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  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 27, 2017 Things look different on the Moon. Literally. Because the Moon isn't big enough to hold a significant atmosphere, there is no air and there are no particles in the air to reflect and scatter sunlight. On Earth, shadows in otherwise bright environments are dimly lit with indirect light from these tiny reflections. That lighting provides enough detail that we get an idea of shapes, holes and other features that could be obstacles to someone - or some robot - trying to maneuver in shadow. "What ... read more |
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United Launch Alliance to launch Astrobotic mission to the MoonPittsburgh, PA (SPX) Jul 27, 2017 Astrobotic and United Launch Alliance report that Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander will be onboard a ULA launch vehicle in 2019, during the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. "Astrobotic is thr ... more  
Aerojet Rocketdyne's RS-25 Flight Controller Goes Three for Three in SLS TestStennis Space Center MS (SPX) Jul 27, 2017 Aerojet Rocketdynehas tested its third RS-25 engine flight controller at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The RS-25 engine will propel America's next-generation heavy lift rocket, t ... more  
Chasing the Total Solar Eclipse from NASA's WB-57F JetsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 For most viewers, the Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse will last less than two and half minutes. But for one team of NASA-funded scientists, the eclipse will last over seven minutes. Their secret? ... more 
Scientists spy new evidence of water in the moon's interiorProvidence RI (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 A new study of satellite data finds that numerous volcanic deposits distributed across the surface of the Moon contain unusually high amounts of trapped water compared with surrounding terrains. The ... more |
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Moon could be wetter than thought, say scientistsParis (AFP) July 24, 2017 The Moon, long thought to be a dry, inhospitable orb, hosts surprisingly large sub-surface water reserves, which one day may quench the thirst of lunar explorers from Earth, scientists said Monday. ... more 
The moon is front and center during a total solar eclipseGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 In the lead-up to a total solar eclipse, most of the attention is on the sun, but Earth's moon also has a starring role. "A total eclipse is a dance with three partners: the moon, the sun and ... more
Neil Armstrong moon bag sells for $1.8mn in New YorkNew York (AFP) July 20, 2017 A bag Neil Armstrong used to collect the first ever samples of the moon - which was once nearly thrown out with the trash - sold at auction Thursday for $1.8 million, Sotheby's said. ... more  
S. Korea seeks rare talks with North to ease military tensionsSeoul (AFP) July 17, 2017 South Korea on Monday offered to hold rare military talks with North Korea, aiming to ease tensions after Pyongyang tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile. ... more  
S. Korea's growth slows in Q2 amid falling exportsSeoul (AFP) July 27, 2017 South Korea's economic growth slowed in the past quarter, the central bank said Thursday, as a diplomatic row with top trading partner China over a US missile shield hit exports. ... more 
Living in Deep Space: Lockheed Martin to Build Full-Scale Prototype of NASA Cislunar HabitatCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 Refurbishing a shuttle-era cargo container used to transfer cargo to the International Space Station, Lockheed Martin is prototyping a deep space habitat for NASA at Kennedy Space Center. This proto ... more |
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No response from North Korea as proposed talks loom: SeoulSeoul (AFP) July 20, 2017 North Korea has not responded to South Korea's offer to hold military talks Friday, Seoul said, dimming prospects of any ease in tensions after Pyongyang tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile. ... more  
Counting calories in spaceParis (ESA) Jul 10, 2017 Rockets and spacecraft may get us to Mars, but food must nourish us on the journey. Now researchers are using the International Space Station to look at how much food will be needed on a spacecraft ... more  
Chinese Space Program: From Setback, to Manned Flights, to the MoonBeijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017 The past decades have seen China making great progress, both economic and also in the field of space exploration. The construction of new space launch centers, ambitious lunar and Mars exploration p ... more 
Trump offers bold space goals but fills in few detailsCape Canaveral (AFP) July 9, 2017 The White House has championed a new era of US leadership in space, but its aspirations are complicated by tight budgets, vacancies in top posts and the rising role of private industry in aerospace innovation, experts say. ... more |
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  Washington (UPI) Jul 27, 2017 
Perched on the edge of a 39-million-year-old crater is a white circular hut. It sticks out on the rocky, lichen-dotted landscape of Devon Island in Nunavut, Canada.
