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Europe's exoplanet hunter reaches orbit around Earth![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Dec 18, 2019 Europe's CHEOPS planet-hunting space telescope left Earth on Wednesday and moved into orbit, a day after its lift-off was delayed by a technical rocket glitch during the final countdown. The telescope will measure the density, composition and size of planets beyond our Solar System - known as exoplanets. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), CHEOPS will observe bright stars that are already known to be orbited by planets. "Cheops is 710 kilometres (440 miles) away, exactly where we ... read more |
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![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 19, 2019 NASA's next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary assessment of its activities on Dec. 17, 2019, found that the rover checked all the necessary boxes as it rolled forward and b ... more ![]() ![]() Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 A new paper in Science documents for the first time the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of a planet, 120 to 300 kilometers above the surface. The findings are based on local ... more ![]() ![]() Xichang (XNA) Dec 19, 2019 The Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province will host around 20 launch missions in 2020, including two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), accor ... more ![]() ![]() Houston TX (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 Joanna Clark has been interested in geology ever since she was a child. Today, the University of Houston doctoral student is turning that curiosity into a career and getting noticed by NASA, which a ... more |
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![]() Washington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 Thrips are tiny insects 2 millimeters long, about as long as four human hairs are thick. Thrips are known for their unwelcome ability to devour garden plants and, lately, to inform the design of mic ... more ![]() ![]() Seville, Spain (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 Professor Jose Maria Martin-Olalla, from the University of Seville, has published a new report where the impact of seasonal clock-changing in daily life is analyzed from time use surveys in United S ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Dec 18, 2019 Europe's CHEOPS planet-hunting satellite left Earth on Wednesday a day after its lift-off was delayed by a technical rocket glitch during the final countdown. ... more ![]() ![]() Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Dec 17, 2019 On 17 December 2019 at 05:54 local time (09:54 CET), the European Space Agency (ESA) CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) space telescope is scheduled to lift off from Europe's spaceport in ... more ![]() ![]() Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 A project lead by an international team of researchers use publicly available data with images of the sky dating as far back as to the 1950s to try to detect and analyse objects that have disappeare ... more |
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![]() ![]() City College leads new photonics breakthrough ![]() ![]() Washington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 Jupiter's south pole has a new cyclone. The discovery of the massive Jovian tempest occurred on Nov. 3, 2019, during the most recent data-gathering flyby of Jupiter by NASA's Juno spacecraft. It was ... more ![]() |
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![]() Denver CO (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 The capsule-shaped aeroshell that will protect NASA's Mars 2020 rover was delivered to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida. yesterday. Built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], the aeroshell will encap ... more ![]() ![]() Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 16, 2019 For the past decade, Russia has been working on its "Oryol" (Eagle) space ship intended for a lunar mission. The landing of Russian astronauts on the Moon is scheduled for 2030. Overweight Rus ... more ![]() ![]() London, UK (The Conversation) Dec 11, 2019 Some landslides on Mars seem to defy an important law of physics. "Long, runout landslides" are formed by huge volumes of rock and soil moving downslope, largely due to the force of gravity. But the ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2019 Curiosity won't be NASA's only active Mars rover for much longer. Next summer, Mars 2020 will be headed for the Red Planet. While the newest rover borrows from Curiosity's design, they aren't twins: ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 After a year scoping out asteroid Bennu's boulder-scattered surface, the team leading NASA's first asteroid sample return mission has officially selected a sample collection site. The Origins, ... more |
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Developing a technique to study past Martian climate Houston TX (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Russian astronauts will face weight restrictions for Moon mission program Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 16, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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NASA's Juno navigators enable Jupiter cyclone discovery Washington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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NYU Abu Dhabi researcher discovers exoplanets can be made less habitable by stars' flares Abu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Dec 17, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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PR GMV's avionics system will be integrated into the MIURA 1 of PLD Space Madrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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China's Xichang set for 20 space launches in 2020 Xichang (XNA) Dec 19, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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NRL-camera aboard NASA spacecraft confirms asteroid phenomenon Washington DC (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Air Force tests ATHENA laser weapon against multiple drones Washington DC (UPI) Nov 07, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Moscow lifts veil on missile attack warning system Moscow (AFP) Dec 18, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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How Enceladus got its stripes Washington DC (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Nanoscience breakthrough: Probing particles smaller than a billionth of a meter Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Hebrew U researcher cracks Newton's elusive '3-body' problem Jerusalem (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Laser-based prototype probes cold atom dynamics Washington DC (SPX) Dec 17, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Insects' drag-based flight mechanism could improve tiny flying robots Washington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Lockheed Martin and Canadian UAVs to improve unmanned beyond visual line of sight operations Calgary, Canada (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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