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  New Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 27, 2018 The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) - India's state-owned space agency - has deferred the launch of Chandrayaan-2, the country's second mission to the moon, to October this year. The ISRO chief has said that it needs to perform some more tests before the launch. The launch was initially scheduled for April this year. "Initially, we had planned an April launch for Chandrayaan-2, but in the review, a meeting held a few days ago with experts from the across the country, it was decided that ... read more |
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India to Experiment With Igloo-like Structures on the Moon - MinisterNew Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 23, 2018 Indian scientists will use robots and 3D printers to build igloo-like structures using lunar soil and other suitable materials. Indian space scientists have already finalized five designs for such l ... more  
Chang'e-4 Lunar Probe will Reach the Far Side of the MoonBeijing, China (SPX) Mar 22, 2018 The mission of Chang'e-4 lunar probe will proceed in two phases this year, and Chang'e-4 lunar probe will reach the far side of the Moon for the first time, said an official from China Academy of Sp ... more 
New AI mapping algorithm discovers 6,000 new craters on the MoonToronto, Canada (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 Wanting to make their job a little easier, researchers at the University of Toronto developed a new artificial intelligence algorithm that helped them identify 6,000 previously unseen craters on Ear ... more 
'Luna City 2175' will take audience to a future community grappling with how to be civilizedTempe AZ (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 A good book can transport the reader into a faraway universe filled with rich detail. The ASU Emerge event will do the same thing this weekend, but the audience actually will be able to touch, see a ... more |
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Study details new story for how the moon formedBoston MA (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 Simon Lock wants to change the way you think about the Moon. A graduate student in Harvard's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Lock is the lead author of a study that suggests the Moon - r ... more 
How does water change the moon's origin story?Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 It's amazing what a difference a little water can make. The Moon formed between about 4.4 and 4.5 billion years ago when an object collided with the still-forming proto-Earth. This impact created a ... more  
China factory expansion slows to 19-month low in FebruaryBeijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2018 China's factory expansion slowed again in February as output and export orders dropped due to the Lunar New Year holidays, hitting a 19-month low, official data showed Wednesday. ... more
On second thought, the Moon's water may be widespread and immobileGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 A new analysis of data from two lunar missions finds evidence that the Moon's water is widely distributed across the surface and is not confined to a particular region or type of terrain. The water ... more 
SwRI scientist helps characterize water on lunar surfaceSan Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 A Southwest Research Institute scientist with expertise in how water reacts with lunar soil contributed to a new study that indicates water and/or hydroxyl may be more prevalent on the Moon's surfac ... more |
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Hong Kong activist on trial over riotsHong Kong (AFP) Feb 21, 2018 Hong Kong's best-known independence activist went on trial on riot charges Wednesday over protests in 2016 which saw the city's worst violence for decades. ... more  |
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NASA's Lunar Outpost will Extend Human Presence in Deep SpaceWashington DC (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 As NASA sets its sights on returning to the Moon, and preparing for Mars, the agency is developing new opportunities in lunar orbit to provide the foundation for human exploration deeper into the so ... more  
Illegal South African abalone flowing into Hong Kong: reportHong Kong (AFP) Feb 8, 2018 Illegally poached abalone from South Africa is pouring into Hong Kong where the gastronomic gastropods are a traditional and expensive banquet favourite, a new study warned Friday. ... more 
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Captures New Earth-Moon ImageWashington DC (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 As part of an engineering test, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and Moon using its NavCam1 imager on January 17 from a distance of 39.5 million miles (63.6 million km). ... more  
China confirms first human case of H7N4 bird fluHong Kong (AFP) Feb 15, 2018 China has confirmed the first human case of H7N4 bird flu, prompting Hong Kong to issue a health warning for those travelling to the mainland during the busy Lunar New Year holiday. ... more 
New study sheds light on moon's slow retreat from frozen EarthBoulder CO (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 A study led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers provides new insight into the Moon's excessive equatorial bulge, a feature that solidified in place over four billion years ago as the Moon ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 2018 
Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
The rover is positioned about half way down the approximately 656 feet (200-meter) valley.
Opportunity is engaged in an extensive in-situ (contact) science campaign on the surface target called "Aguas Calientes," an exposed rock outcrop.
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 
Using the now-complete Cassini data set, Cornell University astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain. Two papers, recently published in Geophysical Review Letters, describe the map and discoveries arising from it.
