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  Paris, France (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 Veritable shields against high-energy particles, planets' magnetic fields are produced by iron moving in their liquid core. Yet the dominant model for explaining this system does not fit the smallest celestial bodies. Researchers at the Institut de Recherche sur les Phenomenes Hors Equilibre and the University of Leeds have proposed a new model suggesting that turbulence in the liquid cores is due to tides produced by gravitational interactions between celestial bodies. The model infers that inste ... read more |
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New study challenges prevailing theory about how deep-sea vents are colonizedMoss Landing CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 An article just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B describes two remarkably different hydrothermal vent fields discovered in the southern Gulf of California. Despite being relativel ... more 
New non-photosynthesizing plant species discovered on Ishigaki island, JapanKobe, Japan (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 A new species of non-photosynthesizing parasitic plant has been discovered on the subtropical island of Ishigaki in Okinawa, Japan and named Sciaphila sugimotoi. The research team responsible for th ... more  
Stanford researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robotStanford CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 Imagine rescuers searching for people in the rubble of a collapsed building. Instead of digging through the debris by hand or having dogs sniff for signs of life, they bring out a small, air-tight c ... more  
First basic physics simulation of impact of neutrals on turbulencePlainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 Turbulence, the violently unruly disturbance of plasma, can prevent plasma from growing hot enough to fuel fusion reactions. Long a puzzling concern of researchers has been the impact on turbulence ... more |
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Scientists spy new evidence of water in the moon's interiorProvidence RI (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 A new study of satellite data finds that numerous volcanic deposits distributed across the surface of the Moon contain unusually high amounts of trapped water compared with surrounding terrains. The ... more 
Moon could be wetter than thought, say scientistsParis (AFP) July 24, 2017 The Moon, long thought to be a dry, inhospitable orb, hosts surprisingly large sub-surface water reserves, which one day may quench the thirst of lunar explorers from Earth, scientists said Monday. ... more  
Saturn surprises as Cassini continues its Grand FinalePasadena CA (JPL) Jul 25, 2017 As NASA's Cassini spacecraft makes its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, scientists are finding - so far - that the planet's magnetic field has no discernible tilt. ... more 
Holographic imaging could sample and identify living microbes in the outer solar systemPasadena CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 We may be capable of finding microbes in space - but if we did, could we tell what they were, and that they were alive? This month the journal Astrobiology is publishing a special issue dedica ... more 
SETI Institute-Unistellar Partnership Promises to Revolutionize Amateur AstronomyMountain View CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 The SETI Institute and French startup Unistellar, have announced a partnership to commercialize a new telescope that promises to deliver an unparalleled view of the cosmos to amateur astronomers, an ... more
Neil Armstrong moon bag sells for $1.8mn in New YorkNew York (AFP) July 20, 2017 A bag Neil Armstrong used to collect the first ever samples of the moon - which was once nearly thrown out with the trash - sold at auction Thursday for $1.8 million, Sotheby's said. ... more |
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Living in Deep Space: Lockheed Martin to Build Full-Scale Prototype of NASA Cislunar HabitatCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 Refurbishing a shuttle-era cargo container used to transfer cargo to the International Space Station, Lockheed Martin is prototyping a deep space habitat for NASA at Kennedy Space Center. This proto ... more  
Panorama Above 'Perseverance Valley'Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2017 NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded a panoramic view before entering the upper end of a fluid-carved valley that descends the inner slope of a large crater's rim. The scene incl ... more 
Hubble sees Martian moon orbiting the Red PlanetGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 The sharp eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the tiny moon Phobos during its orbital trek around Mars. Because the moon is so small, it appears star-like in the Hubble pictures. ... more 
A new method of cooperative control of multiple unmanned surface vehiclesBeijing, China (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 The 21st century is a century of ocean. Ocean contains rich resources such as biology, oil and gas, mineral products, and etc., and it becomes the strategic space and resource base for the survival ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2017 
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded a panoramic view before entering the upper end of a fluid-carved valley that descends the inner slope of a large crater's rim.
