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  Hamilton NY (SPX) Jan 20, 2021 In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of ScienceS (PNAS), planetary geologist Joe Levy, assistant professor of geology at Colgate University, reveals a groundbreaking new analysis of the mysterious glaciers of Mars. On Earth, glaciers covered wide swaths of the planet during the last Ice Age, which reached its peak about 20,000 years ago, before receding to the poles and leaving behind the rocks they pushed behind. On Mars, however, the glaciers never left, remainin ... read more |
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Analyzing different solid states of water on other planets and moonsOkayama, Japan (SPX) Jan 20, 2021 Just like on Earth, water on other planets, satellites, and even comets comes in a variety of forms depending on multiple factors such as pressure and temperature. Aside from the gaseous, liquid, an ... more  
China issues document to boost global cooperation on lunar samplesBeijing (XNA) Jan 19, 2021 China published its Regulations on the Management of Lunar Samples on Monday morning, aiming to improve scientific research and international cooperation. Developed by the China National Space ... more  
China's space station core module, cargo craft pass factory reviewBeijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2021 The core module of China's planned space station has passed a factory review, along with the project's Tianzhou-2 cargo craft and the core module mission products of the space application systems, t ... more  
Simulating evolution to understand a hidden switchThuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jan 19, 2021 Computer simulations of cells evolving over tens of thousands of generations reveal why some organisms retain a disused switch mechanism that turns on under severe stress, changing some of their cha ... more |
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InSight 'Mole' payload ends operations on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 15, 2021 The heat probe developed and built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and deployed on Mars by NASA's InSight lander has ended its portion of the mission. Since Feb. 28, 2019, the probe, called the ... more 
Lockheed Martin-Built Orion spacecraft is ready for its Moon missionDenver CO (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 NASA's Orion spacecraft is ready for its mission to the Moon. Lockheed Martin has completed assembly and testing of the Orion Artemis I spacecraft and has transferred possession to NASA's Exploratio ... more 
With $3M NASA Grant, UArizona scientists will test Mars exploration drones in IcelandTucson AZ (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 A team of scientists led by Christopher Hamilton of the University of Arizona is gearing up to send drones on exploration missions across a vast lava field in Iceland to test a next-generation Mars ... more  
Juno mission expands into the futureWashington DC (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 NASA has authorized a mission extension for its Juno spacecraft exploring Jupiter. The agency's most distant planetary orbiter will now continue its investigation of the solar system's largest plane ... more 
Major space station components cleared for operationsBeijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2021 Three major components of China's space station program have passed technical and quality assessments and are ready for upcoming missions, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Experts f ... more |
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Teams crack code, qualify for final stage of NASA Space RoboticsHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 18, 2021 NASA, in partnership with Space Center Houston - the official visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center- has selected 22 qualifying teams to compete in the competition round of Phase 2 of the Sp ... more  |
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Astronomers finally measure polarized light from exoplanetAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 13, 2021 An international team led by Dutch astronomers has, after years of searching and defying the boundaries of a telescope, for the first time directly captured polarized light from an exoplanet. They c ... more  
New Horizons spacecraft answers question: how dark is spaceBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 13, 2021 How dark is the sky, and what does that tell us about the number of galaxies in the visible universe? Astronomers can estimate the total number of galaxies by counting everything visible in a Hubble ... more 
NASA, Japan formalize Gateway Partnership for Artemis ProgramWashington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2021 NASA and the Government of Japan have finalized an agreement for the lunar Gateway, an orbiting outpost that commercial and international partners will build together. This agreement strengthens the ... more 
Curiosity Rover reaches its 3,000th day on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 13, 2021 It's been 3,000 Martian days, or sols, since Curiosity touched down on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and the rover keeps making new discoveries during its gradual climb up Mount Sharp, the 3-mile-tall (5-ki ... more  
Why do some regions on the dwarf planet Ceres appear blueBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2021 This month marks the 220th anniversary of the discovery of the first asteroid. During the night of 1-2 January 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi, the director of Palermo Astronomical Observatory, noticed a 'sta ... more |
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 Hamilton NY (SPX) Jan 20, 2021  In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of ScienceS (PNAS), planetary geologist Joe Levy, assistant professor of geology at Colgate University, reveals a groundbreaking new analysis of the mysterious glaciers of Mars.
