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  Austin XT (SPX) Jan 25, 2022 Liquid water previously detected under Mars' ice-covered south pole is probably just a dusty mirage, according to a new study of the red planet led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. Scientists in 2018 had thought they were looking at liquid water when they saw bright radar reflections under the polar cap. However, the new study published Jan. 24 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters found that the reflections matched those of volcanic plains found all over the red planet's ... read more |
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Chinese lunar rover's 2-year travelogue on moon's far side reportedBeijing (XNA) Jan 21, 2022 Chinese scientists published the country's lunar rover travelogue of its first two years of service that depicted the unique and untrodden moonscape on the moon's far side, revealing its notable dif ... more 
How to Retain a Coreby Iona Brockie | Sampling Engineer - NASA/JPL Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2022 Have you ever wondered how a coring bit grabs and holds onto a rock core? As we drill, the bit teeth cut a 27mm diameter circle in the rock and leave the 13mm d ... more  
Looking Up at the Asteroids in the NeighborhoodMedford MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 Asteroids fly through our solar system all the time, but it's rare for us to take notice of them. But that's changed this week, as an asteroid passes within 1,231,184 miles of Earth on January 18. T ... more  
Orbital Insertion Burn a Success, Webb Arrives at L2Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 25, 2022 At 2 pm EST Monday, Webb fired its onboard thrusters for nearly five minutes (297 seconds) to complete the final postlaunch course correction to Webb's trajectory. This mid-course correction burn in ... more |
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OneWeb and Hughes to bring orbital broadband service to IndiaLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 OneWeb, the low Earth orbit satellite communications company, and Hughes Network Systems LLC has announced a strategic six-year Distribution Partner agreement to provide low Earth orbit (LEO) connec ... more  
SpaceX ISS freighter splashes down off FloridaWashington DC (UPI) Jan 24, 2021 A SpaceX Dragon capsule that had transported supplies and experiments to the International Space Station splashed down along the coast of Florida on Monday afternoon. ... more  
STEM student experiments win Flight Opportunity in NASA Tech ContestGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 22, 2022 NASA selected 57 winning teams in an inaugural nationwide challenge designed to attract, engage, and prepare future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professionals. The winning teams ... more 
Ariane 6 upper stage readies for tests at Europe's SpaceportParis (ESA) Jan 22, 2022 The central core of ESA's new generation Ariane 6 launch vehicle arrived at Europe's Spaceport on 18 January and is now inside the launch vehicle assembly building. Ariane 6's central core com ... more 
Perseverance's first year on Mars: Purdue professor, mission team member looks at what is aheadWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 Almost one year into the Mars rover mission, accomplishing its goal is on the horizon for Purdue University's Briony Horgan and the Perseverance team. Feb. 18 will mark one year since the rove ... more |
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Consistent asteroid showers rock previous thinking on Mars cratersPerth, Australia (SPX) Jan 22, 2022 New Curtin University research has confirmed the frequency of asteroid collisions that formed impact craters on Mars has been consistent over the past 600 million years. The study, published i ... more 
Sols 3364-3366: Back at the ProwBoston MA (SPX) Jan 22, 2022 On Wednesday we collected our first MAHLI images of the outcrops we've been studying the last few sols, and then drove back to the Prow to give us another chance to investigate the fascinating sedim ... more  
TESS Science Office at MIT hits milestone of 5,000 exoplanet candidatesBoston MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 The catalog of planet candidates found with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) recently passed 5,000 TOIs, or TESS Objects of Interest. The catalog has been growing steadily s ... more  
RIT scientists confirm a highly eccentric black hole merger for the first timeRochester NY (SPX) Jan 22, 2022 For the first time, scientists believe they have detected a merger of two black holes with eccentric orbits. According to a paper published in Nature Astronomy by researchers from Rochester Institut ... more  
NASA Emergency Beacons Save Lives in 2021Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 22, 2022 In 2021, NASA technology saved 330 lives in the U.S. network region of the international satellite-aided search and rescue effort, Cospas-Sarsat. NASA has lent technical expertise to the Cospas-Sars ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 
NEA Scout will visit an asteroid estimated to be smaller than a school bus - the smallest asteroid ever to be studied by a spacecraft.
Launching with the Artemis I uncrewed test flight, NASA's shoebox-size Near-Earth Asteroid Scout will chase down what will become the smallest asteroid ever to be visited by a spacecraft. It will get there by unfurling a solar sail to harness solar radiatio ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 21, 2022 
NASA is preparing the huge Space Launch System moon rocket for final tests on a Kennedy Space Center launchpad in February that would clear the way for a moon launch as early as late March.
