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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2019 Scientists working with NASA's Curiosity Mars rover have been excited to explore a region called "the clay-bearing unit" since before the spacecraft launched. Now, the rover has finally tasted its first sample from this part of Mount Sharp. Curiosity drilled a piece of bedrock nicknamed "Aberlady" on Saturday, April 6 (the 2,370th Martian day, or sol, of the mission), and delivered the sample to its internal mineralogy lab on Wednesday, April 10 (Sol 2374). The rover's drill chewed easily th ... read more |
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NASA Twins Study finds spaceflight affects gut bacteriaChicago IL (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 Research from NASA's landmark Twins Study found that extended spaceflight affects the human gut microbiome. During his yearlong stay on the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Scott Kelly e ... more 
Tests for the InSight 'Mole'Bremen, Germany (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 A blue box, a cubic metre of Mars-like sand, a rock, a fully-functional model of the Mars 'Mole' and a seismometer - these are the main components with which the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Z ... more  
Indian Satellite's Pieces Unlikely to Collide With ISS - Russian Space AgencyMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 12, 2019 The likelihood of a collision between pieces of a destroyed Indian satellite and the International Space Station (ISS) is not high but some of these parts are small and hard to track, Sergey Krikale ... more  
Bridgestone Joins International Space Exploration Mission with JAXA and ToyotaColorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 Bridgestone Corporation has announced that it will take part in an international space exploration mission together with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota Motor Corporation. R ... more |
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Are brown dwarfs failed stars or super-planets?Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 Brown dwarfs fill the "gap" between stars and the much smaller planets - two very different types of astronomical objects. But how they originate has yet to be fully explained. Astronomers from Heid ... more 
To get to the Moon in 2024, the rocket is just NASA's first headacheColorado Springs (AFP) April 11, 2019 In the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, Alan Campbell, a project manager for space systems at the famed Draper Laboratory that built the computer which took astronauts to the Moon 50 years ago, is waiting for news from NASA. ... more 
Israeli spacecraft crashes during moon landing: mission controlJerusalem (AFP) April 11, 2019 Israel's attempt at a moon landing failed at the last minute on Thursday when the craft suffered an engine failure as it prepared to land and apparently crashed onto the lunar surface. ... more 
ExoMars carrier module prepares for final pre-launch testingParis (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 The module that will carry the ExoMars rover and surface science platform from Earth to Mars has arrived in Italy for final integration preparations. The module, along with electrical ground s ... more 
Ridding space of old satellites and debrisColorado Springs (AFP) April 11, 2019 With constellations of thousands of telecommunication mini satellites expected to orbit Earth in the near future, the risk of space-debris collisions will grow. For Nobu Okada, it's an opportunity. ... more |
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Astronaut twins study yields new insights and portable DNA sequencing toolsIthaca NY (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 Long-term spaceflight causes more changes to gene expression than shorter trips, especially to the immune system and DNA repair systems, according to research by Weill Cornell Medicine and NASA inve ... more  |
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NASA's Landmark Twins Study Reveals Resilience of Human Body in SpaceWashington DC (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 Results from NASA's landmark Twins Study, which took place from 2015-2016, were published Thursday in Science. The integrated paper - encompassing work from 10 research teams - reveals some interest ... more 
NASA researchers catalogue all microbes and fungi on ISSWashington DC (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 A comprehensive catalogue of the bacteria and fungi found on surfaces inside the International Space Station (ISS) is being presented in a study published in the open access journal Microbiome. Know ... more  
UCF researchers develop way to control speed of light, send it backwardOrlando FL (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 University of Central Florida researchers have developed a way to control the speed of light. Not only can they speed up a pulse of light and slow it down, they can also make it travel backward. ... more  
Space Robotics Market to Surpass $3.5bn by 2025Selbyville DE (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 The space robotics market is predicted to hike from USD 2 billion in 2018 to around USD 3.5 billion by 2025, according to a 2019 Global Market Insights, Inc. report. The market is experiencing rapid ... more 
When robots commit wrongdoing, people may incorrectly assign the blameWashington DC (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 Last year, a self-driven car struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The woman's family is now suing Arizona and the city of Tempe for negligence. But, in an article published on April 5 i ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 
The module that will carry the ExoMars rover and surface science platform from Earth to Mars has arrived in Italy for final integration preparations.
The module, along with electrical ground support equipment, shipped from OHB System in Bremen, Germany, arrived on 2 April at Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy.
