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  Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 An international group of astronomers, involving the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, has succeeded in detecting a planet around Barnard's star, which is only six lightyears away. The planet has just over three times the mass of Earth and is slightly colder than Saturn. The discovery was made by measuring the periodic change in the radial velocity of the parent star. The spectrograph CARMENES, developed to a large part by the MPIA, played an important role in this discovery ... read more |
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NASA learns more about interstellar visitor 'OumuamuaPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2018 In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as 'Oumuamua - the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system. The infrared Spitzer was one ... more  
For arid, Mars-like desert, rain brings deathIthaca NY (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 When rains fell on the arid Atacama Desert, it was reasonable to expect floral blooms to follow. Instead, the water brought death. An international team of planetary astrobiologists has found ... more  
Detecting light in a different dimensionBrookhaven National Laboratory Upton NY (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 Scientists from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) - a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory - hav ... more 
NASA wants people on Mars within 25 yearsWashington (AFP) Nov 13, 2018 Deadly radiation from the cosmos, potential vision loss, and atrophying bones are just some of the challenges scientists must overcome before any future astronaut can set foot on Mars, experts and top NASA officials said Tuesday. ... more |
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How to drive a robot on MarsGreenbelt MD (AFP) Nov 12, 2018 Some 78 million miles (126 million kilometers) from Earth, alone on the immense and frigid Red Planet, a robot the size of a small 4x4 wakes up just after sunrise. And just as it has every day for the past six years, it awaits its instructions. ... more  
Small tissue chips in space a big leap forward for researchHouston TX (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 A small device that contains human cells in a 3D matrix represents a giant leap in the ability of scientists to test how those cells respond to stresses, drugs and genetic changes. About the size of ... more 
BFR Spawns New Mars TV Series with Homesteading and ProfiteersLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2018 Hollywood, California, November 8, 2018 (SPX) Then the screen thundered as space is understood to require brute force to get there. Then the complexities of living on Mars is brought too life in a n ... more 
Scientists capture the sound of sunrise on MarsChelmsford UK (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 Scientists have created the soundtrack of the 5,000th Mars sunrise captured by the robotic exploration rover, Opportunity, using data sonification techniques to create a two-minute piece of music. ... more 
Oxia Planum favoured for ExoMars surface missionParis (ESA) Nov 12, 2018 The ExoMars Landing Site Selection Working Group has recommended Oxia Planum as the landing site for the ESA-Roscosmos rover and surface science platform that will launch to the Red Planet in 2020. ... more |
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Dawn falls silent as a successful mission comes to an endBonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 An extraordinary mission has drawn to an end, after the NASA space probe Dawn fell silent on 31 October. On 27 September 2007, Dawn set off to explore the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, ... more  |
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Sandwich structure of nanocrystals as quantum light sourceZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 09, 2018 Some materials spontaneously emit light if they are excited by an external source, for instance a laser. This phenomenon is known as fluorescence. However, in several gases and quantum systems a muc ... more  
China releases smart solution for verifying reliability of space equipment componentsBeijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018 The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment compone ... more  
'Autonomous Warrior': UK Army Conducts its Largest Test of Battlefield RobotsLondon, UK (Sputnik) Nov 13, 2018 The exercises are but the latest in a series of noticeable efforts by the British military establishment to increase know-how in the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic weapons technol ... more  
From the cosmos to fusion plasmas, PPPL presents findings at global APS gatheringPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Nov 13, 2018 More than 135 researchers and students from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) presented their latest findings at the 60th annual meeting of the America ... more  
Thermal testing of the magnetometer boomParis (ESA) Nov 12, 2018 During August, the JUICE Test Campaign switched to thermal tests of a Structural and Thermal Model (STM) of a segment of the magnetometer (MAG) boom, equipped with five STMs of the scientific sensor ... more |
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 Nashville TN (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
The closest place in the universe where extraterrestrial life might exist is Mars, and human beings are poised to attempt to colonize this planetary neighbor within the next decade. Before that happens, we need to recognize that a very real possibility exists that the first human steps on the Martian surface will lead to a collision between terrestrial life and biota native to Mars.
