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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2017 Radar images of asteroid 3122 Florence obtained at the 70-meter antenna at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex between August 29 and September 1 have revealed that the asteroid has two small moons, and also confirmed that main asteroid Florence is about 4.5 km (2.8 miles) in size. Florence is only the third triple asteroid known in the near-Earth population out of more than 16,400 that have been discovered to date. All three near-Earth asteroid triples have been discovered with rada ... read more |
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Pluto features given first official namesWashington DC (SPX) Sep 11, 2017 The IAU has assigned names to fourteen geological features on the surface of Pluto. The names pay homage to the underworld mythology, pioneering space missions, historic pioneers who crossed new hor ... more  
Europe's Science Highlights With CassiniParis (ESA) Sep 11, 2017 The international Cassini-Huygens mission has explored Saturn and its rings and moons for 13 years, and will conclude by plunging into the planet's atmosphere next week. This article highlights some ... more 
Sling-shot show for NASA spacecraft over AustraliaPerth, Australia (SPX) Sep 11, 2017 Using Earth's gravity to give it an orbital boost, OSIRIS-REx will rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu in 2018. The Earth flyby will give astronomers and those with high-end cameras a chance to view ... more 
Pondering the Saturn Mission's Legacy After CassiniPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 11, 2017 As the Cassini spacecraft nears the end of a long journey rich with scientific and technical accomplishments, it is already having a powerful influence on future exploration. In revealing that Satur ... more |
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Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful MysteryPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2017 Scientists on NASA's Juno mission have observed massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter's polar regions that contribute to the giant planet's powerful auroras - only not in ways the research ... more  
Chinese robotics artist makes real-life 'Transformers'Beijing (AFP) Sept 7, 2017 In the suburbs of China's capital, a 32-year-old engineer creates the kind of larger-than-life, shapeshifting robots that most have only seen in "Transformers" movies. ... more  
Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitabilityLos Alamos NM (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 The discovery of boron on Mars gives scientists more clues about whether life could have ever existed on the planet, according to a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. ... more 
New Horizons Files Flight Plan for 2019 FlybyWashington DC (SPX) Sep 06, 2017 NASA's New Horizons mission has set the distance for its New Year's Day 2019 flyby of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, aiming to come three times closer to MU69 than it famously flew past Pluto in 2015 ... more  
Could TRAPPIST-1's Seven Earth-size Planets Have Gas Giant SiblingsWashington DC (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 New work from a team of Carnegie scientists (and one Carnegie alumnus) asked whether any gas giant planets could potentially orbit TRAPPIST-1 at distances greater than that of the star's seven known ... more 
X-Rays Reveal Temperament of Possible Planet-Hosting StarsBoston MA (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 A new X-ray study has revealed that stars like the Sun and their less massive cousins calm down surprisingly quickly after a turbulent youth. This result has positive implications for the long-term ... more |
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 Life on Mars: Let's Try Oman Desert First for Space Mission 
FINESSE Mission to Investigate Atmospheres of Hundreds of Alien WorldsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 05, 2017 One of NASA's proposed missions, known as the Fast INfrared Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey Explorer (FINESSE) could greatly improve our understanding of extrasolar worlds. If selected for development ... more 
Juno Scientists Prepare for Seventh Science Pass of JupiterWashington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its seventh science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops on Friday, Sept. 1, at 2:49 p.m. PDT (5:49 p.m. EDT and 21:49 UTC). At the time of perijove (defined a ... more 
Cassini's 21st dive is overPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2017 The heavens often seem vast and unchanging as seen from Earth, but movement in the skies is the norm. The relative motions of both Cassini and Enceladus over a 15-minute period create the movement s ... more 
To Pluto and beyondCincinnati, OH (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 NASA's successful mission to Pluto in 2015 was spurred by a graduate student with a big idea. Alan Stern was finishing his astrophysics degree at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1989 when he a ... more |
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 Los Alamos NM (SPX) Sep 07, 2017  The discovery of boron on Mars gives scientists more clues about whether life could have ever existed on the planet, according to a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
"Because borates may play an important role in making RNA - one of the building blocks of life - finding boron on Mars further opens the possibility that life could have once arisen on the planet," s ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 05, 2017Life on Mars: Let's Try Oman Desert First for Space Mission  Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2017Opportunity seeks energy-favorable locations to recharge during winter  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2017For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 22, 2017 
The European Space Agency (ESA) invites members of the science community in Europe to propose ideas for research that could be performed on the Deep Space Gateway, a crewed spaceship in lunar vicinity.
