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  Tampa (AFP) June 7, 2018 A NASA robot has detected more building blocks for life on Mars - the most complex organic matter yet - from 3.5 billion-year-old rocks on the surface of the Red Planet, scientists said Thursday. The unmanned Curiosity rover has also found increasing evidence for seasonal variations of methane on Mars, indicating the source of the gas is likely the planet itself, or possibly its subsurface water. While not direct evidence of life, the compounds drilled from Mars' Gale Crater are the most diver ... read more |
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Curiosity rover finds organic matter, unidentified methane source on MarsWashington (UPI) Jun 7, 2018 NASA's Curiosity rover has found organic molecules in ancient sedimentary rock collected from Mars' surface. The rover's labs also confirmed seasonal fluctuations of methane in the Martian atmosphere. ... more  
NASA Re-plans Juno's Jupiter MissionPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2018 NASA has approved an update to Juno's science operations until July 2021. This provides for an additional 41 months in orbit around Jupiter and will enable Juno to achieve its primary science object ... more 
New Horizons Wakes for Historic Kuiper Belt FlybyLaurel MD (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is back "awake" and being prepared for the farthest planetary encounter in history - a New Year's Day 2019 flyby of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule. ... more 
Science Team Continues to Improve Opportunity's Use of the Robotic ArmPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2018 Opportunity is halfway down in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The science team is pursuing several hypotheses as to the origin of the valley. The rover is still pos ... more |
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Collective gravity, not Planet Nine, may explain the orbits of 'detached objects'Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 Bumper car-like interactions at the edges of our solar system - and not a mysterious ninth planet - may explain the dynamics of strange bodies called "detached objects," according to a new study. ... more  
Searching for Potential Life-Hosting Planets Beyond EarthCharlottesville VA (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 In recent years, astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets (and counting) - planets outside our solar system. The majority of those planets are Earth-sized, to about 2.5 times the size ... more 
Planets Can Easily Exist in Triple Star SystemsJohannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa (Wits) and the University of Grenoble Alpes in France have mapped out regions where exoplanets can exist within triple star syste ... more  
SpaceX delays plans to send tourists around Moon: reportWashington (AFP) June 4, 2018 SpaceX will not send tourists around the Moon this year as previously announced, and will delay the project until the middle of next year, US media reported on Monday. ... more 
From horizon to horizon: Celebrating 15 years of Mars ExpressParis (ESA) Jun 04, 2018 Fifteen years ago, ESA's Mars Express was launched to investigate the Red Planet. To mark this milestone comes a striking view of Mars from horizon to horizon, showcasing one of the most intriguing ... more |
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NEOWISE Thermal Data Reveal Surface Properties of Over 100 AsteroidsPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 05, 2018 Nearly all asteroids are so far away and so small that the astronomical community only knows them as moving points of light. The rare exceptions are asteroids that have been visited by spacecraft, a ... more  |
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Tiny asteroid first discovered Saturday disintegrates over AfricaPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 04, 2018 A boulder-sized asteroid designated 2018 LA was discovered Saturday morning, June 2, and was determined to be on a collision course with Earth, with impact just hours away. Because it was very faint ... more  
Space Traffic Management - Oversight, Licensing And EnforcementBethesda, MD (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 Soon, another 10,000 new satellites will be launched into the most congested space in the universe. There are already an estimated 100 trillion objects in low-earth orbits, most of these things are ... more  
Dolphin algorithm could lead to better medical ultrasoundsLund, Sweden (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 Millions of years of evolutionary fine-tuning have made dolphins phenomenally good at using echolocation to orient themselves, find food and communicate with one another. But how do they actually do ... more 
Synthetic 'tissues' build themselvesSan Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 How do complex biological structures - an eye, a hand, a brain - emerge from a single fertilized egg? This is the fundamental question of developmental biology, and a mystery still being grappled wi ... more 
Flexible organic electronics mimic biological mechanosensory nervesSeoul, South Korea (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 Researchers at Seoul National University and Stanford University developed artificial mechanosensory nerves using flexible organic devices to emulate biological sensory afferent nerves. They used th ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2018 
Opportunity is halfway down in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
The science team is pursuing several hypotheses as to the origin of the valley. The rover is still positioned near some tabular rocks that are the subject of an in-situ (contact) investigation. Over several days (sols), the Panoramic Camera (Pancam) has been employed to collect extensive imagery of va ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Jun 06, 2018 
For anyone who has ever wished there were more hours in the day, geoscientists have some good news: Days on Earth are getting longer.
