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  Paris (AFP) Oct 22, 2018 Salty water just below the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen to support the kind of microbial life that emerged and flourished on Earth billions of years ago, researchers reported Monday. In some locations, the amount of oxygen available could even keep alive a primitive, multicellular animal such as a sponge, they reported in the journal Nature Geosciences. "We discovered that brines" - water with high concentrations of salt - "on Mars can contain enough oxygen for microbes to breat ... read more |
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Scientific research will help to understand the origin of life in the universeSamara, Russia (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Until now, in the scientific community there has been the prevailing view that thermal processes associated exclusively with the combustion and high-temperature processing of organic raw materials s ... more  
LGS Innovations' Laser Technology to Bring HD Video from the MoonHerndon, VA (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 LGS Innovations, a technology company providing specialized mission-critical communication research and solutions, has announced that it will be supporting the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis ... more  
Asteroid named after university of China's science academyBeijing (XNA) Oct 19, 2018 An asteroid has been named after the university of China's top science academy, with approval from the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Asteroid Guokeda (Univ ... more 
Minerals of the world, uniteParis (ESA) Oct 22, 2018 Imagine you are on Mars and you stumble upon an interesting rock. The colours, the shape of the crystals and the place where you find it all tell you: there is more to it than meets the eye. Tool in ... more |
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Discovering a previously unknown role for a source of magnetic fieldsPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Magnetic forces ripple throughout the universe, from the fields surrounding planets to the gasses filling galaxies, and can be launched by a phenomenon called the Biermann battery effect. Now ... more 
Algorithm takes search for habitable planets to the next levelThuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 An international team of scientists, including high performance computing (HPC) experts from the King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST), astronomers from the Paris Observatory a ... more  
Bepicolombo's first space selfiesParis (ESA) Oct 23, 2018 This trio of images was captured by the BepiColombo spacecraft after it blasted off into space at 01:45 GMT on 20 October on its seven year cruise to Mercury, the innermost planet of the Solar Syste ... more 
Preparing future explorers for a return to the MoonColumbia MD (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 To train future explorers to support NASA's mission to return to the Moon's surface, scientists use similar environments found on the Earth. Last week, a group of domestic and international students ... more 
NASA calls for instruments, technologies for delivery to the MoonWashington DC (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 NASA has announced a call for Lunar Surface Instrument and Technology Payloads that will fly to the Moon on commercial lunar landers as early as next year or 2020. The agency is working with U.S. in ... more |
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 NASA's OSIRIS-REx executes second asteroid approach maneuver 
China plans to launch 'moon double' into space to illuminate streetsBeijing (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018 China is participating in another moon-related project in cooperation with Russia. The two countries are planning to develop their own lunar program with the ultimate aim of building a moon base. ... more  |
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Bepicolombo blasts off to investigate Mercury's mysteriesKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 20, 2018 The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury blasted off on an Ariane 5 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou at 01:45:28 GMT on 20 October on its exciting mission to study the mysteries of the Solar Sys ... more 
Mercury mission to explore origin of Solar SystemParis (AFP) Oct 20, 2018 Is Mercury's core liquid or solid, and why - on the smallest planet in our solar system - is it so big? What can the planet closest to the Sun tell us about how our solar system came into being? ... more 
Strofio will measure Mercury's exosphere on BepiColombo missionSan Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 The European Space Agency's BepiColombo spacecraft will launch towards Mercury carrying a unique payload designed and built at Southwest Research Institute: an instrument called Strofio, which will ... more 
Mission control ready for MercuryDarmstadt, Germany (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Teams responsible for flying the bold BepiColombo mission to Mercury today completed the last major step in preparation for Saturday's liftoff - the final pre-launch 'dress rehearsal' at ESA's ESOC ... more 
BepiColombo: Two Orbiters Head to MercuryParis, France (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Known since Antiquity, Mercury has not yet delivered all its secrets. The international mission BepiColombo, scheduled to launch in the coming days, will study the planet's surface and compare its m ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 22, 2018 
Imagine you are on Mars and you stumble upon an interesting rock. The colours, the shape of the crystals and the place where you find it all tell you: there is more to it than meets the eye. Tool in hand, you analyse how light scatters through it. Seconds later you read the following description on the screen:
Jarosite is a potassium and iron bearing hydrated sulphate. It crystallises with ... more |
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 Columbia MD (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
To train future explorers to support NASA's mission to return to the Moon's surface, scientists use similar environments found on the Earth. Last week, a group of domestic and international students traveled to Barringer Meteorite Crater (aka Meteor Crater), Arizona, to learn necessary skills that could help NASA implement its plans for human and robotic missions to the lunar surface.
