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  Austin TX (SPX) Nov 22, 2017 The Earth's Moon had a rough start in life. Formed from a chunk of the Earth that was lopped off during a planetary collision, it spent its early years covered by a roiling global ocean of molten magma before cooling and forming the serene surface we know today. A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences took to the lab to recreate the magmatic melt that once formed the lunar surface and uncovered new insights on how the modern moonscape came to be. Thei ... read more |
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Gadgets for MarsParis (ESA) Nov 22, 2017 A mini-rover, tools once used on the Moon and lasers for 3D mapping are in the backpack of the explorers of tomorrow. The terrain will be hazardous and it will be dark in volcanic caves, but this eq ... more  
SSL Selected to Conduct Power and Propulsion Study for NASA's Deep Space Gateway ConceptPalo Alto CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2017 SSL reports it was selected by NASA to conduct a four-month study for a module that will provide power and control for NASA's deep space gateway concept. The contract award is a tangible demonstrati ... more 
NASA Selects Instrument for Future International Mission to Martian MoonsWashington DC (SPX) Nov 17, 2017 NASA has selected a science instrument for an upcoming Japan-led sample return mission to the moons of Mars planned for launch in 2024. The instrument, a sophisticated neutron and gamma-ray spectrog ... more 
Russia tests new spaceship set to deliver people, cargo to moonMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 15, 2017 Russia has successfully tested a simulator of the spaceship, with the objective of reaching the moon. The experiment's goal was to create conditions similar to those encountered by a mixed crew duri ... more |
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The road to Orion's launchParis (ESA) Nov 10, 2017 NASA's Orion spacecraft aims to send humans further into space than ever before, and ESA's European Service Module will provide the essentials for keeping the astronauts alive and on course. A ... more  
Astronaut meets volcanoParis (ESA) Nov 14, 2017 An expedition of astronauts, planetary scientists and engineers is off to Spain's Canary Island of Lanzarote to learn best how to explore uncharted planets. The training will equip space travellers ... more 
NASA Opens $2 Million Third Phase of 3D-Printed Habitat CompetitionHuntsville AL (SPX) Nov 08, 2017 Future missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond will require innovative options to shelter our explorers, and we won't be able to carry all of the materials with us from Earth. NASA's 3D-Printed Habita ... more 
NASA Team Studies CubeSat Mission to Measure Water on the MoonGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 10, 2017 A team of NASA scientists wants to draw a more complete picture of where water exists on the Moon and whether it migrates across the lunar surface, including in the permanently shadowed regions that ... more 
China and the US are both shooting for the moonBristol UK (The Conversation) Nov 10, 2017 On the face of it, it looks like two of the world's biggest powers are racing to get astronauts back on the lunar surface. China is aiming to land crew on the moon by 2036, while on the other side o ... more 
NASA Completes Review of First SLS, Orion Deep Space Exploration MissionWashington DC (SPX) Nov 09, 2017 NASA is providing an update on the first integrated launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft after completing a comprehensive review of the launch schedule. This unc ... more |
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 Gay Chinese tourists flock to Thailand for fun, acceptance 
Russia locks up six for Moon flight simulationMoscow (AFP) Nov 7, 2017 Three men and three women were sealed in an artificial spacecraft unit in Moscow on Tuesday in a simulation of a 17-day flight to the Moon, a preparation for long-term missions. ... more  
S. Korea to buy 'billions of dollars' of US weapons: TrumpSeoul (AFP) Nov 7, 2017 South Korea has agreed to buy US weapons worth "billions of dollars" to guard against threats from nuclear-armed North Korea, US President Donald Trump said Tuesday. ... more 
Trump promises to 'figure it out' with S. Korea's MoonSeoul (AFP) Nov 7, 2017 US President Donald Trump headed to Seoul Tuesday vowing to "figure it all out" with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-In, despite the two allies' differences on how to deal with the nuclear-armed North. ... more 
S. Korea announces sanctions against PyongyangSeoul (AFP) Nov 6, 2017 South Korea announced new unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang - the first under President Moon Jae-In - on Monday, a day before US President Donald Trump arrives in Seoul on an Asian tour dominated by the North's nuclear programme. ... more |
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  Paris (ESA) Nov 22, 2017 
A mini-rover, tools once used on the Moon and lasers for 3D mapping are in the backpack of the explorers of tomorrow. The terrain will be hazardous and it will be dark in volcanic caves, but this equipment could one day help to scout other planets.