A new study that reconstructs the deep history of our planet's relationship to the moon shows that 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted just over 18 hours. This is at least in part because the moon was closer and changed the way the Earth spun around ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2018 
NASA has approved an update to Juno's science operations until July 2021. This provides for an additional 41 months in orbit around Jupiter and will enable Juno to achieve its primary science objectives.Juno is in 53-day orbits rather than 14-day orbits as initially planned because of a concern about valves on the spacecraft's fuel system. This longer orbit means that it will take more time to c ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 
In recent years, astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets (and counting) - planets outside our solar system. The majority of those planets are Earth-sized, to about 2.5 times the size of Earth, and therefore considered to have the potential for facilitating the development of life.
But which ones, specifically, could harbor organisms?
One way to narrow the search for ha ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 
The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $928 million contract April 18 to develop a new missile that will travel more than five times faster than the speed of sound to overcome enemy defenses.
Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Lockheed Martin will develop the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW), a new air-launched weapon system. The company is workin ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 07, 2018 
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) confirmed that one of its institutes Monday successfully tracked and received imaging data from the newly-launched Earth observation satellite Gaofen-6.
The Aerospace Information Research Institute said the Miyun station of China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station received the first batch of observation data from the Gaofen-6 satellite. There was ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 04, 2018  A boulder-sized asteroid designated 2018 LA was discovered Saturday morning, June 2, and was determined to be on a collision course with Earth, with impact just hours away. Because it was very faint, the asteroid was estimated to be only about 6 feet (2 meters) across, which is small enough that it was expected to safely disintegrate in Earth's atmosphere. Saturday's asteroid was first discovere ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 19, 2018 
The US Air Force will this summer begin testing a laser that will be mounted on an F-15 warplane, an official said Monday.
The Pentagon last year awarded a $26 million contract to Lockheed Martin for a laser program called SHiELD (Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator.)
The idea is to put a laser system on aircraft with an output of about 50 kilowatts to test their ability to zap ... more |
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 Riyadh (AFP) June 5, 2018  Saudi air defences on Tuesday intercepted a ballistic missile that targeted the western city of Yanbu after being fired from rebel-held territory in neighbouring Yemen, a Saudi-led military coalition said.
The missile fired at the coastal city did not cause any casualties, coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency.
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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) May 22, 2018 
The small inner moons of Saturn look like giant ravioli and spaetzle. Their spectacular shape has been revealed by the Cassini spacecraft. For the first time, researchers of the University of Bern (Switzerland) show how these moons were formed. The peculiar shapes are a natural outcome of merging collisions among similar-sized little moons, as computer simulations demonstrate.
When Martin ... more |
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 Columbus OH (SPX) Jun 04, 2018 
Researchers have devised a magnetic control system to make tiny DNA-based robots move on demand - and much faster than recently possible. In the journal Nature Communications, Carlos Castro and Ratnasingham Sooryakumar and their colleagues from The Ohio State University report that the control system reduced the response time of prototype nano-robot components from several minutes to less than a ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 
The spectacular merger of two neutron stars that generated gravitational waves announced last fall likely did something else: birthed a black hole. This newly spawned black hole would be the lowest mass black hole ever found.
A new study analyzed data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory taken in the days, weeks, and months after the detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interfero ... more |
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 Dallas TX (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 
One of the unsolved mysteries in modern science is why the expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating. Some scientists argue it is due to a theoretical dark energy that counteracts the pull of gravity, while others think Albert Einstein's long-accepted theory of gravity itself may need to be modified.
As astrophysicists look for answers in the mountains of data gathered from astr ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 
The last decade has witnessed service robotics market traversing alongside a lucrative growth path - right from being a subject of science fiction debates to an almost niche vertical of the electronics space. The emergence of digital and high-tech technologies such as cloud computing, IoT, AI, and RaaS in recent times, has further added to the growing potential of robotics.
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 Leibniz, Germany (SPX) Jun 04, 2018 
Ny-Alesund (Spitsbergen). Investigations of the atmosphere by means of unmanned mini-airplanes can contribute significantly to the investigation of the causes of Arctic climate change, as they provide an insight into ground-level air layers that are not monitored by other measuring stations. This is the conclusion drawn by a German research team from current measurements that have just taken pla ... more |
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