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  Washington 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 student-developed technologies can help shine light on all they have to offer. Through the competitive Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge and the Space Grant project, NASA has awarded nearly $1 million to eight university teams to build sample lunar payloads and demonstrate ... read more |
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TRIDENT Mission Concept Selected by NASA's Discovery ProgramColumbia, MD (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 NASA recently announced that it has selected four science investigations as a step in choosing one or two missions for flight opportunities in the 2020's as part of its Discovery program. Amon ... more 
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 15th lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Feb 19, 2020 The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 15th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night. The lander woke up at 6:57 a. ... more 
Findings from Juno Update Jupiter Water MysteryPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 19, 2020 NASA's Juno mission has provided its first science results on the amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere. Published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy, the Juno results estimate that at the e ... more  
New technologies, strategies expanding search for extraterrestrial lifeCharlottesville 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 ... more |
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OSIRIS-REx Osprey FlyoverGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2020 On Feb. 11, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft safely executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of the backup sample collection site Osprey as part of the mission's Reconnaissance B phase activities. Preliminar ... more  
Nilosyrtis Mensae - erosion on a large scaleMunich, 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 yo ... more 
A close-up of Arrokoth reveals how planetary building blocks were constructedWashington 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 report ... more 
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 |
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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  |
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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 
Mars 2020 rover goes coast-to-coast to prep for launchPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 12, 2020 NASA's next Mars rover has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for its launch to the Red Planet this July. Two Air Force C-17 Globemaster cargo planes carrying the Mars 2020 rover as well ... more  
Outer Space ChickenBethesda, MD (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 A new version of the game of "chicken" is evolving in outer space. According to Gen. John Raymond, the U.S. Space Force Chief, Russian "inspector" satellites are threatening the tenuous stand-off st ... more  
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  
How a Canadian start-up used AI to track China virusToronto, Canada (AFP) Feb 19, 2020 On the shores of Lake Ontario, a Canadian start-up raised one of the earliest alarms about the risk posed by the mystery virus that emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan. How did it do it? Artificial intelligence. ... 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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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 19, 2020 
The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 15th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night.
The lander woke up at 6:57 a.m. Tuesday (Beijing time), and the rover awoke at 5:55 p.m. Monday. Both are in normal working order, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administra ... 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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 Seattle WA (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 
It takes a lot of fuel to launch something into space. Sending NASA's Space Shuttle into orbit required more than 3.5 million pounds of fuel, which is about 15 times heavier than a blue whale.
But a new type of engine - called a rotating detonation engine - promises to make rockets not only more fuel-efficient but also more lightweight and less complicated to construct. There's just one pr ... 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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 Munster, Germany (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 
A fireball in the sky, accompanied by a bang, amazed hundreds of eyewitnesses in northern Germany in mid-September last year. The reason for the spectacle was a meteoroid entering the Earth's atmosphere and partially burning up. One day after the observations, a citizen in Flensburg found a stone weighing 24.5 grams and having a fresh black fusion crust on the lawn of his garden.
Dieter He ... 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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 Toronto, Canada (AFP) Feb 19, 2020 
On the shores of Lake Ontario, a Canadian start-up raised one of the earliest alarms about the risk posed by the mystery virus that emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan. How did it do it? Artificial intelligence.
BlueDot has developed an algorithm that can sift through hundreds of thousands of news stories a day along with air traffic information in order to detect and monitor the spread of ... more |
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 Woomera Test Range, Australia (SPX) Feb 18, 2020 
PHASA-35, a 35m wingspan solar-electric aircraft, has successfully completed its maiden flight. The landmark flight paves the way to this new aircraft becoming a game changer in the air and space market, plugging the gap between aircraft and satellite technology.
PHASA-35 has been designed, built and now flown in less than two years as part of a collaboration between ourselves and Prismati ... more |
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