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  Washington DC (SPX) Dec 15, 2017 Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth. The planet was discovered in data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. The newly-discovered Kepler-90i - a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days - was found using machine learning from Google. Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence in which computers "learn." In ... read more |
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Will Trump send Americans to the Moon? Money talks: expertsMiami (AFP) Dec 14, 2017 US President Donald Trump's decision this week to return Americans to the Moon makes sense as a way to develop technology to one day reach Mars, but only if Congress allocates the money, experts say. ... more  
Not Your Grandpa's Robot: Russian Robot 'FEDOR' May Become Self-LearningMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 13, 2017 F.E.D.O.R., which stands for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research is the first Russian humanoid robot, created within the framework of the Foundation of Advanced Studies. The robot is de ... more 
Google opens AI centre in China as competition heats upBeijing (AFP) Dec 13, 2017 Google announced Wednesday that it will open a new artificial intelligence research centre in Beijing, tapping China's talent pool in the promising technology despite the US search giant's exclusion from the country's internet. ... more  
Ceres' bright spots suggest the dwarf planet is geologically activeWashington (UPI) Dec 13, 2017 New observations and analysis of the hundreds of bright pots on Ceres surface suggest the dwarf planet is a dynamic, geologically active place. ... more |
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Electrical and Chemical Coupling Between Saturn and Its RingUppsala, Sweden (SPX) Dec 14, 2017 A Langmuir probe, developed in Sweden and flown to Saturn on the Cassini spacecraft, has made exciting discoveries in the atmosphere of the planet. Jan-Erik Wahlund at the Swedish Institute of Space ... more  
Cells in spaceParis (ESA) Dec 12, 2017 Laboratories on Earth hardly make the news, unless they come up with life-saving cures. So why would anyone care about a lab in space? The medicine you take on Earth begins with cell research, and t ... more 
Life's building blocks observed in spacelike environmentCollege Park, Maryland (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 Where do the molecules required for life originate? It may be that small organic molecules first appeared on Earth and were later combined into larger molecules, such as proteins and carbohydrates. ... more 
NASA Hosts Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler DiscoveryWashington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 14, to announce the latest discovery made by its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The discovery was made by researchers ... more 
Aerospace's SeedTECH AI advances to second round of $5M IBM Watson XPRIZEEl Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 The Aerospace Corporation's (Aerospace) SeedTECH Artificial Intelligence (AI) team is one of 59 teams out of 147 that are advancing to the second round of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE - a $5 million AI ... more 
OSIRIS-REx cruising towards rendezvous with Asteroid BennuGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 OSIRIS-REx is continuing outbound cruise operations, en route to arrival in August of 2018 at the asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft is currently 29.6 million miles (47.6 million kilometers) from Earth ... more |
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Juno probes the depths of Jupiter's Great Red SpotPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2017 Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its first pass over Jupiter's Great Red Spot in July 2017 indicate that this iconic feature penetrates well below the clouds. Other revelations from t ... more 
Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic ActivityPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2017 If you could fly aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the surface of dwarf planet Ceres would generally look quite dark, but with notable exceptions. These exceptions are the hundreds of bright areas that ... more  
Designing future human space exploration on Hawaii's lava fieldsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 On the lava fields of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, a team of NASA researchers and partners have been busy doing science in a most unusual way. They were studying the biology and geology of this remarka ... more 
Researchers analyze thousands of hours of Apollo mission audioDallas TX (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 NASA recorded thousands of hours of audio from the Apollo lunar missions, yet most of us have only been able to hear the highlights. The agency recorded all communications between the astronau ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 
On the lava fields of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, a team of NASA researchers and partners have been busy doing science in a most unusual way. They were studying the biology and geology of this remarkable terrain while simulating a realistic mission to the surface of Mars.
The conditions were so real that many of the expected challenges of otherworldly exploration were recreated, including a ... more New Rochelle, NY (SPX) Dec 11, 2017Space program should focus on Mars, says editor of New Space  Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 04, 2017EU exempts fuel for ExoMars mission from Russian sanctions  Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2017NASA's oldest Mars rover survives another harsh winter |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 12, 2017 
Scientists are mulling a robot moon station, Chinese space experts said on Tuesday.