The scene includes a broad notch in the crest of the crater's rim, which may have been a spillway where water or ice or wind flowed over the rim and into the crater. Wheel tracks visible in the area of the notch we ... moreGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Hubble sees Martian moon orbiting the Red Planet  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2017For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun  Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017Tributes to wetter times on Mars |
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 Paris (AFP) July 24, 2017 
The Moon, long thought to be a dry, inhospitable orb, hosts surprisingly large sub-surface water reserves, which one day may quench the thirst of lunar explorers from Earth, scientists said Monday.
"We found the signature of the lunar interior water globally using satellite data," Shuai Li, co-author of a study by scientists at Brown University in the United States, told AFP.
"Such wate ... moreCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Living in Deep Space: Lockheed Martin to Build Full-Scale Prototype of NASA Cislunar Habitat Providence RI (SPX) Jul 25, 2017Scientists spy new evidence of water in the moon's interior New York (AFP) July 20, 2017Neil Armstrong moon bag sells for $1.8mn in New York |
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In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons - amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a flight over the distant worlds' icy terrain might be like.
Wonder no more. Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer s ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2017Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot  Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 13, 2017New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 20, 2017NASA's New Horizons Team Strikes Gold in Argentina |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
The SETI Institute and French startup Unistellar, have announced a partnership to commercialize a new telescope that promises to deliver an unparalleled view of the cosmos to amateur astronomers, and provide the opportunity to contribute directly to cutting-edge science.
Unistellar's new eVscope leverages "Enhanced Vision" imaging technology and now provides three unique features never before o ... morePasadena CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Holographic imaging could sample and identify living microbes in the outer solar system Kobe, Japan (SPX) Jul 25, 2017New non-photosynthesizing plant species discovered on Ishigaki island, Japan  Paris, France (SPX) Jul 26, 2017Turbulence in planetary cores excited by tides |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 26, 2017 
For its eighth launch of the year, and the 10th Vega mission since this launcher began its career at the Guiana Space Center in 2012, Arianespace will orbit two Earth observation satellites for civil and military applications: OPTSAT-3000 for the Italian Ministry of Defence; and Venus, a mission of the Israel Space Agency (ISA) - a government body sponsored by the country's Ministry of Science a ... more Washington (AFP) July 20, 2017Elon Musk says successful maiden flight for Falcon Heavy unlikely  Zhukovskiy (Sputnik) Jul 21, 2017Russia to Supply Largest Ever Number of Space Rocket Engines to US This Year  New Delhi (Sputnik) Jul 18, 2017ISRO Develops Ship-Based Antenna System to Track Satellite Launches |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017 
China has a clear plan to provide sea launches for commercial payloads to be carried by Long March rockets, according to an aerospace official.
Tang Yagang, vice head of the aerospace division of the No.1 institute of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC), said that the technology is not difficult and a sea launch platform can be built based on modifying 10,000-ton ... more Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2017Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit  Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Space Program: From Setback, to Manned Flights, to the Moon  Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Rocket Fizzles Out, Puts Other Launches on Hold |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2017 
Comets that take more than 200 years to make one revolution around the Sun are notoriously difficult to study. Because they spend most of their time far from our area of the solar system, many "long-period comets" will never approach the Sun in a person's lifetime. In fact, those that travel inward from the Oort Cloud - a group of icy bodies beginning roughly 186 billion miles (300 billion kilom ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2017Ancient, massive asteroid impact could explain Martian geological mysteries  Tucson, AZ (SPX) Jul 10, 2017Pitted Materials in Craters Could Indicate Buried Ice on Asteroids  Orlando FL (SPX) Jul 06, 2017Bizarro comet challenging researchers |
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 Washington DC (AFNS) Jul 25, 2017 
It's been a "dynamic year" for Army space and missile defense, with a multi-domain task force being formed, a new nanosatellite set to launch soon, and more powerful laser weapons in the works, said Lt. Gen. James H. Dickinson.
