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  Columbus OH (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets - planets that float in space without orbiting a sun - than there are stars in the Milky Way, a new study theorizes. "This gives us a window into these worlds that we would otherwise not have," said Samson Johnson, an astronomy graduate student at The Ohio State University and lead author of the study. "Imagine our little rocky planet just floating freely in space - that's what this mission will help us find." The study ca ... read more |
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Large shift on Europa was last event to fracture its surfaceHouston TX (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 Europa's outer icy shell has completely reoriented itself in one of the last geologic events recorded on its young surface. Europa's poles are not where they used to be. Cracks in the surface of Jup ... more  
Follow Perseverance in real time on its way to MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 24, 2020 The last time we saw NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission was on July 30, 2020, as it disappeared into the black of deep space on a trajectory for Mars. But with NASA's Eyes on the Solar Syst ... more 
Technology ready to explore subsurface oceans on GanymedeKiruna, Sweden (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 The first of two Swedish-led Jupiter instruments has left the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) to take its place on the European spacecraft JUICE. The Radi ... more 
Pristine space rock offers NASA scientists peek at evolution of life's building blocksGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 During a 2012 expedition to Antarctica, a team of Japanese and Belgian researchers picked up a small rock that appeared coal black against the snow white. Now known as meteorite Asuka 12236, it was ... more |
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Deep learning will help future Mars rovers go farther, faster, and do more scienceAustin TX (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 NASA's Mars rovers have been one of the great scientific and space successes of the past two decades. Four generations of rovers have traversed the red planet gathering scientific data, sending back ... more  
NASA selects SwRI to participate in $6B Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV ContractSan Antonio, TX (SPX) Aug 16, 2020 NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute to take part in the $6 billion indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV contract. SwRI will be listed in the NASA spacec ... more 
Sustained planetwide storms may have filled lakes, rivers on ancient marsAustin TX (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 A new study from The University of Texas at Austin is helping scientists piece together the ancient climate of Mars by revealing how much rainfall and snowmelt filled its lake beds and river valleys ... more  
Orion Window Panel Complete for Front-Row View on Artemis Moon MissionHuntsville AL (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 As NASA's Orion spacecraft approaches the Moon on the Artemis III mission to put the first woman and next man on the lunar surface, the crew will get a glimpse through the spacecraft's windows. ... more 
The Sun May Have Started Its Life with a Binary CompanionCambridge MA (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 A new theory published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters by scientists from Harvard University suggests that the Sun may once have had a binary companion of similar mass. If confirmed, the presen ... more |
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Tiny Asteroid Buzzes by Earth - the Closest Flyby on RecordPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 19, 2020 An SUV-size space rock flew past our planet over the weekend and was detected by a NASA-funded asteroid survey as it departed. Near Earth Asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. Bu ... more  |
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Lander exhaust could cloud studies of Lunar icesLaurel, MD (SPX) Aug 16, 2020 A new study led by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, shows that exhaust from a midsized lunar lander can quickly spread around the Moon and potent ... more 
'Oumuamua isn't made from molecular hydrogen ice after allCambridge MA (SPX) Aug 18, 2020 The debate over the origins and molecular structure of 'Oumuamua continues with an announcement in the Astrophysical Journal Letters that despite earlier promising claims, the interstellar object is ... more 
The most sensitive instrument in the search for life in space comes from BernBern, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 The question of whether life exists beyond the Earth is one of humanity's most fundamental questions. Future NASA missions, for example, aim to examine the ice moons of Jupiter and Saturn, which may ... more 
Microbes living on air a global phenomenonSydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 In their first follow-up to a high-profile 2017 study which showed microbes in Antarctica have a unique ability to essentially live on air, researchers from UNSW Sydney have now discovered this proc ... more  
Scientists use photons as threads to weave novel forms of matterSouthampton UK (SPX) Aug 18, 2020 New research from the University of Southampton has successful discovered a way to bind two negatively charged electron-like particles which could create opportunities to form novel materials for us ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 
A new study from The University of Texas at Austin is helping scientists piece together the ancient climate of Mars by revealing how much rainfall and snowmelt filled its lake beds and river valleys 3.5 billion to 4 billion years ago.