The base can conduct bigger, more complicated research and experiments, according to space officials who announced the plan at an international symposium in Shanghai at the end of November.
Such a station could slash the costs of returning rock samples to Earth, Jiao Weixin, a Peking University space ... moreDallas TX (SPX) Dec 13, 2017Researchers analyze thousands of hours of Apollo mission audio Miami (AFP) Dec 14, 2017Will Trump send Americans to the Moon? Money talks: experts  Washington DC (AFP) Dec 12, 2017Trump tells NASA to send Americans to Moon |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 
Scientists were already excited to learn this summer that New Horizons' next flyby target - a Kuiper Belt object a billion miles past Pluto - might be either peanut-shaped or even two objects orbiting one another. Now new data hints that 2014 MU69 might have company: a small moon.
That's the latest theory coming from NASA's New Horizons team, as it continues to analyze telescope data on th ... morePasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2017Juno probes the depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot  Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 11, 2017New Horizons Corrects Its Course in the Kuiper Belt  Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 07, 2017Wrapping up 2017 one year out from MU69 |
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 College Park, Maryland (SPX) Dec 13, 2017  Where do the molecules required for life originate? It may be that small organic molecules first appeared on Earth and were later combined into larger molecules, such as proteins and carbohydrates. But a second possibility is that they originated in space, possibly within our solar system. A new study, published this week in The Journal of Chemical Physics, from AIP Publishing, shows that a numb ... more Washington DC (SPX) Dec 15, 2017NASA uses AI to uncover eighth planet circling distant star Washington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2017NASA Hosts Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler Discovery  Toronto, Canada (SPX) Dec 08, 2017Two Super-Earths around red dwarf K2-18 |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 13, 2017 
The Russian state space corporation has revealed the reasons behind the downfall of the Fregat upper stage and 19 satellites, carried by a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket.
The reason for the fall of the Fregat upper stage with 19 satellites into the Atlantic Ocean was incorrect operational software, the first deputy chief of Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, Alexander Ivanov, has explai ... more Kourou (AFP) Dec 12, 2017Ariane 5 rocket takes off with European GPS satellites  Moscow (AFP) Dec 12, 2017Russian space agency blames satellite loss on programming error  Washington DC (UPI) Dec 11, 2017Rocket Lab makes another attempt at rocket launch in New Zealand |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017 
China is now the world leader in remote sensing technologies for scientific purposes and is able to provide an unprecedented amount of data to support research and development for the world, officials said on Tuesday.
Remote sensing refers to aerial or satellite-based technologies to detect and measure objects on Earth's surface, atmosphere and oceans.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Sci ... more Beijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017China plans for nuclear-powered interplanetary capacity by 2040  Beijing (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017China plans first sea based launch by 2018  Beijing (XNA) Nov 02, 2017China's reusable spacecraft to be launched in 2020 |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2017 
If you could fly aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the surface of dwarf planet Ceres would generally look quite dark, but with notable exceptions. These exceptions are the hundreds of bright areas that stand out in images Dawn has returned. Now, scientists have a better sense of how these reflective areas formed and changed over time - processes indicative of an active, evolving world.
"The m ... moreGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2017OSIRIS-REx cruising towards rendezvous with Asteroid Bennu  West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 14, 2017Research shows why meteroids explode before they reach Earth Washington (UPI) Dec 13, 2017Ceres' bright spots suggest the dwarf planet is geologically active |
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 Bothell WA (SPX) Nov 07, 2017 
The US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) has awarded Lockheed Martin $26.3 million for the design, development and production of a high power fiber laser. AFRL plans to test the laser on a tactical fighter jet by 2021.
The contract is part of AFRL's Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) program, and is a major step forward in the maturation of protective airborne laser systems. ... more Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2017Lockheed Martin developing technology to intercept missile threats with Directed Energy  White Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Sep 21, 2017Upgraded Lockheed Martin Laser Outguns Threat in Half the Time Washington (UPI) Sep 20, 2017ATHENA laser testbed system successfully shoots down drones |
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 Seoul (AFP) Dec 11, 2017 
The US, South Korea and Japan carried out joint exercises Monday to track missiles from North Korea, as China warned that such manoeuvres fuel tensions following nuclear-armed Pyongyang's longest-range test launch to date.
