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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2017 On May 25, 2017, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun. The lunar transit lasted almost an hour, between 2:24 and 3:17 p.m. EDT, with the moon covering about 89 percent of the sun at the peak of its journey across the sun's face. The moon's crisp horizon can be seen from this view because the moon has no atmosphere to distort the sunlight. While the moon's edge appears smooth in these images, it's actuall ... read more |
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S. Korea military 'hid missile launchers from president'Seoul (AFP) May 31, 2017 South Korean military officials deliberately withheld information from the president about the arrival of new launchers for a controversial US anti-missile system, his office said Wednesday. ... more 
S.Korea's Moon orders probe into undisclosed US missile launchersSeoul (AFP) May 30, 2017 South Korea's new President Moon Jae-In Tuesday ordered an investigation into why his office was kept in the dark about the arrival of four more launchers for a controversial US missile defence system, his spokesman said. ... more  
Camera on NASA's Lunar Orbiter survived 2014 meteoroid hitWashington DC (SPX) May 29, 2017 On Oct.13, 2014 something very strange happened to the camera aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), which normally produces beautifully cl ... more  
Cube Quest Challenge Team Spotlight: SEDS TriteiaGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 29, 2017 Triteia is the Cube Quest Challenge entry from the University of California, San Diego's Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS). As part of their approach, they are making use ... more |
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Cube Quest Challenge Team Spotlight: Cislunar ExplorersWashington DC (SPX) May 25, 2017 Tenacity and drive are hallmarks of Cornell University's Cislunar Explorers Team. But there is another key factor in building and testing their spacecraft: Just add water. "The core concept be ... more 
China's Xi calls for S. Korea ties to get back on trackBeijing (AFP) May 19, 2017 Chinese President Xi Jinping told a South Korean envoy on Friday he was willing to put relations back on a "normal track" amid tensions over a US anti-missile system deployed on the Korean peninsula. ... more 
S. Korea, US to hold Washington summit in June: SeoulSeoul (AFP) May 16, 2017 South Korea's left-leaning new leader Moon Jae-In will travel to the US for a summit with President Donald Trump next month, Moon's spokesman said Tuesday, amid high tensions over the North's nuclear ambitions. ... more 
Moon's win shows 'longing' for change: N.Korean envoyBeijing (AFP) May 15, 2017 A North Korean diplomat said Monday the election victory by left-leaning South Korean President Moon Jae-In reflected the people's "longing" for change. ... more 
N. Korea test-fires missile in bid to test South, USSeoul (AFP) May 14, 2017 North Korea fired a ballistic missile Sunday in an apparent bid to test the South's new liberal president and the US which have both signalled an interest in negotiations to ease months of tensions. ... more 
Winning plans for CubeSats to the MoonParis (ESA) May 12, 2017 If you could fly a CubeSat to the Moon, what could such a tiny satellite do there? ESA posed this question - and now four proposals will be studied in more detail for possible flight over the coming ... more |
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 A cabin on the moon? China hones the lunar lifestyle  
China tests 'Lunar Palace' as it eyes moon missionBeijing (AFP) May 11, 2017 Chinese students will live in a laboratory simulating a lunar-like environment for up to 200 days as Beijing prepares for its long-term goal of putting humans on the moon. ... more
New S.Korean president talks to China, Japan leadersSeoul (AFP) May 11, 2017 South Korea's new president Moon Jae-In spoke to the leaders of China and Japan Thursday, hours after a telephone call with his US counterpart Donald Trump, officials said, as he began shaping his approach to the nuclear-armed North. ... more
South Koreans vote in historic electionSeoul (AFP) May 9, 2017 South Koreans went to the polls Tuesday to choose a new president after Park Geun-Hye was ousted and indicted for corruption, and against a backdrop of high tensions with the nuclear-armed North. ... more 
S. Korea's Moon sworn in, says willing to go to NorthSeoul (AFP) May 10, 2017 South Korea's new president was sworn in on Wednesday, just a day after a landslide election victory, and immediately declared his willingness to visit Pyongyang amid high tensions with the nuclear-armed North. ... more |
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  Los Alamos NM (SPX) May 31, 2017 
Lighter-toned bedrock that surrounds fractures and comprises high concentrations of silica--called "halos"--has been found in Gale crater on Mars, indicating that the planet had liquid water much longer than previously believed. The new finding is reported in a paper published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
"The concentration of sili ... more Hampton VA (SPX) May 28, 2017Student-Made Mars Rover Concepts Lift Off  Rockford IL (VOA) May 29, 2017Illinois Company Among Hundreds Supporting NASA Mission to Mars  Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2017Preparations Continue Before Driving into 'Perseverance Valley' |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 31, 2017 
Saturn's icy, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus may have tipped over in the distant past, according to recent research from NASA's Cassini mission. Researchers with the mission found evidence that the moon's spin axis - the line through the north and south poles - has reoriented, possibly due to a collision with a smaller body, such as an asteroid.
