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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be discovered in samples from meteorites. While it is unlikely that DNA could be formed in a meteorite, this discovery demonstrates that these genetic parts are available for delivery and could have contributed to the development of the instructional molecules on early Earth. The discovery, by an international team with NASA researchers, gives more evidence that chemical reactions i ... read more |
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The instability at the beginning of the solar systemEast Lansing MI (SPX) Apr 28, 2022 Michigan State University's Seth Jacobson and colleagues in China and France have unveiled a new theory that could help solve a galactic mystery of how our solar ... more  
Mars Helicopter spots landing rig and chute from PerseverancePasadena CA (JPL) Apr 28, 2022 NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both the parachute that helped the agency's Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space an ... more 
Campaign #2: The Delta FrontPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 28, 2022 This week on Mars, Perseverance officially began the "Delta Front Campaign." This second campaign of the mission commenced on April 18th, 2022, the 415th sol since landing. Each campaign represents ... more  
China opens Shenzhou-13 return capsuleBeijing (XNA) Apr 28, 2022 On Tuesday, China opened the return capsule of the Shenzhou-13 manned spaceship which carried three astronauts back to Earth on April 16, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). Ite ... more |
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Carbon dioxide glaciers are moving at the Martian south poleTucson AZ (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 Glaciers of carbon dioxide are moving, creating deposits kilometers thick today across the south polar region of Mars, something that could have been going on more than 600,000 years, a paper by Pla ... more  
Microrobot collectives display versatile movement patternsStuttgart, Germany (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), Cornell University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed collectives of microrobots which can move in any desired ... more 
Enigmatic rocks on Mars show evidence of a violent originTempe AZ (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 Determining the history of Mars, how it formed and evolved over time, has been a goal of both orbiter and rover missions to the Red Planet for decades. Analyzing data from several of these Mars miss ... more 
Chinese research institutions set to receive 4th batch of lunar samplesBeijing (XNA) Apr 27, 2022 China has announced a list of research institutions that are set to receive the fourth batch of lunar samples brought back by the country's Chang'e-5 mission. The samples, which weigh 8.768 gr ... more |
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DLR provides female measuring mannequins for the NASA Artemis I missionCologne, Germany (SPX) Apr 28, 2022 In 2022, NASA's Artemis I mission will send a spacecraft capable of supporting a human crew to the Moon for the first time in almost 50 years. On this uncrewed test flight, it will be the twin measu ... more 
Back Through the Buttes! Sols 3456-3457Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 27, 2022 Our weekend drive brought us successfully to our planned stop. The priority in this Touch and Go drive plan is to image the buttes which surround us. Mastcam will image "Blackcraig" and "Maringma" b ... more 
Xi Focus: Invigorating China's space exploration dreamBeijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2022 On April 24, 1970, a young man in a village in Northwest China's Shaanxi province was thrilled to get the news that China sent its first satellite Dongfanghong 1 into space. That young man, Xi ... more  
Scientists model landscape formation on Titan, revealing an Earth-like alien worldStanford CA (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 Saturn's moon Titan looks very much like Earth from space, with rivers, lakes, and seas filled by rain tumbling through a thick atmosphere. While these landscapes may look familiar, they are compose ... more |
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China starts engineering development of lunar exploration program's fourth phaseBeijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2022 China will start engineering development of the fourth phase of its lunar exploration program this year, according to a senior official of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Sunday. ... more 
New geological research shows Mars may have been more habitable than we thoughtToronot, Canada (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 New research by Dr. Steve Grasby, Research Scientist at Natural Resource Canada's Geological Survey of Canada, could indicate a more habitable environment than previously thought for the red planet, ... more 
China starts engineering development of lunar exploration program's fourth phaseBeijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2022 China will start engineering development of the fourth phase of its lunar exploration program this year, according to a senior official of the China National Space Administration on Sunday. Th ... more 
China looking at sending robotic probe to far side of moonBeijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2022 Chinese scientists and engineers are considering sending a robotic probe to collect dust and rocks from the far side of the moon, an ambitious endeavor that will likely make it a world's first, said ... more  
Greenland Ice, Jupiter Moon Share Similar FeatureWashington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 Parallel ice ridges, a common feature on Jupiter's moon Europa, are found on Greenland's ice sheet - and could bode well for Europa's potential habitability. Parallel ice ridges in Greenland b ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 28, 2022 
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both the parachute that helped the agency's Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space and during its fiery descent toward the Martian surface on Feb. 18, 2021. Engineers with the Mars Sample Return program asked whether Ingenuity could provide this perspective. What resulted were 10 aeri ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 22, 2022 
The test version of a unique satellite navigation receiver has been delivered for integration testing on the Lunar Pathfinder spacecraft. The NaviMoon satnav receiver is designed to perform the farthest ever positioning fix from Earth, employing signals that will be millions of times fainter than those used by our smartphones or cars.
