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  Osaka, Japan (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 Understanding the origin and time evolution of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is an issue of scientific interest and practical importance because they are potentially hazardous to the Earth. However, when and how these NEAs were formed and what they suffered during their lifetime remain enigmas. Japanese scientists, including those from Osaka University, closely examined particles collected from the asteroid Itokawa by the spacecraft Hayabusa, finding that the parent body of Itokawa was formed about ... read more |
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The Halloween asteroid prepares to return in 2018Andalusia, Spain (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 There is just over two months to go until asteroid 2015 TB145 approaches Earth once again, just as it did in 2015 around the night of Halloween, an occasion which astronomers did not pass up to stud ... more 
Potentially hazardous asteroids to swing past Earth this weekWashington (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2018 Asteroids deemed potentially hazardous by officials at the US' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are set to swing past Earth this week, starting on Tuesday. The first, 2016 ... more 
Particles collected by spacecraft help date ancient asteroid ItokawaWashington (UPI) Aug 27, 2018 For the first time, scientists have used particles collected in space to establish the age of an asteroid. ... more  
Space launch training cooperationVandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 The 30th Space Wing and 45th Space Wing launch training teams recently came together to gain further understanding of each other's training programs. The main focus of the Vandenberg and Cape ... more |
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A materials scientist's dream come trueNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 In the 1940s, scientists first explained how materials can deform plastically by atomic-scale line defects called dislocations. These defects can be understood as tiny carpet folds that can move one ... more  
Lockheed's first GPS III satellite shipped to Florida for launchWashington (UPI) Aug 27, 2018 The first of the U.S. Air Force's new advanced, high power GPS III satellites has shipped to Cape Canaveral for its projected launch in December. ... more  
Artwork unveiled on exoplanet satelliteZurich, Switzerland (ESA) Aug 28, 2018 Two plaques etched with thousands of miniaturised drawings made by children have been unveiled in a dedicated ceremony held in Switzerland. Three years ago, thousands of children were inspired ... more  
Pence Reaffirms Vision for 'American Dominance in Space'Washington DC (VOA) Aug 27, 2018 Vice President Mike Pence is in Houston, Texas, to reaffirm the Trump administration's plans to establish an American Space Force by 2020, return Americans to the moon, and set its sight on Mars and ... more  
A milestone for forecasting earthquake hazardsNew York NY (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 Earthquakes pose a profound danger to people and cities worldwide, but with the right hazard-mitigation efforts, from stricter building requirements to careful zoning, the potential for catastrophic ... more |
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Helping the microchip industry go with the flowWashington DC (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 A new study by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has uncovered a source of error in an industry-standard calibration method that could lead microchip manufactur ... more  |
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Nanotubes change the shape of waterHouston TX (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 First, according to Rice University engineers, get a nanotube hole. Then insert water. If the nanotube is just the right width, the water molecules will align into a square rod. Rice materials ... more 
Researchers achieve multifunctional solid-state quantum memoryBeijing, China (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 The team LI Chengfeng, ZHOU Zongquan and others from CAS Key Lab of Quantum Information developed multi-degree-of-freedom (DOF) multiplexed solid-state quantum memory and demonstrate photon pulse op ... more 
Fast visible-UV light nanobelt photodetectorBejing, China (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 Compared with traditional thin-film photodetectors, one-dimensional nanostructures have larger surface-to-volume ratio, smaller size and higher carrier mobility, and thus tend to exhibit higher sens ... more  
A World On FireGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 The world is on fire. Or so it appears in this image from NASA's Worldview. The red points overlaid on the image designate those areas that by using thermal bands detect actively burning fires. Afri ... more  
A timescale for the origin and evolution of all of life on EarthBristol UK (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 A new study led by scientists from the University of Bristol has used a combination of genomic and fossil data to explain the history of life on Earth, from its origin to the present day. Palaeontol ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 
Earth-bound electronic games can't compete with actually controlling a squadron of miniature robotic satellites in space. Through the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient Experimental Satellites- Zero Robotics (SPHERES-Zero-Robotics) challenge, students compete to experience this power and excitement.
Using a trio of autonomous satellites on the International Space Station, SPHERES ... more |
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 Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 
The 30th Space Wing and 45th Space Wing launch training teams recently came together to gain further understanding of each other's training programs.
The main focus of the Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral Air Force Base collaboration was to discuss ways to synergize and standardize training for both coasts as well as introduce new training tools.
"One of these new tools included a Virtu ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2018 
NASA's InSight spacecraft, en route to a Nov. 26 landing on Mars, passed the halfway mark on Aug. 6. All of its instruments have been tested and are working well.
