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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2018 A panoramic image that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took from a mountainside ridge provides a sweeping vista of key sites visited since the rover's 2012 landing, and the towering surroundings. The view from "Vera Rubin Ridge" on the north flank of Mount Sharp encompasses much of the 11-mile (18-kilometer) route the rover has driven from its 2012 landing site, all inside Gale Crater. One hill on the northern horizon is about 50 miles (about 85 kilometers) away, well outside of the crater, though mos ... read more |
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Contact with lost NASA satellite IMAGE confirmedGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 31, 2018 The identity of the satellite re-discovered on Jan. 20, 2018, has been confirmed as NASA's IMAGE satellite. On the afternoon of Jan. 30, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryla ... more  
America's premier space wing completes SBIRS baseline constellationBuckley AFB CO (SPX) Jan 31, 2018 "Nobody does what we do; other organizations and nations perform missile warning to some degree, but only the 460th Operations Group does so on a global scale every second of every single day," said ... more  
Follow The STTARS to find the Webb TelescopeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will soon be on the move, and in order to find it, you will need to follow the STTARS. Webb telescope, or Webb, is NASA's upcoming infrared space observatory, ... more  
Launch Vehicle LingoBethesda MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 In order to understand many of the subtleties regarding launch vehicle design it is useful to understand many of the terms used in the engineering analysis and evaluation of these systems. Below are ... more |
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Relativity matters: Two opposing views of the magnetic force reconciledWashington DC (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 Current textbooks often refer to the Lorentz-Maxwell force governed by the electric charge. But they rarely refer to the extension of that theory required to explain the magnetic force on a point pa ... more 
Astrochemists reveal the magnetic secrets of methanolGothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 A team of scientists, led by Boy Lankhaar at Chalmers University of Technology, has solved an important puzzle in astrochemistry: how to measure magnetic fields in space using methanol, the simplest ... more  
Let's make a deal: Could AI compromise better than humans?Provo, UT (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 Computers can play a pretty mean round of chess and keep up with the best of their human counterparts in other zero-sum games. But teaching them to cooperate and compromise instead of compete? ... more 
Aerojet Rocketdyne seeks to reduce debris with recent SBIRS launchSacramento CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Aerojet Rocketdyne played an integral part in the launch of the U.S. Air Force's newest missile warning satellite, including a role in helping to minimize the mission's impact on Earth's orbital env ... more 
Putting everyday computer parts to space radiation testParis (ESA) Jan 30, 2018 ESA's next mission, the miniature GomX-4B, includes a piggyback experiment to test how well everyday commercial computer memories perform in the radiation-soaked environment of space. Ready to ... more  
Fundamental limitation in the key material for solid-state lightingBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 For the first time an international research group has revealed the core mechanism that limits the indium (In) content in indium gallium nitride ((In, Ga)N) thin films - the key material for blue li ... more  
Tidal cycles could help predict volcanic eruptions, study suggestsProvidence RI (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Just before a surprise eruption of New Zealand's Ruapehu volcano in 2007, seismic tremor near its crater became tightly correlated with twice-monthly changes in the strength of tidal forces, a new s ... more |
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 Modern human brain organization emerged only recently  
Tiny particles have outsized impact on storm clouds and precipitationCollege Park MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Tiny airborne particles can have a stronger influence on powerful storms than scientists previously predicted, according to a new study co-authored by University of Maryland researchers. The finding ... more 
Lockheed Martin Receives $459 Million THAAD Interceptor ContractDallas TX (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded Lockheed Martin a $459 million contract modification for production and delivery of interceptors for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weap ... more  
DARPA Seeks to Improve Military Communications with Digital Phased-Arrays at Millimeter WaveWashington DC (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 There is increasing interest in making broader use of the millimeter wave frequency band for communications on small mobile platforms where narrow antenna beams from small radiating apertures provid ... more  |
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Quantum cocktail provides insights on memory controlZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 The speed of writing and reading out magnetic information from storage devices is limited by the time that it takes to manipulate the data carrier. To speed up these processes, researchers have rece ... more 
Better than a hologram: Research produces 3-D images floating in 'thin air'Provo UT (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 In the original Star Wars film, R2D2 projects an image of Princess Leia in distress. The iconic scene includes the line still famous 40 years later: "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope." ... more 
UK to launch new radar against 'severe' Russian threatEdinburgh (AFP) Jan 27, 2018 Britain's defence minister Gavin Williamson said a new radar off Scotland's Shetland Islands would help tackle the "severe and real" threat from Moscow. ... more  
UV laser photolyses to enhance diamond growthChangchun, China (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Energy influences the rates of chemical reactions dramatically. Simply heating a gas-phase reaction system deposits energy indiscriminately in internal and translational motions of precursor and int ... more  
NASA-JAXA Joint Statement on Space ExplorationTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 On January 24, 2018, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) met to exchange their views on space exploration. The agencies signed a jo ... more 
Space station spacewalk postponed until mid-FebruaryWashington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018 What was to be the second of January's two spacewalks was scrubbed Monday and postponed until mid-February. ... more
Updates on recovery attempts for NASA IMAGE missionGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 After an amateur astronomer recorded observations of a satellite in high Earth orbit on Jan. 20, 2018, his initial research suggested it was the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration ... more |
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 China's first successful lunar laser ranging accomplished  
First Light for Planet Hunter ExTrA at La SillaGarching, Germany (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 A new national facility at ESO's La Silla Observatory has successfully made its first observations. The ExTrA telescopes will search for and study Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby red dwarf stars ... more 
NASA tests power system to support manned missions to MarsWashington DC (VOA) Jan 30, 2018 United States government agencies say the first tests of a very small nuclear power system designed for missions to Mars have been successful. The American space agency NASA and the Department ... more  
Oxygen accumulated in Earth's primordial oceans 250 million years before the atmosphereWashington (UPI) Jan 25, 2018 Oxygen began accumulating in early Earth's oceans some 250 million years before it first showed up in the atmosphere some 2.45 billion years ago. ... more  
Globalsat acquires stake in Peru VSAT provider ST2Lima, Peru (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Globalsat Group, the multi-company entity specializing in mobile satellite service (MSS) throughout the western hemisphere, has entered a definitive agreement to purchase a majority stake in the Per ... more |
 University Park PA (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 
Human waste may one day be a valuable resource for astronauts on deep-space missions. Now, a Penn State research team has shown that it is possible to rapidly break down solid and liquid waste to grow food with a series of microbial reactors, while simultaneously minimizing pathogen growth.
"We envisioned and tested the concept of simultaneously treating astronauts' waste with microbes whi ... more |
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 Elfordstown, Ireland (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 
US space launch provider Rocket Lab successfully reached orbit this weekend with the test flight of its second Electron orbital launch vehicle 'Still Testing' deploying 3 client satellites safely into space. The separation of the payload from the rocket was remotely tracked and monitored from Elfordstown Earthstation in Cork. This is the first time a satellite orbital insertion has been monitore ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 
Pluto hogs the spotlight in the continuing scientific debate over what is and what is not a planet, but a less conspicuous argument rages on about the planetary status of massive objects outside our solar system. The dispute is not just about semantics, as it is closely related to how giant planets like Jupiter form.
Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Kevin Schlaufman aims to settle t ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 
Spacecraft landing on Jupiter's moon Europa could see the craft sink due to high surface porosity, research by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Robert Nelson shows.
Nelson was the lead author of a laboratory study of the photopolarimetric properties of bright particles that explain unusual negative polarization behavior at low phase angles observed for decades in association wi ... more |
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