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  Beijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2018 When German scientists were conducting micro-gravity experiments on China's recoverable satellite in the 1980s, Chinese space engineer Tang Bochang was busy solving technical problems, while carefully keeping Chinese secrets. Tang joined the China Academy of Space Technology in 1970, the same year China launched its first satellite. He has participated in the development of returnable satellites, with China's first successful launch in 1975. Soon after, China started to open its space missio ... read more |
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Weighing asteroids and planets using pulsarsBonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 A team of scientists from the `International Pulsar Timing Array' consortium, led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has used pulsar timing data to me ... more  
NASA seeks information for gateway cargo delivery servicesWashington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 NASA will lead the development of the Gateway, a permanent spaceship orbiting the Moon, to serve as a home base for human and robotic missions to the surface of the Moon and ultimately, Mars. The fi ... more  
Minerals of the world, uniteParis (ESA) Oct 22, 2018 Imagine you are on Mars and you stumble upon an interesting rock. The colours, the shape of the crystals and the place where you find it all tell you: there is more to it than meets the eye. Tool in ... more  
Europa plume sites lack expected heat signaturesTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 The study of two potential plume sites on Jupiter's moon Europa has shown a lack of expected hotspot signatures, unlike Enceladus where plumes have a very clear and obvious temperature signature, re ... more |
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Ultra-close stars discovered inside a planetary nebulaLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three hours, residing in the planetary nebula M3-1. Remarkab ... more 
Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets formBoston MA (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first time that so many massive planets have been detected in such a young system. T ... more 
Plan developed to characterize and identify ocean worldsTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 Strategies to identify and explore ocean worlds in our solar system should focus on a range of targets, including confirmed and unconfirmed ocean worlds, according to a new paper by a team led by Pl ... more  
Bepicolombo's first space selfiesParis (ESA) Oct 23, 2018 This trio of images was captured by the BepiColombo spacecraft after it blasted off into space at 01:45 GMT on 20 October on its seven year cruise to Mercury, the innermost planet of the Solar Syste ... more  
Trump says US ready to bolster nuclear arsenal after vowing treaty pulloutWashington (AFP) Oct 23, 2018 President Donald Trump said Monday the United States is ready to build up its nuclear arsenal after announcing it is abandoning a Cold War-era nuclear treaty, as Russia warned the withdrawal could cripple global security. ... more |
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Understanding the building blocks for an electronic brainGroningen, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 Computer bits are binary, with a value of 0 or 1. By contrast, neurons in the brain can have all kinds of different internal states, depending on the input that they received. This allows the brain ... more  |
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NASA watches airglow, the colors of the upper atmospheric windsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 What does our planet look like from space? Most are familiar with beloved images of the blue marble or pale blue dot - Earth from 18,000 and 3.7 billion miles away, respectively. But closer to home, ... more  
Long range ENSO forecasting extended one yearPohang, South Korea (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 Changes in Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures can be used to predict extreme climatic variations known as El Nino and La Nina more than a year in advance, according to research conducted at Kor ... more  
New moon: China to launch lunar lighting in outer spaceBeijing (AFP) Oct 19, 2018 China is planning to launch its own 'artificial moon' by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media reported Friday. ... more 
Asteroid named after university of China's science academyBeijing (XNA) Oct 19, 2018 An asteroid has been named after the university of China's top science academy, with approval from the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Asteroid Guokeda (Univ ... more 
Rare blue asteroid-comet reveals itself during fly-byTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 Blue asteroids are rare, and blue comets are almost unheard of. An international team led by Teddy Kareta, a graduate student at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, investiga ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 19, 2018 
Last week saw the installation of ESA's next-generation life-support system on the International Space Station. The new facility recycles carbon dioxide in the air into water that can then be converted into oxygen reducing supplies sent from Earth by half.
Installing the life support rack in NASA's Destiny laboratory is no easy task as the facility is larger than a human being and weighs o ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018  NASA astronaut Nick Hague told NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine that he was impressed by the teamwork of the rescue crew that helped him and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin to get out of the rescue capsule after their recent emergency return to Earth over launch vehicle failure.