Examining the moon's features, the team showed ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2017Cassini Looks On as Solstice Arrives at Saturn  Boston MA (SPX) May 19, 2017History of Titan's Landscape Resembles Mars's, not Earth's  New York NY (SPX) May 19, 2017Scientists describe origins of topographic relief on Titan |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2017 
arly science results from NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet's surface than previously thought.
"We are excite ... more Washington DC (SPX) May 26, 2017First results from Juno show cyclones and massive magnetism  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 26, 2017Jupiters complex transient auroras  Miami (AFP) May 25, 2017NASA's Juno probe forces 'rethink' on Jupiter |
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 Houston TX (SPX) May 29, 2017 
Halfway into its planned two-year demonstration attached to the International Space Station, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, is showing that soft materials can perform as well as rigid materials for habitation volumes in space. The BEAM was launched and attached to station through a partnership between NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems Division (AES) and Bigelow Aerospace, hea ... more Washington (UPI) May 29, 2017NASA honors Kennedy's space vision on 100th birthday  Boston MA (SPX) May 29, 2017Conch shells may inspire better helmets, body armor  Boston MA (SPX) May 29, 2017MIT researchers engineer shape-shifting food |
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An international team of physicists has monitored the scattering behavior of electrons in a non-conducting material in real-time. Their insights could be beneficial for radiotherapy. We can refer to electrons in non-conducting materials as 'sluggish'.
Typically, they remain fixed in a location, deep inside an atomic composite. It is hence relatively still in a dielectric crystal lattice. T ... more Stanford CA (SPX) May 24, 2017Stanford scientists use nanotechnology to boost the performance of key industrial catalyst  Chicago IL (SPX) May 24, 2017Researchers create first significant examples of optical crystallography for nanomaterials  Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) May 23, 2017Molecular Lego for nanoelectronics |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (AFP) Jun 02, 2017 
A lightning strike near Cape Canaveral forced SpaceX to delay until Saturday its first-ever cargo delivery to the astronauts living in orbit using a vessel that has already flown to space once before, NASA said Thursday.
The lightning did not hit any of SpaceX's equipment but happened within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of the launch pad.
The strike happened about 25 minutes before the s ... more San Francisco (AFP) June 1, 2017Colossal rocket-launching plane rolls toward testing  Sparks NV (SPX) May 29, 2017Dream Chaser Spacecraft Passes Major Milestone  byy Bob Granath for KSC NewsDragon Spacecraft Prepared to Resupply International Space Station |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) May 24, 2017 
A woman in the US state of California was arrested Tuesday for allegedly conspiring to smuggle space communications technology to China, the US Department of Justice said in a press release.
"A Pomona woman was arrested this morning on federal charges that accuse her of conspiring to procure and illegally export sensitive space communications technology to her native China," the release st ... more Beijing (XNA) May 12, 2017A cabin on the moon? China hones the lunar lifestyle Beijing (AFP) May 11, 2017China tests 'Lunar Palace' as it eyes moon mission  Beijing (XNA) May 01, 2017China to conduct several manned space flights around 2020 |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) May 30, 2017 
Materials classified as "nanoporous" have structures (or "frameworks") with pores up to 100 nm in diameter. These include diverse materials used in different fields from gas separation, catalysis, and even medicine (e.g. activated charcoal). The performance of nanoporous materials depends on both their chemical composition and the shape of their pores, but the latter is very difficult to quantif ... more Sydney (AFP) May 31, 2017Space junk could destroy satellites, hurt economies  Washington (UPI) May 24, 2017New Zealand company partners with U.S. Army for engineered skin  Boston MA (SPX) May 31, 2017New method allows real-time monitoring of irradiated materials |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) May 22, 2017 
Monash researchers have identified a new concept - 'orphan memory' - which changes the current thinking around gravitational waves.
