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  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 NASA has selected Rocket Lab of Huntington Beach, California, to provide launch services for the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) CubeSat. Rocket Lab, a commercial launch provider licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration, will launch the 55-pound CubeSat aboard an Electron rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. After launch, the company's Photon platform will deliver CAPSTONE to a trans-lunar injection. The en ... read more |
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Body work: Russia's 'biohackers' push boundariesMoscow (AFP) Feb 18, 2020 Gripping a scalpel, Vladislav Zaitsev makes an incision in the fold of skin between his client's thumb and index finger and pushes in a small glass cylinder. ... more  
Looking for aliens who might be looking for usUniversity Park PA (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 Data from a massive search for cosmic radio emission released Feb 14. by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative - the most comprehensive survey yet of radio emissions from the Milky Way - has allowed as ... more 
Earth's cousins: Upcoming missions to look for 'biosignatures' in exoplanet atmospheresSeattle WA (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 Scientists have discovered thousands of exoplanets, including dozens of terrestrial - or rocky - worlds in the habitable zones around their parent stars. A promising approach to search for signs of ... more 
NASA selects university teams to build technologies for the Moon's darkest areasWashington DC (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 Almost a quarter of a million miles away from home, the Moon's permanently shadowed regions are the closest extraterrestrial water source. These craters have remained dark for billions of years, but ... more |
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New Horizons team discovers a critical piece of the planetary formation puzzleLaurel MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2020 Data from NASA's New Horizons mission are providing new insights into how planets and planetesimals - the building blocks of the planets - were formed. The New Horizons spacecraft flew past th ... more 
Scientists pick up pattern of space radio signals for 1st time, study saysWashington DC (UPI) Feb 12, 2020 For the first time in history, researchers say they picked up a radio signal from a single source in outer space that repeated at certain intervals for more than a year - and in this case, the pattern came and went roughly every two weeks. ... more  
Salt water may periodically form on the surface of MarsTucson AZ (SPX) Feb 13, 2020 Briny water may form on the surface of Mars a few days per year, research by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) Senior Scientist Norbert Schorghofer shows. Liquid water is difficult to come by ... more  
Leiden astronomers discover potential near-earth objectsAmsterdam, The Netherlands (SPX) Feb 13, 2020 Three astronomers from Leiden University (the Netherlands) have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with the Earth in the future. They did their research with ... more 
SwRI models hint at longer timescale for Mars formationSan Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 13, 2020 The early solar system was a chaotic place, with evidence indicating that Mars was likely struck by planetesimals, small protoplanets up to 1,200 miles in diameter, early in its history. Southwest R ... more |
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 Mars 2020 rover goes coast-to-coast to prep for launch 
NASA to hire more Artemis generation astronautsHouston TX (SPX) Feb 12, 2020 As NASA prepares to launch American astronauts this year on American rockets from American soil to the International Space Station - with an eye toward the Moon and Mars - the agency is announcing i ... more  |
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Scientists discover nearest known 'baby giant planet'Rochester NY (SPX) Feb 12, 2020 Scientists from Rochester Institute of Technology have discovered a newborn massive planet closer to Earth than any other of similarly young age found to date. The baby giant planet, called 2MASS 11 ... more 
NASA commits to returning astronauts to the moon by 2024Washington DC (UPI) Feb 11, 2020 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to land the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024. "We are ushering in an unprecedented era of human spaceflight," NASA Admin ... more 
Supercharged light pulverises asteroids, study findsWarwick UK (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 The majority of stars in the universe will become luminous enough to blast surrounding asteroids into successively smaller fragments using their light alone, according to a University of Warwick ast ... more 
NASA Administrator Statement on Moon to Mars Initiative, FY 2021 BudgetWashington DC (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 "President Donald Trump's Fiscal Year 2021 budget for NASA is worthy of 21st century exploration and discovery. The President's budget invests more than $25 billion in NASA to fortify our innovative ... more  
Astroscale teams with JAXA for Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration ProjectTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 13, 2020 Astroscale has been selected as the commercial partner for Phase I of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) first debris removal project, a groundbreaking step by Japan to commercialize sp ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 14, 2020 
The northern and southern hemispheres of Mars differ fundamentally in terms of surface topography, age and morphology. In the north is an extensive lowland region that is relatively flat and much younger than the heavily cratered southern highlands. The transition zone between the two is characterised by a steep escarpment with an altitude difference of several kilometres. This region is referre ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 
NASA has selected Rocket Lab of Huntington Beach, California, to provide launch services for the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) CubeSat.