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 
The study of two potential plume sites on Jupiter's moon Europa has shown a lack of expected hotspot signatures, unlike Enceladus where plumes have a very clear and obvious temperature signature, research by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Julie Rathbun shows.
"We searched through the available Galileo thermal data at the locations proposed as the sites of potential plumes. Re ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 
Strategies to identify and explore ocean worlds in our solar system should focus on a range of targets, including confirmed and unconfirmed ocean worlds, according to a new paper by a team led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Amanda R. Hendrix.
Hendrix and Terry A. Hurford of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center are co-lead authors of "The NASA Roadmap to Ocean Worlds" that appe ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018  NASA astronaut Nick Hague told NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine that he was impressed by the teamwork of the rescue crew that helped him and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin to get out of the rescue capsule after their recent emergency return to Earth over launch vehicle failure.
"They had three pararescue jumpers. As soon as they had found where we were at... they jumped in to get to u ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018 
Many new companies have entered the commercial aerospace industry in China, supported by the government. Most of the CEOs come from government aerospace agencies or national scientific institutions. These companies still have a long way to go to catch up with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
The aerospace industry used to be a battleground for superpowers. Space agencies were all sponsored by governmen ... more |
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 Vladivostok, Russia (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
Evgenij Zubko of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with other international team members has developed a comprehensive model to explain the results of a photometric study of the Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 (29P) which was successfully accomplished recently. The findings came as a real surprise revealed that the dust environment of 29P predominantly consists of only one type ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 4, 2018 
Lockheed Martin, General Atomics and Boeing have received contract modifications for drone-mounted Low Power Laser Demonstrator system missile defense testing.
Lockheed Martin's contract has increased to a total value of $37.7 million, while General Atomics and Boeing's have been increased to $34 million and $29.4 million respectively, the Department of Defense announced on Friday.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has delivered the 300th interceptor for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, the only system in the world designed to intercept threats both inside and outside the atmosphere. The production maturity milestone comes as demand for the company's hit-to-kill missile defense system and interceptors continues to grow.
"The Missile Defense Agency, industry and ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2018  Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is unique among all moons in our solar system for its dense and nitrogen-rich atmosphere that also contains hydrocarbons and other compounds, and the story behind the formation of this rich chemical mix has been the source of some scientific debate.
Now, a research collaboration involving scientists in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy ... more |
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 Newark DE (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 
From photonics to pharmaceuticals, materials made with polymer nanoparticles hold promise for products of the future. However, there are still gaps in understanding the properties of these tiny plastic-like particles.
Now, Hojin Kim, a graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, together with a team of collaborating scientists at the Max Planck ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 
Twenty years ago, scientists were shocked to realize that our universe is not only expanding, but that it's expanding fasterover time.
Pinning down the exact rate of expansion, called the Hubble constant after famed astronomer and UChicago alumnus Edwin Hubble, has been surprisingly difficult. Since then scientists have used two methods to calculate the value, and they spit out distressing ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
Many semiconductor fabricators and research labs are under increasing pressure from, of all things, vacuum. These facilities need to remove greater amounts of gas molecules and particles from their setups as new technologies and processes demand lower and lower pressures.
For example, the vacuum chambers in which microchip manufacturers lay down a series of ultrathin layers of chemicals st ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Oct 18, 2018 
Forget the flashy humanoids with their gymnastics skills: at the World Robot Summit in Tokyo, the focus was on down-to-earth robots that can deliver post, do the shopping and build a house.
Introducing CarriRo, a delivery robot shaped a bit like a toy London bus with bright, friendly "eyes" on its front that can zip around the streets delivering packages at 6km/h (4 miles per hour).
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Oct 22, 2018 
The US Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane has passed its 400-day mark, inching its way toward setting a new flight duration record for the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) mission.
The spacecraft, the fifth of its kind, was initially rocketed into orbit on September 7, 2017, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, according to Space.com. All previous OTV missions established new flight records, wit ... more |
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