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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 20, 2020 By studying the chemical elements on Mars today - including carbon and oxygen - scientists can work backwards to piece together the history of a planet that once had the conditions necessary to support life. Weaving this story, element by element, from roughly 140 million miles (225 million kilometers) away is a painstaking process. But scientists aren't the type to be easily deterred. Orbiters and rovers at Mars have confirmed that the planet once had liquid water, thanks to clues that include dr ... read more |
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The little tires that could go to MarsCleveland OH (SPX) May 20, 2020 It's rocky. It's sandy. It's flat. It's cratered. It's cold. The surface of Mars is a challenging and inhospitable place, especially for rovers. As future missions t ... more  
Aerojet Rocketdyne delivers DART spacecraft propulsion systems ahead of 2021 asteroid impact missionRedmond WA (SPX) May 20, 2020 The dual chemical and electric propulsion systems for NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) were recently delivered by Aerojet Rocketdyne to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (AP ... more  
New study estimates the odds of life and intelligence emerging beyond our planetNew York NY (SPX) May 19, 2020 Humans have been wondering whether we alone in the universe since antiquity. We know from the geological record that life started relatively quickly, as soon our planet's environment was stabl ... more 
Statistical analysis reveals odds of life evolving on alien worldsWashington DC (UPI) May 19, 2020 Scientists have used a statistical method known as Bayesian inference to determine the odds of complex extraterrestrial life evolving on alien planets, according to new research published this week. ... more |
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More details of China's space station unveiledBeijing (XNA) May 19, 2020 After the successful maiden flight of the Long March-5B large rocket and the testing of China's new-generation manned spaceship, more details of China's space station have been unveiled. The s ... more 
NASA's Perseverance Rover goes through trials by fire, ice, light and soundPasadena CA (JPL) May 19, 2020 While auto manufacturers built over 92 million motor vehicles for this world in 2019, NASA built just one for Mars. The Perseverance Mars rover is one of a kind, and the testing required to get it r ... more 
Lava-like mud flows on MarsBerlin, Germany (SPX) May 19, 2020 Scientists have long suspected that the 'fire-breathing' volcanoes that spread large quantities of flowing lava over Mars were not the only kind. The numerous mountain cones in the northern hemisphe ... more 
The horst and graben landscape of Ascuris PlanumBerlin, Germany (SPX) May 15, 2020 These images show a landscape deformed by strong tectonic activity in the area north of Labeatis Fossae in the Tempe Terra region of Mars. They were acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HR ... more 
ExoMars rover upgrades and parachute testsParis (ESA) May 18, 2020 The second ExoMars mission, scheduled for launch to the Red Planet in 2022, is taking advantage of the extra time to upgrade some of the rover's instruments and get ready for the next parachute high ... more |
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Russia says ready to discuss Moon exploration with NASAMoscow (Sputnik) May 19, 2020 Russia's Roscosmos space corporation on Saturday expressed readiness to negotiate Moon exploration initiatives with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as such talks could b ... more  |
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US hopes Russia will support Artemis Space Development AccordsWashington (Sputnik) May 19, 2020 The US government still hopes that Russia will support the newly proposed bilateral Artemis Accords for the economic development of space between the Earth and the Moon, NASA Acting Associate Admini ... more  
How engineers at NASA-JPL persevered to develop a ventilatorPasadena CA (JPL) May 18, 2020 On April 30, the Food and Drug Administration approved VITAL for a ventilator Emergency Use Authorization. Developed in just 37 days by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in response to the coronaviru ... more 
Engineers develop low-cost, high-accuracy GPS-like system for flexible medical robotsSan Diego CA (SPX) May 19, 2020 Roboticists at the University of California San Diego have developed an affordable, easy to use system to track the location of flexible surgical robots inside the human body. The system performs as ... more 
Lunar Surface Trash or TreasureBethesda MD (SPX) May 19, 2020 Since 1959, the lunar surface has experienced a barrage of man-made attacks of various kinds. It all began on September 13 with Soviet probe Luna 2 when it smashed into Mare Imbrium and all but vapo ... more  
E-commerce startup banks on robotics, AI to win consumersWashington (AFP) May 15, 2020 Robots will do the shopping at a US startup which is banking on fully automated warehouses for groceries and other merchandise at a time when the pandemic has made workplace safety a key concern. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 19, 2020 
While auto manufacturers built over 92 million motor vehicles for this world in 2019, NASA built just one for Mars. The Perseverance Mars rover is one of a kind, and the testing required to get it ready to roll on the mean (and unpaved) streets of the Red Planet is one of a kind as well.
Because hardware cannot be repaired once the rover is on Mars, the team has to build a vehicle that can ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 15, 2020 
A laser light shone through the dark could power robotic exploration of the most tantalising locations in our Solar System: the permanently-shadowed craters around the Moon's poles, believed to be rich in water ice and other valuable materials.
