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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2021 New video from NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars. A microphone on the rover also has provided the first audio recording of sounds from Mars. From the moment of parachute inflation, the camera system covers the entirety of the descent process, showing some of the rover's intense ride to Mars' Jez ... read more |
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Mars helicopter reports in, New color images availablePasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2021 Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have received the first status report from the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which landed Feb. 18, 2021, at Jezero Crater ... more  
Advisory committee releases strategic plan for US fusion, plasma programBerkeley CA (SPX) Feb 17, 2021 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) has adopted and endorsed a new report that lays out a strategic plan for fusion energy and plasma science resear ... more 
Life of a pure Martian designVienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 19, 2021 Early Mars is considered as an environment where life could possibly have existed. There was a time in the geological history of Mars when it could have been very similar to Earth and harbored life ... more 
Oregon experiments find that electrical sparks are possible on MarsEugene OR (SPX) Feb 19, 2021 Friction caused by dry Martian dust particles making contact with each other may produce electrical discharge at the surface and in the planet's atmosphere, according University of Oregon researcher ... more |
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The search for life beyond EarthParis (AFP) Feb 18, 2021 Mars may now be considered a barren, icy desert but did Earth's nearest neighbour once harbour life? ... more 
On the quest for other EarthsZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 18, 2021 In the search for planets capable of sustaining life, an international research team with members from ETH has taken a significant step forward. As the researchers reported recently in the journal N ... more  
Northrop Grumman's SharkSat Payload Showcases Agility from the Ground to OrbitLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2021 A shark moves through the water with speed and agility, always focused on moving forward. It is in this same vein that Northrop Grumman recently developed SharkSat, a pioneering payload to demonstra ... more 
Was there ever life on Mars? NASA's Perseverance rover wants to find outWashington (AFP) Feb 18, 2021 Seven months in space, a mission that was decades in the making and cost billions of dollars, all to answer the question: was there ever life on Mars? ... more 
Mars rover mission could drive research for decades to comeWashington DC (UPI) Feb 18, 2021 After NASA attempts Thursday to land the biggest, heaviest vehicle sent to Mars yet - no small feat - scientists have planned an ambitious mission for exploration of the Red Planet's surface and col ... more |
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 Searching for life in NASA's Perseverance Mars samples 
Skoltech's recent achievement takes us one step closer to MarsMoscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 18, 2021 Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering (CDISE) and the Skoltech Digital Agriculture Laboratory and their collaborators from the German Aeros ... more  |
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Falling to Earth takes a long timeParis (ESA) Feb 18, 2021 Our planet's atmosphere reduces the energy of satellites in orbit (on Earth, this would be like reducing their speed, but in space, it's complex!). This then brings them back down to Earth. Th ... more  
Chatty robot Franzi cheers up German patientsMunich, Germany (AFP) Feb 19, 2021 Cleaning robot Franzi makes sure floors are spotless at the Munich hospital where she works, and has taken on a new role during the pandemic: cheering up patients and staff. ... more 
Scientists grow cyanobacteria under Mars-like conditionsWashington DC (UPI) Feb 17, 2021 Researchers in Germany have developed a new bioreactor capable of growing cyanobacteria using only water, gases and nutrients available on Mars. The technology could pave the way for the kinds ... more  
New skin patch promises comprehensive health monitoringWashington DC (UPI) Feb 15, 2021 Scientists have developed a new skin patch that can provide all-in-one health monitoring capabilities. ... more 
This robot doesn't need any electronicsSan Diego CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2021 Engineers at the University of California San Diego have created a four-legged soft robot that doesn't need any electronics to work. The robot only needs a constant source of pressurized air for all ... more |
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 Eugene OR (SPX) Feb 19, 2021 
Friction caused by dry Martian dust particles making contact with each other may produce electrical discharge at the surface and in the planet's atmosphere, according University of Oregon researchers.
However, such sparks are likely to be small and pose little danger to future robotic or human missions to the red planet, they report in a paper published online and scheduled to appear in th ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 12, 2021 
Given plans for future manned missions to the Moon - and interest in the potential for longer-term lunar habitation - the presence of water on the Moon is of critical importance. Studies over the last few decades have revealed water lurking on our satellite in numerous forms. But how does it get there?
