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  Washington (UPI) Nov 28, 2017 The 'supermoon' set for next week is expected to be the brightest of the year as the moon's orbit will be at its closest point to the earth. Public astronomer Dr. Marek Kukula at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, Britain, told AGN News a supermoon is when"a full moon happens to occur when the moon is also at its closest point" to the earth and appears brighter and bigger than usual. It all begins with the December full moon, which will officially occur at 10:47 a.m. EST on Dec. 3, accordi ... read more |
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Beijing bans fireworks, evil spirits rejoiceBeijing (AFP) Dec 1, 2017 China may have invented fireworks but Beijing banned them from the capital Friday ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations, as authorities clamp down on potentially dangerous activities. ... more 
Moon's crust underwent resurfacing after forming from magma oceanAustin 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 ma ... more 
Japan signals growing support for Deep Space Gateway conceptTokyo, Japan (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2017 The Land of the Rising Sun hopes to be able to put its astronauts on the moon sometime during the 2020s as part of an international program to build a space station in the moon's orbit, local Iomiur ... more  
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 |
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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  
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 
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 |
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 NASA Team Studies CubeSat Mission to Measure Water on the Moon 
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  
Gay Chinese tourists flock to Thailand for fun, acceptancePhuket, Thailand (AFP) Nov 10, 2017 Bathed in a pink spotlight, the cabaret singer at Phuket's ZAG bar lip-syncs the top notes of a popular Mandarin love song, delighting the crowd of gay Chinese tourists who have escaped judgement at home for sexual freedom in Thailand. ... more 
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 |
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  Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 04, 2017 
The ExoMars 2020 mission is the first joint program between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos space corporation.
"On November 30, 2017, the Council adopted Decision (CFSP) 2017/2214 in order to permit certain operations concerning hydrazine (CAS 302-01-2) in concentrations of 70 % or more, which is included in the Common Military List of the European Union," the Counci ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 04, 2017Winter wanderings put Opportunity at 28 Miles on the odometer  Washington (UPI) Nov 27, 2017Earthworms can reproduce in Mars-like soil  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 29, 2017Opportunity Greets Winter Solstice |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 21, 2017  New analysis suggests unique atmospheric chemistry explains why the polar vortex on Saturn's moon Titan isn't behaving as expected.
Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and is the only moon in the solar system with a sizable atmosphere. Recent observations suggest that atmosphere hasn't been behaving as predicted by models.
During the winter, air in the upper atmosphere tends to warm ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 22, 2017Cassini Image Mosaic: A Farewell to Saturn  Bristol UK (SPX) Nov 22, 2017Unexpected atmospheric vortex behavior on Saturn's moon Titan  Paris (ESA) Nov 08, 2017Heating ocean moon Enceladus for billions of years |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 04, 2017 
The Juno spacecraft captured this image when the spacecraft was only 11,747 miles (18,906 kilometers) from the tops of Jupiter's clouds - that's roughly as far as the distance between New York City and Perth, Australia.
The color-enhanced image, which captures a cloud system in Jupiter's northern hemisphere, was taken on Oct. 24, 2017 at 10:24 a.m. PDT (1:24 p.m. EDT) when Juno was at a la ... more Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2017Pluto's hydrocarbon haze keeps dwarf planet colder than expected  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 13, 2017Jupiter's Stunning Southern Hemisphere  Boston MA (SPX) Nov 07, 2017Watching Jupiter's multiple pulsating X-ray Aurora |
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 Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 
Since the dawn of the human race, mankind has looked up at the night sky and wondered 'what's out there?' The ancient Greeks and Romans saw the constellations and wove them into their myths of warring gods. The native Americans' creation story is based on the movements of the sky. The past few hundred years brought with them the birth of a new age, an age of science and deeper understanding of t ... more Wageningen, Netherlands (Sputnik) Nov 30, 2017Space Farms: 'Mark Watney in The Martian Was Right to Add Poop to the Soil'  Washington (AFP) Dec 2, 2017NASA successfully fires Voyager 1 thrusters after 37 years  New York NY (Sputnik) Nov 28, 2017Does the Outer Space Treaty at 50 need a rethink |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 
An international team of researchers from MIPT; Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS; Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS; Skoltech; and Aalto University (Finland) has examined the optical and dielectric properties of thin macroscopic films based on single-walled carbon nanotubes and obtained an explanation for the metallic nature of their conductivity using infrared and terahertz spectroscopy. ... more Karlsruher, Germany (SPX) ov 27, 2017Ceria nanoparticles: It is the surface that matters  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 27, 2017Semiconducting carbon nanotubes can reduce noise in interconnects  Joensuu, Finland (SPX) Nov 17, 2017Manganese dioxide shows potential in micromotors |
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 New Delhi (IANS) Nov 30, 2017 
India plans to have at least one rocket launch every month in 2018 from its spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh to deploy satellites in orbit, said a top space official on Tuesday. "We are planning to have at least one launch mission a month in 2018 to deploy satellites in the earth's orbit for various applications," said Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 29, 2017Russia to build launch pad for super heavy-lift carrier by 2028  Los Angeles CA (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2017Flat-Earther's self-launch plan hits a snag  Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Mechanisms are critical to all space vehicles |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017 
China is now the world leader in remote sensing technologies for scientific purposes and is able to provide an unprecedented amount of data to support research and development for the world, officials said on Tuesday.