"This engineering model of our NaviMoon receiver is the ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 23, 2021 
Scientists say they are one step closer to understanding Europa, a moon orbiting Jupiter that's widely considered the prime candidate for alien life forms within the solar system.
Europa is believed to contain subterranean salty water hidden by a thick outer shell of ice. But according to a new study examining the moon's topology, a certain topographical feature called a "double ridge" ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 26, 2022 
Archival observations of 25 hot Jupiters by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have been analysed by an international team of astronomers, enabling them to answer five open questions important to our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres. Amongst other findings, the team found that the presence of metal oxides and hydrides in the hottest exoplanet atmospheres was clearly correlated with the at ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 26, 2022  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a batch of the company's Starlink internet satellites lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on April 21, 2022.
On the right, NASA's Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard sits atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, wh ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2022 
On April 24, 1970, a young man in a village in Northwest China's Shaanxi province was thrilled to get the news that China sent its first satellite Dongfanghong 1 into space.
That young man, Xi Jinping, later became Chinese President.
Still having his eyes on stars today, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Mil ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 
Powerful radar systems have played a major role in the study of planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in our Solar System for several decades, and now have a "unique role" to play in planetary defense - "providing protection to the nations of the world from devastating asteroid and comet impacts," according to the newly released Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. ... more |
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 Arlington VA (SPX) Apr 15, 2022 
The ground-based laser system homed in on the red drone flying by, shooting a high-energy beam invisible to the naked eye. Suddenly, a fiery orange glow flared on the drone, smoke poured from its engine and a parachute opened as the craft tumbled downward, disabled by the laser beam.
The February demonstration marked the first time the U.S. Navy used an all-electric, high-energy laser weap ... more |
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 Istanbul (AFP) April 27, 2022 
NATO member Turkey said it was still talking to Russia about procuring a second batch of one of its most advanced missile defence systems despite the war in Ukraine.
The comments on state television late Tuesday by the head of Turkey's military procurement agency underscore Ankara's efforts to maintain good relations with Moscow during the conflict.
The agency and its chief, Ismail Demir ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 
Saturn's moon Titan looks very much like Earth from space, with rivers, lakes, and seas filled by rain tumbling through a thick atmosphere. While these landscapes may look familiar, they are composed of materials that are undoubtedly different - liquid methane streams streak Titan's icy surface and nitrogen winds build hydrocarbon sand dunes.
The presence of these materials - whose mechani ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Apr 14, 2022 
From designing new biomaterials to novel photonic devices, new materials built through a process called bottom-up nanofabrication, or self-assembly, are opening up pathways to new technologies with properties tuned at the nanoscale. However, to fully unlock the potential of these new materials, researchers need to "see" into their tiny creations so that they can control the design and fabricatio ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 
AstroAccess, an organization dedicated to promoting disability inclusion in space exploration, has announced that they will be flying a second cohort of Disabled Ambassadors on a Zero Gravity Corporation flight to experience weightlessness and investigate microgravity accessibility solutions.
This follows the historic inaugural AstroAccess flight of twelve individuals in October 2021. Astr ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Apr 28, 2022 
At the atomic and subatomic scales, objects behave in ways that challenge the classical worldview based on day-to-day interactions with macroscopic reality. A familiar example is the discovery that electrons can behave as both particles and waves, depending on the experimental context in which they are observed. To explain this and other phenomena, which appear contrary to the laws of physics in ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 14, 2022 
When it comes to the future of intelligent robots, the first question people ask is often: how many jobs will they make disappear? Whatever the answer, the second question is likely to be: how can I make sure that my job is not among them?
In a study just published in Science Robotics, a team of roboticists from EPFL and economists from the University of Lausanne offers answers to both que ... more |
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 Coventry, United Kingdom (AFP) April 25, 2022  A pop-up urban port for delivery drones - and one day, potentially flying taxis - launched Monday in Britain, lifting a box of prosecco for a brief celebratory test flight hailed as groundbreaking.
Air-One, a so-called "vertiport" for drones and future electric vehicles taking off and landing vertically, was proclaimed as the first of its kind by proponents and heralding a new era of low-e ... more |
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