Lunar water has been found locked in ice form in the cold, permanently shadowed craters ... more |
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 Manoa HI (SPX) Feb 11, 2021 
A team, including an astronomer from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA), have confirmed a planetoid that is almost four times farther from the Sun than Pluto, making it the most distant object ever observed in our solar system. The planetoid, nicknamed "Farfarout," was first detected in 2018, and the team has now collected enough observations to pin down the orbit. The Minor ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 18, 2021 
In the search for planets capable of sustaining life, an international research team with members from ETH has taken a significant step forward. As the researchers reported recently in the journal Nature Communications, they found signs of a Neptune-sized planet in the Alpha Centauri star system, a mere 4.4 light years away from Earth.
This exoplanet is located in a zone that may offer sui ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 16, 2021 
Russia is going to carry out more than 10 launches of Soyuz-2 carrier rockets from the Baikonur cosmodrome this year, Ruslan Mukhamedzhanov, the head of the Centre for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Facilities, said on Monday.
"Twelve launches will be carried out from this site [in 2021]. These are federal launches, and commercial launches [in the interests of UK commun ... more |
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 Nanjing, China (XNA) Feb 12, 2021 
China's tracking vessel Yuanwang-6 on Wednesday departed from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province for maritime spacecraft monitoring missions in the Indian Ocean.
The Yuanwang fleet will continue to carry out intensive and challenging maritime missions this year, and Yuanwang-6 alone will operate at sea for over 200 days, according to sources with the country's satellite maritime track ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 16, 2021 
It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago.
The Chicxulub impactor, as it's known, left behind a crater off the coast of Mexico that spans 93 miles and goes 12 miles deep. Its devastating impact brought the reign of the dinosaurs to an abrupt and calamitous end by triggering their sudden mass extinction, along with the end of ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 17, 2021 
Further experiments in directed energy weapons - which use of lasers and microwaves to intercept hostile airborne objects - are expected in 2021, the U.S. Air Force said on Wednesday.
A one-year assessment of the High Energy Laser Weapon System 2, or HELWS2, made by Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, began in spring 2020, with a second test expected 6 to 12 months after it is comple ... more |
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 Washington DC (DOD) Feb 19, 2021 
The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO), in the Directorate of Defense Research and Development of the Israel Ministry of Defense, and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have begun the development of the Arrow 4 interceptor. Arrow 4 will be the next generation of endo-exoatmospheric interceptors for the Arrow Weapon System, which today consists of Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 interceptors.
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jan 22, 2021 
Rather like David versus Goliath, it appears that Saturn's tilt may in fact be caused by its moons. This is the conclusion of recent work carried out by scientists from the CNRS, Sorbonne University and the University of Pisa, which shows that the current tilt of Saturn's rotation axis is caused by the migration of its satellites, and especially by that of its largest moon, Titan.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 12, 2021 
Superconductors - materials that conduct electricity without resistance - are remarkable. They provide a macroscopic glimpse into quantum phenomena, which are usually observable only at the atomic level. Beyond their physical peculiarity, superconductors are also useful. They're found in medical imaging, quantum computers, and cameras used with telescopes.
But superconducting devices can b ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Feb 12, 2021 
A description of gravity compatible with the principles of quantum mechanics has long been a widely pursued goal in physics. Existing theories of this 'quantum gravity' often involve mathematical corrections to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (HUP), which quantifies the inherent limits in the accuracy of any quantum measurement.
These corrections arise when gravitational interactions ar ... more |
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 Lancaster UK (SPX) Feb 15, 2021 
Fast and energy-efficient future data processing technologies are on the horizon after an international team of scientists successfully manipulated magnets at the atomic level.
Physicist Dr Rostislav Mikhaylovskiy from Lancaster University said: "With stalling efficiency trends of current technology, new scientific approaches are especially valuable. Our discovery of the atomically-driven ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (AFP) Feb 19, 2021 
Cleaning robot Franzi makes sure floors are spotless at the Munich hospital where she works, and has taken on a new role during the pandemic: cheering up patients and staff.
"Can you move out the way, please? I need to clean," trills the robot in German when people block her pre-programmed cleaning route.
"You need to move! I really want to clean!" she squeaks at those who still don't ge ... more |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Feb 19, 2021 
Northrop Grumman's RQ-4D Phoenix Global Hawk has recently enabled NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) Force to achieve a declaration of initial operating capability (IOC) from Supreme Allied Commander Europe, giving NATO commanders the ability to perform uninterrupted in-theater operations 24/7/365. The RQ-4D Phoenix Global Hawk variant provides cutting-edge intelligence, surveillance and re ... more |
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