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 Fukuoka, Japan (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
Compared with our own planet Earth, Mars might seem like a "dead" planet, but even there, the wind blows and the ground moves. On Earth, we study the ambient seismic noise rippling mainly due to ocean activity to peek underground at the structure of the Earth's interior. Can we do the same on Mars without ocean?
According to a new study by researchers at Kyushu University's International I ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2020 
Yuanwang-6 - China's space-tracking ship, Yuanwang-6, has completed maritime monitoring for the last satellite launch of the country's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday.
The satellite, the 55th of the BeiDou family, was launched at 9:43 am (Beijing Time) on Tuesday. It was sent into the preset orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang S ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
Airbus Defence and Space has won a contract for a fully reconfigurable telecomunications satellite from Australia's second largest telecommunications company and leading satellite operator Optus. The satellite will be based on Airbus' new standard OneSat product line and is Airbus' first contract from the Australian operator.
Airbus will deliver an end-to-end solution, including design and ... more |
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 Manassas VA (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
BAE Systems has delivered its first shipment of next-generation radiation-hardened software defined radios (SDR) enabled by its RAD5545 computer to Lockheed Martin Space. The radios provide spacecraft with the performance, availability, reliability and on-board signals processing capacity needed to support future space missions - from planetary exploration to communications, national security, s ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 01, 2020 
Measurements from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of the hottest planets known.
"The weirdness factor is high with KELT-9 b," said John Ahlers, an astronomer at Universities Space Research Association in Columbia, Maryland, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center i ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 
A new model from NASA scientists supports the theory that the interior ocean in Jupiter's moon Europa would be able to sustain life. In addition they have calculated that this water, believed to be an ocean under the surface ice shell, could have been formed by breakdown of water-containing minerals due to either tidal forces or radioactive decay. This work, which is not yet peer-reviewed, is pr ... more |
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 Manila (AFP) June 29, 2020 
Philippine rescuers were searching Monday for 14 people missing after a local fishing boat collided with a cargo ship, authorities said.
The boats crashed early Sunday in waters southwest of Manila, capsizing the Philippine fishing vessel Liberty 5 off the coast of Occidental Mindoro province.
The captain of the cargo ship Vienna Wood, which is registered in Hong Kong, called for help "a ... more |
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 Denver CO (SPX) Jul 01, 2020 
After a successful launch this afternoon, the third Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite is now headed to orbit under its own propulsion. The satellite has separated from its rocket and is using onboard power to climb to its operational orbit, approximately 12,550 miles above the Earth.
GPS III Space Vehicle 03 (GPS III SV03) is responding to commands from U.S. Space Force and Lockheed ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
What started out as a hunt for ice lurking in polar lunar craters turned into an unexpected finding that could help clear some muddy history about the Moon's formation.
Team members of the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft found new evidence that the Moon's subsurface might be richer in metals, like iron and titanium, tha ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 02, 2020 
ESA's Gaia space observatory is an ambitious mission to construct a three-dimensional map of our galaxy by making high-precision measurements of over one billion stars. However, on its journey to map distant suns, Gaia is revolutionising a field much closer to home. By accurately mapping the stars, it is helping researchers track down lost asteroids.
Gaia charts the galaxy by repeatedly sc ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
Dust storms from Africa's Saharan Desert traveling across the Atlantic Ocean are nothing new, but the current dust storm has been quite expansive and NASA satellites have provided a look at the massive June plume. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite showed the blanket of dust had moved over the Gulf of Mexico and extended into Central America and over part of the eastern Pacific Ocean.
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 30, 2020 
ESA's Solar Orbiter has successfully completed four months of painstaking technical verification, known as commissioning. Despite the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the spacecraft is now ready to begin performing science as it continues its cruise towards the Sun.
When Solar Obiter blasted into space on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 10 February, the teams ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 01, 2020 
Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered the absence of an unstable massive star in a dwarf galaxy. Scientists think this could indicate that the star became less bright and partially obscured by dust. An alternative explanation is that the star collapsed into a black hole without producing a supernova. "If true," says team leader and PhD ... more |
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 Nashville TN (SPX) Jul 01, 2020 
The revolution in our understanding of the night sky and our place in the universe began when we transitioned from using the naked eye to a telescope in 1609. Four centuries later, scientists are experiencing a similar transition in their knowledge of black holes by searching for gravitational waves.
In the search for previously undetected black holes that are billions of times more massiv ... more |
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