"They had three pararescue jumpers. As soon as they had found where we were at... they jumped in to get to u ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 22, 2018 
Imagine you are on Mars and you stumble upon an interesting rock. The colours, the shape of the crystals and the place where you find it all tell you: there is more to it than meets the eye. Tool in hand, you analyse how light scatters through it. Seconds later you read the following description on the screen:
Jarosite is a potassium and iron bearing hydrated sulphate. It crystallises with ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2018 
When German scientists were conducting micro-gravity experiments on China's recoverable satellite in the 1980s, Chinese space engineer Tang Bochang was busy solving technical problems, while carefully keeping Chinese secrets.
Tang joined the China Academy of Space Technology in 1970, the same year China launched its first satellite. He has participated in the development of returnable sate ... more |
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 Bethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 
"Entropy" is defined as a thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work. Many use this term to describe the degree of disorder or randomness in a system. A third definition is a lack of order or predictability with gradual decline into disorder. The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases as ava ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 
University of Colorado Boulder engineers have developed a 3D printing technique that allows for localized control of an object's firmness, opening up new biomedical avenues that could one day include artificial arteries and organ tissue.
The study, which was recently published in the journal Nature Communications, outlines a layer-by-layer printing method that features fine-grain, programm ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 
Strategies to identify and explore ocean worlds in our solar system should focus on a range of targets, including confirmed and unconfirmed ocean worlds, according to a new paper by a team led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Amanda R. Hendrix.
Hendrix and Terry A. Hurford of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center are co-lead authors of "The NASA Roadmap to Ocean Worlds" that appe ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 
The study of two potential plume sites on Jupiter's moon Europa has shown a lack of expected hotspot signatures, unlike Enceladus where plumes have a very clear and obvious temperature signature, research by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Julie Rathbun shows.
"We searched through the available Galileo thermal data at the locations proposed as the sites of potential plumes. Re ... more |
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 Pohang, South Korea (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
Changes in Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures can be used to predict extreme climatic variations known as El Nino and La Nina more than a year in advance, according to research conducted at Korea's Pohang University of Science and Technology and published in the journal Scientific Reports.
The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregular, periodic variation in trade winds and s ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Oct 16, 2018 
China sent twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in Sichuan Province, at 12:23 p.m. Monday.
The satellites are the 39th and 40th of the BeiDou navigation system, and the 15th and 16th of the BeiDou-3 family.
The launch was the 287th mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 
NASA will lead the development of the Gateway, a permanent spaceship orbiting the Moon, to serve as a home base for human and robotic missions to the surface of the Moon and ultimately, Mars. The first orbiting lunar laboratory will be a temporary home and office for astronauts for up to three months at a time, with cargo deliveries likely scheduled when crew are not present.
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 Vladivostok, Russia (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
Evgenij Zubko of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with other international team members has developed a comprehensive model to explain the results of a photometric study of the Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 (29P) which was successfully accomplished recently. The findings came as a real surprise revealed that the dust environment of 29P predominantly consists of only one type ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 
What does our planet look like from space? Most are familiar with beloved images of the blue marble or pale blue dot - Earth from 18,000 and 3.7 billion miles away, respectively. But closer to home, at the boundary between Earth and space, you might encounter an unfamiliar sight. If you were to peer down on Earth from just 300 miles above the surface, near the orbit of the International Space St ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 20, 2018 
What does it sound like when solar storms collide with Earth's magnetosphere? Students in London are helping scientists find out.
Earth's magnetic field features a near-constant cacophony of low-frequency sound waves - too low-pitched to be discernible to the human ear. But by speeding up audio recordings of the magnetosphere, researchers at London's Queen Mary University made the soun ... more |
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 Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 
Almost all galaxy clusters experience mergers. While a merger takes place, a specific pattern of "spiral" often can be observed in X-ray images. Such a spiral feature is due to the motion of the gas (induced by a merger), called "sloshing gas." Observing a phenomenon similar to sloshing gas in the daily life is easy: when you swirl a wine glass containing some water in it and you will see how th ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
Many semiconductor fabricators and research labs are under increasing pressure from, of all things, vacuum. These facilities need to remove greater amounts of gas molecules and particles from their setups as new technologies and processes demand lower and lower pressures.
For example, the vacuum chambers in which microchip manufacturers lay down a series of ultrathin layers of chemicals st ... more |
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