Remote sensing refers to aerial or satellite-based technologies to detect and measure objects on Earth's surface, atmosphere and oceans.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Sci ... more Beijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017China plans for nuclear-powered interplanetary capacity by 2040  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 |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 27, 2017 
Chemists have developed another catalyst that can selectively activate a carbon-hydrogen bond, part of an ongoing strategy to revolutionize the field of organic synthesis and open up new chemical space.
The journal Nature is publishing the work by chemists at Emory University, following on their development of a similar catalyst last year. Both of the catalysts are able to selectively func ... more Boston MA (SPX) Nov 29, 2017New 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts  Singapore (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Device could reduce the carbon footprint of ethylene production  Raleigh NC (SPX) Nov 29, 2017Researchers inadvertently boost surface area of nickel nanoparticles for catalysis |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 28, 2017 
An international collaboration of scientists from RIKEN's Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory (FSL), Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg and GSI Darmstadt, have used high-precision techniques to make the most precise measurement to date of the magnetic moment of the proton, finding it to be 2.79284734462 plus or minus 0.00000000082 nucle ... more Mainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Researchers measure magnetic moment with greatest possible precision  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2017Listening for gravitational waves using pulsars  New York NY (SPX) Nov 14, 2017Gravity waves from merging supermassive black holes will be found soon |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 
The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE, also known as Wukong) mission published its first scientific results on Nov. 30 in Nature, presenting the precise measurement of cosmic ray electron flux, especially a spectral break at ~0.9 TeV. The data may shed light on the annihilation or decay of particle dark matter.
DAMPE is a collaboration of more than a hundred scientists, technicians and ... more Beijing (AFP) Nov 30, 2017Chinese satellite closes in on dark matter mystery  Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Nov 30, 2017First proper motions measured of stars in a small galaxy outside the Milky Way  Houston TX (SPX) Dec 04, 2017Webb Telescope emerges from Chamber A at JSC |
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Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017
China is now the world leader in remote sensing technologies for scientific purposes and is able to provide an unprecedented amount of data to support research and development for the world, officials said on Tuesday.
Remote sensing refers to aerial or satellite-based technologies to detect and measure objects on Earth's surface, atmosphere and oceans.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Sci ... moreBeijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017China plans for nuclear-powered interplanetary capacity by 2040 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 |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 
Scientists have been studying the near-Earth environment for the better part of a century, but many mysteries - like where the energetic particles that pervade the area originate and become energized - still remain.
In a new type of collaborative study, scientists combined data from 16 separate NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) spacecraft to understand how a particle phenomeno ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 30, 2017New NASA instrument continues measuring solar energy input to Earth  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 22, 2017Solar minimum surprisingly constant  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 20, 2017NASA detects solar flare pulses at Sun and Earth |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 29, 2017 
ESA's ground station in Western Australia routinely communicates with spacecraft at far-away places like Mars. Now, it's using sunlight to generate electricity, significantly reducing energy costs.
Whether orbiting a planet, following a comet or peering deep into our Universe, spacecraft have long used solar cells to generate electricity from sunlight to power their mission.
Now, ESA ... more Washington (UPI) Nov 30, 2017Orbital ATK purchase by Northrop Grumman approved by shareholders  London, UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2017UK space launch program receives funding boost from Westminster  New Delhi (IANS) Nov 22, 2017Need to double number of operational satellites: ISRO chief |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 30, 2017 
While scanning the sky, ESA's Gaia mission maps not only the stellar content of our Galaxy, but also the Solar System's asteroid population.
This visualisation shows the detection by Gaia of more than 13 000 asteroids as the spacecraft (represented by the pale blue dot) scanned the sky between August 2014 and May 2016. This is a subset of the total number of asteroids seen by Gaia - the sa ... more Stirling UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2017Metal asteroid Psyche is all set for an early visit from NASA  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 23, 2017NASA telescope studies quirky comet 45P  Kaliningrad (Sputnik) Nov 20, 2017Russian Astronomers Show Big Asteroid Approaching the Earth |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Nov 29, 2017 
A new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago shows how amputees can learn to control a robotic arm through electrodes implanted in the brain.
The research, published in Nature Communications, details changes that take place in both sides of the brain used to control the amputated limb and the remaining, intact limb. The results show both areas can create new connections to l ... more Dallas TX (SPX) Dec 04, 2017Lockheed Martin autonomous driving system tops 55,000M in extended test  Washington (AFP) Nov 30, 2017Amazon brings Alexa from the home to the office in a new AI push  Corvallis OR (SPX) Nov 30, 2017With 'material robotics,' intelligent products won't even look like robots |
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