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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  
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 
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 |
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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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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 02, 2017 
A long-lasting lake on ancient Mars provided stable environmental conditions that differed significantly from one part of the lake to another, according to a comprehensive look at findings from the first three-and-a-half years of NASA's Curiosity rover mission.
Different conditions favorable for different types of microbes existed simultaneously in the same lake.
Previous work had re ... 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  Los Alamos NM (SPX) May 31, 2017Halos discovered on Mars widen time frame for potential life |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jun 01, 2017 
Enceladus - a large icy, oceanic moon of Saturn - may have flipped, the possible victim of an out-of-this-world wallop.
While combing through data collected by NASA's Cassini mission during flybys of Enceladus, astronomers from Cornell University, the University of Texas and NASA have found the first evidence that the moon's axis has reoriented, according to new research published in Icaru ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) May 31, 2017Cassini Finds Saturn Moon May Have Tipped Over  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 |
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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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 St. Petersburg (Sputnik) Jun 05, 2017 
The federal program for the development of Russian space launch centers for the period of 2017-2025 may be adopted as early as by September, the head of Roscosmos State Space Corporation Igor Komarov said Friday.
Komarov said in May that the program had been submitted to the government, and it was expected to keep within the budget not exceeding 340 billion rubles (some $6 billion).
... more Astana, Kazakhstan (AFP) June 2, 2017Astronauts return after marathon ISS mission  Washington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2017From 2D to 3D, Space Station Microscope Gets an Upgrade  Cleveland OH (SPX) May 31, 2017Studying Flame Behavior in Microgravity with a Solid "High-Five" |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) May 30, 2017 
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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 Miami (AFP) Jun 03, 2017  SpaceX on Saturday blasted off a shipment of food and supplies for the astronauts living at the International Space Station using for the first time a vessel that had flown before.
The refurbished Dragon cargo capsule soared into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 5:07 pm (2107 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
"Three, two, one, and liftoff," said NASA spokesman Mike Curie as the roc ... more Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jun 03, 2017Eutelsat signs new launch contract with Arianespace  Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jun 02, 2017Ariane 5 launches its first all-electric satellite  New Delhi (AFP) June 5, 2017India shows off space prowess with launch of mega rocket |
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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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 Washington (UPI) Jun 1, 2017 
Computer scientists at Rice University have developed a new technique for minimizing the amount of computations required for deep learning.
The simplification technique is similar to methods commonly used to minimize the amount of math required for data analysis.
"This applies to any deep-learning architecture, and the technique scales sublinearly, which means that the larger the ... more Stanford CA (SPX) May 31, 2017High pressure key to lighter, stronger metal alloys, Stanford scientists find  Lemont, IL (SPX) May 31, 2017Argonne scientists make vanadium into a useful catalyst for hydrogenation  Washington (UPI) Jun 1, 2017Northrop Grumman receives AESA radar contract |
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 Innsbruck, Austria (SPX) Jun 05, 2017 
A ripe apple falling from a tree has inspired Sir Isaac Newton to formulate a theory that describes the motion of objects subject to a force. Newton's equations of motion tell us that a moving body keeps on moving on a straight line unless any disturbing force may change its path. The impact of Newton's laws is ubiquitous in our everyday experience, ranging from a skydiver falling in the earth's ... more San Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2017Are dense star clusters the origin of the gravitational waves discovered by LIGO? Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2017Gravitational Waves Detected for Third Time  Melbourne, Australia (SPX) May 22, 2017Monash researchers uncover new gravitational wave characteristics |
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is famous for its jaw-dropping snapshots of the cosmos. At first glance this Picture of the Week appears to be quite the opposite, showing just a blur of jagged spikes, speckled noise, and weird, clashing colors - but once you know what you are looking at, images like this one are no less breathtaking.
This shows a distant galaxy - visible as the smudge ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jun 02, 2017NRL Astronomers Inspire Youth to Gaze at Stars  Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 31, 2017NASA Team Takes on a New Optical Challenge - the Lyman Alpha Limit  Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 29, 2017New NASA Mission to Study Mysterious Neutron Stars, Aid in Deep Space Navigation |
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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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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2017 
NASA has renamed the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft - humanity's first mission to a star, which will launch in 2018 - as the Parker Solar Probe in honor of astrophysicist Eugene Parker. The announcement was made at a ceremony at the University of Chicago, where Parker serves as the S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
In 1958, Pa ... more Miami (AFP) May 31, 2017A real scorcher: NASA probe to fly into sun's atmosphere  Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2017NASA's SDO sees partial eclipse in space  Huntsville AL (SPX) May 24, 2017CLASP Sounding Rocket Mission Opens New Research Window in Solar Physics |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 05, 2017 
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet landed on the steppe of Kazakhstan today with Russian commander Oleg Novitsky in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft after six months in space. Touchdown was at 14:10 GMT after a four-hour flight from the International Space Station.
The return was routine - or as routine as you can get for a ride that requires braking from 28 800 km/h to zero. The heatshield copes wi ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 01, 2017Propose a course idea for the CU space minor 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 |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 05, 2017 
Fifty years ago, The Beatles released their album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' which included the iconic song "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds." The popular song was critically acclaimed for evoking a surreal dreamscape, along the lines of Lewis Carroll's classic "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" fantasy. John Lennon said it was inspired by a drawing his son Julian - then age 3 - had ... more London, UK (SPX) Jun 02, 2017First 24-hour Global Broadcast About Asteroid Impact Hazard  London, Canada (SPX) May 29, 2017'Tiny clocks' crystallize understanding of meteorite crashes  Pasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2017NASA Moves Up Launch of Psyche Mission to a Metal 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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 05, 2017Configuration and manipulation of soft robotics for on-orbit servicing  Washington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2017Teaching robots good manners  San Diego CA (SPX) May 31, 2017A glove powered by soft robotics to interact with virtual reality environments |
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