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  Tokyo (AFP) Dec 14, 2020 Black sandy dust found in a capsule brought to Earth by a Japanese space probe is from the distant asteroid Ryugu, scientists confirmed after opening it on Monday. The discovery comes a week after the Hayabusa-2 probe dropped off its capsule, which entered the atmosphere in a streak of light before landing in the Australian desert and then being transported to Japan. The Japanese space agency (JAXA) released a picture of a small deposit of sooty material inside the metal box - a first glimpse a ... read more |
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Chang'e 5 makes orbital correction on way back to EarthBeijing (XNA) Dec 15, 2020 The Chang'e 5 probe made its first orbital correction on Monday morning on its way back to Earth, according to the China National Space Administration. The orbiter-reentry capsule combination ... more  
Hubble identifies strange exoplanet that behaves like a "Planet Nine"Munich, Germany (ESA) Dec 11, 2020 The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD106906 b occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away and it may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hy ... more  
'The robot made me do it': Robots encourage risk-taking behaviour in peopleSouthampton UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 New research has shown robots can encourage people to take greater risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if there was nothing to influence their behaviours. Increasing our understan ... more  
Ice-Rich flow features in Martian southern hemisphere reveal effects of recent climate cyclesTucson AZ (SPX) Dec 15, 2020 A large, previously unrecognized reservoir of water ice on Mars is well preserved and formed within the past few million years, says a paper led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Danie ... more |
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New XLAB facility enhances Aerospace's prototyping capabilitiesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 The Aerospace Corporation recently unveiled its new xLab facility on the El Segundo campus. The renovations are designed to better equip our technical experts as they collaborate on building innovat ... more 
National team submits Lunar proposal To NASAWashington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2020 The National Team submitted its Option A proposal this week to land the first woman and next man on the Moon in partnership with NASA. Blue Origin leads the Human Landing System (HLS) National Team, ... more 
First presentation after Hayabusa2 return set for SPIE conference Dec 14Bellingham WA (SPX) Dec 11, 2020 As part of the opening plenary session at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation Digital Forum, Hitoshi Kuninaka, of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, will be discussing and respon ... more  
Spiders in space: without gravity, light becomes key to orientationBasel, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 10, 2020 Humans have taken spiders into space more than once to study the importance of gravity to their web-building. What originally began as a somewhat unsuccessful PR experiment for high school students ... more 
SoftBank sells controlling stake in Boston Dynamics to HyundaiTokyo (AFP) Dec 11, 2020 Japan's SoftBank Group will sell an 80 percent stake in robotics firm Boston Dynamics to Hyundai, the trio said Friday, in a deal that values the US company at $1.1 billion. ... more |
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 ESA signs contracts for reusable Space Rider up to maiden flight 
Research identifies Earth's extreme environments as best places for life to growEl Paso TX (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 A faculty member from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is at the forefront of research that is shaping new realities about the potential for new organisms to thrive in seemingly harsh, deso ... more  |
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Scientists discover compounds that could have helped to start life on EarthSt. Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Dec 15, 2020 Phosphorus is an element essential for life. It is fundamental to all living organisms, and is a key component of RNA, DNA, and cell membranes. Phosphorus compounds must have been involved in the em ... more 
Warning over 'blind adoption' of AI and rights impactVienna (AFP) Dec 14, 2020 People need stronger protection from the effects of artificial intelligence, the EU's rights agency argued in a report Monday, as one expert warned against the "blind adoption" of such technology. ... more 
Biomining study could unlock future settlements on other worldsLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 07, 2020 Experiments on the International Space Station have shown that the process of "biomining" will work in microgravity; a discovery that could help the first space settlers gather the minerals they nee ... more  
Quantum interference in timeBrussels, Belgium (SPX) Dec 15, 2020 Since the very beginning of quantum physics, a hundred years ago, it has been known that all particles in the universe fall into two categories: fermions and bosons. For instance, the protons found ... more 
Research develops new theoretical approach to manipulate lightExeter UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 The quest to discover pioneering new ways in which to manipulate how light travels through electromagnetic materials has taken a new, unusual twist. An innovative research project, carried out ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 15, 2020 
Don't tell Bill Allen he can't take risks.
