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  Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 23, 2017 An unknown, unseen "planetary mass object" may lurk in the outer reaches of our solar system, according to new research on the orbits of minor planets to be published in the Astronomical Journal. This object would be different from - and much closer than - the so-called Planet Nine, a planet whose existence yet awaits confirmation. In the paper, Kat Volk and Renu Malhotra of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, or LPL, present compelling evidence of a yet-to-be- discovered p ... read more |
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Opportunity Straightens Wheel, Resumes DrivingPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2017 Opportunity is at the top of Perseverance Valley on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover experienced a left-front wheel steering actuator stall on Sol 4750 (June 4, 2017), leaving the wheel ... more 
No One Under 20 Has Experienced a Day Without NASA at MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2017 As the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft approached its destination on July 4, 1997, no NASA mission had successfully reached the Red Planet in more than 20 years. Even the mission team anxiously awa ... more 
NASA Completes Study of Future 'Ice Giant' Mission ConceptsPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2017 A NASA-led and NASA-sponsored study of potential future missions to the mysterious "ice giant" planets Uranus and Neptune has been released - the first in a series of mission studies NASA will condu ... more  
With a Strong Partner Like Russia, Nothing Would Stop China's New Space StationBeijing (Sputnik) Jun 23, 2017 China has invited Russia to participate in the construction of a Chinese space station, but Moscow has yet to make an official decision, Roscosmos head Igor Komarov has told reporters. Russian space ... more |
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India's Mars Orbiter Mission Completes First 1,000 Earth DaysNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jun 23, 2017 The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) maiden Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also known as Mangalyaan, completed its first 1,000 Earth days in its orbit around the red planet on Monday. ... more 
Mars Orbiter spots rover ascending Mount SharpWashington (UPI) Jun 20, 2017 In an image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Martian rover Curiosity can been seen as a bright blue speck ascending the rocky terrain of Mount Sharp. ... more  
Europe okays project to seek alien lifeParis (AFP) June 21, 2017 Europe has approved the launch of a deep-space observatory to sniff out habitable planets in other star systems, along with any life forms they may host. ... more 
Finding new Earths: PLATO spacecraft to be builtGottingen, Germany (SPX) Jun 22, 2017 The planet-hunting and asteroseismology space mission PLATO has reached an important milestone: Today, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the official adoption of the mission. After a t ... more 
NASA discovers 10 new Earth-size exoplanetsWashington (AFP) June 19, 2017 NASA revealed Monday 10 new rocky, Earth-sized planets that could potentially have liquid water and support life. ... more  
Keeping the rhythm in spaceParis (ESA) Jun 22, 2017 Space is an inhospitable environment for the human body but we adapt remarkably well. Within hours, the brain adjusts to the lack of an up or down, as if floating is all it has ever known. Now ... more |
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 New branch in family tree of exoplanets discovered 
Ten ways that astronauts are helping you stay healthyLondon, UK (SPX) Jun 21, 2017 Astronauts on the International Space Station are growing crystals that could help develop new drugs for use on Earth. Here are ten healthcare technologies that have already come from space: 1 ... more 
University Students Mine for Water at NASA's Mars Ice ChallengeHampton VA (SPX) Jun 21, 2017 For humans to survive on other worlds, they'll have to harness the resources - like water - that exist there. A recent competition held at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, aimed ... more 
China's cargo spacecraft completes second docking with space labBeijing (XNA) Jun 21, 2017 China's Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft completed its second docking with Tiangong-2 space lab at 2:55 p.m. Monday, after flying around the space lab. Tianzhou-1 separated from Tiangong-2 on Monda ... more 
NASA releases Kepler Survey Catalog with 100s of new exoplanet candidatesWashington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2017 NASA's Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and orbiting in their star's habitab ... more |
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 Le Bourget, France (SPX) Jun 20, 2017 
France and the United States have a long history of cooperation in space, combining their talents over the years to advance science and launch exploration missions whose results have been instrumental in creating entirely new fields of research.