The Deep Space Gateway is a strategic platform that is being prepared by the International Space Station partner agencies to be humanity's next step beyond Low-Earth Orbit and out into the S ... more San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2017Analysis of a 'rusty' lunar rock suggests the moon's interior is dry  Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 21, 2017Roscosmos Approves Luna-25 Space Station Model in Moon Exploration Project  New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Moon's magnetic field lasted far longer than once believed |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2017 
Scientists on NASA's Juno mission have observed massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter's polar regions that contribute to the giant planet's powerful auroras - only not in ways the researchers expected.
Examining data collected by the ultraviolet spectrograph and energetic-particle detector instruments aboard the Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft, a team led by Barry Mauk of the Jo ... moreWashington DC (SPX) Sep 11, 2017Pluto features given first official names Washington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2017Juno Scientists Prepare for Seventh Science Pass of Jupiter Washington DC (SPX) Sep 06, 2017New Horizons Files Flight Plan for 2019 Flyby |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 
A new X-ray study has revealed that stars like the Sun and their less massive cousins calm down surprisingly quickly after a turbulent youth. This result has positive implications for the long-term habitability of planets orbiting such stars.
A team of researchers used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton to see how the X-ray brightness of stars similar to the Su ... moreWashington DC (SPX) Sep 07, 2017Could TRAPPIST-1's Seven Earth-size Planets Have Gas Giant Siblings  Boston MA (SPX) Sep 01, 2017Ultraviolet Light May Be Ultra Important in Search for Life Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 05, 2017FINESSE Mission to Investigate Atmospheres of Hundreds of Alien Worlds |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Sep 11, 2017 
Ten students from UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences took a long drive from Buffalo to the desert of New Mexico in late June, with a rocket called Volans Tauri in tow.
It was so hot, recalls Pete Wilkins, a rising senior majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering, that even under a tent, his camp chair melted from the 110-degree heat - and it was set up under a tent.
... more Patrick AFB FL (SPX) Sep 07, 201745th Space Wing carries out successful launch while Irma looms off coast  Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) Sep 04, 2017NASA Concludes Summer of Testing with Fifth Flight Controller Hot Fire  Port Vila, Vanuatu (SPX) Sep 05, 2017Kacific selects SpaceX to provide launch service |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 31, 2017 
China and Russia plan to sign an agreement in October on joint space exploration from 2018 and 2022, which would benefit both nations particularly in manned and future missions to the moon, CGTN reported on Monday.
The bilateral agreement will cover five areas including lunar to deep space exploration, special materials development, collaborations in the area of satellite systems, Earth re ... more Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2017Kuaizhou-11 to send six satellites into space  Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017Russia, China May Sign 5-Year Agreement on Joint Space Exploration  Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017ESA and Chinese astronauts train together |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Sep 11, 2017 
Using Earth's gravity to give it an orbital boost, OSIRIS-REx will rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu in 2018. The Earth flyby will give astronomers and those with high-end cameras a chance to view this rare encounter.
OSIRIS-REx is on an extraordinary journey to bring back to Earth a sample from the surface of the carbonaceous asteroid Bennu that could potentially record the early history ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2017Radar Reveals Two Moons Orbiting Asteroid Florence  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 04, 2017NASA's Asteroid-Bound Spacecraft to Slingshot Past Earth  Paris (ESA) Sep 01, 2017Close encounters of the stellar kind |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2017 
The Department of Defense is investing $17 million in directed energy laser weapons, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., announced at the Boeing facility in Albuquerque, N.M., on Wednesday.
"With our state's unique expertise in directed energy work, this funding will jump start the deployment of this critical technology and bring more high-paying jobs to the state," said Heinrich, a member of ... more Washington DC (AFNS) Jul 25, 2017'Eyes in space' and more powerful lasers will enhance US Army's arsenal  Washington (UPI) Jun 26, 2017Raytheon successfully fires high-energy laser from helicopter  Washington (UPI) Jun 14, 2017Missile Defense Agency seeks laser-armed drone |
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 Seoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2017  South Korea and the United States will deploy more of the anti-missile defences hated by China in response to Sunday's nuclear test by North Korea, Seoul's defence ministry said Monday.