The alien-like landscapes of Lanzarote, Spain, are almost surreal but this volcanic island is helping to bring future space missions to reality ... more Washington DC (SPX) Nov 22, 2017Ice shapes the landslide landscape on Mars  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 21, 2017Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 22, 2017Previous evidence of water on Mars now identified as grainflows |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 22, 2017 
In a fitting farewell to the planet that had been its home for over 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft took one last, lingering look at Saturn and its splendid rings during the final leg of its journey and snapped a series of images that has been assembled into a new mosaic.
Cassini's wide-angle camera acquired 42 red, green and blue images, covering the planet and its main rings from one en ... more Bristol UK (SPX) Nov 22, 2017Unexpected atmospheric vortex behavior on Saturn's moon Titan  Washington (UPI) Nov 21, 2017Unique atmospheric chemistry explains cold vortex on Saturn's moon Titan  Paris (ESA) Nov 08, 2017Heating ocean moon Enceladus for billions of years |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2017 
The gas composition of a planet's atmosphere generally determines how much heat gets trapped in the atmosphere. For the dwarf planet Pluto, however, the predicted temperature based on the composition of its atmosphere was much higher than actual measurements taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.
A new study published November 16 in Nature proposes a novel cooling mechanism contr ... more Washington DC (SPX) Nov 13, 2017Jupiter's Stunning Southern Hemisphere  Boston MA (SPX) Nov 07, 2017Watching Jupiter's multiple pulsating X-ray Aurora  Mountain View CA (SPX) Nov 07, 2017Help Nickname New Horizons' Next Flyby Target |
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 Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Nov 20, 2017 
With a miniaturised space probe capable of being accelerated to a quarter of the speed of light, we could reach Alpha Centauri, our nearest star, in 20 to 50 years.
However, without a mechanism to slow it down, the space probe could only collect data from the star and its planets as it zoomed past. A theoretical physicist at Goethe University Frankfurt has now examined whether interstellar ... morePalo Alto CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2017SSL Selected to Conduct Power and Propulsion Study for NASA's Deep Space Gateway Concept  New York NY (SPX) Nov 16, 2017MDA Selects AdaCore's GNAT Pro Assurance Development Platform for ISS Software  Tallahassee FL (SPX) Nov 23, 2017New motion sensors major step towards cheaper wearable technology |
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 Joensuu, Finland (SPX) Nov 17, 2017 
Manganese dioxide could make the preparation of micromotors increasingly cost-effective, opening up new avenues for their use, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.
Synthetic micromotors are tiny particles with dimensions less than the diameter of a human hair. Micromotors can undergo an autonomous motion in liquid environments, which can be driven by various mea ... more Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 15, 2017Promising sensors for submarines, mines and spacecraft  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 14, 2017Better, bolder printing with silicon nanostructures  Beijing, China (SPX) Nov 14, 2017Practical superconducting nanowire single photon detector highly efficient |
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 Sacramento CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2017 
Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc., a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AJRD), helped propel the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, carrying the Ball Aerospace-built JPSS-1 satellite, the first of the new JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite System) constellation, into orbit for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA.
The mission will provide sophisticate ... more New Delhi (Sputnik) Nov 20, 2017Old Rivals India, China Nurture New Rivalry in Satellite Launch Business  Los Angeles (AFP) Nov 18, 2017NASA launches next-generation weather satellite  Miami (AFP) Nov 17, 2017SpaceX postpones launch of secretive Zuma mission |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017 
China is expected to achieve a "major breakthrough" in nuclear-powered space shuttles around 2040, according to a report issued by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation on Thursday.
The achievement will be able to support large-scale exploration and development of space resources, and make mining on asteroids and space solar power plants possible, said the report, which outlin ... more Beijing (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017China plans first sea based launch by 2018  Beijing (XNA) Nov 02, 2017China's reusable spacecraft to be launched in 2020  Beijing (XNA) Oct 23, 2017Space will see Communist loyalty: Chinese astronaut |
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 Oakland, United States (AFP) Nov 22, 2017 
Scores of virtual warriors faced off in a Hunger Games-style death match in a massive, real-world eSports matchup of upstart shooter game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds."
The computer game's rise has been epic, with some industry trackers branding this the year of 'PUBG' even though it is technically still in trial mode with a final version yet to be released.
