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  Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 Corresponding with the three-year anniversary of their announcement hypothesizing the existence of a ninth planet in the solar system, Caltech's Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin are publishing a pair of papers analyzing the evidence for Planet Nine's existence. The papers offer new details about the suspected nature and location of the planet, which has been the subject of an intense international search ever since Batygin and Brown's 2016 announcement. The first, titled "Orbital Clustering ... read more |
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Engineers published material standards for simulated asteroid surfacesWashington (UPI) Mar 5, 2019 Scientists have created the world's first material standards for simulating asteroid regolith and cobble surfaces. ... more  
Moon shot: Toyota, Japan space agency plan lunar missionTokyo (AFP) March 6, 2019 Toyota is teaming up with Japan's space agency on a planned mission to the Moon, with the Japanese auto giant expected to develop a lunar rover, officials and local media said Wednesday. ... more  
Kepler's First Exoplanet Candidate Confirmed, 10 Years After LaunchHonolulu HI (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 An international team of astronomers, led by University of Hawaii graduate student Ashley Chontos, announced the confirmation of the first exoplanet candidate identified by NASA's Kepler Mission. Th ... more  
SWIM Project Maps Potential Sources of Mars WaterTucson AZ (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of p ... more |
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New surprises from Jupiter and SaturnWashington DC (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 The latest data sent back by the Juno and Cassini spacecraft from giant gas planets Jupiter and Saturn have challenged a lot of current theories about how planets in our solar system form and behave ... more 
Chances for Life Expand When Binary Stars Push TogetherLondon, UK (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 CAPTION A NASA graphic showing an Earth-sized planet inside, within, and outside of the habitable zone around a star. Credit: NASA Planetary systems can be harsh environments in their early hi ... more  
China preparing for space station missionsBeijing (XNA) Mar 06, 2019 The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced Monday that the core module of the country's space station, the Long March-5B carrier rocket and its payloads will be sent to the launch s ... more  
Effects of spaceflight on heart cell formation from stem cellsNew Rochelle NY (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 Researchers used time-lapse imaging to show that mouse induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) grown during spaceflight differentiated into cardiomyocytes significantly faster than similar cells grow ... more 
China's lunar rover studies stones on moon's far sideBeijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2019 China's lunar rover has conducted scientific detection on some stones on the far side of the moon, which might help scientists find out whether they are from outer space or native to the moon. ... more |
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China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes to work after lunar nightBeijing (XNA) Mar 01, 2019 The rover and the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work after "sleeping" during their second lunar night on the far side of the moon. The lander woke up at 7:52 a.m. last Friday, and ... more  |
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Asteroids are stronger, harder to destroy than previously thoughtBaltimore MD (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 A popular theme in the movies is that of an incoming asteroid that could extinguish life on the planet, and our heroes are launched into space to blow it up. But incoming asteroids may be harder to ... more 
The case of the over-tilting exoplanetsNew Haven CT (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 For almost a decade, astronomers have tried to explain why so many pairs of planets outside our solar system have an odd configuration - their orbits seem to have been pushed apart by a powerful unk ... more 
SwRI-led New Horizons research indicates small Kuiper Belt objects are surprisingly rareSan Antonio TX (SPX) Mar 04, 2019 Using New Horizons data from the Pluto-Charon flyby in 2015, a Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists have indirectly discovered a distinct and surprising lack of very small objects in ... more 
Exiled planet linked to stellar flyby 3 million years agoBerkeley CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2019 Some of the peculiar aspects of our solar system - an enveloping cloud of comets, dwarf planets in weird orbits and, if it truly exists, a possible Planet Nine far from the sun - have been linked to ... more  
FedEx to test 'SameDay Bot' for local deliveriesSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 27, 2019 Global courier service FedEx on Wednesday announced plans to test a "SameDay Bot" autonomous delivery device designed to carry purchases from retail shops to local customers. ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 
Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of potential shallow water-ice sources across the surface of the Red Planet.
Two teams led by Putzig and Morgan were contracted by NASA to pursue separate mapping efforts of subsurface ice deposits ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) March 6, 2019 
Toyota is teaming up with Japan's space agency on a planned mission to the Moon, with the Japanese auto giant expected to develop a lunar rover, officials and local media said Wednesday.
