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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 11, 2020 On Nov. 9, the mission team confirmed that the propulsion subsystem of the descent stage, which will help lower the rover onto Mars, is in good working order. Today, Nov. 10, they turn their attention to the rover's PIXL and SHERLOC instruments. The Lander Vision System is scheduled to go under the microscope on Nov. 11; and the SuperCam instrument, the day after that. Down the road, on Dec. 18, the team plans to perform a trajectory correction maneuver, using the cruise stage's eight thrusters to ... read more |
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Radioactive elements may be crucial to the habitability of rocky planetsSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 The amount of long-lived radioactive elements incorporated into a rocky planet as it forms may be a crucial factor in determining its future habitability, according to a new study by an interdiscipl ... more  
Radiation Does a Bright Number on Jupiter's MoonPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 10, 2020 As the icy, ocean-filled moon Europa orbits Jupiter, it withstands a relentless pummeling of radiation. Jupiter zaps Europa's surface night and day with electrons and other particles, bathing it in ... more 
New exoplanet model tells astronomers where to look using 4 simple variablesTucson AZ (The Conversation) Nov 10, 2020 Only 12 light years from Earth, Tau Ceti is the closest single star similar to the Sun and an all-time favorite in sci-fi stories. Habitable worlds orbiting Tau Ceti were destinations of fictional s ... more 
NYUAD study finds stellar flares can lead to the diminishment of a planet's habitabilityAbu Dhabi, UAE (SPX) Nov 10, 2020 In a new study researchers, led by Research Scientist Dimitra Atri of the Center for Space Science at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), identified which stars were most likely to host habitable exoplanets base ... more |
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Water may be naturally occurring on all rocky planetsCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Nov 10, 2020 The emergence of life is a mystery. Nevertheless, researchers agree that water is a precondition for life. The first cell emerged in water and then evolved to form multicellular organism. The oldest ... more 
Maunakea telescopes confirm first brown dwarf discovered by radio observationsWashington DC (SPX) Nov 10, 2020 A collaboration between the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) radio telescope in Europe, the Gemini North telescope, and the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF), both on Maunakea in Hawai'i, has led t ... more  
Pushing the envelope with fusion magnetsBoston MA (SPX) Nov 09, 2020 "At the age of between 12 and 15 I was drawing; I was making plans of fusion devices." David Fischer remembers growing up in Vienna, Austria, imagining how best to cool the furnace used to con ... more  
Researchers 3D print biomedical parts with supersonic speedIthaca NY (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 Forget glue, screws, heat or other traditional bonding methods. A Cornell University-led collaboration has developed a 3D printing technique that creates cellular metallic materials by smashing toge ... more  
Education key to developing lifelike intelligent robots, study arguesWashington DC (UPI) Nov 10, 2020 Artificial intelligence has rapidly advanced over the last few decades, but this intelligence remains largely relegated to smartphones and computers. ... more |
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NASA seeks new partners to help put all eyes on Artemis Moon missionsWashington DC (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 NASA is seeking new partners to help the agency tell the story of human exploration at the Moon with the Artemis program in ways that engage, excite, and inspire a worldwide audience. Through the en ... more  |
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Clay subsoil at Earth's driest place may signal life on MarsIthaca NY (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 Earth's most arid desert may hold a key to finding life on Mars. Diverse microbes discovered in the clay-rich, shallow soil layers in Chile's dry Atacama Desert suggest that similar deposits below t ... more 
Stars and planets grow up together as siblingsMunich, Germany (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 Astronomers have found compelling evidence that planets start to form while infant stars are still growing. The high-resolution image obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ... more 
New plans afoot beyond PlutoBoulder CO (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 New Horizons is healthy and continuing to send data back from the flyby of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) Arrokoth back in late 2018 and early 2019, even as it speeds deeper into the Kuiper Belt and f ... more 
Orion is 'Fairing' Well and Moving Ahead Toward Artemis IKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 05, 2020 Three spacecraft adapter jettison fairing panels have now been fitted onto Orion's European Service Module as production accelerates inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NAS ... more 
Microbial space travel on a molecular scaleVienna, Austria (SPX) Nov 05, 2020 Since the dawn of space exploration, humankind has been fascinated by survival of terrestrial life in outer space. Outer space is a hostile environment for any form of life, but some extraordinarily ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
NASA released an independent review report Tuesday indicating the agency is now ready to undertake its Mars Sample Return (MSR) campaign to bring pristine samples from Mars to Earth for scientific study. The agency established the MSR Independent Review Board (IRB) to evaluate its early concepts for a groundbreaking, international partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) to return the first ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 11, 2020 
The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 24th lunar day on the far side of the moon.
