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  Sarajevo (AFP) Sept 26, 2019 The tiny village of Jezero in western Bosnia is "too happy" to share its name with a crater on planet Mars that will be the landing site for NASA's 2020 Mars rover, its mayor said Thursday. Earlier this week, mayor Snezana Ruzicic received a letter from the US space agency honouring the link between the village and its other-worldly twin. The 28-mile-wide (45-kilometre-wide) crater on Mars was named after the Bosnian village because it was once home to a river-fed lake like the one just outsid ... read more |
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A planet that should not existBerm, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 27, 2019 Astronomers detected a giant planet orbiting a small star. The planet has much more mass than theoretical models predict. While this surprising discovery was made by a Spanish-German team at an obse ... more 
When dwarf stars give birth to giant planetsHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Sep 27, 2019 Astronomers of the CARMENES consortium have discovered a new exoplanet that should not exist according to current knowledge. The research group, which includes the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy ... more  
Celestia Technologies Group UK gears up for eScan expansion in the UKHarwell UK (SPX) Sep 27, 2019 Celestia Technologies UK Ltd (Celestia UK) is gearing up for the further development and commercialisation of its next generation, electronic scanning (eScan), phased array ground station by making ... more  
Up-close and personal with neuronal networksBoston MA (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 How our brain cells, or neurons, use electrical signals to communicate and coordinate for higher brain function is one of the biggest questions in all of science. For decades, researchers have ... more |
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The next generation: mice can reproduce after space stintsTokyo (AFP) Sept 26, 2019 Male mice that spent more than a month in space were able to successfully reproduce back on Earth, a study has found, the first evidence of how space travel affects reproduction in mammals. ... more  
NASA in megadeal with Lockheed for moon missionWashington (AFP) Sept 24, 2019 NASA on Monday earmarked almost $3 billion to Lockheed Martin to build three Orion capsules, to allow US astronauts to return to the moon by 2024. ... more 
Magically exploring 'the Moon' from afarDarmstadt, Germany (ESA) Sep 25, 2019 As Europe sleeps, in the early hours of Wednesday 25 September, a small rover in Canada will explore a mock lunar surface, controlled from ESA's ESOC operations centre in Germany. The live experime ... more 
Reconstructing the first successful lunar farside landingBeijing, China (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 In January of this year, China's Chang'E-4 - the fourth version of a lunar spacecraft named for the Chinese goddess of the Moon - landed on the far side of the Moon. Due to the location of the landi ... more 
Astrobotic and Spacebit aim eye first commercial UK lunar payloadLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 Newport UK (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 Spacebit proudly announces at The UK Space Conference 2019 their signing of a joint agreement with Astrobotic to begin commercial and scientific lunar exploration with ... more |
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NASA Administrator explores potential Artemis collaborations with JapanTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine met with Hiroshi Yamakawa, president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), on Sept. 24 in Tokyo to discuss future bilateral cooperation and JAXA's pote ... more  |
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Milestones on the way to the nuclear clockVienna, Austria (SPX) Sep 23, 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 
NASA Commits to Long-term Artemis Missions with Orion Production ContractWashington DC (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 NASA is setting in motion the Orion spacecraft production line to support as many as 12 Artemis missions, including the mission that will carry the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024. ... more 
Trump marks Mars as next target, Moon 'not so exciting'Washington DC (Sputnik) Sep 23, 2019 US President Donald Trump on Friday praised the US space program's efforts to return astronauts to the moon by 2024 as "tremendous," yet outlined that the ultimate goal is Mars. "We're going t ... more  
Microsoft President calls for urgent action to tackle rise of killer robotsWashington DC (Sputnik) Sep 23, 2019 Despite public concern and criticism, numerous countries are developing military drones and autonomous weapon systems that are capable of destroying targets on their own and possibly also of replaci ... more 
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 |
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 Sarajevo (AFP) Sept 26, 2019 
The tiny village of Jezero in western Bosnia is "too happy" to share its name with a crater on planet Mars that will be the landing site for NASA's 2020 Mars rover, its mayor said Thursday.