Creating the map took about a year, according to doctoral student ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 7, 2018 
Jupiter's tempestuous, gassy atmosphere stretches some 3,000 kilometres (1,860 miles) deep and comprises a hundredth of the planet's mass, studies based on observations by NASA's Juno spacecraft revealed Wednesday.
The measurements shed the first light on what goes on beneath the surface of the largest planet in the Solar System, which from a distance resembles a colourful, striped glass mar ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 2018 
How would you like to sit at the helm of human spaceflight, responsible for the success of missions and the highly trained teams of engineers and scientists that make them possible? NASA is hiring new flight directors for just this job at its mission control at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"Flight directors play a critical role in the success of our nation's human spaceflight missions, ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
2D materials, which consist of a few layers of atoms, may well be the future of nanotechnology. They offer potential new applications and could be used in small, higher-performance and more energy-efficient devices. 2D materials were first discovered almost 15 years ago, but only a few dozen of them have been synthesized so far.
Now, thanks to an approach developed by researchers from EPFL ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 27, 2018 
Four university student projects were successfully launched at 6:51:30 a.m. EDT, March 25, 2018, on a NASA suborbital sounding rocket from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
The two-stage Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket carried the projects to an altitude of 107 miles. The projects then descended by parachute, landing in the Atlantic Ocean. The projects were recove ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 27, 2018 
An uncontrolled Chinese space station weighing at least seven tonnes is set to break up as it hurtles to Earth on or around April 1, the European Space Agency has forecast.
"It will mostly burn up due to the extreme heat generated by its high-speed passage through the atmosphere," it said in a statement.
Some debris from the Tiangong-1 - or "Heavenly Palace" - spacelab will likely fal ... more |
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 Raleigh NC (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 
Researchers have now demonstrated the ability to create amorphous metal, or metallic glass, alloys using three-dimensional (3-D) printing technology, opening the door to a variety of applications - such as more efficient electric motors, better wear-resistant materials, higher strength materials, and lighter weight structures.
"Metallic glasses lack the crystalline structures of most metal ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 23, 2018 
When a gravitational wave reaches Earth, every second counts. The data processing speed will have a crucial impact on how much astronomers can learn from these space-time ripples, says computer scientist Cao Junwei.
"In an era of multi-messenger astronomy, we have to shorten the time as much as possible so as to trigger the alert quickly enough for follow-up observations," says Cao, who le ... more |
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 Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 26, 2018 
For the very first time, scientists from Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU), the University of Leicester and the University of Vigo have proven that the kinetic energy from particles in granular gases such as dust clouds can rise temporarily even though energy is constantly being drawn out of the system.
Their research adds further detail to Haff's law (devised 35 year ... more |
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Paris (AFP) March 27, 2018
An uncontrolled Chinese space station weighing at least seven tonnes is set to break up as it hurtles to Earth on or around April 1, the European Space Agency has forecast.
"It will mostly burn up due to the extreme heat generated by its high-speed passage through the atmosphere," it said in a statement.
Some debris from the Tiangong-1 - or "Heavenly Palace" - spacelab will likely fal ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
Measurements of the three-dimensional structure of the earth, as opposed to the one-dimensional models typically used, can help scientists more accurately determine which areas of the United States are most vulnerable to blackouts during hazardous geomagnetic storms.
Space weather events such as geomagnetic storms can disturb the earth's magnetic field, interfering with electric power grid ... more |
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 Palo Alto CA (SPX) Mar 28, 2018 
SSL, a Maxar Technologies company, has been selected to provide a broadcasting satellite for Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT).
As the leading broadcasting satellite operator in Japan, B-SAT will use the Direct-to-Home (DTH) television satellite to ensure exceptional ultra-high definition video distribution for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
"We are honored to provide a sec ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
About 70,000 years ago, when the human species was already on Earth, a small reddish star approached our solar system and gravitationally disturbed comets and asteroids. Astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Cambridge have verified that the movement of some of these objects is still marked by that stellar encounter.
At a time when modern humans were be ... more |
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 Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 
As AI's role in society continues to expand, J B Brown of the Graduate School of Medicine reports on a new evaluation method for the type of AI that predicts yes/positive/true or no/negative/false answers.
Brown's paper, published in Molecular Informatics, deconstructs the utilization of AI and analyzes the nature of the statistics used to report an AI program's ability. The new technique ... more |
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