ESA's Discovery and Preparation programme funded the design of a laser system to keep a rover supplied with power from up to 15 km away while it ex ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 14, 2020 
When the New Horizons spacecraft passed by Pluto in 2015, one of the many fascinating features its images revealed was that this small, frigid world in the distant solar system has a hazy atmosphere. Now, new data helps explain how Pluto's haze is formed from the faint light of the Sun 3.7 billion miles away as it moves through an unusual orbit.
Remote observations of Pluto by NASA's teles ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 19, 2020 
Scientists have used a statistical method known as Bayesian inference to determine the odds of complex extraterrestrial life evolving on alien planets, according to new research published this week.
"The rapid emergence of life and the late evolution of humanity, in the context of the timeline of evolution, are certainly suggestive," David Kipping, an assistant professor of astronomy at ... more |
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 Washington (Sputnik) May 19, 2020 
On Friday, President Donald Trump announced that the US is developing a state-of-the-art hypersonic missile that he stressed should be superior to those currently created by Russia and China.
US Defence Department press secretary Jonathan Hoffman has confirmed that the Pentagon is developing a sophisticated hypersonic missile that was earlier touted by President Donald Trump.
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 Beijing (XNA) May 19, 2020 
After the successful maiden flight of the Long March-5B large rocket and the testing of China's new-generation manned spaceship, more details of China's space station have been unveiled.
The space station, expected to be completed around 2022, will operate in the low-Earth orbit at an altitude from 340 km to 450 km for more than 10 years, supporting large-scale scientific, technological an ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 20, 2020 
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, was not designed to find comets - its original goal was to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer layers of its atmosphere. But building new observatories can thankfully bring in discoveries that are entirely unexpected. Nearly 25 years since its launch, data from this space-based solar obs ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 08, 2020 
Navy leaders and private contractors broke ground this week on what will become the fleet's only dedicated facility to test, fire and evaluate complete laser weapon systems in a maritime environment, Naval Sea Systems Command announced on Thursday.
The Directed Energy Systems Integration Laboratory is projected to open in roughly a year along the Point Mugu Sea Range near Naval Base Ventur ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 08, 2020 
Boeing was awarded a $128.5 million modification to its Ground-based Midcourse Defense development and sustainment contract Thursday, according to the Pentagon.
The deal modifies a contract awarded in 2018 for upgrades to the GMD, which is the United States' ballistic missile defense system.
The modification increases the total value of the contract from $11.2 billion to $11.3 billio ... more |
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 Leioa, Spain (SPX) May 11, 2020 
A rich variety of meteorological phenomena take place in the extensive hydrogen atmosphere of the planet Saturn, a world about ten times the size of the Earth. They help us to better understand those that operate in a similar way in the Earth's atmosphere.
Featuring among them due to its uniqueness is the well-known "hexagon", an amazing wave structure that surrounds the planet's polar reg ... more |
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 Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) May 11, 2020 
Photosynthetic systems in nature transport energy very efficiently towards a reaction centre, where it is converted into a useful form for the organism. Scientists have been using this as inspiration to learn how to transport energy efficiently in, for example, molecular electronics. Physicist Richard Hildner from the University of Groningen and his colleagues have investigated energy transport ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) May 15, 2020 
Like crystal balls for the universe's deeper mysteries, galaxies and other massive space objects can serve as lenses to more distant objects and phenomena along the same path, bending light in revelatory ways.
Gravitational lensing was first theorized by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago to describe how light bends when it travels past massive objects like galaxies and galaxy cluster ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 15, 2020 
Once you leave the majestic skies of Earth, the word "cloud" no longer means a white fluffy-looking structure that produces rain. Instead, clouds in the greater universe are clumpy areas of greater density than their surroundings.
Space telescopes have observed these cosmic clouds in the vicinity of supermassive black holes, those mysterious dense objects from which no light can escape, wi ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 18, 2020 
Robots can be made from soft materials, but the flexibility of such robots is limited by the inclusion of rigid sensors necessary for their control. Researchers created embedded sensors, to replace rigid sensors, that offer the same functionality but afford the robot greater flexibility. Soft robots can be more adaptable and resilient than more traditional rigid designs. The team used cutting-ed ... more |
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 Patuxent River MD (SPX) May 11, 2020 
The U.S. Navy, with support from Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), commenced flight testing of the MQ-8C Fire Scout equipped with the Leonardo AN/ZPY-8 radar.
"The AN/ZPY-8 radar significantly increases Fire Scout's detection and tracking of targets. The ability to simultaneously employ multiple modes supports U.S. Navy intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance requirements," s ... more |
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