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  Paris (AFP) Feb 5, 2018 Seven planets recently spotted orbiting a dim star in our Milky Way galaxy are rocky, seem to have water, and are potentially "habitable", researchers studying the distant system said Monday. Though much remains unknown about the planets' surfaces and atmospheres, the new measurements have not ruled out the possibility that they may harbour even rudimentary life, the scientists reported. "So far, no sign allows us to say that they are not habitable," said University of Birmingham astronomer Amau ... read more |
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SpaceX poised to launch 'world's most powerful rocket'Miami (AFP) Feb 5, 2018 SpaceX is poised for the first test launch Tuesday of its Falcon Heavy, which aims to become the world's most powerful rocket in operation, capable of ferrying people to the Moon or Mars some day. ... more  
Cosmonauts position antennae wrong during record-long spacewalkWashington (UPI) Feb 5, 2018 A pair of Russian cosmonauts didn't set out to break the record for longest Russian spacewalk, but what seemed like a relatively straight forward mission turned out to be surprisingly complicated. ... more 
Astronomers identify first planets outside the Milk WayWashington (UPI) Feb 5, 2018 Astronomers have for the first time identified extragalactic exoplanets - planets outside the Milky Way. ... more  
UK companies seek cooperation with Russia in space technologiesLondon (Sputnik) Feb 06, 2018 Daniel Kawczynski, UK Conservative lawmaker, told Sputnik on Wednesday that he intended to inform the country's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson about the interest of UK companies in enhancing cooper ... more |
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China launches first shared education satelliteJiuquan (XNA) Feb 06, 2018 China's first shared education satellite, Young Pioneer 1, carried by the Long March-2D rocket, was launched into space from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Friday afternoon. The 3-kg CubeSat ... more  
Opportunity Celebrates 14 Years of Working on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 05, 2018 Opportunity is continuing her exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has moved along the north fork of the local flow channel. Continuing the exten ... more 
Celebrating 60 years of groundbreaking US space scienceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 On the evening of Friday, Jan. 31, 1958, Americans eagerly waited for news as the rocket carrying the Explorer 1 satellite was prepped for launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The stakes were high. ... more  
Model predicts scenarios for energy generation using nuclear fusionSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 Nuclear fusion, for the controlled and regular generation of electric power by converting hydrogen into helium and reproducing on a small scale what happens in our Sun (as well as other stars), is o ... more  
GOLD will revolutionize our understanding of space weatherGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 NASA's first mission to provide unprecedented measurements of, and changes in, the temperature and composition of Earth's upper atmosphere launched at 5:20 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 25, from the Guian ... more |
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 Interstellar fullerenes may help find solutions for Earthly matters 
NASA's newly rediscovered IMAGE mission provided key aurora researchGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 On Jan. 20, 2018, amateur astronomer Scott Tilley detected an unexpected signal coming from what he later postulated was NASA's long-lost IMAGE satellite, which had not been in contact since 2005. O ... more  |
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Natural telescope sets new magnification recordManoa HI (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 Extremely distant galaxies are usually too faint to be seen, even by the largest telescopes. But nature has a solution - gravitational lensing, predicted by Albert Einstein and observed many times b ... more  
Studying the Van Allen Belts 60 years after America's first spacecraftGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 Tick, tick, tick. The device - a Geiger counter strapped to a miniature tape recorder - was registering radiation levels a thousand times greater than anyone expected. As the instrument moved higher ... more 
VR helps surgeons to 'see through' tissue and reconnect blood vesselsLondon UK (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 Using augmented reality in the operating theatre could help surgeons to improve the outcome of reconstructive surgery for patients. In a series of procedures carried out by a team at Imperial Colleg ... more  
A customizable, fabric-like power source for wearable electronicsSingapore (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have created a customizable, fabric-like power source that can be cut, folded or stretched without losing its function. ... more  
Tesla cars to have own motor racing competitionNew York (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 Tesla electric cars, which have a passionate following around the world, will soon have their own racing competition, a global sports organizer said on Thursday. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 5, 2018 
A pair of Russian cosmonauts didn't set out to break the record for longest Russian spacewalk, but what seemed like a relatively straight forward mission turned out to be surprisingly complicated.
Expedition commander Alexander Misurkin and flight engineer Anton Shkaplerov spent 8 hours and 13 minutes outside the International Space Station, a record in Russian space history. In 2013, a ... more |
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 Miami (AFP) Feb 5, 2018 
SpaceX is poised for the first test launch Tuesday of its Falcon Heavy, which aims to become the world's most powerful rocket in operation, capable of ferrying people to the Moon or Mars some day.