The 322-foot-tall SLS rocket for the Artemis I mission is the largest since the last Saturn V rocket rolled out to a launch pad in 1972.
The first lunar mission in decades will help NASA understan ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 21, 2022 
After a few sols of challenges that prevented us from getting close-up MAHLI imaging of this dark outcrop in front of us, today we were finally able to plan the contact science that we were hoping for.
Yesterday there was a small rock under the right rear rover wheel, so we had to kick that rock to the curb to get into a stable position for using the rover arm. This morning's downlink data ... more |
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 Dalian (XNA) Jan 20, 2022 
Who would ever have thought that technology used on China's largest carrier rocket would be used to improve the safety of skiers?
Chinese scientists have developed a strong ski helmet with space technology originally used on the Long March-5 rocket, the country's heaviest launch vehicle and the carrier of Mars probe Tianwen-1.
The helmet, designed by a team from the Dalian University ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 
OneWeb, the low Earth orbit satellite communications company, and Hughes Network Systems LLC has announced a strategic six-year Distribution Partner agreement to provide low Earth orbit (LEO) connectivity services across India. The arrangement between OneWeb and Hughes Communications India Private Ltd. (HCIPL), a joint venture between Hughes and Bharti Airtel Limited, follows the Memorandum of U ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 
A Chinese satellite had a near collision with one of the many chunks of debris left by the fallout of a recent Russian anti-satellite missile test, state media reported.
Moscow blew up one of its old satellites in November in a missile test that sparked international anger because of the space debris it scattered around the Earth's orbit.
US officials accused Moscow of carrying out a "d ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jan 25, 2022 
The forensic evidence left in the 14 Her giant planetary system suggests an active dynamical past. Two giant planets, several times more massive than Jupiter, in highly eccentric orbits around a solar-type star were found orbiting at nearly right angles to each other.
In the recently published paper "14 Her: a likely case of planet-planet scattering," Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi-a senior m ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
Planets like Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn with global magnetic fields of their own are surrounded by so-called radiation belts: Trapped in the magnetic field, fast moving charged particles such as electrons, protons, and heavier ions whiz around thus forming the invisible, torus-shaped radiation belts. With their high velocities reaching almost the speed of light, the particles can ionize other mo ... more |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 
A new study led by teams of the Faculty of Biology, the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) of Barcelona has revealed that marine heatwaves associated with the climate crisis are bringing down the populations of coral in the Mediterranean, the biomass of which in some cases has been reduced by 80 to 90%.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 
Synchronizing time in modern warfare - down to billionths and trillionths of a second - is critical for mission success. High-tech missiles, sensors, aircraft, ships, and artillery all rely on atomic clocks on GPS satellites for nanosecond timing accuracy. A timing error of just a few billionths of a second can translate to positioning being off by a meter or more. If GPS were jammed by an adver ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 21, 2022 
Chinese scientists published the country's lunar rover travelogue of its first two years of service that depicted the unique and untrodden moonscape on the moon's far side, revealing its notable differences with the near side with in situ evidence.
The study published on Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal, Science Robotics, described cloddy soil, gel-like rocks, and fresh small craters ... more |
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 Medford MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 
Asteroids fly through our solar system all the time, but it's rare for us to take notice of them. But that's changed this week, as an asteroid passes within 1,231,184 miles of Earth on January 18. The asteroid, dubbed 7482 (1994 PC1), was first seen in 1994 and is about two-thirds of a mile wide.
One likely reason Americans are paying more attention is because many millions have watched th ... more |
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 Milan, Italy (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 
A research group at the Politecnico di Milano analysed the orientation of ancient Japanese tombs - the so-called Kofun. This study has never been carried out before, due to the very large number of monuments and the fact that access to these areas is usually forbidden.
For these reasons, high-res satellite imagery was used. The results show that these tombs are oriented towards the arc of ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 
The Proba-3 program, spearheaded by SENER Aeroespacial, the project's prime contractor for the European Space Agency (ESA), has accomplished several relevant milestones in the integration of the two satellites that will, for the first time, demonstrate a high- precision formation flight in space.
In the future, spacecraft formation flying technology will be used to replace bulky structures ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 
Spirals are some of the most captivating shapes in the universe. They appear in intricate seashells, carefully constructed spider webs, and even in the curls of ocean waves. Spirals on cosmic scales - as seen in galaxies - are even more arresting, not only for their beauty, but also for the overwhelming amount of information they contain. How do stars and star clusters form? Until recently, a co ... more |
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 Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Jan 25, 2022 
Astronomers discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes we have found at the centers of galaxies, but bigger than the black holes that are born when stars explode. This makes it one of the only confirmed intermediate-mass black holes, an object that has long been sought by astronomers.
"We have very good detections of t ... more |
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