It will be the car manufacturer's first full-fledged entry into space exploration, after the company jointly developed a small robot sent to the International Space Station.
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 
Corresponding with the three-year anniversary of their announcement hypothesizing the existence of a ninth planet in the solar system, Caltech's Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin are publishing a pair of papers analyzing the evidence for Planet Nine's existence.
The papers offer new details about the suspected nature and location of the planet, which has been the subject of an intense inte ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 
CAPTION A NASA graphic showing an Earth-sized planet inside, within, and outside of the habitable zone around a star. Credit: NASA
Planetary systems can be harsh environments in their early history. The young worlds orbit suns in stellar nurseries, clusters of stars where violent encounters are commonplace. None of this makes it easy for life to get going, but now astronomers at the Univer ... more |
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 College Park MD (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 
Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have implemented an experimental test for quantum scrambling, a chaotic shuffling of the information stored among a collection of quantum particles.
Their experiments on a group of seven atomic ions, reported on March 7 in Nature, demonstrate a new way to distinguish between scrambling - which maintains the amount of information in a quantum ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2019 
China's lunar rover has conducted scientific detection on some stones on the far side of the moon, which might help scientists find out whether they are from outer space or native to the moon.
The rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, was sent to the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on the far side of the moon on Jan. 3 in the Chang'e-4 mission.
Currently, the rover h ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 5, 2019 
Scientists have created the world's first material standards for simulating asteroid regolith and cobble surfaces.
The new standards will help engineers prepare for off-world colony building by more precisely simulating extraterrestrial surfaces.
"I'm firmly convinced that by the end of the century there will be more economic activity off planet Earth than on planet Earth," lead ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2019 
The U.S. Air Force announced it is planning future experiments involving laser and microwave energy weapons after recent successes in testing sessions.
Future experiments in the Directed Energy Experimentation Campaign are planned at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the Air Force said Tuesday in a statement.
The tests by the 704th Test Group, essentially the use of mi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 5, 2019 
Lockheed Martin was awarded a $945.9 million contract in the first down payment for a $15 billion buy of missile defense system by Saudi Arabia.
The contract, awarded by the Missile Defense Agency and announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is the first purchase under a $15 billion deal for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia made in Oct ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 
A new Southwest Research Institute study tackles one of the greatest mysteries about Titan, one of Saturn's moons: the origin of its thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. The study posits that one key to Titan's mysterious atmosphere is the "cooking" of organic material in the moon's interior.
"Titan is a very interesting moon because it has this very thick atmosphere, which makes it unique amo ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
Nanowires have the potential to revolutionize the technology around us. Measuring just 5-100 nanometers in diameter (a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter), these tiny, needle-shaped crystalline structures can alter how electricity or light passes through them.
They can emit, concentrate and absorb light and could therefore be used to add optical functionalities to electronic chips. T ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 
An international research team including astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has combined radio telescopes from five continents to prove the existence of a narrow stream of material, a so-called jet, emerging from the only gravitational wave event involving two neutron stars observed so far. With its high sensitivity and excellent performance, the 100- ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 
Physicists have used a seven-qubit quantum computer to simulate the scrambling of information inside a black hole, heralding a future in which entangled quantum bits might be used to probe the mysterious interiors of these bizarre objects.
Scrambling is what happens when matter disappears inside a black hole. The information attached to that matter - the identities of all its constituents, ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 04, 2019  GMV has recently presented the results obtained in ERGO and ESROCOS, two robotic-technology building blocks led by GMV within the European Commission's H2020 Space Robotics Technologies Strategic Research Cluster (SRC), its biggest space robotics program.
The SRC's first activities have focused on the design, manufacture and testing of five common robotic-building blocks for space-based op ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 1, 2019 
Researchers have trained drones outfitted with infrared sensors to recognize a koala bear's heat signature. Wildlife managers and biologists are using the technology to accurately and efficiently monitor koala populations in Australia.
An algorithm processes the drone's infrared readings and determines whether the heat signatures belong to a koala or some other animal. Researchers plan ... more |
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