Known as "the Hab," this 26-foot diameter structure is home to six scientists and researchers who just moved in for a 12-week mission to simulate life on Mars.
The Arctic has long been a frontier for exploration, and ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2017For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun  Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017Tributes to wetter times on Mars  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2017Opportunity will spend three weeks at current location due to Solar Conjunction |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 25, 2017 
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft makes its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, scientists are finding - so far - that the planet's magnetic field has no discernible tilt. This surprising observation, which means the true length of Saturn's day is still unknown, is just one of several early insights from the final phase of Cassini's mission, known as the Grand Finale. ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 5, 2017Titan's calm lakes offer space probes a smooth landing  Hull UK (SPX) Jul 04, 2017Methanol Points to Evolving Story of Enceladus's Plumes  Ithaca NY (SPX) Jun 01, 2017In a Cosmic Hit-and-Run, Icy Saturn Moon May Have Flipped |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2017 
In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons - amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a flight over the distant worlds' icy terrain might be like.
Wonder no more. Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer s ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2017Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot  Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 13, 2017New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 20, 2017NASA's New Horizons Team Strikes Gold in Argentina |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 27, 2017  The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft has been rolled out and erected on its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The Soyuz rocket and spacecraft is scheduled to launch on Friday at 11:41 a.m. EDT.
The spacecraft will carry cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy, who will serve as commander of the Expedition 52, as well as flight engineers Randy Bresnik from NASA and Paolo Nespoli from ... more Star City, Russia (AFP) July 27, 2017Astronauts gear up for space with tough Russian training  Washington (Sputnik) Jul 25, 2017Russian sanctions won't affect cooperation in space  Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) July 28, 2017Three-man crew reaches International Space Station |
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 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 21, 2017  In an advance that could boost the efficiency of LED lighting by 50 percent and even pave the way for invisibility cloaking devices, a team of University of Michigan researchers has developed a new technique that peppers metallic nanoparticles into semiconductors.
It's the first technique that can inexpensively grow metal nanoparticles both on and below the surface of semiconductors. The p ... more Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Jul 18, 2017New material resembling a metal nanosponge could reduce computer energy consumption  Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jul 18, 2017How do you build a metal nanoparticle?  Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2017Nanostructures taste the rainbow |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 26, 2017 
For its eighth launch of the year, and the 10th Vega mission since this launcher began its career at the Guiana Space Center in 2012, Arianespace will orbit two Earth observation satellites for civil and military applications: OPTSAT-3000 for the Italian Ministry of Defence; and Venus, a mission of the Israel Space Agency (ISA) - a government body sponsored by the country's Ministry of Science a ... more Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) Jul 27, 2017Three Up, Three Down as NASA Tests RS-25 Flight Controller  Tehran (AFP) July 27, 2017Iran in 'successful' test of satellite-launch rocket Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) Jul 27, 2017Aerojet Rocketdyne's RS-25 Flight Controller Goes Three for Three in SLS Test |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017 
China has a clear plan to provide sea launches for commercial payloads to be carried by Long March rockets, according to an aerospace official.
Tang Yagang, vice head of the aerospace division of the No.1 institute of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC), said that the technology is not difficult and a sea launch platform can be built based on modifying 10,000-ton ... more Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2017Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Space Program: From Setback, to Manned Flights, to the Moon  Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Rocket Fizzles Out, Puts Other Launches on Hold |
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 Nashville TN (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 
Two-dimensional materials that can multitask.
That is the result of a new process that naturally produces patterned monolayers that can act as a base for creating a wide variety of novel materials with dual optical, magnetic, catalytic or sensing capabilities.
"Patterned materials open up the possibility of having two functionalities in a single material, such as catalyzing a chemica ... more Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2017Writing with the electron beam: Now in silver  Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Scientists announce the quest for high-index materials  Sendai, Japan (SPX) Jul 27, 2017A new synthesis route for alternative catalysts of noble metals |
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 Bozeman MT (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 
A Montana State University gravitational physicist has received funding for a research project that aims to answer fundamental questions about the universe.
