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  Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 Muddy rains produced by giant impacts into a primordial glaciated Mars may have played a crucial role in the emplacement of kilometers-thick mudstones on Mars, according to a new paper by a team led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Alexis Rodriguez. These mudstones comprise the solar system's oldest known sedimentary rocks, according a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports. Mars preserves the solar system's oldest water-modified landscapes. Rivers and glaciers are known ... read more |
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To boldly go: NASA launches Lunar Loo challengeWashington (AFP) June 26, 2020 Everyone poops. ... more  
Space Team Theorizes Rare Exomoon DiscoveryLondon, Canada (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 Western University astronomers may have spotted six new moons orbiting planets in solar systems far from our own - an otherworldly discovery so rare it must wait on future technologies to confirm. U ... more  
Name Approved for Target of Asteroid Deflection MissionsMontevideo, Uruguay (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 The International Astronomical Union has just approved an official name for a tiny asteroid satellite set to become the first-ever target of an asteroid deflection mission. The satellite is the smal ... more 
NASA takes first step to allow computers to decide what to tell us in search for life on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 26, 2020 NASA has stepped closer to allowing remote onboard computers to direct the search for life on other planets. Scientists from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre have announced first results from ne ... more |
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Final Beidou launch marks major milestone in China's space effortBeijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 The final satellite to complete the third-generation network of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System was launched on Tuesday morning, marking a milestone in the nation's space endeavor. ... more  
Rocket Lab to launch Kleos Space data collecting payloadLuxembourg (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 Kleos Space S.A. is launching new data collecting technology (software defined radio payload) integrated in an In-Space Missions(In-Space) Faraday-1 spacecraft to be launched into a sun-synchronous ... more 
An experiment in recreating primordial proteins solves a long-standing riddleRehovot, Israel (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 What did the very first proteins look like - those that appeared on Earth around 3.7 billion years ago? Prof. Dan Tawfik of the Weizmann Institute of Science and Prof. Norman Metanis of the Hebrew U ... more  
Fugro partners with Australian Space Agency on new robotics control complexPerth, Australia (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 The Australian government's newly formed Australian Space Agency (ASA) has partnered with Fugro to design, build and operate the Australian Space Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Con ... more  
NASA Extends Deep Space Atomic Clock MissionPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2020 As the time when NASA will begin sending humans back to the Moon draws closer, crewed trips to Mars are an enticing next step. But future space explorers will need new tools when traveling to such d ... more |
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 The nature of nuclear forces imprinted in photons 
Neptune-sized planet discovered orbiting young, nearby starBaltimore MD (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 New research published in Nature reports the discovery of a planet about the size of Neptune orbiting an especially young, nearby star. The planet, named AU Mic b, is orbiting AU Microscopii, which ... more  |
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Young Planets Bite the DustHilo HI (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 These orange swirls of dust are snapshots from the largest collection of sharp, detailed images of dusty debris disks around young stars - published this week by an international group of astronomer ... more 
'Infant' planet discovered by UH astronomers, Maunakea telescopeHonolulu HI (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 Astronomers study stars and planets much younger than the Sun to learn about past events that shaped the Solar System and Earth. Most of these stars are far enough away to make observations challeng ... more 
Beneath the surface of exoplanet water worldsLemont IL (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 Out beyond our solar system, visible only as the smallest dot in space with even the most powerful telescopes, other worlds exist. Many of these worlds, astronomers have discovered, may be much larg ... more  
Scientists develop new tool to design better fusion devicesPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 One way that scientists seek to bring to Earth the fusion process that powers the sun and stars is trapping hot, charged plasma gas within a twisting magnetic coil device shaped like a breakfast cru ... more 
China's tracking ship wraps up satellite launch monitoringBeijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2020 Yuanwang-6 - China's space-tracking ship, Yuanwang-6, has completed maritime monitoring for the last satellite launch of the country's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in the Pacific Ocean o ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
Muddy rains produced by giant impacts into a primordial glaciated Mars may have played a crucial role in the emplacement of kilometers-thick mudstones on Mars, according to a new paper by a team led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Alexis Rodriguez.
These mudstones comprise the solar system's oldest known sedimentary rocks, according a paper published in Nature Scientific Re ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 26, 2020 
Everyone poops.