As of Aug. 20, the spacecraft had covered 172 million miles (277 million kilometers) since its launch 107 days ago. In another 98 days, it will travel another 129 million miles (208 million kilometers) and touch down in Mars' Ely ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 17, 2018 
China's moon lander and rover for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land on the far side of the moon this year, was unveiled Wednesday.
Images displayed at Wednesday's press conference showed the rover was a rectangular box with two foldable solar panels and six wheels. It is 1.5 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1.1 meters high.
Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China's lun ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (ESA) Aug 28, 2018 
Two plaques etched with thousands of miniaturised drawings made by children have been unveiled in a dedicated ceremony held in Switzerland.
Three years ago, thousands of children were inspired by the study of planets beyond our Solar System and translated their imagination into beautiful drawings, which feature a variety of planets and other cosmic settings. Out of the many excellent entri ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 
MIT researchers have taken a step toward solving a longstanding challenge with wireless communication: direct data transmission between underwater and airborne devices.
Today, underwater sensors cannot share data with those on land, as both use different wireless signals that only work in their respective mediums. Radio signals that travel through air die very rapidly in water. Acoustic si ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 23, 2018 
The mass of a very young exoplanet has been revealed for the first time using data from ESA's star mapping spacecraft Gaia and its predecessor, the quarter-century retired Hipparcos satellite.
Astronomers Ignas Snellen and Anthony Brown from Leiden University, the Netherlands, deduced the mass of the planet Beta Pictoris b from the motion of its host star over a long period of time as capt ... more |
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 
Scientists from Australia and the United States have helped to solve the mystery underlying Jupiter's coloured bands in a new study on the interaction between atmospheres and magnetic fields.
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. Unlike Earth, Jupiter has no solid surface - it is a gaseous planet, consisting mostly of hydrogen and helium.
Several strong jet streams flo ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 
A new, comprehensive survey led by USC scientists shows the Southern California coast harbors some of the world's highest concentrations of an algal toxin dangerous to wildlife and people who eat local seafood.
Episodic outbreaks of algae-produced toxins make Southern California coast emerges as a toxic algae hot spots every few years when stricken marine animals wash ashore between Santa ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 27, 2018 
The first of the U.S. Air Force's new advanced, high power GPS III satellites has shipped to Cape Canaveral for its projected launch in December.
The satellite was shipped from Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado to the Cape on August 20 on an Air Force C-17 cargo aircraft, Lockheed Martin announced on Monday.
GPS III will have three times better accuracy and up to eight times imp ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 21, 2018 
Lunar masonry starts on Earth. European researchers are working with Moon dust simulants that could one day allow astronauts to build habitats on our natural satellite and pave the way for human space exploration.
The surface of the Moon is covered in grey, fine, rough dust. This powdery soil is everywhere - an indigenous source that could become the ideal material for brickwork. You can c ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 
The bright flashes that lit up the evening skies near Detroit, Michigan earlier this year were not the only signs of the meteor that disintegrated in the atmosphere on 17 January 2018. The meteor explosion was also captured by infrasonic microphones and seismometers, offering a rare chance to compare these data with satellite and ground camera images.
In a report in Seismological Research ... more |
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 Kourou, Guyana (AFP) Aug 23, 2018 
A new satellite that will use advanced laser technology to track global winds and improve weather forecasts has been successfully put into orbit, launch company Arianespace said.
The launch of the "Aeolus" satellite - named after the guardian of wind in Greek mythology - took place at 2120 GMT Wednesday, after a 24-hour delay due to adverse weather conditions.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 
Thin ribbons of purple and white light that sometimes appear in the night sky were dubbed a new type of aurora when brought to scientists' attention in 2016. But new research suggests these mysterious streams of light are not an aurora at all but an entirely new celestial phenomenon.
Amateur photographers had captured the new phenomenon, called STEVE, on film for decades. But the scientifi ... more |
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 Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 
Neutron stars are the smallest, densest stars in the universe, born out of the gravitational collapse of extremely massive stars. True to their name, neutron stars are composed almost entirely of neutrons - neutral subatomic particles that have been compressed into a small, incredibly dense celestial package.
A new study in Nature suggests that some properties of neutron stars may be influ ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 
Last year, physicists at MIT, the University of Vienna, and elsewhere provided strong support for quantum entanglement, the seemingly far-out idea that two particles, no matter how distant from each other in space and time, can be inextricably linked, in a way that defies the rules of classical physics.
Take, for instance, two particles sitting on opposite edges of the universe. If they ar ... more |
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