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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 26, 2017 NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is examining rocks at the edge of Endeavour Crater for signs that they may have been either transported by a flood or eroded in place by wind. Those scenarios are among the possible explanations rover-team scientists are considering for features seen just outside the crater rim's crest above "Perseverance Valley," which is carved into the inner slope of the rim. The team plans to drive Opportunity down Perseverance Valley after completing a "walkabout" ... read more |
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Numenta demonstrates machine intelligence algorithm for real-time anomaly detectionRedwood City CA (SPX) Jun 22, 2017 The exponential increase in the use of connected real-time sensors to surface streaming data in the age of the Internet of Things presents significant challenges and opportunities for the emerging f ... 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 
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  
The curious case of the warped Kuiper BeltTucson 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. Th ... more |
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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 
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 |
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 NASA discovers 10 new Earth-size exoplanets  
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 
New branch in family tree of exoplanets discoveredPasadena CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2017 Since the mid-1990s, when the first planet around another sun-like star was discovered, astronomers have been amassing what is now a large collection of exoplanets - nearly 3,500 have been confirmed ... more 
Could a Dedicated Mission to Enceladus Detect Microbial Life ThereLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2017 Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is best known for its numerous geysers ejecting plumes of water and ice. These eruptive fountains are perplexing researchers searching for signs of microbial life beyond ... more  
Magnetic space tug could target dead satellitesParis (ESA) Jun 21, 2017 Derelict satellites could in future be grappled and removed from key orbits around Earth with a space tug using magnetic forces. This same magnetic attraction or repulsion is also being consid ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 26, 2017  NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is examining rocks at the edge of Endeavour Crater for signs that they may have been either transported by a flood or eroded in place by wind.
Those scenarios are among the possible explanations rover-team scientists are considering for features seen just outside the crater rim's crest above "Perseverance Valley," which is carved into the inner slope ... 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 ... moreTucson 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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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2017 
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is best known for its numerous geysers ejecting plumes of water and ice. These eruptive fountains are perplexing researchers searching for signs of microbial life beyond Earth. A dedicated spacecraft designated to study the plume-like features sprouting from Enceladus could definitely tell us whether or not they contain alien microorganisms.
"We need a spacecraf ... more Washington (AFP) June 19, 2017NASA discovers 10 new Earth-size exoplanets Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2017New branch in family tree of exoplanets discovered Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jun 22, 2017Finding new Earths: PLATO spacecraft to be built |
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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  Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 23, 2017Putin: Russia, Brazil Consider Joint Space Launches From Brazilian Spaceport  Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2017Amtrak to SpaceX Launch, Wifi hack, Spectacular trip, But where's my SatPhone... |
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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 ... more Beijing (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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 Bethesda, MD (SPX) Jun 21, 2017 
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 24, 2017S. Koreans march to protest US missile defence system  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 |
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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 ... morePasadena 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 26, 2017 
In an arranged marriage of optics and mechanics, physicists have created microscopic structural beams that have a variety of powerful uses when light strikes them. Able to operate in ordinary, room-temperature environments, yet exploiting some of the deepest principles of quantum physics, these optomechanical systems can act as inherently accurate thermometers, or conversely, as a type of optica ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jun 16, 2017Shining light on low-energy electrons  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 |
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 Redwood City CA (SPX) Jun 22, 2017 
The exponential increase in the use of connected real-time sensors to surface streaming data in the age of the Internet of Things presents significant challenges and opportunities for the emerging field of streaming analytics. Detection of anomalies in streaming data, in particular, has becoming an increasingly important application across a large number of industries for critical use cases - ra ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2017Personalized exoskeletons are taking support one step farther  Boston MA (SPX) Jun 16, 2017Learning with light: New system allows optical 'deep learning'  Washington (AFP) June 14, 2017Facebook gives bots ability to negotiate, compromise |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 24, 2017 
A radar and laser beam system for detecting and destroying drones has been unveiled at the Paris Air Show by Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.
The system, called Drone Dome, has a range of up to several miles and causes minimal interruptions to other systems in nearby urban areas, the company said during at the Paris Air Show.
"The threat posed by drones and packs of ... more Washington (UPI) Jun 22, 2017Rockwell Collins to supply avionics for General Atomics MQ-9B  Washington (UPI) Jun 22, 2017Unmanned helo completes French navy flight trials  Washington (UPI) Jun 20, 2017General Atomics finishes key cockpit review for drone program |
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