If the ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
Lunar Outpost, a space technology startup developing enabling technologies for a sustained presence on the Lunar surface, announced their Lunar Prospector designed to search for and map the Moon's natural resources.
The first Prospector was demonstrated driving and drilling in Lunar regolith simulant at the Colorado School of Mines' new Lunar testbed facility in the Earth Mechanics Institu ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
A letter authored by SETI Institute scientist Oliver White was published by Nature Astronomy today. Co-authors included researchers Jeff Moore, Tanguy Bertrand and Kimberly Ennico at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
The letter "Washboard and Fluted Terrains on Pluto as Evidence for Ancient Glaciation" focuses on these distinctive landscapes that border the vast nitrogen ice p ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018  An international group of astronomers, involving the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, has succeeded in detecting a planet around Barnard's star, which is only six lightyears away.
The planet has just over three times the mass of Earth and is slightly colder than Saturn. The discovery was made by measuring the periodic change in the radial velocity of the parent star ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
Gazing up at the night sky from the edge of the Norwegian sea, you know you're in an unusual place. The frigid winds stream across an open sky, painted by the dance of the northern lights. Outer space almost seems closer here.
It turns out, that's not so far from the truth.
This special place is known as the northern polar cusp. It's one of only two places on Earth where particles fr ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018 
The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment components on Friday.
The selection of space equipment components involves reliability verification, data collection, transmission and comparison.
The smart solution will help shorten the time to ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft executed its fourth Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-4) yesterday. The spacecraft fired its Attitude Control System (ACS) thrusters to slow the spacecraft from approximately 0.31 mph (0.14 m/sec) to 0.10 mph (0.04 m/sec).
The ACS thrusters are capable of velocity changes as small as 0.02 mph (0.01 m/sec).
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a nine month, $25.5 million contract extension to continue development of its Low Power Laser Demonstrator (LPLD) missile interceptor concept. This program, awarded Aug. 31, builds on a 2017 contract to develop an initial LPLD concept.
Lockheed Martin's LPLD concept consists of a fiber laser system on a high-performing, high-altitude airbo ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 2, 2018 
U.S. Army has signed a deal to supply the Romanian government with three Raytheon defense systems.
Romania will use the new Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems - the country's second order of the systems in the last two years - to deter any any threats to its borders.
The Patriot is a surface-to-air missile provides the "backbone" to the missile defense capabilities used by ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
Mysterious straight bright stripes have been discovered on Saturn's moon Dione, says research by Planetary Science Institute Associate Research Scientist Alex Patthoff.
The origins of these linear virgae (virgae meaning a stripe or streak of color) are most likely caused by the draping of surface materials like material from Saturn's rings, passing comets, or co-orbital moons Helene and Po ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with researchers from Monash University Australia, has succeeded in significantly increasing the stability and biocompatibility of special light-transducing nanoparticles.
The team has developed the so-called "upconverting" nanoparticles that not only convert infrared light into UV-visible light, bu ... more |
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 Nathan, Australia (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 
Griffith University researchers have demonstrated a procedure for making precise measurements of speed, acceleration, material properties and even gravity waves possible, approaching the ultimate sensitivity allowed by laws of quantum physics.
Published in Nature Communications, the work saw the Griffith team, led by Professor Geoff Pryde, working with photons (single particles of light) a ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
Positrons are short-lived subatomic particle with the same mass as electrons and a positive charge. They are used in medicine, e.g. in positron emission tomography (PET), a diagnostic imaging method for metabolic disorders. Positrons also exist as negatively charged ions, called positronium ions (Ps-), which are essentially a three-particle system consisting of two electrons bound to a positron. ... more |
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 London, UK (Sputnik) Nov 13, 2018 
The exercises are but the latest in a series of noticeable efforts by the British military establishment to increase know-how in the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic weapons technologies.
The British Army has started an unprecedentedly large testing of battlefield robots, according to the Daily Mail.
The event, dubbed the 'Autonomous Warrior 2018,' will last for abou ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
Alpha Unmanned Systems reports it has selected Robotic Skies, Inc. to develop and implement a global support plan for its current and future commercial UAVs, currently featuring the Alpha 800 unmanned helicopter. Robotic Skies will provide a warranty program and field support management for Alpha Unmanned customers through its network of worldwide service centers.
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