Dickinson, commander of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command and Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile ... more Washington (UPI) Jun 26, 2017Raytheon successfully fires high-energy laser from helicopter  Washington (UPI) Jun 14, 2017Missile Defense Agency seeks laser-armed drone  Washington (AFP) April 8, 2017Laser weapons edge toward use in US military |
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 Washington (AFP) July 24, 2017 
The US military is preparing to conduct another test of a missile-intercept system in Alaska, the Pentagon said Monday, amid continued tensions with North Korea over its ballistic missile program.
Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis said a routine test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system had been scheduled to go ahead "soon."
"These tests are done as a routin ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2017Lockheed awarded $130.3 million contract for Patriot missile foreign sales  Vilnius (AFP) July 11, 2017US deploys Patriots in Lithuania for NATO war games  Seoul (AFP) July 11, 2017San Diego 'likely' in range of N.Korea ICBM in 2 years: US monitor |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 25, 2017 
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft makes its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, scientists are finding - so far - that the planet's magnetic field has no discernible tilt. This surprising observation, which means the true length of Saturn's day is still unknown, is just one of several early insights from the final phase of Cassini's mission, known as the Grand Finale. ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 5, 2017Titan's calm lakes offer space probes a smooth landing  Hull UK (SPX) Jul 04, 2017Methanol Points to Evolving Story of Enceladus's Plumes  Ithaca NY (SPX) Jun 01, 2017In a Cosmic Hit-and-Run, Icy Saturn Moon May Have Flipped |
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 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 21, 2017  In an advance that could boost the efficiency of LED lighting by 50 percent and even pave the way for invisibility cloaking devices, a team of University of Michigan researchers has developed a new technique that peppers metallic nanoparticles into semiconductors.
It's the first technique that can inexpensively grow metal nanoparticles both on and below the surface of semiconductors. The p ... more Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Jul 18, 2017New material resembling a metal nanosponge could reduce computer energy consumption  Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jul 18, 2017How do you build a metal nanoparticle?  Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2017Nanostructures taste the rainbow |
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 Hull UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 
Swirling motions in clouds of cold, dense gas have given, for the first time, an active insight into how gravity creates the compact cores from which stars form in the interstellar medium. The results will be presented, Thursday 6 July, by Gwen Williams at the National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Hull.
Williams, of Cardiff University, explains: "We've known for some time that du ... more Warwick UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017Telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves launched  Hannover, Germany (SPX) Jun 28, 2017LISA Gravitational-Wave Observatory Selected as ESA L3 Mission  Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jun 29, 2017Hints of Extra Dimensions in Gravitational Waves |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
In 1928, physicist Paul Dirac made the stunning prediction that every fundamental particle in the universe has an antiparticle - its identical twin but with opposite charge. When particle and antiparticle met they would be annihilated, releasing a poof of energy. Sure enough, a few years later the first antimatter particle - the electron's opposite, the positron - was discovered, and antimatter ... more Freiburg, Germany (SPX) Jul 20, 2017Evidence of the Higgs particle's decay in quarks  London, UK (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Spiral arms allow school children to weigh black holes  Stanford UK (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Stanford researchers discover biological hydraulic system in tuna fins |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
At first glance, robots would appear to have exactly nothing in common with sweet peas or other climbing vines. Yet thanks to some innovative scientists, they now share at least one trait: the ability to extend their reach.
Inspired by the growing action of plants and other living things, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Stanford University have developed a tubular robot that - much lik ... moreStanford CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Stanford researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robot Beijing, China (SPX) Jul 24, 2017A new method of cooperative control of multiple unmanned surface vehicles  Sydney (AFP) July 21, 2017Australia's robo-footballers go for gold at world champs |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 25, 2017 
UAS-manufacturer AeroVironment formally signed contracts on Tuesday to deliver its Wasp AE unmanned aerial system to the Australian Defense Force, the company announced on Tuesday.
The WASP UAS will be delivered over a three-year period AeroVironment, with Australian partner XTEK, will provide local maintenance, training and field support for the aircraft.
"This contract to suppl ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 20, 2017Leonardo DRS, Moog receive counter-UAS weapons contract Singapore (AFP) July 19, 2017Singapore offers Manila drones, urban warfare training Washington (UPI) Jul 11, 2017Explotrain develops drone-simulated IED training system |
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