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  Houston TX (SPX) Mar 02, 2021 Rice University physicists have discovered a way to trap the world's coldest plasma in a magnetic bottle, a technological achievement that could advance research into clean energy, space weather and astrophysics. "To understand how the solar wind interacts with the Earth, or to generate clean energy from nuclear fusion, one has to understand how plasma - a soup of electrons and ions - behaves in a magnetic field," said Rice Dean of Natural Sciences Tom Killian, the corresponding author of a publis ... read more |
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Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive processNarragansett RI (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 February 26, 2021 - A team of researchers from the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography and their collaborators have revealed that the abundant microbes living in ancient sed ... more  
Lockheed Martin And NEC Put AI To Work On Programs Like NASA's Artemis MissionDenver CO (SPX) Mar 03, 2021 Lockheed Martin and NEC Corporation have signed a joint collaboration agreement to extend their partnership utilizing NEC's System Invariant Analysis Technology (SIAT). The companies are also finali ... more 
NASA, Navy test diving technology that could be used on the moonWashington DC (UPI) Mar 2, 2021 The Navy teamed up with NASA astronauts and engineers last week to test a technology that allows divers to work more efficiently underwater and could be used the next time astronauts return to the moon. ... more 
Three elder sisters of the Sun with planetsTorun, Poland (SPX) Mar 03, 2021 An international team led by Prof. dr habil. Andrzej Niedzielski, an astronomer from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland), has discovered yet another three extrasolar planets. These ... more |
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Testing proves its worth with successful mars parachute deploymentPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 26, 2021 The giant canopy that helped land Perseverance on Mars was tested here on Earth at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Test. Test again. Test again. Testing spacecraft components ... more 
ESA plans mission to explore lunar cavesParis (ESA) Feb 25, 2021 In a first step towards uncovering the Moon's subterranean secrets, in 2019 we asked for your ideas to detect, map and explore lunar caves. Five ideas were selected to be studied in more detail, eac ... more  
Imaging space debris in high resolutionPhiladelphia PA (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 Litter is not only a problem on Earth. According to NASA, there are currently millions of pieces of space junk in the range of altitudes from 200 to 2,000 kilometers above the Earth's surface, which ... more  
China has over 300 satellites in orbitBeijing (XNA) Mar 02, 2021 China's satellite application system has made great progress in 2020, with more than 300 satellites in orbit for various applications, according to a recent report released by the China Aerospace Sc ... more  
Hi, Robot: Japan's android pets ease virus isolationTokyo (AFP) Feb 26, 2021 Nami Hamaura says she feels less lonely working from home thanks to her singing companion Charlie, one of a new generation of cute and clever Japanese robots whose sales are booming in the pandemic. ... more |
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Apollo rock samples capture key moments in the Moon's early history, study findProvidence RI (SPX) Feb 25, 2021 Volcanic rock samples collected during NASA's Apollo missions bear the isotopic signature of key events in the early evolution of the Moon, a new analysis found. Those events include the formation o ... more  |
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TTTech Aerospace and RUAG Space selected by Maxar to supply TTEthernet network platform for NASA's GatewayZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 25, 2021 TTTech Aerospace has been selected by Maxar Technologies to provide the TTEthernet network platform for the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) for NASA's Gateway. The PPE will provide power, maneuve ... more 
SwRI scientist captures evidence of dynamic seasonal activity on a Martian sand duneSan Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 25, 2021 A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientist examined 11 Mars years of image data to understand the seasonal processes that create linear gullies on the slopes of the megadune in the Russell crat ... more 
Mastcam-Z's First 360-Degree PanoramaPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 25, 2021 NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 21, after rotating its mast, or "head," 360 degrees, allowing the rover's Mastcam- ... more 
Martian moons have a common ancestorZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 23, 2021 Phobos and Deimos are the remains of a larger Martian moon that was disrupted between 1 and 2.7 billion years ago, say researchers from the Institute of Geophysics at ETH Zurich and the Physics Inst ... more 
Keeping an eye on the fusion futureBoston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 "That was your warmup. Now we're really in the thick of it." Daniel Korsun '20 is reflecting on his four years of undergraduate preparation and research at MIT as he enters "the thick" of graduate s ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 02, 2021 
This first HiRISE image of the Perseverance Rover on the surface of Mars also shows many parts of the descent system that got it safely there. Each inset shows an area about 650 feet (200 meters) across.
The rover itself sits at the center of a blast pattern created by the hovering skycrane (labeled as "descent stage") that lowered it there. The skycrane flew off to crash as at a safe dist ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 25, 2021 
In a first step towards uncovering the Moon's subterranean secrets, in 2019 we asked for your ideas to detect, map and explore lunar caves. Five ideas were selected to be studied in more detail, each addressing different phases of a potential mission.