Including astronauts, who have since the early space era found ways to do their business in near-zero gravity - from the Apollo missions when waste management was, in NASA's words, "a plastic bag which was taped to the buttocks to capture feces," to the more advanced toilets of the International Space Station that use fan-driven suction systems.
Now the US space agency i ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 
A new model from NASA scientists supports the theory that the interior ocean in Jupiter's moon Europa would be able to sustain life. In addition they have calculated that this water, believed to be an ocean under the surface ice shell, could have been formed by breakdown of water-containing minerals due to either tidal forces or radioactive decay. This work, which is not yet peer-reviewed, is pr ... more |
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 London, Canada (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 
Western University astronomers may have spotted six new moons orbiting planets in solar systems far from our own - an otherworldly discovery so rare it must wait on future technologies to confirm. Until then, however, the mere possibility of the find sparks excitement over our biggest questions about the universe.
"Our own solar system contains hundreds of moons. If moons are prolific arou ... more |
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 Las Cruces NM (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. has reported the successful completion of the second SpaceShipTwo test flight from Spaceport America. This flight follows the completion of the first test flight from the Company's commercial headquarters in New Mexico on May 1, 2020, and marks another important milestone as the team progresses toward the launch of Virgin Galactic's commercial service.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 
The final satellite to complete the third-generation network of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System was launched on Tuesday morning, marking a milestone in the nation's space endeavor.
As the countdown ticked down to zero at 9:43 am at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, eight engines on the first stage and four boosters of a Long March 3B carrier rocket spat or ... more |
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 Montevideo, Uruguay (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 
The International Astronomical Union has just approved an official name for a tiny asteroid satellite set to become the first-ever target of an asteroid deflection mission. The satellite is the smaller of two bodies in the near-Earth asteroid system Didymos, and will now be distinguished from its primary object by the name Dimorphos.
In July 2021, just over a year from now, NASA will launc ... more |
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 Pearl Harbor (USN) May 22, 2020 
Amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) successfully disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a Solid State Laser - Technology Maturation Laser Weapon System Demonstrator (LWSD) MK 2 MOD 0 on May 16.
LWSD is a high-energy laser weapon system demonstrator developed by the Office of Naval Research and installed on Portland for an at-sea demonstration. LWSD's operational em ... more |
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 White Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
Every day, Rafael Miranda leaves his hotel room before 6 a.m. to begin his long drive across White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in New Mexico.
Miranda is a military training manager for Northrop Grumman's Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS). After tag-ups every morning with U.S. Army leaders and his team of trainers, Miranda visits each of six IBCS Engageme ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 
Volcano-like features seen in polar regions of Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft could be evidence of explosive eruptions that may continue today, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Charles A. Wood and coauthor Jani Radebaugh of Brigham Young University.
Morphological features such as nested collapses, elevated ramparts, halos, and islan ... more |
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 Dubendorf, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
The smallest motor in the world - consisting of just 16 atoms: this was developed by a team of researchers from Empa and EPFL. "This brings us close to the ultimate size limit for molecular motors," explains Oliver Groning, head of the Functional Surfaces Research Group at Empa. The motor measures less than one nanometer - in other words it is around 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a ... more |
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 
A highly unusual gravitational wave signal, detected by the LIGO and Virgo observatories in the US and Italy, was generated by a new class of binary systems (two astronomical objects orbiting around each other), an international team of astrophysicists has confirmed.
Scientists from the LIGO and Virgo Collaboration, which includes researchers from the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astro ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2020 
European and Russian specialists recently worked together to catch signals from an astrophysical observatory mission, now mapping X-ray sources in our galaxy and beyond, discovering previously unknown supermassive black holes.
In a joint technology demonstration conducted in April and May, ESA, Roscosmos, and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAN) in coop ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2020 
Steam locomotion may sound like an antiquated way to get around, but it might be getting a science fiction makeover as we expand our reach into the solar system.
A novel robotic concept being investigated at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California would use steam propulsion to hop across the sort of icy terrains found on Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. Bo ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 
Since the dawn of flight, pilots have used acrobatic maneuvers to test the limits of their airplanes. The same goes for flying drones: Professional pilots often gage the limits of their drones and measure their level of mastery by flying such maneuvers in competitions
Working together with microprocessor company Intel, a team of researchers at the University of Zurich has now developed a q ... more |
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