The study, published in Geology, represents the first time that researchers have quantified the precipitation that must have been present across the planet, ... more |
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 Laurel, MD (SPX) Aug 16, 2020 
A new study led by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, shows that exhaust from a midsized lunar lander can quickly spread around the Moon and potentially contaminate scientifically vital ices at the lunar poles.
Computer simulations of water vapor emitted by a 2,650-pound (1,200-kilogram) lander - about a quarter of the dry mass of the Apol ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 
Europa's outer icy shell has completely reoriented itself in one of the last geologic events recorded on its young surface. Europa's poles are not where they used to be. Cracks in the surface of Jupiter's icy moon indicate its shell of ice rotated by 70 degrees sometime in the last several million years. In addition to supporting prior evidence for the existence of a subsurface ocean, it also me ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 
During a 2012 expedition to Antarctica, a team of Japanese and Belgian researchers picked up a small rock that appeared coal black against the snow white. Now known as meteorite Asuka 12236, it was roughly the size of a golf ball.
Despite its modest size, this rock from space was a colossal find. As it turns out, Asuka 12236 is one of the best-preserved meteorites of its kind ever discover ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 
NASA just validated a new type of propellant, or fuel, for spacecraft of all sizes. Instead of toxic hydrazine, space missions can use a less toxic, "green" propellant and the compatible technologies designed to go along with it.
In a little over a year since launch, NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) successfully proved a never-before-used propellant and propulsion system wor ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 24, 2020 
China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled more than 8 million km away from Earth and is functioning normally, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration Thursday.
As of 11:20 pm Wednesday, the Mars probe has traveled 8.23 million km away from Earth. Starting from 10:20 pm Wednesday, multiple payloads on the Mars probe, including M ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2020  NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of comet NEOWISE, taken on Aug. 8, zero in on the visitor's coma, the gossamer shell of gas and dust that surrounds its nucleus as it is heated by the Sun. This is the first time Hubble has photographed a comet of this brightness at such resolution after this close of a pass by the Sun.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 11, 2020 
The Army is evaluating new air and missile defense systems - and testing laser weapons - after postponing some tests due to COVID-19.
Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment and 3rd Bn., 6th Air Defense Artillery Air Missile Defense Test Detachment are involved in a limited user test of the Integrated Battle Command System that began in early July, accordi ... more |
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 Schrobenhausen, Germany (SPX) Aug 16, 2020 
MBDA Deutschland and Lockheed Martin, the TLVS bidders consortium (TLVS JV), have submitted an updated proposal to the German Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw). The proposal includes development, test, certification and delivery of Germany's future Integrated Air and Missile Defense system.
"More than 80 subcontractors will supp ... 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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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell.
The team, led by scientists at JILA, reported its new feat of wafer-thinness this week in the journal Physical Review Materials. The group's target, a film just 5 nanometers thick, is the thinnest material ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 
When LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, and its European counterpart, Virgo, detect a gravitational ripple from space, a public alert is sent out. That alert lets researchers know with a decently high confidence that this ripple was probably caused by an exceptional cosmic event, such as the collision of neutron stars or the merging of black holes, somewhere in the un ... more |
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 Wurzburg, Germany (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 
Black holes are at the center of almost all galaxies that have been studied so far. They have an unimaginably large mass and therefore attract matter, gas and even light. But they can also emit matter in the form of plasma jets - a kind of plasma beam that is ejected from the centre of the galaxy with tremendous energy. A plasma jet can extend several hundred thousand light years far into space. ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Aug 10, 2020 
Human Rights Watch said Monday it was seeking a new international treaty to halt the race towards fully autonomous weapons, claiming a growing number of countries wanted an outright ban.
The non-governmental organisation (NGO) said 30 countries are now explicitly seeking a ban, after compiling an overview of 97 nations with a stated position on the use and development of what it termed "kill ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 19, 2020 
Britain and Belgium signed a statement of intent to work together after both countries acquire the MQ-9B drone, they announced this week.
The Remotely Piloted Aircraft System is built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems of San Diego, and is known as the Protector RG Mk1 in Europe.
In remote signing ceremonies on Tuesday, Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston of the Royal Air Force a ... more |
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