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Moon younger than previously thoughtCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Aug 18, 2011 Analysis of a piece of lunar rock brought back to Earth by the Apollo 16 mission in 1972 has shown that the Moon may be much younger than previously believed. This is concluded in new research conducted by an international team of scientists that includes James Connelly from the Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen. Their work has just been published in Nature. The prevailing theory of our Moon's origin is that it was created by a ... read more |
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  What caused a giant arrow-shaped cloud on Saturn's moon Titan? Why does Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have what looks like an enormous white arrow about the size of Texas on its surface? A research group led by Jonathan L. Mitchell, UCLA assistant profess ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects XCOR to Participate in Suborbital Flight Contract NASA has selected XCOR Aerospace to provide suborbital flight and payload integration services for research and scientific missions in a program that will offer up to $10 million dollars in contract ... more | .. |
  Stellar eclipse gives glimpse of exoplanet A group of astronomers led by an MIT professor has spotted an exoplanetary eclipse of a star only 40 light years away - right around the corner, astronomically speaking - revealing a "super-Earth." ... more | .. |
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  NASA Uses MicroStrain Sensors to Monitor Vibroacoustic Shock During Shuttle Launches MicroStrain Inc. provided NASA Kennedy Space Center with the wireless sensor technology to remotely monitor lift off acoustics and vibration generated during the launch of both Endeavour and Atlanti ... more | .. |
  Robotic Refueling Module, Soon To Be Relocated to Permanent Space Station Position NASA's groundbreaking Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) will reach a key milestone in September when the International Space Station (ISS) robots transfer the module to its permanent home on space sta ... more | .. |
  SSTL's very high resolution satellite NigeriaSat-2 prepares for launch The latest Earth observation satellite from UK small satellite manufacturer SSTL has successfully completed pre-launch tests and has been integrated with a Dnepr launch vehicle. NigeriaSat-2, one of ... more | .. |
  Arrival in the Arctic After two days of travel from Clinton, Canada, where I had spent the previous week with the Pavilion Lake Research Project, I arrived in the evening in Resolute Bay, in Nunavut Territory, Canada. ... more |
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Romania says Russian drone breached its airspace
MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
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  The PI's Perspective: Visiting Four Moons, in Just Four Years, for All Mankind New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now approximately 21 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is - well on its way, between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. On July 1, we completed ... more | .. |
  NASA Plans to Visit a Near-Earth Asteroid In a few years a NASA spacecraft will seek the building blocks of life in a shovelful of asteroid dirt. The OSIRIS-REx1 spacecraft, targeted for launch in September 2016, will intercept asteroid 199 ... more | .. |
  China successfully launches maritime satellite China successfully launched a maritime satellite at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China at 6:57 a.m. Tuesday Beijing Time. The orbiter, Haiyang-2, was boosted by a Long March-4B ... more | .. |
  No Toilet for Tiangong We're getting closer to the launch of China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory. We've seen video footage and artwork of the exterior of this vehicle, but so far, information on Tiangong's interior has be ... more |
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  Jodie Foster helps keep search for aliens alive "Contact" star Jodie Foster was among donors helping to revive the 42 radio telescope dishes at a key California institute searching for extraterrestrial life, the group said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 SpaceX plans November test flight to space station California-based rocket maker SpaceX said Monday that it will make a test flight in late November to the International Space Station, now that NASA has retired its space shuttle program. ... more | .. |
 NASA moves forward in manned spaceflight NASA says it has created a new department, the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, to oversee manned spaceflight in the post-shuttle era. ... more | .. |
  US looks for answers after hypersonic plane fails Pentagon scientists on Friday acknowledged they were puzzled by the failed flight test of an experimental hypersonic plane and said they were trying to understand what went wrong. ... more |
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Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems
Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon
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 Lava, not water, said cause of Mars beds A U.S. researcher says large, river-like channels seen on Mars were created not by water but by massive, fast-moving lava flows of a type we don't see on Earth. ... more | .. |
 GRAIL Launch Less Than One Month Away NASA's twin lunar probes - GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B - completed their final inspections and were weighed one final time at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., on Tuesday. T ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Reaches Endeavour Crater Opportunity has arrived at Endeavour crater after a 1000-sol, 13.36 mile (21.5 kilometer) odyssey across the plains of Meridiani. On Sol 2681(Aug. 9, 2011), Opportunity drove 203 feet (62 mete ... more | .. |
 Asteroid Photographer Beams Back Science Data The Dawn spacecraft has completed a graceful spiral into the first of four planned science orbits during the spacecraft's yearlong visit to Vesta. The spacecraft started taking detailed observ ... more |
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 NASA Selects Seven Firms To Provide Near-Space Flight Services NASA has selected seven companies to integrate and fly technology payloads on commercial suborbital reusable platforms that carry payloads near the boundary of space. As part of NASA's Flight ... more | .. |
 Alien World is Blacker than Coal Astronomers have discovered the darkest known exoplanet - a distant, Jupiter-sized gas giant known as TrES-2b. Their measurements show that TrES-2b reflects less than one percent of the sunlight fal ... more | .. |
  Rehab robots lend stroke patients a hand Robot-assisted therapy has measurable benefits for patients with a weaker arm following a stroke. This is according to new research featured in the journal Clinical Rehabilitation, published by SAGE ... more | .. |
 Arabsat-5C is welcomed in French Guiana for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 launch The second of two passengers for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 mission arrived in French Guiana this week, with the Arabsat-5C satellite now joining SES-2 - which was delivered to the Spaceport ea ... more |
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Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research
Top Japan start-up Sakana AI touts nature-inspired tech
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 Tracking infinity and beyond The landing of the shuttle Atlantis July 21 marked the end of an era of space exploration. Behind the scenes, thousands of people have helped the U.S. space program make history while only a few fac ... more | .. |
 No Convenience Stores Between Earth and Mars... Yet Here's a summer reading suggestion from the University of Virginia that involves space travel - and it's not science fiction. Even though the space shuttle program has ended, it's not the end ... more | .. |
 Russia space chief regrets focus on manned missions The new chief of Russia's space agency on Thursday said it had put too much emphasis on manned space flight and needed to increase financing on projects that brought a tangible return. ... more | .. |
 NASA selects Virgin Galactic for Suborbital Flights Virgin Galactic has been selected by NASA to provide flight opportunities for engineers, technologists and scientific researchers to fly technology payloads into space. This arrangement marks ... more |
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US military loses contact with hypersonic aircraft US military scientists on Thursday launched a hypersonic aircraft but lost contact with the experimental plane in its second test flight, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Strange planet is blacker than coal A planet orbiting a distant star is darker than coal, reflecting less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it, according to a paper published on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Structural and Thermal Model of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter arrives at ESTEC The BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) STM arrived at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, during the night of 29/30 July. It had trave ... more | .. |
 The Lunar Farside And The Ancient Big Splat The mountainous region on the far side of the moon, known as the lunar farside highlands, may be the solid remains of a collision with a smaller companion moon, according to a new study by planetary ... more |
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