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  West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 The climate throughout Mars' early history has long been debated - was the Red Planet warm and wet, or cold and icy? New research published in Icarus provides evidence for the latter. Mars is littered with valley networks, deltas and lake deposits, meaning it must have had freely flowing water at some point, probably around 4 billion years ago. But climate models of the planet's deep past haven't been able to produce warm enough conditions to allow liquid water on the surface. "There are peo ... read more |
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Mars rover Opportunity hunkers down during dust stormPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 11, 2018 Science operations for NASA's Opportunity rover have been temporarily suspended as it waits out a growing dust storm on Mars. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter first detected the storm on Fri ... more  
Researchers discover multiple alkali metals in unique exoplanetLa Laguna, Spain (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 The extrasolar planet WASP-127b is one of the least dense exoplanets ever found. It has a radius 1.4 times greater than Jupiter, but only 20% of its mass. Such a planet has no analogue in the solar ... more 
Curiosity rover finds organic matter, unidentified methane source on MarsWashington (UPI) Jun 7, 2018 NASA's Curiosity rover has found organic molecules in ancient sedimentary rock collected from Mars' surface. The rover's labs also confirmed seasonal fluctuations of methane in the Martian atmosphere. ... more 
More building blocks of life found on MarsTampa (AFP) June 7, 2018 A NASA robot has detected more building blocks for life on Mars - the most complex organic matter yet - from 3.5 billion-year-old rocks on the surface of the Red Planet, scientists said Thursday. ... more |
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The Clarke exobelt, a method to search for possible extraterrestrial civilizationsLa Laguna, Spain (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 Finding life in other parts of the universe has been one of humanity's constant dreams. For the first time in history the scientific community has hopes based on some degree of possibility that this ... more  
What it takes to discover small rocks in spaceTucson AZ (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 Once every month, on average, somewhere on Earth a fireball appears out of nowhere and for mere seconds, casts a blinding flash across the sky before it blows up in a thunderous explosion. It happen ... more 
NASA finds ancient organic material, mysterious methane on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 08, 2018 NASA's Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that relates to ... more  
JUICE comes in from extreme temperature testParis (ESA) Jun 08, 2018 This is the first entry in the JUICE Test Campaign Journal, a series of articles covering the main events during testing of the Thermal Development Model (TDM), the Engineering Model (EM) and the Pr ... more  
Magnetic crystal that behaves like quantum light validates theoryOnna, Japan (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 What is light? It sounds like a simple question, but it is one that has occupied some of the best scientific minds for centuries. Now, a collaborative study with scientists at the Okinawa Inst ... more |
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NASA Re-plans Juno's Jupiter MissionPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2018 NASA has approved an update to Juno's science operations until July 2021. This provides for an additional 41 months in orbit around Jupiter and will enable Juno to achieve its primary science object ... more 
New Horizons Wakes for Historic Kuiper Belt FlybyLaurel MD (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is back "awake" and being prepared for the farthest planetary encounter in history - a New Year's Day 2019 flyby of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule. ... more 
Science Team Continues to Improve Opportunity's Use of the Robotic ArmPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2018 Opportunity is halfway down in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The science team is pursuing several hypotheses as to the origin of the valley. The rover is still pos ... more 
New data-mining technique offers most-vivid picture of Martian mineralogyWashington DC (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 A team of scientists led by Carnegie's Shaunna Morrison and including Bob Hazen have revealed the mineralogy of Mars at an unprecedented scale, which will help them understand the planet's geologic ... more  
China confirms reception of data from Gaofen-6 satelliteBeijing (XNA) Jun 07, 2018 The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) confirmed that one of its institutes Monday successfully tracked and received imaging data from the newly-launched Earth observation satellite Gaofen-6. T ... more |
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Thank the moon for Earth's lengthening dayMadison WI (SPX) Jun 06, 2018 For anyone who has ever wished there were more hours in the day, geoscientists have some good news: Days on Earth are getting longer. A new study that reconstructs the deep history of our plan ... more |
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Experts Explain How China Is Opening International Space CooperationVienna (Sputnik) Jun 05, 2018 Experts commented on the new Chinese space exploration initiative announced by Shi Zhongjun, Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna. "China is a pioneer in inter ... more  
Dolphin algorithm could lead to better medical ultrasoundsLund, Sweden (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 Millions of years of evolutionary fine-tuning have made dolphins phenomenally good at using echolocation to orient themselves, find food and communicate with one another. But how do they actually do ... more 
Synthetic 'tissues' build themselvesSan Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 How do complex biological structures - an eye, a hand, a brain - emerge from a single fertilized egg? This is the fundamental question of developmental biology, and a mystery still being grappled wi ... more 
Flexible organic electronics mimic biological mechanosensory nervesSeoul, South Korea (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 Researchers at Seoul National University and Stanford University developed artificial mechanosensory nerves using flexible organic devices to emulate biological sensory afferent nerves. They used th ... more 
Cell-like nanorobots clear bacteria and toxins from bloodSan Diego CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed tiny ultrasound-powered robots that can swim through blood, removing harmful bacteria along with the toxins they produce. These pro ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2018 
Opportunity is halfway down in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
The science team is pursuing several hypotheses as to the origin of the valley. The rover is still positioned near some tabular rocks that are the subject of an in-situ (contact) investigation. Over several days (sols), the Panoramic Camera (Pancam) has been employed to collect extensive imagery of va ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Jun 06, 2018 
For anyone who has ever wished there were more hours in the day, geoscientists have some good news: Days on Earth are getting longer.
A new study that reconstructs the deep history of our planet's relationship to the moon shows that 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted just over 18 hours. This is at least in part because the moon was closer and changed the way the Earth spun around ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2018 
NASA has approved an update to Juno's science operations until July 2021. This provides for an additional 41 months in orbit around Jupiter and will enable Juno to achieve its primary science objectives.Juno is in 53-day orbits rather than 14-day orbits as initially planned because of a concern about valves on the spacecraft's fuel system. This longer orbit means that it will take more time to c ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 19, 2018 
The US Air Force will this summer begin testing a laser that will be mounted on an F-15 warplane, an official said Monday.
The Pentagon last year awarded a $26 million contract to Lockheed Martin for a laser program called SHiELD (Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator.)
The idea is to put a laser system on aircraft with an output of about 50 kilowatts to test their ability to zap ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 08, 2018 
The Department of Defense modified a contract with Raytheon for full production of the Standard Missile-6.
The modified contract award from Naval Sea Systems Command adjusted the total cumulative value of the deal to more than $44.8 million. The contract enables Raytheon to provide "long-lead material in support of fiscal 2017 Standard Missile-6 full-rate production requirements and spa ... more |
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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) May 22, 2018 
The small inner moons of Saturn look like giant ravioli and spaetzle. Their spectacular shape has been revealed by the Cassini spacecraft. For the first time, researchers of the University of Bern (Switzerland) show how these moons were formed. The peculiar shapes are a natural outcome of merging collisions among similar-sized little moons, as computer simulations demonstrate.
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 Columbus OH (SPX) Jun 04, 2018 
Researchers have devised a magnetic control system to make tiny DNA-based robots move on demand - and much faster than recently possible. In the journal Nature Communications, Carlos Castro and Ratnasingham Sooryakumar and their colleagues from The Ohio State University report that the control system reduced the response time of prototype nano-robot components from several minutes to less than a ... more |
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