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November 20, 2015

Tyson weighs in on New Horizons' Pluto discoveries
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 20, 2015
The New Horizons spacecraft completed its 3 billion mile journey to Pluto in July and the discoveries continue to pour in every week as NASA scientists receive and analyze data and images from the flyby. It will be another year before scientists on Earth receive the last of the data cache from the decade-long mission. Some of the dozens of recent discoveries were shared last week at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences. Of note was evidence ... read more

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UA researchers capture first photo of planet in making There are 450 light-years between Earth and LkCa15, a young star with a transition disk around it, a cosmic whirling dervish, a birthplace for planets. Despite the disk's considerable distance from ... more		A witness to a wet early Mars Vast volumes of water once flooded through this deep chasm on Mars that connects the 'Grand Canyon' of the Solar System - Valles Marineris - to the planet's northern lowlands. The image, taken by ES ... more		Two Moons About Saturn Although Dione (near) and Enceladus (far) are composed of nearly the same materials, Enceladus has a considerably higher reflectivity than Dione. As a result, it appears brighter against the dark ni ... more
				Synthetic muscle experiment will likely return to Earth in March A synthetic muscle experiment on board the International Space Station (ISS) that was developed with the help of Princeton Plasma Physicists Laboratory scientists is now tentatively scheduled to ret ... more		NASA awards two robots to university groups for upgrades Humanoid robots will be helpful to astronauts on our journey to Mars, so NASA has awarded prototypes to two universities for advanced research and development work. NASA is interested in human ... more

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'Chemical Laptop' Could Search for Signs of Life Outside Earth If you were looking for the signatures of life on another world, you would want to take something small and portable with you. That's the philosophy behind the "Chemical Laptop" being developed at N ... more		Accelerating fusion research through the cutting edge supercomputer At the Inter-University Research Institute Corporation National Institutes of Natural Sciences National Institute for Fusion Science, for the first time in the world, using the newly installed "Plas ... 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		NASA completes heat shield testing for future Mars exploration vehicles As NASA missions to Mars progress with science and complex human exploration missions, spacecraft will require larger heat shields to protect against the extreme heat of entering a planet's atmosphe ... more
				The "Omics" of Space Travel The human body is incredibly complex. Every part of us-from our bones to our blood cells-is subject to a host of chemical reactions and molecular interactions that, without our conscious effort, kee ... more		Curiosity Mars Rover Heads Toward Active Dunes On its way to higher layers of the mountain where it is investigating how Mars' environment changed billions of years ago, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover will take advantage of a chance to study some m ... more

China's satellite expo opens A satellite exposition opened on Thursday in Beijing, displaying more than 6,000 new products and academic achievements. The three-day exposition, Satellite Application China 2015, will attrac ... more		China to better integrate satellite applications with Internet China will step up satellite application and its integration with emerging Internet industries to promote economic development, an official said Friday. China has built a complete aerospace in ... 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		Computers uncover mechanism that stabilizes plasma within tokamaks A team of physicists led by Stephen Jardin of the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has discovered a mechanism that prevents the electrical current flowing throu ... more
New Super H-mode regime could greatly increase fusion power Meet "Super H mode," a newly discovered state of tokamak plasma that could sharply boost the performance of future fusion reactors. This new state raises the pressure at the edge of the plasma beyon ... more		China to launch Dark Matter Satellite in mid-December The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Satellite, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is expected to be launched at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in mid-December. DAMP ... more		Rocket Scientists to Launch Planet-Finding Telescope The university's rocket scientists - Prof. Supriya Chakrabarti and Asst. Prof. Timothy Cook of the Department of Physics and Applied Physics - are launching a rocket-borne experiment called PICTURE- ... more		5400mph winds discovered hurtling around planet outside solar system Winds of over 2km per second have been discovered flowing around planet outside of the Earth's solar system, new research has found. The University of Warwick discovery is the first time that a weat ... more

	Airbus Defence and Space delivers first ACES Ground Terminal Airbus Defence and Space has delivered the first ACES Ground Terminal to the German National Metrology Institute (Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB) in Braunschweig (Germany). All aro ... more		New exoplanet in our neighborhood Scientists have discovered a new exoplanet that, in the language of "Star Wars," would be the polar opposite of frigid Hoth, and even more inhospitable than the deserts of Tatooine. But instead of r ... 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

Cassini Finds Monstrous Ice Cloud in Titan's South Polar Region		Astronomers eager to get a whiff of newfound Venus-like planet		Upgrade Helps NASA Study Mineral Veins on Mars		Secondhand Spacecraft Has Firsthand Asteroid Experience		Asteroid ripped apart to form star's glowing ring system
Daring move for first US-China fusion team		Medicines do not seem to degrade faster in space		New Results from GPI Exoplanet Survey		Early Earth's Haze May Give Clue to Habitability Elsewhere		UCLA professor proposes simpler way to define what makes a planet

Early Earth's haze may give clue to habitability elsewhere in space

Newfound Earth-size exoplanet may be an important milestone in search for alien life

BU Satellite Team Gets Big Boost from NASA

Mixing an icy cocktail to safely cool hot plasma

Space rains junk on Spain

Space institute funds adjustable power eyeglasses and a smart sleep mask

Discovery of a new confinement state for plasma

Astronomers spot most distant object in the solar system

Physicists uncover mechanism that stabilizes plasma within tokamaks

New rocket readies for liftoff in 2016

The long and short of plasma turbulence

Striking the right note on a magnetic violin

Explaining a mysterious barrier to fusion known as the 'density limit'

Breakthrough in superconducting materials opens new path to fusion

Dust devils detected by seismometer could guide Mars mission

Galileo satellites set for year-long Einstein experiment

New Horizons Yields Wealth of Discovery from Pluto Flyby

Ammonia-Water Slurry May Swirl Below Pluto's Icy Surface

SwRI scientists explain why moon rocks contain fewer volatiles than Earth's

Deserts and dunes: Earth as an analogue for Titan

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