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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 In the hunt for life on other worlds, astronomers scour over planets that are light-years away. They need ways to identify life from afar - but what counts as good evidence? Our own planet provides some inspiration. Microbes fill the air with methane; photosynthesizing plants expel oxygen. Perhaps these gases might be found wherever life has taken hold. But on worlds very different from our own, putative signs of life can be stirred up by non-biological processes. To know a true sign when yo ... read more |
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Moon 2069: lunar tourism and deep space launches a century on from Apollo?London, UK (The Conversation) Aug 05, 2019 We've just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, glorying in the achievements of three astronauts and the team of engineers and scientists behind them. From that perspective, we ... more 
China's micro lunar orbiter crashes into Moon under controlBeijing (XNA) Aug 05, 2019 China's micro lunar orbiter Longjiang-2 has crashed into the Moon under ground control after it completed its mission, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China Nation ... more 
Chandrayaan-2 orbit successfully raised for 4th timeNew Delhi (IANS) Aug 05, 2019 The fourth orbit raising activity for India's moon spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 was performed successfully at 3:27pm on Friday, the ISRO said. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the orbi ... more 
Distant "heavy metal" gas planet is shaped like a footballCollege Park MD (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 The scorching hot exoplanet WASP-121b may not be shredding any heavy metal guitar riffs, but it is sending heavy metals such as iron and magnesium into space. The distant planet's atmosphere is so h ... more |
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Cheops passes final review before shipment to launch siteParis (ESA) Jul 30, 2019 The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, has successfully passed the final analysis review for its launch on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. All technic ... more 
Potentially habitable planet found in new solar systemMadrid (AFP) Aug 1, 2019 An international team of astronomers has discovered a new solar system with a planet that could be habitable, a Spanish astrophysicist who led the research said Thursday. ... more  
Roach-inspired robot nearly as fast as real thing, unsquashableWashington (UPI) Jul 31, 2019 If you see the latest robot from the University of California, Berkeley scurrying across your kitchen floor, don't bother trying to step on it. The novel roach-like robot, described this week in the journal Science Robotics, can't be squashed. ... more 
TESS uncovers 'first nearby Super-Earth'Cornell NY (SPX) Aug 02, 2019 NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission designed to comb the heavens for exoplanets, has discovered its first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system - and ... more 
A chemical clue to how life started on Earth La Jolla CA (SPX) Aug 02, 2019 Earth didn't always harbor life. But around 4 billion years ago, something in the environment changed, and systems with biological properties began to emerge. Many scientists believe a lively dance ... more |
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Heavy metal gases observed streaming from football-shaped exoplanetWashington (UPI) Aug 1, 2019 Astronomers have detected heavy metal gases streaming away from an extremely hot, football-shaped exoplanet located 900 light-years from Earth. It's the first time scientists have identified heavy metal gases emanating from a so-called hot Jupiter. ... more  |
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Pre-life building blocks spontaneously align in evolutionary experimentAtlanta GA (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 When Earth was a lifeless planet about 4 billion years ago, chemical components came together in tiny molecular chains that would later evolve into proteins, crucial life building blocks. A new stud ... more
Microbiologists uncover mechanisms of magnetic bacteriaWashington (UPI) Jul 31, 2019 New research has revealed the mechanics of a magnetic bacteria named Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense. ... more 
Study shows that the Moon is older than previously believedCologne, Germany (SPX) Jul 31, 2019 Fifty years after the first landing on the Moon, scientists from the University of Cologne have combined new geochemical information to determine the Moon's age using samples from different Apollo m ... more 
New method for exoplanet stability analysisCollege Park MD (SPX) Jul 31, 2019 Exoplanets revolving around distant stars are coming quickly into focus with advanced technology like the Kepler space telescope. Gaining a full understanding of those systems is difficult, because ... more 
NASA announces US industry partnerships to advance Moon, Mars technologyWashington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2019 As NASA prepares to land humans on the Moon by 2024 with the Artemis program, commercial companies are developing new technologies, working toward space ventures of their own, and looking to NASA fo ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 05, 2019 
Hardware installed onto NASA's Mars 2020 entry vehicle this week will help to increase the safety of future Mars landings.
Charged with returning astronauts to the Moon by 2024, NASA's Artemis lunar exploration plans will establish a sustained human presence on and around the Moon by 2028. NASA will use its Moon missions along with robotic missions to Mars to prepare for human exploration ... more |
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 London, UK (The Conversation) Aug 05, 2019 
We've just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, glorying in the achievements of three astronauts and the team of engineers and scientists behind them. From that perspective, we can look back and see what we have learned from the mission. But what if we take a giant leap forward in time and look back at the legacy of Apollo from 2069 - a century after the historic event?
