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  Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 New research from LSU and the University of Florida suggests that more shark attacks occur during fuller phases of the moon. While the exact cause remains unclear, the researchers found that more shark attacks than average occur during periods of higher lunar illumination and fewer attacks than average occur during periods of lower illumination. Many different types of animals show behaviors that are linked to moon phases yet few studies to date have looked at the connections between lunar phases and sh ... read more |
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Sols 3357-3360: Edging Closer and Closer to PanariPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 19, 2022 We continue to document rocks similar to what we saw at "The Prow," a dark appearing rock outcrop with amazing sedimentary structures and details. To do this, we need to get as close as possible to ... more 
Steady driving towards ExoMars launchParis (ESA) Jan 18, 2022 The first simulation of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover driving off its landing platform closed out an incredible year of preparations as the mission now marches with confidence towards a Septem ... more  
New study sheds light on origins of life on EarthNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 Addressing one of the most profoundly unanswered questions in biology, a Rutgers-led team has discovered the structures of proteins that may be responsible for the origins of life in the primordial ... more 
New spheres of knowledge on the origin of lifeTsukuba, Japan (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 The shape of a cell affects its physical and chemical properties. Different cell types have developed different shapes to enable effective functioning. But what shape were the very first cells, as l ... more |
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New AI navigation prevents crashesCincinnati OH (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 What do you call a broken satellite? Today, it's a multimillion-dollar piece of dangerous space junk. But a new collision-avoidance system developed by students at the University of Cincinnati is ge ... more  
Common household cleaner can boost effort to harvest fusion energy on EarthPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 Scientists have found that adding a common household cleaning agent - the mineral boron contained in such cleaners as Borax - can vastly improve the ability of some fusion energy devices to contain ... more 
SETI's plan for a sky-monitoring telescope on the moonMountain View CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 The SETI Institute teamed up with Louisiana State University (LSU) and Mississippi State University (MSU) to help students design the science program for AstronetX PBC's first lunar-based camera (L- ... more 
PLATO clears decisive hurdleBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 The European Space Agency (ESA) has given the green light to build the flight models of the spacecraft and science payload for the PLATO mission to search for extrasolar planets. The Critical Milest ... more  
Fingerprint research to combat harmful bacteriaCologne, Germany (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 Microorganisms exist everywhere where humans are found. And humans are everywhere - not just on Earth, but on the International Space Station (ISS), as well. Some of these microscopic creatures are ... more |
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China conducts its first rocket launch of 2022Beijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2022 China launched a Long March 2D carrier rocket on Monday morning, kicking off the country's space program for 2022. The rocket blasted off at 10:35 am at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in ... more 
MDA awarded contract for lunar landing sensorsToronto, Canada (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 MDA Ltd. has announced a contract with an undisclosed US-based space company for a key landing sensor for a 2023 mission to the Moon. This award was made as part of the company's project involving N ... more 
Pebbles before mountainsPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 14, 2022 NASA's Mars 2020 mission team has been working methodically and thoroughly, making good progress on understanding the best path forward to remove the uninvited pebbles from Perseverance's bit carous ... more 
Rolling stones on MarsParis (ESA) Jan 14, 2022 There's more to this image of Mars than first meets the eye: nestled in the detail of the cliff face that cuts through this scene are signs of geology in motion. Zooming in reveals several boulders ... more 
Unusual team finds gigantic planet hidden in plain sightRiverside CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 A UC Riverside astronomer and a group of eagle-eyed citizen scientists have discovered a giant gas planet hidden from view by typical stargazing tools. The planet, ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2022  On Wednesday, Dec. 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock. Data downlinked after the sampling indicates that coring of the rock the science team nicknamed Issole went smoothly. However, during the transfer of the bit that contains the sample into the rover's bit carousel (which stores bits and passes tubes to the tube processing hardware inside the r ... more |
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 Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
New research from LSU and the University of Florida suggests that more shark attacks occur during fuller phases of the moon. While the exact cause remains unclear, the researchers found that more shark attacks than average occur during periods of higher lunar illumination and fewer attacks than average occur during periods of lower illumination. Many different types of animals show behaviors tha ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
Planets like Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn with global magnetic fields of their own are surrounded by so-called radiation belts: Trapped in the magnetic field, fast moving charged particles such as electrons, protons, and heavier ions whiz around thus forming the invisible, torus-shaped radiation belts. With their high velocities reaching almost the speed of light, the particles can ionize other mo ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 
The SETI Institute teamed up with Louisiana State University (LSU) and Mississippi State University (MSU) to help students design the science program for AstronetX PBC's first lunar-based camera (L-CAM 1). The scientific program planning is funded by a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant to AstronetX. Additional funding for student participation is provided by the National Science Foundation ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 
Satellite launch from Spaceport Cornwall is a step closer following Virgin Orbit's successful 'Above the Clouds' mission in the US.