The trilateral drill comes less than two weeks after Pyongyang test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and declared it had achieved nuclear statehood, e ... more Tokyo (AFP) Dec 10, 2017Japan to host joint missile tracking drill amid N. Korea threat  Jerusalem (AFP) Dec 8, 2017Israel shoots down rocket fired from Gaza: army  Tokyo (AFP) Dec 8, 2017Japan plans long-range missiles amid N. Korea threat: minister |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Dec 14, 2017 
A Langmuir probe, developed in Sweden and flown to Saturn on the Cassini spacecraft, has made exciting discoveries in the atmosphere of the planet. Jan-Erik Wahlund at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala and his colleagues show that there is a strong coupling, both chemically and electrically, between the atmosphere of Saturn and its rings. These research results have now been publ ... more Washington (UPI) Nov 21, 2017Unique atmospheric chemistry explains cold vortex on Saturn's moon Titan  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 22, 2017Cassini Image Mosaic: A Farewell to Saturn  Bristol UK (SPX) Nov 22, 2017Unexpected atmospheric vortex behavior on Saturn's moon Titan |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 14, 2017 
DNA, present in almost every cell, is increasingly being used as a building material to construct tiny, but sophisticated structures such as autonomous 'DNA walkers' that can move along a microparticle surface, fluorescent labels for diagnostic applications, 'DNA boxes' that serve as smart drug-delivery vehicles programmed to open up at disease sites to release their therapeutic content, or prog ... more Boston MA (SPX) Dec 07, 2017New nanowires are just a few atoms thick  Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Physicists explain metallic conductivity of thin carbon nanotube films  Karlsruher, Germany (SPX) ov 27, 2017Ceria nanoparticles: It is the surface that matters |
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 Mainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 
The magnetic moment of an individual proton is inconceivably small, but can still be quantified. The basis for undertaking this measurement was laid over ten years ago, and physicists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, GSI Darmstadt, and the RIKEN research institute in Japan are still performing experiments to measure this force with a sin ... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Physicists make most precise measurement ever of a proton's magnetic moment  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2017Listening for gravitational waves using pulsars  New York NY (SPX) Nov 14, 2017Gravity waves from merging supermassive black holes will be found soon |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Dec 14, 2017 
The startling similarity between the physical laws describing electric phenomena and those describing magnetic phenomena has been known since the 19th century. However, one piece that would make the two perfectly symmetric was missing: magnetic monopoles. While magnetic monopoles in the form of elementary particles remain elusive, there have been some recent successes in engineering objects that ... more Washington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Quantum-emitting answer might lie in the solution  Trieste, Italy (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Studying heat transfer with computers is easier now  Tucson, AZ (SPX) Dec 06, 2017A Black Hole Behemoth at the Edge of Cosmic Dawn |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 13, 2017 
Google announced Wednesday that it will open a new artificial intelligence research centre in Beijing, tapping China's talent pool in the promising technology despite the US search giant's exclusion from the country's internet.
Artificial intelligence, especially machine learning, has been an area of intense focus for American tech stalwarts Google, Microsoft and Facebook, and their Chinese ... moreMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 13, 2017Not Your Grandpa's Robot: Russian Robot 'FEDOR' May Become Self-Learning  Berkeley CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2017Robots foresee future with automated visualized predictions El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2017Aerospace's SeedTECH AI advances to second round of $5M IBM Watson XPRIZE |
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 The Hague (AFP) Dec 13, 2017 
Dutch police have clipped the wings of their airborne drone-fighting force of eagles, and fired their winged warriors deeming them too expensive and too unruly to be effective.
After a series of tests in 2015, the police last year announced they were putting into operation a flock of the birds of prey to take down drones believed to be posing a danger to the public, such as near airports. ... more Washington (UPI) Dec 13, 2017Jet-powered drone tested by BAE Systems  Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2017Hensoldt intros new counter-drone system  Beijing (AFP) Dec 7, 2017China says Indian drone 'invaded' its airspace, crashed |
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