Allen was just 17 years old when he first set foot on the grounds of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to join the mailroom in the summer of 1981. Voyager had recently encountered Saturn, and the Lab was crawling with members of the media.
"It was like walking into a football stadium in the middle of the touchdown. It was electric," he says. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 15, 2020 
The Chang'e 5 probe made its first orbital correction on Monday morning on its way back to Earth, according to the China National Space Administration.
The orbiter-reentry capsule combination activated two 25-newton-thrust engines at 11:13 am. The engines were operational for 28 seconds and completed the maneuver, the administration said in a statement.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 14, 2020 
Twenty-five years ago, NASA sent history's first probe into the atmosphere of the solar system's largest planet. But the information returned by the Galileo probe during its descent into Jupiter caused head-scratching: The atmosphere it was plunging into was much denser and hotter than scientists expected.
New data from NASA's Juno spacecraft suggests that these "hot spots" are much wider ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (ESA) Dec 11, 2020 
The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD106906 b occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away and it may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our Solar System dubbed "Planet Nine." This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a massive Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting very ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 13, 2020 
SpaceX launched a radio communications satellite for SiriusXM from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday afternoon amid blue skids and puffy clouds, two days after scrubbing the flight with 30 seconds until liftoff.
SpaceX had originally targeted the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket for 11:22 a.m. Sunday but pushed it back until 12:30 p.m., which was "optimized for launch and recove ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 30, 2020 
China plans to launch a space telescope for research in electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves in December, according to the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The telescope, Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM), will be launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's S ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Dec 15, 2020 
Thales Alenia Space, who have three sites in the UK and employ nearly 200 highly skilled engineers and scientists, have won the contract to design the mother ship for the Comet Interceptor mission, which will see one main spacecraft and two smaller robotic probes - built by the Japanese Space Agency - travel to an as-yet unidentified comet, and map it in three dimensions.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 25, 2020 
The U.S. Navy Surface War Center announced a test in which an autonomous drone was launched and landed on a moving ship as a target for laser weapons.
The tests, held last week at the NSWC Division at Port Hueneme, Calif., involved software made for the Navy by Planck Aerosystems Inc. that allow the drone to follow the ship without people controlling it, the Navy said.
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 
Lockheed Martin has announced the U.S. Space Force has determined the fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite (SBIRS GEO-5) is complete and ready for launch in 2021.
Built in a record time and at no additional cost to the government for the upgrade, SBIRS GEO-5 is the first military space satellite built on the company's modernized, modular LM 2100 combat bus ... 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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 Upton NY (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
Three-dimensional (3-D) nanostructured materials - those with complex shapes at a size scale of billionths of a meter - that can conduct electricity without resistance could be used in a range of quantum devices. For example, such 3-D superconducting nanostructures could find application in signal amplifiers to enhance the speed and accuracy of quantum computers and ultrasensitive magnetic field ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 09, 2020 
If the orientation of this image is a little disorienting, then you know how astronauts feel in their first few hours in space. in weightlessness, the human body loses its cues for up and down and requires adjustments in over to move and manipulate objects.
Researchers are studying extent of this adjustment through the Grip experiment, being set up in this image by NASA astronaut Mike Hopk ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Dec 10, 2020  The positively charged protons in atomic nuclei should actually repel each other, and yet even heavy nuclei with many protons and neutrons stick together. The so-called strong interaction is responsible for this. Prof. Laura Fabbietti and her research group at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now developed a method to precisely measure the strong interaction utilizing particle colli ... more |
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 Southampton UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2020  New research has shown robots can encourage people to take greater risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if there was nothing to influence their behaviours. Increasing our understanding of whether robots can affect risk-taking could have clear ethical, practiCal and policy implications, which this study set out to explore.
Dr Yaniv Hanoch, Associate Professor in Risk Manag ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 11, 2020 
X-61A unmanned aerial vehicles flew successfully in a test but could not be retrieved by a cargo plane, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said.
It was the third test of the vehicles, nicknamed Gremlins Air Vehicles. Three were launched at an undisclosed location in tests beginning in late October, DARPA said in a statement on Thursday.
While all autonomous flying posi ... more |
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