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  Cleveland OH (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 When astronauts someday venture to the Moon, Mars and other destinations, one of the first and most important resources they will need is power. A reliable and efficient power system will be essential for day-to-day necessities, such as lighting, water and oxygen, and for mission objectives, like running experiments and producing fuel for the long journey home. That's why NASA is conducting experiments on Kilopower, a new power source that could provide safe, efficient and plentiful energy for fut ... read more |
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Rocket Lab successfully sends rocket into orbitWellington, NZ (AFP) Jan 21, 2018 Aerospace company Rocket Lab said Sunday it had successfully fired a rocket into orbit for the first time from its New Zealand launch base. "Electron is orbital. Successful payload deployment, ... more  
Titan topographic map unearths cookie-cutter holes in moon's surfaceIthaca 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 flo ... more 
Cassini finds Titan has 'sea level' like EarthPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 19, 2018 Saturn's moon Titan may be nearly a billion miles away from Earth, but a recently published paper based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals a new way this distant world and our own are ee ... more  
Extremely bright and fast light emissionZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 An international team of researchers from ETH Zurich, IBM Research Zurich, Empa and four American research institutions have found the explanation for why a class of nanocrystals that has been inten ... more |
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Smartphones come in handy for the rare cosmic particles searchMoscow, Russia (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Researchers from the Laboratory of Methods for Big Data Analysis (LAMBDA) at the Higher School of Economics have improved their way of analyzing ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) with the use of ... more  
Viruses are everywhere, maybe even in spacePortland OR (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Viruses are the most abundant and one of the least understood biological entities on Earth. They might also exist in space, but as of yet scientists have done almost no research into this possibilit ... more  
Crater Neukum named after Mars Express founderParis (ESA) Jan 19, 2018 A fascinating martian crater has been chosen to honour the German physicist and planetary scientist, Gerhard Neukum, one of the founders of ESA's Mars Express mission. The International Astron ... more 
Meteoritic stardust unlocks timing of supernova dust formationWashington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Dust is everywhere - not just in your attic or under your bed, but also in outer space. To astronomers, dust can be a nuisance by blocking the light of distant stars, or it can be a tool to study th ... more 
North, east, south, west: The many faces of Abell 1758Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Resembling a swarm of flickering fireflies, this beautiful galaxy cluster glows intensely in the dark cosmos, accompanied by the myriad bright lights of foreground stars and swirling spiral galaxies ... more 
Neutron-star merger yields new puzzle for astrophysicistsMontreal, Canada (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 The afterglow from the distant neutron-star merger detected last August has continued to brighten - much to the surprise of astrophysicists studying the aftermath of the massive collision that took ... more  
First ICEYE-X1 Radar Image from Space PublishedHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 ICEYE has published the first radar image obtained with the ICEYE-X1 SAR satellite. The image depicts Noatak National Preserve, Alaska, on Monday Jan. 15, at 21:47 UTC. ICEYE-X1 is the world's first ... more |
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 A New Cosmic Accelerator: Turbulent Strong Electromagnetic Fields  
Odd behavior of star reveals lonely black hole hiding in giant star clusterMunich, Germany (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Astronomers using ESO's MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered a star in the cluster NGC 3201 that is behaving very strangely. It appears to be orbiting an invisible bl ... more 
SOFIA Helps Unravel Mysteries of the Birth of Colossal SunsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Scientists are using SOFIA to survey young stars more than ten-times the mass of the Sun in an ongoing study to understand how massive stars form in our galaxy. Astronomers are observing star- ... more  
Magnetic liquids improve energy efficiency of buildingsJena, Germany (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Climate protection and the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions have been on top of global development agendas. Accordingly, research and development projects have been conducted on national and in ... more |
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Pulsating dissolution found in crystalsDresden, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 When German researchers zoomed in to the nanometer scale on time-lapse images of dissolving crystals, they found a surprise: Dissolution happened in pulses, marked by waves that spread just like rip ... more  
Nanostructure boosts stability of organic thin-film transistorsAtlanta GA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 A nanostructured gate dielectric may have addressed the most significant obstacle to expanding the use of organic semiconductors for thin-film transistors. The structure, composed of a fluoropolymer ... more 
Quantum leap: computational approach launches new paradigm in electronic structure theoryEast Lansing MI (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 A group of Michigan State University researchers specializing in quantum calculations has proposed a radically new computational approach to solving the complex many-particle Schrodinger equation, w ... more 
New technique for finding life on MarsWashington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Researchers demonstrate for the first time the potential of existing technology to directly detect and characterize life on Mars and other planets. The study, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, ... more  
NASA team studies middle-aged sun by tracking motion of MercuryGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Like the waistband of a couch potato in midlife, the orbits of planets in our solar system are expanding. It happens because the Sun's gravitational grip gradually weakens as our star ages and loses ... more  
Weather anomalies accelerate the melting of sea iceZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 In the winter of 2015/16, something happened that had never before been seen on this scale: at the end of December, temperatures rose above zero degrees Celsius for several days in parts of the Arct ... more 
Japan forecasting breakthrough could improve weather warningsTokyo (AFP) Jan 17, 2018 A new project harnessing data from a Japanese satellite could improve weather forecasting and allow officials to issue life-saving warnings before natural disasters, researchers say. ... more |
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 How we created a mini 'gamma ray burst' in the lab for the first time 
US electronics innovation leaps forward via joint university microelectronics programWashington DC (SPX) Jan 18, 2018 DARPA is all about developing advanced technologies that could underpin decisive national security capabilities in the years to come. A typical sequence that leads to new technology starts with fund ... more  
China to launch first student satellite for scientific educationNanjing Beijing (XNA) Jan 19, 2018 China's first nano-satellite with primary and middle school students involved in the development and building process will be launched into space Friday. The satellite, named after late Premie ... more  
NASA, USGS confirm Michigan meteorite strikeWashington (UPI) Jan 17, 2018 Both NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have confirmed that a meteorite entered Earth's atmosphere above southeastern Michigan on Tuesday night. ... more |
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A fascinating martian crater has been chosen to honour the German physicist and planetary scientist, Gerhard Neukum, one of the founders of ESA's Mars Express mission.
The International Astronomical Union named the 102 km-wide crater in the Noachis Terra region "Neukum" in September last year after the camera's leader, who died in 2014. Professor Neukum inspired and led the development of ... more |
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 Nanjing Beijing (XNA) Jan 19, 2018 
China's first nano-satellite with primary and middle school students involved in the development and building process will be launched into space Friday.
The satellite, named after late Premier Zhou Enlai, was sent from its production base in Huai'an Youth Comprehensive Development Base in east China's Jiangsu Province to Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 
In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble) have uncovered the largest known population of brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars. Looking in the vicinity of the survey stars, researchers not only found several very-low-mass brown dwarf companions, but also three giant planets. They ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 17, 2018 
ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer - JUICE - passed an important milestone, the ground segment requirements review, with flying colours, demonstrating that the teams are on track in the preparation of the spacecraft operations needed to achieve the mission's ambitious science goals.
Planned to launch in 2022, JUICE will embark on a 7.5-year long journey through the Solar System before arrivi ... more |
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