NASA awarded $750,000 to Nicolas Yunes for his project "Exploring Extreme Gravity: Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves." Yunes is a founding member of the MSU eXtreme Gravity Institute, known as XGI, and an associate pro ... more Hull UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017First look at gravitational dance that drives stellar formation  Warwick UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017Telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves launched  Hannover, Germany (SPX) Jun 28, 2017LISA Gravitational-Wave Observatory Selected as ESA L3 Mission |
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 College Park MD (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 
Gamma-ray bursts are among the most energetic and explosive events in the universe. They are also short-lived, lasting from a few milliseconds to about a minute. This has made it tough for astronomers to observe a gamma-ray burst in detail.
Using a wide array of ground- and space-based telescope observations, an international team led by University of Maryland astronomers constructed one o ... more Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 21, 2017New Ways Developed to See the Formation of Stars in the Milky Way  Houston TX (SPX) Jul 27, 2017Webbcam Shows Webb Telescope Chilling in Chamber A  London, UK (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Superluminous supernova marks the death of a star at cosmic high noon |
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Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017
China has a clear plan to provide sea launches for commercial payloads to be carried by Long March rockets, according to an aerospace official.
Tang Yagang, vice head of the aerospace division of the No.1 institute of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC), said that the technology is not difficult and a sea launch platform can be built based on modifying 10,000-ton ... moreBeijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2017Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Space Program: From Setback, to Manned Flights, to the Moon Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Rocket Fizzles Out, Puts Other Launches on Hold |
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 Miami (AFP) July 21, 2017 
Millions of people, from students to rocket scientists, are poised to contribute to a massive scientific effort to study the total solar eclipse that will sweep across the United States August 21.
The entire country will fall into shadow as the "Great American Eclipse" passes, though the darkest path, or "totality," will be contained in a 70-mile (113-kilometer) ribbon that moves from Oregon ... moreGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 26, 2017Chasing the Total Solar Eclipse from NASA's WB-57F Jets Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 24, 2017The moon is front and center during a total solar eclipse  Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 26, 2017SwRI team uses airborne telescopes to study Sun and Mercury during total solar eclipse |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
LISA Pathfinder has been switched off as planned on the evening of 18thof July, ending its successful mission which surpassed all expectations
After 16 months of science measurements an international team deactivated the LISA Pathfinder satellite on the evening of the 18th of July 2017. The gravitational-wave laboratory in space powered down after receiving the last commands in the evening ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 25, 2017A Final Farewell to LISA Pathfinder  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 18, 2017ASTROSCALE Raises a Total of $25 Million in Series C Led by Private Companies  Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017LISA Pathfinder: bake, rattle and roll |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 27, 2017  Lindy Elkins-Tanton '87, SM '87, PhD '02 is reaching for the stars - literally. She is the principal investigator for Psyche, a NASA mission that will explore an unusual metal asteroid known as 16 Psyche.
The mission does not launch until 2023, but preparations have begun in collaboration with faculty in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS).
Professors B ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2017Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought  Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2017Ancient, massive asteroid impact could explain Martian geological mysteries  Tucson, AZ (SPX) Jul 10, 2017Pitted Materials in Craters Could Indicate Buried Ice on Asteroids |
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 New Rochelle NY (SPX) Jul 27, 2017 
Soft-bodied robots offer the possibility for social engagement, and novel tactile human-robot interactions that require careful consideration of the potential for misplaced emotional attachments and personally and socially destructive behavior by users.
The ethical challenges related to human-robot interactions and how these should contribute to soft robotics design in the context of socia ... more San Francisco (AFP) July 25, 2017Musk, Zuckerberg duel over artificial intelligence  Beijing, China (SPX) Jul 24, 2017A new method of cooperative control of multiple unmanned surface vehicles  Sydney (AFP) July 21, 2017Australia's robo-footballers go for gold at world champs |
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