Two launchers of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system are already operational, but public concern about the possible environmental impact of the US system forced Seoul to suspend the install ... more Seoul (AFP) Sept 7, 2017S. Korea, US deploy missile defence amid China protest  Seoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2017S. Korea launches missile drill after North's nuclear test  Washington (AFP) Sept 4, 2017US cites its nuclear capabilities in defense against N.Korea |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 11, 2017 
As the Cassini spacecraft nears the end of a long journey rich with scientific and technical accomplishments, it is already having a powerful influence on future exploration. In revealing that Saturn's moon Enceladus has many of the ingredients needed for life, the mission has inspired a pivot to the exploration of "ocean worlds" that has been sweeping planetary science over the past decade.
... moreParis (ESA) Sep 11, 2017Europe's Science Highlights With Cassini Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2017Cassini's 21st dive is over Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 30, 2017Saturn Plunge Nears for Cassini Spacecraft |
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 Amherst MA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017 
When environmental and soil chemist Baoshan Xing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst began reading in 2014 that a new, two-dimensional material known as layered black phosphorous (BP) was gaining the attention of biomedical researchers for use in drug delivery systems and tumor photothermal therapy, he was both intrigued and concerned.
"I am not only a soil chemist, but an environme ... more Bethlehem PA (SPX) Aug 28, 2017A more complete picture of the nano world  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 28, 2017What the world's tiniest 'monster truck' reveals  Livermore CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2017Carbon nanotubes worth their salt |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 
ESA this week helped to provide children with disabilities the opportunity to experience weightlessness and lunar gravity on aircraft flights.
Eight children from five ESA member states - UK, France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy -boarded the converted Airbus A310 in Bordeaux, France on 24 August as part of the Kid's Weightless Dreams campaign organised by Novespace and Reves de Gosse.
... more Bozeman MT (SPX) Jul 26, 2017MSU gravitational physicist receives NASA award to explore extreme gravity and the universe  Hull UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017First look at gravitational dance that drives stellar formation  Warwick UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017Telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves launched |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 
UCLA physicists have proposed new theories for how the universe's first black holes might have formed and the role they might play in the production of heavy elements such as gold, platinum and uranium.
A long-standing question in astrophysics is whether the universe's very first black holes came into existence less than a second after the Big Bang or whether they formed only millions of y ... more Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 07, 2017Aussie quantum tech has its sights set on human biochemistry  Iowa City IA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017Researchers propose how the universe became filled with light  Toronto, Canada (SPX) Aug 29, 2017Record-breaking galaxy 5 billion light-years away shows we live in a magnetic universe |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 7, 2017 
In the suburbs of China's capital, a 32-year-old engineer creates the kind of larger-than-life, shapeshifting robots that most have only seen in "Transformers" movies.
Sun Shiqian's roomy warehouse on the outskirts of Beijing houses a hulking menagerie, from a sleepy cow to a fiery metal dragon that stands 4.9 metres (16 feet) tall at the flip of a switch.
A graduate of China's prestigio ... moreBerlin (AFP) Sept 4, 2017Voice assistants promise a light-fingered future  Boston MA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017New robot rolls with the rules of pedestrian conduct  (UPI) Aug 29, 2017Roboteam receives orders for tactical robots |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 08, 2017 
The fifth launch of the X-37B robot spaceplane almost makes this vehicle look routine. This time, liftoff has come with a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX instead of an Atlas V, a change from old-school launchers to NewSpace.
By itself, this was controversial, but the spacecraft is in orbit as requested. Security for this launch seems to have been just as tight as for previous launches, with no ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 8, 2017AUD counter-drone system upgraded by Blighter  Riga, Latvia (SPX) Sep 07, 2017Atlas Dynamics Introduces Fixed Wing UAV with 5-Hour Flight Time, 150 Kilometer Operational Range  Riga, Latvia (SPX) Sep 07, 2017Atlas Dynamics Unveils NEST Smart Protective Charging Station for Enhanced Performance of Atlas Pro Platform |
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