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  Durham UK (SPX) Jul 04, 2018 Uranus was hit by a massive object roughly twice the size of Earth that caused the planet to tilt and could explain its freezing temperatures, according to new research. Astronomers at Durham University, UK, led an international team of experts to investigate how Uranus came to be tilted on its side and what consequences a giant impact would have had on the planet's evolution. The team ran the first high-resolution computer simulations of different massive collisions with the ice giant to tr ... read more |
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Successful second deep space maneuver for OSIRIS-REx confirmedGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 04, 2018 New tracking data confirms that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully completed its second Deep Space Maneuver (DSM-2) on June 28. The thruster burn put the spacecraft on course for a series of ... more  
Airbus completes the integration of CHEOPS satelliteMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 04, 2018 Airbus has completed the integration of Cheops (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite), the European Space Agency's (ESA) first small mission satellite that will carry out an exciting scientific missio ... more  
Atomic movie of melting gold could help design materials for future fusion reactorsMenlo Park CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have recorded the most detailed atomic movie of gold melting after being blasted by laser light. The insights they gain ... more  
Waystation to the Solar SystemBethesda, MD (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 It seems like everyone wants to go someplace in the Solar System. President Trump wants to go to the Moon. Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Others want to go to an asteroid. Others just want to go som ... more |
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Detecting the Boiling Atmosphere of the Hottest Known ExoplanetHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 Astronomers have found that the atmosphere of the hottest known exoplanet, the hot Jupiter-like planet KELT-9b, is "boiling off," with the escaping gas being captured by the host star. Using the CAR ... more 
First confirmed image of newborn planet caught with ESO's VLTMunich, Germany (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 Astronomers led by a group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany have captured a spectacular snapshot of planetary formation around the young dwarf star PDS 70. By using t ... more  
China Rising as Major Space PowerBeijing (XNA) Jul 02, 2018 China is fast becoming a major space power as both its technology and launching frequency of satellites are improving at a rapid rate. China became the world's fifth country to send a satellit ... more  
Mars valleys traced back to precipitationZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 02, 2018 The surface of Mars bears imprints of structures that resemble fluvial steam networks on Earth. Scientists therefore assume that there must have been once enough water on the red planet to feed wate ... more 
The meteorite 'Black Beauty' expands the window for when life might have existed on MarsCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jul 02, 2018 The Mars meteorite Black Beauty has literally brought crisp news to Earth. Crust formation is an important step in the development of terrestrial planets, and what makes Black Beauty special and exp ... more |
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 New Mystery Discovered Regarding Active Asteroid Phaethon 
Astronomers Discover New Way for Giant Planets to EvolvePreston UK (SPX) Jul 02, 2018 New research into the early stages of planet formation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, suggests that there may be more giant planets - most at least 10 times as ... more  |
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NASA Uses Earth as Laboratory to Study Distant WorldsWashington DC (SPX) Jul 02, 2018 The study of exoplanets - planets that lie outside our solar system - could help scientists answer big questions about our place in the universe, and whether life exists beyond Earth. But, the ... more 
More clues that Earth-like exoplanets are indeed Earth-likeAtlanta GA (SPX) Jul 02, 2018 A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology provides new clues indicating that an exoplanet 500 light-years away is much like Earth. Kepler-186f is the first identified Earth-sized pl ... more  
Rough terrain? No problem for beaver-inspired autonomous robotBuffalo NY (SPX) Jul 04, 2018 Autonomous robots excel in factories and other manmade spaces, but they struggle with the randomness of nature. To help these machines overcome uneven terrain and other obstacles, University a ... more  
Clearing out space junk, one step at a timeToulouse, France (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 Since the start of the space age, mankind has left its mark on the orbital pathways overhead...and not always for the better. Today, some 7,000 tonnes of artificial debris - a mass equivalent to the ... more  
Low-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walkingBoston MA (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 Prosthetic limb technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, giving amputees a range of bionic options, including artificial knees controlled by microchips, sensor-laden feet driven by artificial in ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
NASA's 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is challenging teams of citizen inventors to push the state of the art of additive construction to design and build sustainable shelters for humans to live on Mars. Previous levels of the challenge have resulted in advanced habitat concepts, material compositions and printing technologies.
The current stage (Phase 3: Level 1) of the multi-level contest c ... more |
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 Bethesda, MD (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
It seems like everyone wants to go someplace in the Solar System. President Trump wants to go to the Moon. Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Others want to go to an asteroid. Others just want to go someplace.