The UK Space Agency welcomes the news that Virgin Orbit successfully completed its third mission from California on Thursday 13 January, launching several satellites into orbit from beneath the wing of a 747.
The UK Space Agency and Cornwall Council are ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2022 
China launched a Long March 2D carrier rocket on Monday morning, kicking off the country's space program for 2022.
The rocket blasted off at 10:35 am at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi province and soon placed the Shiyan 13 experimental satellite in its preset orbit, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp said in a statement.
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Jan 10, 2022 
On November 29, 2021, an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Starfire Optical Range (SOR)* telescope on Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico, recorded an image of asteroid (22) Kalliope, and its natural satellite Linus. A confirming image was taken four nights later. What is unique about these observations is the small size of the telescope used, only 1.5 meters in diameter.
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate is partnering with The University of New Mexico (UNM) to establish a center for directed energy studies, a congressionally-funded endeavor.
The Directed Energy Center will be based at UNM and jointly managed by UNM's School of Engineering and UNM's Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM). AFRL is recognized as the nation's ... more |
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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Dec 27, 2021 
L3Harris Technologies has completed the final major design milestone on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program Phase IIb On-orbit Prototype Demonstration and has already begun building the demonstration satellite.
Completing the CDR is the final design milestone ensuring performance, cost and schedule requirements can be met b ... more |
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Oct 18, 2021 
Strike-slip faulting, the type of motion common to California's well-known San Andreas Fault, was reported recently to possibly occur on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. New research, led by planetary scientists from the University of Hawai?i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), suggests this tectonic motion may be active on Titan, deforming the icy surface.
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 Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 27, 2021 
It is an intuitive rule of thumb: if you reduce the density of a material, its stiffness will also be reduced. But scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US noticed that materials that are based on sandwich nanotubes retained their stiffness at lower densities.
Modelling by materials scientists from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) revealed how this ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 18, 2022 
According to the South China Morning Post, the facility located in Jiangsu Province, will play an important part in the exploration of the Moon as China plans to land its astronauts on Earth's satellite by 2030 and set up a base there.
Chinese scientists have built an artificial moon that will make it possible to conduct experiments in low gravity. According to the researchers, their creat ... more |
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 
With a new computational approach, SISSA researchers have been able to make the fascinating calculation. Moreover, according to their work, around 1% of the overall ordinary (baryonic) matter is locked up in stellar mass black holes. Their results have just been published in the prestigious 'The Astrophysical Journal'.
How many black holes are out there in the Universe? This is one of the ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 
There are 6,500 satellites in orbit, but only about half of them are functional. Once a satellite breaks down or runs out of fuel, it is essentially useless. Repairs, maintenance and upgrades are nearly impossible in orbit.
It's launch once, use once. But as satellites have become more robust, their operators often find that fleets outlast their projected lifespans and need new technology, ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 18, 2022 
Airbus, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), NTT DOCOMO, and SKY Perfect JSAT have jointly begun studying the feasibility of collaborating on future high-altitude platform stations (HAPS)-based connectivity services as part of a future space-based wireless connectivity ecosystem.
Launched with a memorandum of understanding (MOU), the study aims to identify the early deployment ... more |
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