In a colossal two-day event ... more Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 21, 2017Metal membranes in construction: From Russia with love  Hong Kong (SPX) Nov 22, 2017Innovative and ideal liquid-repellent surfaces developed by HKU scientists  Champaign IL (SPX) Nov 21, 2017New spin on old technique to engineer better absorptive materials |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2017 
One of the most spectacular achievements in physics so far this century has been the observation of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time that result from masses accelerating in space.
So far, there have been five detections of gravitational waves, thanks to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and, more recently, the European Virgo gravitational-wave detecto ... more New York NY (SPX) Nov 14, 2017Gravity waves from merging supermassive black holes will be found soon  Yekaterinburg, Russia (SPX) Oct 27, 2017Russian scientists have found flaws in popular theories of gravity  Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 30, 2017Prolific Earth Gravity Satellites End Science Mission |
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 23, 2017 
A University of Geneva researcher has recently shown that the accelerating expansion of the universe and the movement of the stars in the galaxies can be explained without drawing on the concepts of dark matter and dark energy... which might not actually exist.
For close on a century, researchers have hypothesised that the universe contains more matter than can be directly observed, known as "d ... more Washington DC (SPX) Nov 21, 2017Developing the ABCs for exploiting new phenomena in light-matter interactions  Boston MA (SPX) Nov 23, 2017MIT team design $100 handheld muon detector  College Park MD (SPX) Nov 16, 2017Zwicky Transient Facility sees "First Light" |
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Beijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017
China is expected to achieve a "major breakthrough" in nuclear-powered space shuttles around 2040, according to a report issued by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation on Thursday.
The achievement will be able to support large-scale exploration and development of space resources, and make mining on asteroids and space solar power plants possible, said the report, which outlin ... moreBeijing (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017China plans first sea based launch by 2018 Beijing (XNA) Nov 02, 2017China's reusable spacecraft to be launched in 2020 Beijing (XNA) Oct 23, 2017Space will see Communist loyalty: Chinese astronaut |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 22, 2017 
Using more than half a century of observations, Japanese astronomers have discovered that the microwaves coming from the Sun at the minimums of the past five solar cycles have been the same each time, despite large differences in the maximums of the cycles.
In Japan, continuous four-frequency solar microwave observations (1, 2, 3.75 and 9.4 GHz) began in 1957 at the Toyokawa Branch of the ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 20, 2017NASA detects solar flare pulses at Sun and Earth  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 16, 2017FIREBIRD II and NASA mission locate whistling space electrons' origins  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 15, 2017Proposed NASA mission would investigate where space weather begins |
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 New Delhi (IANS) Nov 22, 2017 
To meet the sky-rocketing domestic technology and knowledge-based demands, India's space agency needs to at least double the number of operational satellites in the coming days, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar said here on Monday.
While currently India has 42 operational satellites for different purposes including communication, navigation and research, ... more London, UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2017Space Launch plans UK industry tour Paris (ESA) Nov 14, 2017Astronaut meets volcano  Talinn, Estonia (ESA) Nov 03, 2017European Space Week starts in Estonia |
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 Kaliningrad (Sputnik) Nov 20, 2017 
The astronomer community at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University used its own Astro-Model simulation environment to produce a virtual image of object 3200 Phaethon approaching the Earth, plus the expected Geminids meteor shower.
December 17, 2017 will see an interesting astronomic event in the form of object 3200 Phaethon approaching our planet. This is a fairly large asteroid nearly 5 ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 23, 2017NASA telescope studies quirky comet 45P  Munich, Germany (SPX) Nov 21, 2017ESO observations show first interstellar asteroid is like nothing seen before  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 21, 2017First observed interstellar visitor dazzles scientists |
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 Geneva (AFP) Nov 17, 2017 
"Robots are not taking over the world", the diplomat leading the first official talks on autonomous weapons assured Friday, seeking to ease criticism over slow progress towards restricting the use of so-called "killer robots".
The United Nations was wrapping up an initial five days of discussions on weapons systems that can identify and destroy targets without human control, which experts s ... more Washington DC (SPX) Nov 21, 2017New Challenges Await Competitors in NASA's 25th Annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge  San Diego CA (SPX) Nov 22, 2017Speedy collision detector could make robots better human assistants  Waterloo, Canada (SPX) Nov 22, 2017New technology makes artificial intelligence more private and portable |
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