So, what is the easiest way to go anywhere in the Solar System? Well, most people don't know this, but the answer is to do it in stages. One smart way is to first go from the Earth's sur ... more |
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 Durham UK (SPX) Jul 04, 2018 
Uranus was hit by a massive object roughly twice the size of Earth that caused the planet to tilt and could explain its freezing temperatures, according to new research.
Astronomers at Durham University, UK, led an international team of experts to investigate how Uranus came to be tilted on its side and what consequences a giant impact would have had on the planet's evolution.
The te ... more |
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
A research team led by astronomers at the University of Warwick had to wait over 100 days for the sight of the first of confirmed neutron star merger to remerge from behind the glare of the sun.
They were rewarded with the first confirmed visual sighting of a jet of material that was still streaming out from merged star exactly 110 days after that initial cataclysmic merger event was first ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 03, 2018 
China aims to develop a new series of small, medium, large and heavy-lift Long March carrier rockets by 2030 to meet the demands of its space operations, according to an expert.
The capacity of Chinese rockets would reach 140 tonnes for low-Earth orbit, 44 tonnes for Earth-Mars transfer orbit, 50 tonnes for Earth-Moon transfer orbit and 66 tonnes for geosynchronous transfer orbit in 2030, ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 02, 2018 
China is fast becoming a major space power as both its technology and launching frequency of satellites are improving at a rapid rate.
China became the world's fifth country to send a satellite into space in 1970. So far, a total of 400 satellites have been launched and over 200 are currently in service.
A large family of satellites has been formed in China, covering the fields of co ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 03, 2018 
NASA's Dawn spacecraft reached its lowest-ever and final orbit around dwarf planet Ceres on June 6 and has been returning thousands of stunning images and other data.
The flight team maneuvered the spacecraft into an orbit that dives 22 miles (35 kilometers) above the surface of Ceres and viewed Occator Crater, site of the famous bright deposits, and other intriguing regions. In more than ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 3, 2018 
A Chinese firm has developed a laser gun designed for police use that can set fire to protesters' hair or banners from a range of almost one kilometre.
The general manager of the ZKZM fiber laser company, who asked to remain anonymous, said the weapon would "immediately" produce a "strong pain response" in the target but stressed it was designed to be "non-lethal".
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 27, 2018 
The United States may sell five AEGIS Weapons Systems to Spain, the State Department announced Tuesday.
The deal, which would cost about $860.4 million, requires the approval of Congress before it can be finalized.
The Government of Spain has requested to buy the five AEGIS Weapons Systems MK7 and a variety of other weapons and technologies that come with it - including five shi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 27, 2018 
Scientists have found evidence of complex organic molecules on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The chemical signals were identified among spectrometry data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
"We are, yet again, blown away by Enceladus," Christopher Glein, a space scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, said in a news release. "Previously we'd only identified the simplest organic mo ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new technique to squeeze infrared light into ultra-confined spaces, generating an intense, nanoscale antenna that could be used to detect single biomolecules.
The researchers harnessed the power of polaritons, particles that blur the distinction between light and matter. This ultra ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 
Using the MUSE instrument on ESO's VLT , a team led by Thomas Collett from the University of Portsmouth in the UK first calculated the mass of ESO 325-G004 by measuring the movement of stars within this nearby elliptical galaxy .
Collett explains "We used data from the Very Large Telescope in Chile to measure how fast the stars were moving in ESO 325-G004 - this allowed us to infer how muc ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jun 22, 2018 
The use of particle accelerators is not confined to basic research in high-energy physics. Large-scale accelerators and gigantic devices, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), are used for this purpose, but relatively small accelerators are used in medicine (diagnostic imaging, cancer treatment), industry (food sterilization, cargo scanning, electronic engineering), and various types of inves ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Jul 04, 2018 
Autonomous robots excel in factories and other manmade spaces, but they struggle with the randomness of nature.
To help these machines overcome uneven terrain and other obstacles, University at Buffalo researchers have turned to beavers, termites and other animals that build structures in response to simple environmental cues, as opposed to following predetermined plans.
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 27, 2018 
Raytheon Co. has been awarded a contract to produce a Low Cost UAV Swarming Technology, or LOCUST, Innovative Naval Prototype.
The deal, announced by the Navy Tuesday, comes under a $29 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the LOCUST Innovative Naval Prototype.
Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be completed by Jan. 25, 2020.
LOCUST can launc ... more |
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