The leaders of the two space agencies, Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, and CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall, reaffirmed the agencies' ... morePasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2017No One Under 20 Has Experienced a Day Without NASA at Mars Washington (UPI) Jun 20, 2017Mars Orbiter spots rover ascending Mount Sharp Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2017Opportunity Straightens Wheel, Resumes Driving |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 16, 2017 
Russia's Lavochkin Research and Production Association is ready to work with China on designing lunar exploration missions, including orbital and return ones, Sergei Lemeshevsky, the Russian company's director general, told Sputnik on Thursday.
Xu Yansong, the head of the International Cooperation Department of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), said on Wednesday that China an ... more Paris (ESA) Jun 12, 2017New NELIOTA project detects flashes from lunar impacts  Washington DC (SPX) May 25, 2017Cube Quest Challenge Team Spotlight: Cislunar Explorers  Paris (ESA) May 12, 2017Winning plans for CubeSats to the Moon |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2017 
A NASA-led and NASA-sponsored study of potential future missions to the mysterious "ice giant" planets Uranus and Neptune has been released - the first in a series of mission studies NASA will conduct in support of the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey.
The results of this and future studies will be used as the Decadal Survey deliberates on NASA's planetary science priorities from 2022 ... more Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 23, 2017The curious case of the warped Kuiper Belt  Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 20, 2017King of the Gods: Jupiter Dated to Be Oldest Planet in the Solar System  Washington DC (SPX) Jun 16, 2017New Horizons Team Digs into New Data on Next Flyby Target |
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The astronomers who discovered the nearest potentially habitable planet to our solar system are inviting the public to take part in their search for more Earth-like planets.
Last year an international team of astronomers led by Dr. Guillem Anglada-Escude, of Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), discovered a planet around the closest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri. Details of the obse ... moreWashington (AFP) June 19, 2017NASA discovers 10 new Earth-size exoplanets Washington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2017NASA releases Kepler Survey Catalog with 100s of new exoplanet candidates  Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2017New branch in family tree of exoplanets discovered |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jun 23, 2017 
Welcoming the UK's focus on low-cost, reliable commercial spaceflight activities in the Queens's Speech, a UK company has revealed details of a 1200m2 space rocket factory currently building vertical launch vehicles that will be launched into orbit from the UK.
Orbex, a UK company that has raised significant venture capital investment, is building a space micro-launcher, a small launch veh ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2017Developing Landing Tech for Space  Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jun 24, 2017Falcon 9 launches Bulgaria's first geostationary communications satellite  Paris, France (SPX) Jun 20, 2017OHB Italia sign contract to launch PRISMA Italian satellite with Arianespace |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Jun 23, 2017 
China has invited Russia to participate in the construction of a Chinese space station, but Moscow has yet to make an official decision, Roscosmos head Igor Komarov has told reporters. Russian space experts explain why Russian-Chinese cooperation on a new space station would undoubtedly benefit both sides.
Speaking to journalists Monday on the sidelines of the international aviation show i ... moreBeijing (XNA) Jun 21, 2017China's cargo spacecraft completes second docking with space lab  Jiuquan (XNA) Jun 19, 2017China to launch four more probes before 2021  Xichang (XNA) Jun 20, 2017New broadcasting satellite fails to enter preset orbit |
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Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are comets and asteroids in heliocentric orbits that have been influenced by planetary flybys causing them to approach Earth. Comets are composed mostly of water ice and dust particles that were formed in the cold outer planet system.
Most of the rocky asteroids were formed in the warmer inner solar system between the orbits of Mars and Earth. There is a great dea ... more Le Bourget, France (AFP) June 20, 2017ESA boss urges action on 'ticking timebombs' in Earth orbit  Silicon Valley CA (SPX) Jun 14, 2017B612 Creates Asteroid Institute  Paris (ESA) Jun 12, 2017Rosetta finds comet connection to Earth's atmosphere |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 14, 2017 
The Missile Defense Agency is looking into acquiring and deploying a laser-armed drone to intercept and shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The MDA Advanced Technology Directorate has said it needs a high-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle with sufficient payload capacity to carry a high-energy laser. It would be designed to intercept ICBMs during their boost ph ... more Washington (AFP) April 8, 2017Laser weapons edge toward use in US military  Washington (UPI) Apr 3, 2017Researchers create Star Wars 'superlaser' in the lab  Washington (UPI) Mar 23, 2017German scientists focus radiation of 10,000 suns with new light array |
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 Washington (AFP) June 22, 2017 
The US Navy and the Japanese ministry of defense have unsuccessfully attempted to intercept a ballistic missile in a test of a jointly built system off Hawaii, the US military said Wednesday.
