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  Washington DC (SPX) Sep 13, 2019 Two relatively medium-sized asteroids will fly safely past Earth overnight Sept. 13-14 (Eastern U.S. time). NASA is tracking the objects, but orbit calculations ruled out any chance that the objects could pose a threat to our planet. "These asteroids have been well observed-once since 2000 and the other since 2010-and their orbits are very well known," said Lindley Johnson, planetary defense officer and program executive for the Planetary Defense Coordination Office at NASA Headquarters in Washing ... read more |
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Saturn's Rings Shine in New Hubble PortraitBaltimore MD (SPX) Sep 13, 2019 Anyone who has ever peered at Saturn through a small telescope is immediately enticed by its elegant rings, which make the far-flung planet one of the most exotic-looking, opulent worlds in the sola ... more  
Mars 2020 Spacecraft Comes Full CirclePasadena CA (JPL) Sep 13, 2019 Engineers took NASA's Mars 2020 for a spin on Aug. 29, 2019. The 2,300-pound (1,040-kilogram) Martian vehicle was rotated clockwise and counterclockwise at about 1 revolution per minute on what is c ... more  
Research redefines lower limit for planet size habitabilityBoston MA (SPX) Sep 12, 2019 In The Little Prince, the classic novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the titular prince lives on a house-sized asteroid so small that he can watch the sunset any time of day by moving his chair a ... more 
Water detected on an exoplanet located in its star's habitable zoneMontreal, Canada (SPX) Sep 12, 2019 Ever since the discovery of the first exoplanet in the 1990s, astronomers have made steady progress towards finding and probing planets located in the habitable zone of their stars, where conditions ... more |
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Nitrogen explosions created craters on Saturn moon TitanIthaca NY (SPX) Sep 11, 2019 Lakes of liquid methane on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, were likely formed by explosive, pressurized nitrogen just under the moon's surface, according to new research. "Titan h ... more 
How to Spin a Disk Around Young ProtostarsGarching, Germany (SPX) Sep 09, 2019 The main steps of star and planet formation are well understood: a dense, interstellar cloud will collapse under its own gravity; a central core forms as well as a protostellar disk due to the conse ... more  
NASA Goddard Creates CGI Moon Kit as a Form of Visual StorytellingGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 09, 2019 A new NASA out-of-this-world animation allows humanity to experience their closest galactic neighbor as never before through an online "CGI Moon kit." Smartphones have allowed millions to beco ... more  
Russia terminates robot Fedor after space odysseyMoscow (AFP) Sept 11, 2019 It's mission over for a robot called Fedor that Russia blasted to the International Space Station, the developers said Wednesday, admitting he could not replace astronauts on space walks. ... more  
Milestones on the way to the nuclear clockVienna, Austria (SPX) Sep 12, 2019 If you want to build the most accurate clock in the world, you need something that "ticks" very fast and extremely precise. In an atomic clock, electrons are used, which can be switched back and for ... more |
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Copy cat: Chinese firm creates first cloned kittenBeijing (AFP) Sept 5, 2019 Seven months after Huang Yu's pet cat Garlic died, the British shorthair was given a 10th life. ... more  |
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New color-changing smart skin inspired by chameleonsWashington (UPI) Sep 11, 2019 Scientists have managed to create new "smart skin" that changes color but doesn't change size, just like a chameleon. ... more 
At NY Fashion Week, robotic dresses take on a life of their ownNew York (AFP) Sept 11, 2019 Fashion and technology have often gone hand in hand, improving supply chains and bringing the world's runways to the masses, but at this week's shows in New York, robotic designs took center stage. ... more  
Shaken but not stirred: Konnect satellite completes vibration testsCanne, France(ESA) Sep 09, 2019 The first Spacebus Neo satellite - Konnect, a high-throughput satellite ordered by Eutelsat - has successfully completed its mechanical test campaign in Thales Alenia Space facilities in Cannes. ... more 
India locates missing Moon landerNew Delhi (AFP) Sept 10, 2019 Indian space scientists were desperately trying Tuesday to establish communication with their broken Moon lander, having located the probe that went silent moments before it was due to make a historic soft landing. ... more 
Ttiny satellites that will pave the way to LunaGuildford UK (The Conversation) Sep 02, 2019 The space race between the US and Russia ended half a century ago when US astronauts became the first to walk on the moon. Today there's yet another race, prompted by China's successful landing on t ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 13, 2019 
Engineers took NASA's Mars 2020 for a spin on Aug. 29, 2019. The 2,300-pound (1,040-kilogram) Martian vehicle was rotated clockwise and counterclockwise at about 1 revolution per minute on what is called a spin table in the clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The engineers were looking for the rover's center of gravity, or t ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 12, 2019 
Space agencies must invest more resources on field geology training of astronauts to take full advantage of scientific opportunities on the Moon and other planetary bodies, Kip Hodges and Harrison Schmitt urge, in an Editorial. The Moon represents a pristine archive of the early history of the Solar System, making it an ideal research target for scientists seeking a window into planetary formati ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their flow and even changing their color.