The mission is the second in the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars programme th ... more |
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 Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 
Bridgestone Corporation has announced that it will take part in an international space exploration mission together with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota Motor Corporation. Recently announced by JAXA and Toyota, the goals of this mission are to expand the domain of human activity and develop intellectual property on space exploration. Bridgestone's mission assignment is t ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
More than 10 years since its discovery, (225088) 2007 OR10 is the largest minor planet in our solar system without a name, and the 3 astronomers who discovered it want the public's help to change that. In an article published by The Planetary Society today, Meg Schwamb, a planetary scientist who helped discover 2007 OR10, announced a campaign inviting the public to pick the best name to submit t ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
Brown dwarfs fill the "gap" between stars and the much smaller planets - two very different types of astronomical objects. But how they originate has yet to be fully explained. Astronomers from Heidelberg University may now be able to answer that question. They discovered that the star Zeta Ophiuchi in the Milky Way is being orbited by two brown dwarfs, which in all probability formed along with ... more |
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 Auburn AL (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
It's rocket science-one NASA project is revolutionizing how liquid rocket engines are made. Additive manufacturing, better known as 3D printing, combined with advanced composite technology could help rocket engines be lighter, cheaper and easier to make.
Engineers at NASA tested a 2,400 lbf thrust 3D-printed copper rocket thrust chamber with composite overwrap to see if the uniquely made h ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 04, 2019 
China's first carrier rocket for commercial use, the Smart Dragon-1 (SD-1), has finished its engine test, paving way for its maiden flight in the first half of 2019, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
The rocket is the first member of the Dragon series commercial carrier rockets family to be produced by CALT. It has a total length of 19.5 meters, a diameter ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 
Metallic asteroids are thought to have started out as blobs of molten iron floating in space. As if that's not strange enough, scientists now think that as the metal cooled and solidified, volcanoes spewing liquid iron could have erupted through a solid iron crust onto the surface of the asteroid.
This scenario emerged from an analysis by planetary scientists at UC Santa Cruz whose investi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 8, 2019 
Leidos has been awarded a $19.3 million contract for system integration and field testing of a laser weapon system being developed at Kirtland Air Force base in New Mexico.
The contract provides for advancing work on state-of-the-art of laser weapon system technology through research and development of laser weapon systems, as well as evaluate performance in relevant operational environ ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 11, 2019 
The United States will temporarily deploy its THAAD anti-missile protection system in Romania this summer, U.S. European Command said Thursday.
The land-based THAAD system, which stands for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, will be used by NATO for its Ballistic Missile Defense systems while the international alliance's existing Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System goes through mainte ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 29, 2019  Nestled between Saturn's rings are a collection of mini-moons that NASA's Cassini spacecraft skimmed past in 2017.
On Thursday, for the first time, astronomers and scientists are detailing their findings about the moons in the US journal Science.
Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Pandora and Epimetheus each measure between eight and 116 kilometers (five to 72 miles) in diameter. They are either round ... more |
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 Vladivostok, Russia (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 
Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with colleagues from Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS), ITMO University and Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) developed a method for efficient mass production of silicon-germanium fully alloyed nanoantennas.
On their basis, optical biosensory platforms and next-generation chemical se ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
The history of science is filled with stories of enthusiastic researchers slowly winning over skeptical colleagues to their point of view. Astrophysicist Scott Hughes can relate to these tales.
"For the first 15 or 16 years of my career I was speaking to astronomers, and I always had the impression that they were politely interested in what I had to say, but regarded me as a little bit of ... more |
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 Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) operates a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes that are linked together. The Black Hole Cam (BHC) Team, led by astrophysicists from Goethe University in Frankfurt, the Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn and the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, are part of this collaboration.
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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
Smart phones autocorrect in texting, search engines autocomplete queries, and mapping applications redirect navigation in real-time to avoid slowed traffic. These ubiquitous AI-based technologies adapt to everyday needs and learn user habits by focusing on making the algorithm better, but Army researchers want to enhance AI by providing more information about the intent of the user.
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 Vienna (AFP) April 4, 2019 
It was more of a small step than a giant leap, but the first public outing of a pilotless "drone taxi" in Vienna on Thursday nevertheless offered a glimpse into the possible future of urban travel.
Several big companies such as Boeing and Airbus are working on their own versions of the technology but it was the Chinese firm EHang that unveiled its aircraft to assembled journalists in the Aus ... more |
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