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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 15, 2021 On June 7, 2021, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter's ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter, racing over its roiling atmosphere from pole to pole in less than three hours. Using the spacecraft's JunoCam imager, the mission team has put together this animation to provide a "starship captain" point of view of each flyby. "The animation shows just how beautiful deep space exploration can be," sai ... read more |
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New UK Space Fund aims to make space saferLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 15, 2021 One of the biggest challenges facing the space sector is orbital congestion and space debris. There are currently around 3,000 working satellites in orbit, and an estimated 130 million other pieces ... more  
Four newly found exoplanets may offer insights into Earth's teenage yearsWashington DC (UPI) Jul 13, 2021 Astronomers have discovered four nearby exoplanets they hope will help scientists learn about Earth's poorly understood teenage years. ... more  
NASA Lucy mission's message to the futureBoulder CO (SPX) Jul 14, 2021 In the 1970s four spacecraft began their one-way trips out of our Solar System. As the first human-built objects to ever venture into interstellar space, NASA chose to place plaques on Pioneer 10 an ... more 
Surface of Jupiter's moon Europa churned by small impactsPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2021 It's easy to see the impact of space debris on our Moon, where the ancient, battered surface is covered with craters and scars. Jupiter's icy moon Europa withstands a similar trouncing - along with ... more |
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The mystery of what causes Jupiter's X-ray auroras is solvedParis (ESA) Jul 14, 2021 The 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter's X-ray auroras has been solved. For the first time, astronomers have seen the entire mechanism at work - and it could be a process occurring in many o ... more  
Mars Helicopter reveals intriguing terrain for rover teamPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2021 Images snapped on July 5 by NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on its ambitious ninth flight have offered scientists and engineers working with the agency's Perseverance Mars rover an unprecedented op ... more  
Stellar Project announces LaserCube maiden flight missionWashington DC (SPX) Jul 15, 2021 LaserCube, Stellar Project's frst optical communication terminal for small satellites, has been launched into space onboard D-Orbit's ION Satellite Carrier in SpaceX's Falcon 9 Transporter-2 mission ... more 
A potential new tracer of exoplanet formationHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jul 15, 2021 An international team of astronomers, including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, have become the first in the world to detect isotopes in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. It co ... more 
China Shares New Images of Mars Taken by Zhurong RoverMoscow (Sputnik) Jul 14, 2021 The rover, named after the Chinese god of fire, is being used by the Chinese agency to examine Martian soil and atmosphere, take pictures, create maps, and search for water and evidence of past life ... more |
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China kicks off lunar sample study programsBeijing (XNA) Jul 14, 2021 China on Monday delivered about 17 grams of lunar samples brought back by the Chang'e-5 probe to 13 institutions, which had applied for research programs to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program C ... more 
TESS discovers stellar siblings host 'teenage' exoplanetsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 14, 2021 Thanks to data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international collaboration of astronomers has identified four exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, orbiting a pair ... more 
Haziness of exoplanet atmospheres depends on properties of aerosol particlesSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2021 Many exoplanets have opaque atmospheres, obscured by clouds or hazes that make it hard for astronomers to characterize their chemical compositions. A new study shows that haze particles produced und ... more  
An antioxidative stress regulator protects muscle tissue in spaceIbaraki, Japan (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 Most kids dream of growing up to be astronauts; but the downside of spending extended amounts of time in low gravity is that astronauts' muscles tend to shrink and weaken through disuse. Now, resear ... more 
Ingenuity Mars helicopter photos show latest flight areaWashington DC (UPI) Jul 12, 2021 Photos from the Mars helicopter Ingenuity's ninth flight released by NASA on Monday are helping engineers and scientists plot the next destinations for the Perseverance rover. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2021 
Images snapped on July 5 by NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on its ambitious ninth flight have offered scientists and engineers working with the agency's Perseverance Mars rover an unprecedented opportunity to scout out the road ahead. Ingenuity provided new insight into where different rock layers begin and end, each layer serving as a time capsule for how conditions in the ancient climate cha ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 14, 2021 
China on Monday delivered about 17 grams of lunar samples brought back by the Chang'e-5 probe to 13 institutions, which had applied for research programs to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
Speaking at a ceremony to mark the delivery, Liu Jizhong, director of the center, said that this is the first batch of lunar samples delivered t ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2021 
The 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter's X-ray auroras has been solved. For the first time, astronomers have seen the entire mechanism at work - and it could be a process occurring in many other parts of the Universe too.