Thanks to coordinated observations of the planet in January 2017 by six ground-based optical and radio telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer and her colleagues ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Sep 12, 2019 
Water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere of a super-Earth with habitable temperatures by UCL researchers in a world first.
K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the Solar System, or 'exoplanet', known to have both water and temperatures that could support life.
The discovery, published in Nature Astronomy, is the first ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Sept 11, 2019 
A pre-dawn fire on Wednesday forced Japan's space agency to cancel the launch of an unnamed rocket meant to deliver supplies to the International Space Station, the operator said.
The fire broke out near the launch pad on southern Tanegashima island at around 03:05 am (1805 GMT on Tuesday), as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) was preparing to launch the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 
Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday.
The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit.
Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 11, 2019 
The next few days will see a rare convergence of asteroid-related activity in Europe, as planetary defence and other experts meet in three locations to coordinate humanity's efforts to defend ourselves from hazardous space rocks.
Such intense levels of international scientific collaboration are driven in part by the fact that an asteroid impact could cause devastating effects on Earth. But ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 12, 2019 
German defense contractors Rheinmetall and MBDA Deutschland will build a high-energy laser for installation aboard a German navy ship.
While performance specifications or timetables have not yet been developed by the government Federal Office for Bundeswehr Equipment, the announcement last week is the first time the German military has entered the arena of laser weapon development.
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 4, 2019 
Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems received a $50.3 million U.S. Navy contract modification for upgrades to the Aegis missile defense system, the Defense Department announced.
The contract, announced Tuesday by the Pentagon, calls for ship integration and test of the Aegis Weapon System for AWS Baselines through the system's latest upgrade, known as Advanced Capability Build 16. ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 11, 2019 
Lakes of liquid methane on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, were likely formed by explosive, pressurized nitrogen just under the moon's surface, according to new research.
"Titan has very distinctive topography. Its lakes show different kinds of shapes and in some cases sharp ridges," said paper co-author Jonathan Lunine, professor of physical sciences at Cornell University. ... more |
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 Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Theoretical physicists at Trinity College Dublin are among an international collaboration that has built the world's smallest engine - which, as a single calcium ion, is approximately ten billion times smaller than a car engine.
Work performed by Professor John Goold's QuSys group in Trinity's School of Physics describes the science behind this tiny motor. The research, published in intern ... more |
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 Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 06, 2019 
Imagine being able to increase the force of gravity simply by turning a dial. A United Nations fellowship is offering this opportunity to researchers all over the world, through access to ESA's hypergravity-generating Large Diameter Centrifuge.
Manipulate gravity and a lot of other factors shift too: bubbles in liquid alter their behaviour, convection currents accelerate and metal alloys f ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 12, 2019 
By listening for specific tones in the gravitational waves of black hole mergers, researchers are putting Albert Einstein's theories to new tests. When two black holes collide, they merge into one bigger black hole and ring like a struck bell, sending out ripples in space and time called gravitational waves. Embedded in these gravitational waves are specific frequencies, or tones, which are akin ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Sept 11, 2019 
It's mission over for a robot called Fedor that Russia blasted to the International Space Station, the developers said Wednesday, admitting he could not replace astronauts on space walks.
"He won't fly there any more. There's nothing more for him to do there, he's completed his mission," Yevgeny Dudorov, executive director of robot developers Androidnaya Tekhnika, told RIA Novosti state news ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 10, 2019 
A team of defense contractors has remotely launched Javelin missiles from an unmanned vehicle.
The Javelin Joint Venture team, a partnership of Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin, fired the Javelin missiles from a Kongsberg remote launcher mounted on a Titan unmanned ground vehicle in a test fire at the U.S. Army Redstone Test Center in Alabama.
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