The research, by the Monash Centre for Astrophysics, was published recently in Physical Review Letters.
Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that cataclysmic cosmic explosions stretch the fabric of spacetime.
The stretching of spacetime ... more Washington DC (SPX) May 11, 2017Proving Einstein right using highly sensitive Earth rotation sensors  Huntsville AL (SPX) May 03, 2017Scientists Find Giant Wave Rolling Through the Perseus Galaxy Cluster  Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 21, 2017Rare Brightening of Supernova's Light Found by Caltech's Palomar Observatory |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 29, 2017 
A new NASA mission is headed for the International Space Station next month to observe one of the strangest observable objects in the universe.
Launching June 1, the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) will be installed aboard the space station as the first mission dedicated to studying neutron stars, a type of collapsed star that is so dense scientists are unsure how matter ... more Orlando FL (SPX) May 31, 2017Scientists detect light-matter interaction in single layer of atoms  Beijing (XNA) May 30, 2017China's space telescope to survey Milky Way  Beijing (XNA) May 30, 2017China's space telescope to observe "big eaters" in universe |
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Washington DC (Sputnik) May 24, 2017
A woman in the US state of California was arrested Tuesday for allegedly conspiring to smuggle space communications technology to China, the US Department of Justice said in a press release.
"A Pomona woman was arrested this morning on federal charges that accuse her of conspiring to procure and illegally export sensitive space communications technology to her native China," the release st ... moreBeijing (XNA) May 12, 2017A cabin on the moon? China hones the lunar lifestyle Beijing (AFP) May 11, 2017China tests 'Lunar Palace' as it eyes moon mission Beijing (XNA) May 01, 2017China to conduct several manned space flights around 2020 |
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 Miami (AFP) May 31, 2017 
A new NASA mission aims to brush by the sun, coming closer than any spacecraft in history to its scorching heat and radiation in order to reveal how stars are made, the US space agency said Wednesday.
After liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in July 2018, the Parker Solar Probe will become the first to fly directly into the sun's atmosphere, known as the corona.
The plan for th ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2017NASA's SDO sees partial eclipse in space  Washington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2017NASA renames Solar mission to honor Eugene Parker  Huntsville AL (SPX) May 24, 2017CLASP Sounding Rocket Mission Opens New Research Window in Solar Physics |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 01, 2017 
According to The Space Report, the global space economy grew by 9 percent in 2014, reaching a total of $330 billion worldwide.
In response to the industry boom and expanded roles of both University of Colorado Boulder and the state of Colorado in space exploration and space-developed technology, the university launched an undergraduate space minor in the 2016-17 academic year.
The Sp ... more New York NY (SPX) May 31, 2017Leading Global Air And Space Law Group Joins Reed Smith  Paris (ESA) May 30, 2017New Horizons for Alexander Gerst  Montreal, Canada (SPX) May 30, 2017Government space program spending reaches 62B dollars in 2016 |
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 London, Canada (SPX) May 29, 2017 
Almost two billion years ago, a 10-kilometre-wide chunk of space slammed down into rock near what is now the city of Sudbury. Now, scientists from Western University and the University of Portsmouth are marrying details of that meteorite impact with technology that measures surrounding crystal fragments as a way to date other ancient meteorite strikes.
The pioneering technique is helping a ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2017NASA Moves Up Launch of Psyche Mission to a Metal Asteroid  Pasadena CA (JPL) May 17, 2017Movie Shows Ceres at Opposition from Sun  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 16, 2017Twisting an Asteroid |
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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) May 31, 2017 
A new interactive design tool developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute enables both novices and experts to build customized legged or wheeled robots using 3D-printed components and off-the-shelf actuators.
Using a familiar drag-and-drop interface, individuals can choose from a library of components and place them into the design. The tool suggests components that are co ... more Houston TX (SPX) May 31, 2017Tactile feedback adds 'muscle sense' to prosthetic hand  Shanghai (AFP) May 27, 2017Google's AlphaGo retires on top after humbling world No. 1  Washington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2017Teaching robots good manners |
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