Planetary astronomers have studied Jupiter's spectacular X-ray auroral emission for decades. The X-ray 'colours' of these auroras show that they are triggered by ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 13, 2021 
Astronomers have discovered four nearby exoplanets they hope will help scientists learn about Earth's poorly understood teenage years.
The exoplanets were found orbiting two known stars, TOI 2076 and TOI 1807, which were born from the same gas cloud some 200 million years ago.
Both of the stars are K-dwarfs, or orange dwarfs, which are medium-sized, hydrogen-burning main sequence ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2021 
ESA will enhance the versatility of Europe's Ariane 6 rocket with a kick stage called Astris in a euro 90 m development contract with prime contractor, ArianeGroup. This is part of ESA's strategy to extend Ariane 6's capabilities to serve a wider range of space transportation requirements.
Astris is planned to fly by mid 2024 as an optional add-on to Ariane 6's upper stage and will interf ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2021 
During a recent video sent from the core module of China's space station Tianhe (Harmony of Heavens), an exercise bike attracted lots of attention from viewers.
China launched its seventh manned spaceflight Shenzhou XII, on June 17, with three astronauts aboard for a three-month mission, during which they require regular exercise.
On June 23, astronaut Nie Haisheng opened a package c ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 14, 2021 
In the 1970s four spacecraft began their one-way trips out of our Solar System. As the first human-built objects to ever venture into interstellar space, NASA chose to place plaques on Pioneer 10 and 11 and golden records on Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft to serve as messages to any alien spacefarers that may someday encounter these spacecraft. Continuing this legacy, NASA's Lucy spacecraft will car ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) June 21, 2021 
Israel has used an airborne laser to shoot down drones in a series of tests, officials said Monday, calling it a "milestone" to update its already powerful defence systems.
During the tests, which took place "over the last week," a prototype of the high-power laser system carried on a small civilian plane "successfully intercepted several UAVs", said Yaniv Rotem, head of the defence ministry ... more |
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 Washington DC (AFNS) Jul 13, 2021 
The CubeSat Networked Communications Experiment Block 1 - part of MDA's Nanosat Testbed Initiative - uses small, low-cost satellites to demonstrate networked radio communications between nanosatellites while in orbit. MDA will conduct a 90-day demonstration, with a mission extension of up to one year, to ensure the two CubeSats can navigate properly, receive and send signals to radios and networ ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 
Tidal stresses may be causing constant icequakes on Saturn's sixth largest moon Enceladus, a world of interest in the search for life beyond Earth, according to a new study. A better understanding of seismic activity could reveal what's under the moon's icy crust and provide clues to the habitability of its ocean.
Enceladus is about 500 kilometers in diameter and almost entirely covered in ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 14, 2021 
An MIT physicist has built a new instrument of interest to MIT researchers across a wide range of disciplines because it can quickly and relatively inexpensively determine a variety of important characteristics of a material at the nanoscale. It's capable of not only determining internal properties of a material, such as how that material's electrical or optical conductivity changes over exquisi ... more |
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 Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Jun 23, 2021 
"Detecting primordial black holes opens up new perspectives to understand the origin of the Universe, because these still hypothetical black holes are supposed to have formed just a few tiny fractions of a second after the Big Bang. Their study is of great interest for research in theoretical physics and cosmology, because they could notably explain the origin of dark matter in the Universe". ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jul 14, 2021 
In the vicinity of black holes, space is so warped that even light rays may curve around them several times. This phenomenon may enable us to see multiple versions of the same thing. While this has been known for decades, only now do we have an exact, mathematical expression, thanks to Albert Sneppen, student at the Niels Bohr Institute. The result, which even is more useful in realistic black h ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 14, 2021 
The U.S. military must develop artificial intelligence ethically and responsibly, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in remarks on Wednesday.
In remarks to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, he noted that while China intends to be the world's AI leader by 2030, the United States has the same goal but a different approach.
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 Stillwater OK (SPX) Jul 07, 2021 
As a descendent of pioneers who crossed the Plains 150 years ago to establish a new life in what was then referred to as The Oklahoma Territory, it's ironic that the work that I and others in the State of Oklahoma are doing today related to Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) has placed the State back at the center of what can best be described as the new "wild west of aviation."
Although many S ... more |
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