The lander woke up at 3:12 am Tuesday, Beijing Time, and the rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, woke up at 10:17 am Monday, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
Landing on the moon on Jan 3, 2019, the Chang'e ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 10, 2020 
As the icy, ocean-filled moon Europa orbits Jupiter, it withstands a relentless pummeling of radiation. Jupiter zaps Europa's surface night and day with electrons and other particles, bathing it in high-energy radiation. But as these particles pound the moon's surface, they may also be doing something otherworldly: making Europa glow in the dark.
New research from scientists at NASA's Jet ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 10, 2020 
A collaboration between the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) radio telescope in Europe, the Gemini North telescope, and the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF), both on Maunakea in Hawai'i, has led to the first direct discovery of a cold brown dwarf from its radio wavelength emission. Along with paving the way for future brown dwarf discoveries, this result is an important step towards applying r ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
Stratolaunch LLC, a leader in testing and development for the high-speed aerospace market, has chosen Calspan to build and test models of the fully reusable Talon-A autonomous, liquid rocket-powered Mach 6-class hypersonic vehicle. Under the contract, Calspan Systems, located in Newport News, Virginia will build the scale models, one of which will be tested in Calspan's Transonic Wind Tunnel in ... more |
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 Wuhan, China (XNA) Oct 23, 2020 
China's manned space program has entered the mission preparation stage with the selection of a new group of 18 reserve astronauts. According to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), the reserve astronauts, including one female, have been selected recently from 2,500 candidates. Among them are seven spacecraft pilots, seven space flight engineers and four payload experts.
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
Last week NASA snagged a sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu, an Empire State Building-sized body that Southwest Research Institute scientists have helped map with nearly unprecedented precision. Using orbital data from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, researchers measured centimeter- to meter-sized craters on the boulders scattered around its rugged surface to shed light on the age of the aster ... more |
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 Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 23, 2020  Since the mid-1960s few weapons have held as much potential and have constantly failed to live up to that potential as Directed Energy Weapons (DEW). However, since the turn of this century even as most countries have curtailed both their hopes and funding from the highs of decades past, DEWs have gradually and quietly matured.
DEWs use the electromagnetic spectrum (light and radio energy) ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 10, 2020  Earlier this year, Northrop Grumman announced it was submitting a bid as the prime contractor for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) pursuit. Partnering with Raytheon Technologies, the team looks to ensure a smooth transition from the current interceptor program on an accelerated schedule, supporting the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) critical mission of protecting our nation and our warfight ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 30, 2020 
Scientists have used data from NASA's Cassini mission to delve into the impact craters on the surface of Titan, revealing more detail than ever before about how the craters evolve and how weather drives changes on the surface of Saturn's mammoth moon.
Like Earth, Titan has a thick atmosphere that acts as a protective shield from meteoroids; meanwhile, erosion and other geologic processes e ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 06, 2020  With education budgets shrinking at universities in many parts of the world, every expense matters. Thanks to a team of scientists and students from the University of Sheffield, stocking the chem lab just got a little less expensive.
In a new paper, published Friday in the journal Nature Communications, researchers shared plans for the construction of a more affordable single-molecule m ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 
Nicholas Demos, a physics graduate student, didn't travel a conventional path to MIT. A first-generation college student, Demos didn't have a clear trajectory in mind when he first attended California State University at Fullerton after high school. "It was kind of the path of least resistance," Demos says.
When his father passed away in the middle of his undergraduate studies, Demos left ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 10, 2020 
Atoms in a gas can seem like partiers at a nanoscopic rave, with particles zipping around, pairing up, and flying off again in seemingly random fashion. And yet physicists have come up with formulas that predict this behavior, even when the atoms are extremely close together and can tug and pull on each other in complicated ways.
The environment within the nucleus of a single atom seems si ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 10, 2020 
Artificial intelligence has rapidly advanced over the last few decades, but this intelligence remains largely relegated to smartphones and computers.
The creation of lifelike artificially intelligent robots has been slow-going, and breakthroughs in what scientists call 'physical AI' remain few and far between.
In a new paper, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Machine Intell ... more |
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 White Salmon WA (SPX) Nov 09, 2020 
Sagetech Avionics, an innovative technology company providing industry-leading safety solutions for unmanned aerial systems (UAS), and Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, a leading UAS technology company, has announced that they have completed the integration of Sagetech's UAV transponders with the world's leading open source autopilot, ArduPilot.
The two companies successfully tested the new integra ... more |
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