Rocket Lab, a commercial launch provider licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration, will launch the 55-pound CubeSat aboard an Electron rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2020 
The farthest, most primitive object in the Solar System ever to be visited by a spacecraft - a bi-lobed Kuiper Belt Object known as Arrokoth - is described in detail in three new reports. The reports expand upon the first published results on this object, announced in a May 2019 issue of Science, and which were based on just a small amount of data downlinked from the New Horizons spacecraft afte ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 
Emerging technologies and new strategies are opening a revitalized era in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). New discovery capabilities, along with the rapidly-expanding number of known planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, are spurring innovative approaches by both government and private organizations, according to a panel of experts speaking at a meeting of the American ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 17, 2020 
SpaceX successfully launched its latest cluster of high-speed internet satellites into orbit Monday but was unable to land its rocket booster on an autonomous ship, missing a key milestone.
The private company founded by billionaire Elon Musk has revolutionized spaceflight in recent years by developing rockets capable of delivering their payload in space then flying back to Earth and landing ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 07, 2020 
China's Long March-5B carrier rocket arrived at the launch site in southern China's Hainan Province Wednesday after a week of ocean and rail transport, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
The rocket will take part in a joint rehearsal with the prototype of the Chinese space station's core module at the Wenchang Space Launch Center. It is scheduled to make i ... more |
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 
The majority of stars in the universe will become luminous enough to blast surrounding asteroids into successively smaller fragments using their light alone, according to a University of Warwick astronomer.
Electromagnetic radiation from stars at the end of their 'giant branch' phase - lasting just a few million years before they collapse into white dwarfs - would be strong enough to spin ... more |
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 Kirtland NM (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 
The Air Force Research Laboratory has developed a unique directed energy weapon demonstrator called the High-power Adaptive Directed Energy System, or HADES, that completed field testing in 2019."HADES technology was designed with the warfighter in mind," said the AFRL program manager Dan Marker. "The system works by combining a large number of high power fiber lasers in a fashion that corrects ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 23, 2020 
The Russian capital's air and missile defence system is one of the most sophisticated in the world, and includes a dense layer of anti-aircraft missile launchers, interceptor systems, and a unique tetrahedral truncated pyramid radio-radar station so powerful it can detect space debris.
In the event of an enemy attack, Moscow's air defences would intercept and destroy enemy missile targets ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 
A Southwest Research Institute team developed a new geochemical model that reveals that carbon dioxide (CO2) from within Enceladus, an ocean-harboring moon of Saturn, may be controlled by chemical reactions at its seafloor. Studying the plume of gases and frozen sea spray released through cracks in the moon's icy surface suggests an interior more complex than previously thought.
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 Sapporo, Japan (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 
Researchers have discovered a method to control biomolecular machines over a wide temperature range using deep-sea osmolyte trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). This finding could open a new dimension in the application of artificial machines fabricated from biomolecular motors and other proteins.
Biomolecular motors are the smallest natural machines that keep living organisms dynamic. They can ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 
If you jump out of bed too quickly, you might feel a bit light-headed.
That's because when you're lying down, gravity causes your blood to pool in the lower parts of your body rather than in your brain. Fortunately, when you stand up, within a fraction of a second, your heart begins beating faster, moving the blood to your brain and allowing you to maintain your balance.
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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Feb 14, 2020 
A research team led by professors from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Physics and Astronomy has announced the discovery of a new electronic state of matter.
Jeremy Levy, a distinguished professor of condensed matter physics, and Patrick Irvin, a research associate professor are coauthors of the paper "Pascal conductance series in ballistic one-dimensional LaAIO3/SrTiO3 channels ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Feb 16, 2020 
Amid fears of a Big Brother-style society ruled by machines, the EU will urge authorities and companies to think hard before rolling out facial recognition technology.
But the bloc, which will make a much-anticipated announcement this week on the role of artificial intelligence (AI), will stop short of imposing an outright ban, a top official said.
On Wednesday, the European Commission w ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 14, 2020 
UAV Navigation announced reports that its flight control solutions for Remotely Piloted Air Systems/Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (RPAS/UAVs) are compatible with the Trimble UAS1, a high-precision Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver. The core benefits of Trimble's GNSS solution include centimeter-level precision and easy integration.
With over 15 years of expertise in providing a ... more |
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