The launch is the most ambitious yet for SpaceX, and has been hailed by industry experts as a game-changer because of its potential to propel the California-based company to the front of the modern ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 05, 2018  Opportunity is continuing her exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
The rover has moved along the north fork of the local flow channel. Continuing the extensive collection of stereo imagery, the rover used the Navigation Cameras (Navcams) to collect two tiers of a wide panorama.
Then on the next sol, the robotic arm (also called the Instrument Depl ... more |
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Feb 06, 2018 
China's first shared education satellite, Young Pioneer 1, carried by the Long March-2D rocket, was launched into space from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Friday afternoon.
The 3-kg CubeSat (100 * 100 * 340mm), Young Pioneer 1, enters an orbit of 502 km above the Earth. The rocket also carried Zhangheng 1, an electromagnetic satellite to study earthquake data, and five other miniaturized ... more |
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 London (Sputnik) Feb 06, 2018 
Daniel Kawczynski, UK Conservative lawmaker, told Sputnik on Wednesday that he intended to inform the country's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson about the interest of UK companies in enhancing cooperation with Russia in the space domain.
"The Russian officials at the embassy said that they are keen, the British side is keen to explore opportunities for more cooperation in space and that's a ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 
NSR's industry-first In-Orbit Servicing Markets (IoSM) report finds the nascent in-orbit servicing market poised for growth, and forecasts a total market of over $3B in the next 10 years.
Life extension services drive most of this revenue, as many in-orbit service providers plan to enter the market in the next five years servicing commercial and government customers with additional solutio ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
Unlike the Milky Way, this semi-spiral collection of a few tens-of-billions of stars lacks our galaxy's rich abundance of heavy elements, like carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen. With such a dearth of heavy elements, astronomers predict that the LMC should contain a comparatively paltry amount of complex carbon-based molecules. Previous observations of the LMC seem to support that view.
New obse ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
DARPA has successfully completed its Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program and has officially transferred the technology demonstration vessel, christened Sea Hunter, to the Office of Naval Research (ONR). ONR will continue developing the revolutionary prototype vehicle-the first of what could ultimately become an entirely new class of ocean-going vessel ab ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 06, 2018 
The Galileo satellite navigation system, Europe's rival to the United States' GPS, has nearly 100 million users after its first year of operation, the French space agency CNES said Thursday.
The system, seen as strategically important to Europe, went live in December 2016, having taken 17 years at more than triple the original budget to get there.
Initial services offered only a weak sig ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 25, 2018 
Imagine sending a spacecraft the size of an airline cabin bag to the Moon - what would you have it do? ESA issued that challenge to European teams last year, and two winners have now been chosen.
The Lunar Meteoroid Impact Orbiter, or Lumio for short, would circle over the far side of the Moon to detect bright impact flashes during the lunar night, mapping meteoroid bombardments as they oc ... more |
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 Lawrence KS (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 
On a ho-hum day some 12,800 years ago, the Earth had emerged from another ice age. Things were warming up, and the glaciers had retreated.
Out of nowhere, the sky was lit with fireballs. This was followed by shock waves.
Fires rushed across the landscape, and dust clogged the sky, cutting off the sunlight. As the climate rapidly cooled, plants died, food sources were snuffed out, and ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 31, 2018 
A bread loaf-sized satellite has produced the world's first map of the global distribution of atmospheric ice in the 883-Gigahertz band, an important frequency in the submillimeter wavelength for studying cloud ice and its effect on Earth's climate.
IceCube - the diminutive spacecraft that deployed from the International Space Station in May 2017- has demonstrated-in-space a commercial 883 ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
Space physicists at University of Wisconsin-Madison have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the biggest explosions in our solar system). The data on so-called "magnetic reconnection" came from a quartet of new spacecraft that measure radiation and magnetic fields in high Earth orbit.
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 Greenbelt 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, which is scheduled to launch in 2019. Transporting something as large and as delicate as Webb is no easy task. Enter the Space Telescope Transporter for Air, Road and Sea - or STTARS - a specially en ... more |
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 Evanston IL (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
The existence of large numbers of molecules in winds powered by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies has puzzled astronomers since they were discovered more than a decade ago. Molecules trace the coldest parts of space, and black holes are the most energetic phenomena in the universe, so finding molecules in black hole winds was like discovering ice in a furnace.
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