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  Washington DC (SPX) May 11, 2021 After nearly five years in space, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with an abundance of rocks and dust from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. On Monday, May 10, at 4:23 p.m. EDT the spacecraft fired its main engines full throttle for seven minutes - its most significant maneuver since it arrived at Bennu in 2018. This burn thrust the spacecraft away from the asteroid at 600 miles per hour ... read more |
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VIPER Hits the SLOPEsCleveland OH (SPX) May 11, 2021 Before NASA's next lunar rover paves the way for long-term human exploration of the Moon, it must first pass a series of rigorous mobility tests along the banks of Lake Erie. The Simulated Lun ... more  
First ever discovery of methanol in a warm planet-forming diskLeiden Netherlands (SPX) May 11, 2021 An international team of researchers led by Alice Booth (Leiden University, the Netherlands) have discovered methanol in the warm part of a planet-forming disk. The methanol cannot have been produce ... more 
How planets form controls elements essential for lifeHouston TX (SPX) May 11, 2021 The prospects for life on a given planet depend not only on where it forms but also how, according to Rice University scientists. Planets like Earth that orbit within a solar system's Goldiloc ... more 
US space probe Osiris-Rex heads home with asteroid dustWashington (AFP) May 10, 2021 The US space probe Osiris-Rex on Monday left the orbit of the asteroid Bennu, from which it collected dust samples last year, to begin its long journey back to Earth. ... more |
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Coldplay beam new song into space in chat with French astronautParis (AFP) May 7, 2021 Coldplay gave new meaning to the idea of a single launch, playing new song "Higher Power" for the first time during a video link-up with French astronaut Thomas Pesquet. ... more  
Juice arrives at ESA's technical heartParis (ESA) May 07, 2021 The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, has come 'home' to ESA's technical centre in the Netherlands to undergo an extreme environment test in Europe's largest thermal vacuum chamber to prepare for i ... more  
US watching Chinese rocket's erratic re-entry: PentagonWashington (AFP) May 6, 2021 The Pentagon said Wednesday it is following the trajectory of a Chinese rocket expected to make an uncontrolled entry into the atmosphere this weekend, with the risk of crashing down in an inhabited area. ... more  
China wants to send spacecraft to edge of solar system to mark 100th year of PRCBeijing (XNA) May 07, 2021 Chinese scientists are evaluating the feasibility of a project to send spacecraft to the edge of the solar system, said Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program. Accordin ... more  
Volcanoes on Mars could be active, raise possibility of recent habitable conditionsTucson AZ (SPX) May 07, 2021 Evidence of recent volcanic activity on Mars shows that eruptions could have taken place within the past 50,000 years, a paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist David Horvath says. ... more |
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Researchers create new lunar map to help guide future exploration missionsFayetteville AK (SPX) May 05, 2021 A new map including rover paths of the Schrodinger basin, a geologically important area of the moon, could guide future exploration missions.The map was created by a team of interns at the Lunar and ... more 
UBCO researcher uses geology to help astronomers find habitable planetsKelowna, Canada (SPX) May 05, 2021 Astronomers have identified more than 4,000, and counting, confirmed exoplanets - planets orbiting stars other than the sun - but only a fraction have the potential to sustain life. Now, new r ... more 
Hubble Watches How a Giant Planet GrowsBaltimore MD (SPX) May 04, 2021 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a rare look at a Jupiter-sized, still-forming planet that is feeding off material surrounding a young star. "We just don't know very much ab ... more 
NASA's On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 Mission Ready for Spacecraft BuildGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 07, 2021 NASA is one step closer to robotically refueling a satellite and demonstrating in-space assembly and manufacturing thanks to the completion of an important milestone. In April 2021, NASA and M ... more  
Artificial intelligence can boost power, efficiency of even the best microscopesWashington DC (UPI) May 7, 2021 With the help of artificial intelligence, even already powerful microscopes can see better, faster and process more data. ... more |
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