The two nations have been working together since 2006 to develop a variant of the Standard Missile-3, a ship-launched missile that operates as part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System.
Tue ... more Seoul (AFP) June 13, 2017Suspected N.Korea drone filmed missile defence site: Seoul Seoul (AFP) June 9, 2017Seoul trapped between a rock and a THAAD place; NK tests cruise missile Seoul (AFP) June 7, 2017S. Korea to freeze new THAAD deployment pending probe |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jun 01, 2017 
Enceladus - a large icy, oceanic moon of Saturn - may have flipped, the possible victim of an out-of-this-world wallop.
While combing through data collected by NASA's Cassini mission during flybys of Enceladus, astronomers from Cornell University, the University of Texas and NASA have found the first evidence that the moon's axis has reoriented, according to new research published in Icaru ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) May 31, 2017Cassini Finds Saturn Moon May Have Tipped Over  Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2017Cassini Looks On as Solstice Arrives at Saturn  Boston MA (SPX) May 19, 2017History of Titan's Landscape Resembles Mars's, not Earth's |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Jun 20, 2017 
Researchers have now managed to pinpoint what happens when light is absorbed by extremely small nanoclusters of silver atoms. The results may have useful application in the development of biosensors and in imaging.
By combining chemistry and nanotechnology, the research community in recent years has developed a kind of extremely small nanoclusters consisting of only a few noble metal atoms ... more Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jun 16, 2017Chemists perform surgery on nanoparticles  Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 16, 2017Superconducting nanowire memory cell, miniaturized technology  Liverpool UK (SPX) Jun 15, 2017Nanotechnology reveals hidden depths of bacterial 'machines' |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 08, 2017 
Astronomers have used the sharp vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to repeat a century-old test of Einstein's general theory of relativity. The Hubble team measured the mass of a white dwarf, the burned-out remnant of a normal star, by seeing how much it deflects the light from a background star.
This observation represents the first time Hubble has witnessed this type of effect creat ... more Innsbruck, Austria (SPX) Jun 05, 2017Breaking Newton's Law  San Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2017Are dense star clusters the origin of the gravitational waves discovered by LIGO? Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2017Gravitational Waves Detected for Third Time |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 16, 2017 
The scientific community has known about the existence of electrons for over a hundred years, but there are important facets of their interaction with matter that remain shrouded in mystery.
One particular area of interest is low-energy electrons or electrons that have kinetic energy levels of about 10 electronvolts (eV) or less. These electrons affect the functioning of insulators in elec ... more Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jun 16, 2017No Universe without Big Bang  Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 15, 2017Russian Spektr-RG mission to identify 3 billin black holes after 2018 launch  Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jun 15, 2017Galaxy alignments traced back 10 billion years |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 16, 2017 
"Deep Learning" computer systems, based on artificial neural networks that mimic the way the brain learns from an accumulation of examples, have become a hot topic in computer science. In addition to enabling technologies such as face- and voice-recognition software, these systems could scour vast amounts of medical data to find patterns that could be useful diagnostically, or scan chemical form ... more Washington (AFP) June 14, 2017Facebook gives bots ability to negotiate, compromise  San Francisco (AFP) June 7, 2017Apple wants to rock the market with HomePod, faces challenges  Washington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2017Autonomous machines edge towards greater independence |
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 Los Angeles CA (Sputnik) Jun 21, 2017 
A California-based defense company this week announced that it will be rolling out a new set of drones to fly as robotic wingmen for human fighter pilots. Kratos Defense and Security Solutions developed the UTAP-22 Mako with funding from DIUx, the US Defense Department's Silicon Valley laboratory.
Kratos, with the backing of the Air Force Research Labs, has also separately showcased the XQ ... more Brussels (AFP) June 16, 2017EU unveils plans to regulate drones by 2019  Washington (UPI) Jun 20, 2017Insitu receives $45 million contract extension for SOCOM UAVs  Beirut (AFP) June 20, 2017US-led coalition downs Iran-made drone in Syria |
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