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  Boston MA (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered a third small planet outside our solar system, scientists announced this week at the annual American Astronomical Society winter meeting in Seattle. The new planet, named HD 21749b, orbits a bright, nearby dwarf star about 53 light-years away, in the constellation Reticulum, and appears to have the longest orbital period of the three planets so far identified by TESS. HD 21749b journeys around its star in a relatively leisurely 36 ... read more |
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Breadmaking robot startup eyes fresh connectionsLas Vegas (AFP) Jan 7, 2019 The robot breadmaker came to Las Vegas this week, aiming to bring some freshness to a sector that may be ready for disruption. ... more  
In space, the US sees a rival in ChinaWashington (AFP) Jan 6, 2019 During the Cold War, US eyes were riveted on the Soviet Union's rockets and satellites. But in recent years, it has been China's space programs that have most worried US strategists. ... more  
Scientists expect breakthrough findings on lunar far sideBeijing (XNA) Jan 05, 2019 China's Chang'e-4 probe has landed on the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on the far side of the moon, regarded as a virgin territory by scientists expecting important discoveries. "The far side ... more 
Chinese rover Yutu-2 rolls out on to lunar far sideBeijing (XNA) Jan 05, 2019 China's second lunar rover has driven on the far side of the moon, which is expected to bring more scientific discoveries from the alien world. The new rover, named Yutu-2, or literally Jade R ... more |
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Chang'e-4 lands on largest crater in solar systemBeijing (XNA) Jan 04, 2019 China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe has made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon. Experts believe that the precise landing will help prepare the country for its following lunar explora ... more 
Swedish instrument has landed on the moonKiruna, Sweden (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 On January 3, 03:26 Swedish time, the Chinese Chang'E-4 spacecraft landed successfully on the far side of the Moon. The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) has developed one of the scientific i ... more
China's Chang'e-4 makes historic landing on moon's far sideBeijing (AFP) Jan 03, 2019 A Chinese lunar rover landed on the far side of the moon on Thursday, in a global first that boosts Beijing's ambitions to become a space superpower. ... more  
New Horizons unveils Ultima and Thule as a binary KuiperLaurel MD (SPX) Jan 03, 2019 Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored - the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule. Its remarkable appearance, un ... more  
UK tests self driving robots for MarsLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 03, 2019 As far as we know, Mars is the only planet populated entirely by robots! Due to the time taken for commands to travel to Mars (eight minutes each way), hand guided robots are limited to travelling o ... more |
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China launches telecommunication technology test satelliteXichang (XNA) Dec 31, 2018 China successfully launched the No. 3 telecommunication technology test satellite on Tuesday. The satellite was launched at 0:53 a.m. Beijing Time by a Long March-3C carrier rocket from the Xi ... more  |
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How game theory can bring humans and robots closer togetherSussex UK (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 Researchers at the University of Sussex, Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have for the first time used game theory to enable robots to assist humans in a saf ... more  
Controlling neurons with light but without wires or batteriesTucson AZ (SPX) Jan 03, 2019 University of Arizona biomedical engineering professor Philipp Gutruf is first author on the paper Fully implantable, optoelectronic systems for battery-free, multimodal operation in neuroscience re ... more 
China's Chang'e-4 probe changes orbit to prepare for moon-landingBeijing (XNA) Jan 02, 2019 China's Chang'e-4 probe entered a planned orbit Sunday morning to prepare for the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced. ... more 
Growing bio-inspired shapes with hundreds of tiny robotsHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 02, 2019 Hundreds of small robots can work in a team to create biology-inspired shapes - without an underlying master plan, purely based on local communication and movement. To achieve this, researchers from ... more 
NASA says faraway world Ultima Thule shaped like 'snowman'Washington (AFP) Jan 2, 2019 Four billion miles from the sun floats Ultima Thule, an icy celestial body that NASA scientists announced Wednesday is aptly shaped like a giant snowman. ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 03, 2019 
As far as we know, Mars is the only planet populated entirely by robots! Due to the time taken for commands to travel to Mars (eight minutes each way), hand guided robots are limited to travelling only a few dozen metres a day.