Earlier this week, mayor Snezana Ruzicic received a letter from the US space agency honouring the link between the village and its other-worldly twin.
The 28-mile-wide (45-kilometre-wide) crater on ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 
In January of this year, China's Chang'E-4 - the fourth version of a lunar spacecraft named for the Chinese goddess of the Moon - landed on the far side of the Moon. Due to the location of the landing, Chang'E-4 had to navigate autonomously, without the guidance of scientists on Earth.
Now, a research team, headed by LI Chunlai, corresponding author of this results and a professor of the N ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 18, 2019 
Volcanic eruptions are difficult to predict, but observations have shown the largest and most powerful volcano on Io, a large moon of Jupiter, has been erupting on a relatively regular schedule.
The volcano Loki is expected to erupt in mid-September 2019, according to a poster by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Julie Rathbun presented this week.
"Loki is the largest and ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Sep 27, 2019 
Astronomers of the CARMENES consortium have discovered a new exoplanet that should not exist according to current knowledge. The research group, which includes the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA, Heidelberg), found a gaseous planet whose mass is unusually large compared to its host star GJ 3512.
The scientists conclude that this planet probably originated from a gravitationally u ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 24, 2019 
The Soyuz rocket and crew capsule are ready to carry three new crew to the International Space Station after the rocket was rolled out to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The rocket is scheduled for liftoff at 9:57 a.m. EDT Wednesday. The launch will be broadcast live on NASA TV.
After being ferried from its assembly unit to the launch pad on Monday, the g ... 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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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 
The metallic asteroid Psyche has mystified scientists because it is less dense than it should be. Now, a new theory by researchers including scientists at the University of Arizona could explain Psyche's low density and metallic surface.
Psyche, the largest known metallic asteroid in the solar system, is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche appears to be composed l ... 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 23, 2019 
Orbital Sciences Corp. received a $1.1 billion contract with the Missile Defense Agency for missile defense targets, the Defense Department announced.
The company, based in Chandler, Ariz., and a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, will build "threat-representative subscale targets with simple and complex re-entry vehicles," the Defense Department said on Friday.
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 19, 2019 
Radar observations of Saturn's moons, Mimas, Enceladus and Tethys, show that Enceladus is acting as a 'snow-cannon,' coating itself and its neighbours with fresh water-ice particles to make them dazzlingly reflective. The extreme radar brightness also points to the presence of 'boomerang' structures beneath the surface that boost the moons' efficiency in returning the microwave signals to the sp ... more |
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 Bath UK (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
A new nanomaterial developed by scientists at the University of Bath could solve a conundrum faced by scientists probing some of the most promising types of future pharmaceuticals.
Scientists who study the nanoscale - with molecules and materials 10,000 smaller than a pinhead - need to be able to test the way that some molecules twist, known as their chirality, because mirror image molecul ... 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 27, 2019 
Will the Sun become a black hole? No, it's too small for that! The Sun would need to be about 20 times more massive to end its life as a black hole.
Stars that are born this size or larger can explode into a supernova at the end of their lifetimes before collapsing back into a black hole, an object with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.
Some sma ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 
Human hands are remarkably skilled at manipulating a range of objects. We can pick up an egg or a strawberry without smashing it. We can hammer a nail.
One characteristic that allows us to perform a variety of tasks is the ability to alter the firmness of our grip, and University at Buffalo engineers have developed a two-fingered robotic hand that shares this trait.
The design of the ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) Sept 26, 2019 
Drones are proving to be a game changer for US emergency responders who are increasingly using the technology to spot fires, detect toxic gas or to locate missing people or suspects, experts say.
"Where we cannot go, we will now be putting an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Where we can't see, we can now put a UAS," Richard Fields, battalion chief with the Los Angeles Fire Department, told A ... more |
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