Through these five Sysnova studies, three mission scenarios were developed - one to perform a preliminary scout of entry pits and undergroun ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 
From aboard the Juno spacecraft, a Southwest Research Institute-led instrument observing auroras serendipitously spotted a bright flash above Jupiter's clouds last spring. The Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) team studied the data and determined that they had captured a bolide, an extremely bright meteoroid explosion in the gas giant's upper atmosphere.
"Jupiter undergoes a huge number of im ... more |
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 Torun, Poland (SPX) Mar 03, 2021 
An international team led by Prof. dr habil. Andrzej Niedzielski, an astronomer from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland), has discovered yet another three extrasolar planets. These planets revolve around the stars that can be called elder sisters of our Sun.
You can read about the astronomers' success in Astronomy and Astrophysics. The prestigious European journal will pub ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Feb 26, 2021 
Texas-based Firefly Aerospace plans to launch its new Alpha rocket from California in April and send a lunar lander to the moon by 2023.
The 95-foot-high launch vehicle is designed to lift satellite payloads that weigh just over a ton into low-Earth orbit, or slightly lighter loads to a higher orbit.
Firefly has existed for only four years, and would join a small, but growing, group ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 02, 2021 
China's satellite application system has made great progress in 2020, with more than 300 satellites in orbit for various applications, according to a recent report released by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
Among them are Beidou navigation satellites, remote sensing satellites for meteorological and marine monitoring, and communication satellites.
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 
Long road trips can be tedious and boring. That's why many road travelers break up their arduous journey by making rest stops along the way.
Astronomers found that at least one roaming comet is doing the same thing. The wayward object made a temporary stop near giant Jupiter. The icy visitor has plenty of company: It has settled near the family of captured asteroids known as Trojans that a ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (AFNS) Feb 26, 2021 
In an effort to counter the increasing threat posed by enemy drones and other airborne threats, the U.S. Army is making an investment in directed energy prototype technology, with the Tactical High Power Operational Responder, or THOR, system, developed at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, playing a key role.
THOR is a prototype dir ... more |
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 Fort Belvoir VA (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 
On 27 January, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy Aegis Technical Representative (TECHREP) witnessed the successful demonstration of the first software release of the Japanese J7.B Aegis Weapon System equipped with SPY-7 radar in Moorestown, New Jersey.
Overall, there has been significant program progress since Japan's Aegis SPY-7 system selection in July 2018, and this demonst ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jan 22, 2021 
Rather like David versus Goliath, it appears that Saturn's tilt may in fact be caused by its moons. This is the conclusion of recent work carried out by scientists from the CNRS, Sorbonne University and the University of Pisa, which shows that the current tilt of Saturn's rotation axis is caused by the migration of its satellites, and especially by that of its largest moon, Titan.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 
Polished glass has been at the center of imaging systems for centuries. Their precise curvature enables lenses to focus light and produce sharp images, whether the object in view is a single cell, the page of a book, or a far-off galaxy.
Changing focus to see clearly at all these scales typically requires physically moving a lens, by tilting, sliding, or otherwise shifting the lens, usuall ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 
NASA teamed up with a group of researchers from Dr. Jacob Chung's lab at the University of Florida in Gainesville and the Aerospace Corporation based in El Segundo, California, to test two technologies to reduce the amount of cryogenic propellant consumed during future space missions. Instead of working in a typical lab, a plane following a parabolic flight path briefly suspended the technologie ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 02, 2021 
Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Cambridge have shown that polaritons, the quirky particles that may end up running the quantum supercomputers of the future, can form structures behaving like molecules - and these "artificial molecules" can potentially be engineered on demand. The paper outlining these results was published in the journal Physical Review B Letters.
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 Tokyo (AFP) Feb 26, 2021 
Nami Hamaura says she feels less lonely working from home thanks to her singing companion Charlie, one of a new generation of cute and clever Japanese robots whose sales are booming in the pandemic.
Smart home assistants such as Amazon's Alexa have found success worldwide, but tech firms in Japan are reporting huge demand for more humanlike alternatives, as people seek solace during coronavi ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 2, 2021 
The Australian government announced a plan Tuesday to co-develop three more Loyal Wingman unmanned aircraft, which recently completed its first test flight.
The three-year, $115 million-dollar deal will support the maturation of the aircraft design, evolution of current and future payloads and create the sustainment system for the Loyal Wingman.
The drone is the first military ai ... more |
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