On Earth, glaciers covered wide swaths of the planet during the last Ice Age, which reached its peak about 20,000 years ago, before receding to ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 15, 2021  The Orion spacecraft for NASA's Artemis I mission is taking one more step closer to its flight to the Moon. On Jan. 14, the spacecraft was lifted out of the stand in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida where engineers have meticulously outfitted it with thousands of components and tested its systems and subsystems to ensure it can a ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 
NASA has authorized a mission extension for its Juno spacecraft exploring Jupiter. The agency's most distant planetary orbiter will now continue its investigation of the solar system's largest planet through September 2025, or until the spacecraft's end of life. This expansion tasks Juno with becoming an explorer of the full Jovian system - Jupiter and its rings and moons - with multiple rendezv ... more |
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 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jan 19, 2021  Computer simulations of cells evolving over tens of thousands of generations reveal why some organisms retain a disused switch mechanism that turns on under severe stress, changing some of their characteristics. Maintaining this "hidden" switch is one means for organisms to maintain a high degree of gene expression stability under normal conditions.
Tomato hornworm larvae are green in warm ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft splashed down safely off the coast of Florida last night, concluding a month-plus stay at the International Space Station (ISS) to bring back thousands of pounds of scientific research and cargo. With this successful splashdown, SpaceX completed its 21st Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission to the orbiting laboratory for NASA. This also marks the first mission of ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2021 
The core module of China's planned space station has passed a factory review, along with the project's Tianzhou-2 cargo craft and the core module mission products of the space application systems, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) said Thursday.
The completion of the factory review, conducted by experts at China's manned space program, means the construction project of the ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2021  This month marks the 220th anniversary of the discovery of the first asteroid. During the night of 1-2 January 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi, the director of Palermo Astronomical Observatory, noticed a 'star' on the shoulder of the bull-shaped constellation, Taurus. But the position of the star was changing each night. Piazzi had discovered Ceres, the largest body in the vast space between the planets M ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
Linear accelerators, LINACs for short, are devices that accelerate electrons or other sub-atomic particles along a straight line to generate a beam of high energy. LINACs have a variety of commercial uses such as generating X-rays for cargo inspection, medical diagnostics, food sterilization, and even enabling precise external radiation treatments to destroy cancer cells without damaging surroun ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 15, 2021 
Northrop Grumman began outfitting six portable buildings to be used as command posts for Poland's air and missile defense program, it announced.
The company took delivery of shelters at its Huntsville, Ala., facility that will be fitted with equipment making them engagement operations centers for the Integrated Battle Command System designed by the U.S. Army.
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 
Using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeled chemical processes in the subsurface ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The studies indicate the possibility that a varied metabolic menu could support a potentially diverse microbial community in the liquid water ocean beneath the moon's icy facade.
Prior to its deorbit in September of 2017 ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 6, 2021 
For the first time, scientists have observed competition between magnetic orders from coupled sheets of atoms. The observations, described Wednesday in the journal Nature, promise new insights into the quantum qualities of two-dimensional materials.
Ever since a pair of British researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 for the discovery of graphene, material scientists, electrica ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jan 20, 2021 
A group of international scientists, including an Australian astrophysicist, has used knowhow from gravitational wave astronomy (used to find black holes in space) to study ancient marine fossils as a predictor of climate change.
The research, published in the journal Climate of the Past, is a unique collaboration between palaeontologists, astrophysicists and mathematicians - to improve th ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jan 15, 2021  A remarkable prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity - the theory that connects space, time, and gravity - is that rotating black holes have enormous amounts of energy available to be tapped.
For the last 50 years, scientists have tried to come up with methods to unleash this power. Nobel physicist Roger Penrose theorized that a particle disintegration could draw energy from ... more |
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 Quebec City, Canada (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
An international team of researchers, including Professor Roberto Morandotti of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), just introduced a new photonic processor that could revolutionize artificial intelligence, as reported by the prestigious journal Nature.
Artificial neural networks, layers of interconnected artificial neurons, are of great interest for machine learning ... more |
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 White Salmon WA (SPX) Jan 18, 2021 
Sagetech Avionics, an innovative technology company providing industry-leading situational awareness solutions for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), has received a U.S. Air Force Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract for the initial development phase of components for a type-certifiable detect-and-avoid (DAA) system.
The resulting system will enable UAS to safety operate beyond v ... more |
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