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 11, 2019 
New analysis of Juno mission data suggests Jupiter's auroras are powered by alternating current, not direct current.
Jupiter, a the largest planet in the solar system, boasts an aurora with a radiant power of 100 terawatts, or 100 billion kilowatts. It's the brightest aurora in the solar system.
Like Earth's auroras, Jupiter's light shows are centered around its poles. The aurora ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 
In the hunt for life on other worlds, astronomers scour over planets that are light-years away. They need ways to identify life from afar - but what counts as good evidence?
Our own planet provides some inspiration. Microbes fill the air with methane; photosynthesizing plants expel oxygen. Perhaps these gases might be found wherever life has taken hold.
But on worlds very different f ... more |
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 Hampton VA (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 
Can we get a wind-check on that launch? Engineers recently completed testing for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket in a low-speed wind tunnel at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia for lift-off conditions.
In the 14- by 22- Foot Subsonic Tunnel, researchers were able to measure the influence of ground winds on structures at the launch pad that might impact the SLS rocket. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 25, 2019 
A Chinese startup successfully launched the country's first commercial rocket capable of carrying satellites into orbit Thursday, as the space race between China and the US heats up.
Beijing-based Interstellar Glory Space Technology - also known as iSpace - said it launched two satellites into orbit around 1:00 pm Beijing time (0500 GMT) from Jiuquan, a state launch facility in the Gobi de ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 05, 2019 
On 25 July, an asteroid the size of a football field flew by Earth, coming within 65 000 km of our planet's surface during its closest approach - about one fifth of the distance to the Moon.
The 100 m-wide asteroid dubbed '2019 OK' was detected just days before it passed Earth, although archival records from sky surveys show it had previously been observed but wasn't recognised as a near-E ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Jul 26, 2019 
The US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) put out a request last week for the development of a wargame simulator to better explore just how well directed-energy weapons like lasers and particle beams will work in battles.
Nextgov reported Monday that the USAF's research organization had issued a request for a vendor to provide the service with wargame modeling for scenarios featuring directed e ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) July 28, 2019  Israel and the United States have successfully carried out tests of a ballistic missile interceptor that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday provides protection against potential threats from Iran.
The tests of the Arrow-3 system were carried out in the US state of Alaska and it successfully intercepted targets above the atmosphere, Israel's defence ministry said in a statement. ... more |
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 New Haven CT (SPX) Jul 17, 2019  By 2034, when the Dragonfly drone mission makes landfall on the surface of Titan, Yale's Juan Lora will have spent nearly half his life studying the climatic tendencies of Saturn's icy moon.
That's when the real work will begin, he says.
Finally, after long years of preparation and modeling, Lora and his colleagues on the scientific end of the NASA Dragonfly mission will begin to get ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 
Every year, robots get more and more life-like. Solar-powered bees fly on lithe wings, humanoids stick backflips, and teams of soccer bots strategize how to dribble, pass, and score. And, the more researchers discover about how living creatures move, the more machines can imitate them all the way down to their smallest molecules.
"We have these amazing machines already in our bodies, and t ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2019 
Observations made with a new instrument developed for use at the 2.1-meter (84-inch) telescope at the National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Observatory have led to the discovery of the fastest eclipsing white dwarf binary yet known.
Clocking in with an orbital period of only 6.91 minutes, the rapidly orbiting stars are expected to be one of the strongest sources of gravitational ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2019 
More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic theory of general relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy.
Now, in the most comprehensive test of general relativity near the monstrous black hole at the center of our galaxy, Ghez and her research team report July 25 in the journal Science that Einstein's theo ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 31, 2019 
If you see the latest robot from the University of California, Berkeley scurrying across your kitchen floor, don't bother trying to step on it. The novel roach-like robot, described this week in the journal Science Robotics, can't be squashed.
The new robot, developed by engineers at Cal, can run nearly as fast as a cockroach and as is even harder to kill. If one were to stomp on the li ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) July 31, 2019  Seoul began testing delivery by drone in the country's remote regions Wednesday, with the hope of improving residents' quality of life, the government said.
The project, jointly launched by the interior and safety ministry and Korea Post, among other government agencies, aims to establish a "public drone delivery system" to serve the country's dispersed population.
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