New software developed in the UK will change this, enabling future Mars rovers to make their own decisions about where to go and how to get there, driving up to a k ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2019 
A Chinese lunar rover has driven on the far side of the moon, the national space agency announced on Friday, hailing the development as a "big step for the Chinese people".
The Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) rover drove onto the moon's surface from the lander at 10:22pm Thursday (1422 GMT), about 12 hours after the groundbreaking touchdown of the Chang'e-4 probe, the agency said.
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
Data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which explored Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule earlier this week, is yielding scientific discoveries daily.
"The first exploration of a small Kuiper Belt object and the most distant exploration of any world in history is now history, but almost all of the data analysis lies in the future," said Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boul ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered a third small planet outside our solar system, scientists announced this week at the annual American Astronomical Society winter meeting in Seattle.
The new planet, named HD 21749b, orbits a bright, nearby dwarf star about 53 light-years away, in the constellation Reticulum, and appears to have the longest orbital period of ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 
Space exploitation and exploration are expensive. For example, the transportation cost for each lemon sent to the International Space Station (ISS) may cost over $2,000. Such lemons and other food supplies are sent to the station periodically by cargo modules from US suppliers and Russia.
Since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA has been using other sources for resupplying t ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2019 
During the Cold War, US eyes were riveted on the Soviet Union's rockets and satellites. But in recent years, it has been China's space programs that have most worried US strategists.
China, whose space effort is run by the People's Liberation Army, today launches more rockets into space than any other country - 39 last year, compared to 31 by the United States, 20 by Russia and eight by Eur ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 01, 2019 
At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters - and broke a space exploration record. The spacecraft entered into orbit around the asteroid Bennu, and made Bennu the smallest object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft.
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 30, 2018 
The U.S. Army is contracting Radiance Technologies for high energy laser lethality research, assessment and support in the amount of $28.2 million.
Work on the contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Huntsville, Ala., and is expected to be completed by November 2023.
It falls under a small business contract under acquisition rules, though R ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Jan 3, 2019 
The US military will this year conduct its first ever missile drill around the Japanese island of Okinawa, according to a report Thursday, as Washington seeks to counter an increasingly assertive China.
The US military has told its Japanese counterpart it plans to deploy surface-to-ship missiles in the strategically important Okinawa this year for the first such drill by Japan's key ally, th ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 18, 2018 
New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 and 2 observations made decades ago. The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn's magnetic field.
"We estimate that this 'ring rain' drains an amount of water products that could fill an Olympic-sized swimming p ... more |
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 Upton NY (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
This holiday season, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) - a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory - have wrapped a box of a different kind. Using a one-step chemical synthesis method, they engineered hollow metallic nanosized boxes with cube-shaped pores at the corners and demonstrated how these "nanowrappers" can be ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 
The detection of Einstein's gravitational waves relies on highly precise laser measurements of small length changes. The kilometer-size detectors of the international network (GEO600, LIGO, Virgo) are so sensitive that they are fundamentally limited by tiny quantum mechanical effects.
These cause a background noise which overlaps with gravitational-wave signals. This noise is always presen ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 
Lia Medeiros, a doctoral student at the University of Arizona, is developing mathematical models that will allow researchers to pit Einstein's general theory of relativity against the most powerful monsters of nature: supermassive black holes such as Sgr A*, which lurks at the center of the Milky Way.
Medeiros has developed a diagnostic tool that astronomers can use to compare upcoming obs ... more |
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 Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 7, 2019 
The robot breadmaker came to Las Vegas this week, aiming to bring some freshness to a sector that may be ready for disruption.
Wilkinson Baking Company unveiled its BreadBot at the Consumer Electronics Show, a machine that mixes and bakes up to 235 loaves a day.
Chief executive Randall Wilkinson said the device can lower costs and produce fresher breads than are available in most America ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2018 
Insitu has won a $12 million contract for spare and sustainment parts for the Blackjack unmanned aircraft system, the Defense Department announced.
The company, a division of Boeing headquartered in Bergen, Wash., was awarded $12,167,690 for firm-fixed-price delivery against a previously issued basic ordering agreement for parts to maintain the Naval Supply Systems Command's RQ-21A Blac ... more |
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