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July 28, 2015

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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is expanding. Dominated for decades by the search for radio transmissions from aliens, SETI has recently included optical searches for laser beams. A third SETI option, the search for extraterrestrial artefacts, is also gathering pace. Astronomers have conducted searches for Dyson Spheres using data from infrared astronomical satellites. Dyson Spheres are hypothetical shells built around entire solar systems, which could only be constructed by ci ... read more

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NASA researchers find "frozen" recipe for extraterrestrial vitamin Vitamin B3 could have been made on icy dust grains in space, and later delivered to Earth by meteorites and comets, according to new laboratory experiments by a team of NASA-funded researchers. Vita ... more		Multi-Use Firing Room 4 used for Resource Prospector Mission Simulation NASA's 21st century multi-user Firing Room 4 in the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida was used for the first time June 3. The facility last used to launch space shuttle Atlant ... more		Discovery Of A Mars-Size World Uses Tug-Of-War Technique With a remarkable scheme that uses the motions of one planet to find another, astronomers have discovered a Mars-sized world 200 light-years from Earth. The discovery is equivalent to sensing a pin ... more
				Flowing nitrogen ice glaciers seen on Pluto Flowing nitrogen ice glaciers have been glimpsed on the surface of Pluto, along with an unexpectedly thick layer of haze in the atmosphere, NASA scientists said Friday. ... more		Pulsar Punches Hole In Stellar Disk A fast-moving pulsar appears to have punched a hole in a disk of gas around its companion star and launched a fragment of the disk outward at a speed of about 4 million miles per hour. NASA's Chandr ... more

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New Website Gathering Public Input on NASA Mars Images Science-team members for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are soliciting help from the public to analyze exotic features near the south pole of Mars. By categorizing features visible in imag ... more		Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the "habitable zone" around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable-zone candidat ... more		U.S. defense in free fall U.S. and Saudis conduct Middle East's largest counter-drone exercise Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact		Curiosity Rover Inspects Unusual Bedrock Approaching the third anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has found a target unlike anything it has studied before - bedrock with surprisingly high levels of silica. Sili ... more
				NASA Could Return Humans to the Moon by 2021 Humans could return to the Moon in the next decade, and for "approximately 90% less than the previously estimated $100 billion," according to a new study by NextGen Space. NASA can cut the cos ... more		Vesta's Potassium-to-Thorium Ratio Reveals Hot Origins Studies of materials on the surface of Vesta offer new evidence that the giant asteroid is the source of howardite, eucrite and diogenite (HED) basaltic meteorites, supporting current models of sola ... more

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Scientist develops model for robots with bacteria-controlled brains Forget the Vulcan mind-meld of the Star Trek generation - as far as mind control techniques go, bacteria is the next frontier. In a paper published in Scientific Reports, which is part of the Natur ... more		Object recognition for robots John Leonard's group in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile autonomous robots map their environme ... more		Fossil fuels harm health from 'cradle to grave': report Trash, mulch and security: All jobs for troops in Washington Rising oceans to threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050: report		NASA discovers closest Earth-twin yet Astronomers hunting for another Earth have found the closest match yet, a potentially rocky planet circling its star at the same distance as our home orbits the Sun, NASA said Thursday. ... more
Battling Satellite Interference As satellite communications becomes a more important piece of both day-to-day life and national security, interference with those communications becomes a critical challenge. Last week SatCom Fronti ... more		Opportunity heading into Marathon Valley Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading into 'Marathon Valley.' On Sol 4072 (July 8, 2015), the rover collected some targeted 13-filter Panoramic Camera (Pancam) images and some N ... more		New Method Finds Best Candidates for Telescope Time If life exists on planets beyond our Solar System, its presence could be obscured by the haze and clouds in the planet's atmosphere. Even next generation telescopes - such as the James Webb Space Te ... more		Japan space scientists hunting for new asteroid name Japanese space scientists are on the hunt for a new name for an asteroid that may contain the secret of life, with a public competition beginning Wednesday. ... more

	Dawn Maneuvering to Third Science Orbit NASA's Dawn spacecraft is using its ion propulsion system to descend to its third mapping orbit at Ceres, and all systems are operating well. The spiral maneuvering over the next five weeks will tak ... more		ISS astronauts dodge flying Russian space debris Three astronauts living at the International Space Station were forced to scramble to safety after what NASA described as a "close pass" by flying Russian space debris on Thursday. ... more

EU to fast-track review of 2035 combustion-engine ban

Norway sovereign wealth fund drops French miner over environmental fears

EU split on 2040 climate goal ahead of UN summit

CSIRO strikes deal for ET search		Why we live on Earth and not Venus		Barnacles Explain Life at the Extreme		US team beats Iranians in Robocup football final		Lick Observatory Joins Massive Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
Arecibo Observatory Provides The First Detailed Images Of A Rare Asteroid		Hitchhiking robot begins journey across U.S.		Green Bank Joins 'Breakthrough Listen' to Accelerate SETI Search		Berkeley in $100 million search for extraterrestrial intelligence		Hawking launches biggest-ever search for alien life

ARIEL mission to reveal 'Brave New Worlds' among exoplanets

New Horizons 'Captures' Two of Pluto's Smaller Moons

NASA Sets Sights on Robot-Built Moon Colony

New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto's 'Heart'

Technique may reveal the age of moon rocks during spaceflight

Smithsonian embraces crowdfunding to preserve lunar spacesuit

The Planetary Sweet Spot

Finding the origins of life in a drying puddle

10 year journey to Pluto achieves historic encounter

Mysterious icy plains glimpsed on Pluto's surface

US spacecraft survives close encounter with Pluto

Yinchuan to host China-Arab satellite service industry demonstration site

Indra Finishes Implementation Of Main Center For Paz Satellite

US spacecraft sending back data for Pluto close-up

Charon's Surprising Youthful and Varied Terrain

Multiple Discoveries from NASA's New Horizons Pluto Mission

Celebrating 50 years of Martian imagery

Football Shaped Asteroid Observed by Students at NAIC/NRAO

Astronomers bring a new hope to find 'Tatooine' planets

Curiosity rover finds evidence of Mars' primitive continental crust

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