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  Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 An international group of astronomers, involving the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, has succeeded in detecting a planet around Barnard's star, which is only six lightyears away. The planet has just over three times the mass of Earth and is slightly colder than Saturn. The discovery was made by measuring the periodic change in the radial velocity of the parent star. The spectrograph CARMENES, developed to a large part by the MPIA, played an important role in this discovery ... read more |
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India launches GSLV-3 carrying GSAT-29Sriharikota, India (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 GSLV MkIII-D2, the second developmental flight of GSLV MkIII successfully launched GSAT-29, a high throughput communication satellite at 5.08 pm IST on November 14, 2018 from the Second Launch Pad(S ... more  
First supply trip to space since Soyuz failure poised to launchWashington (AFP) Nov 14, 2018 A US spaceship loaded with supplies for the International Space Station is poised to launch Thursday, marking the first such trip since a Soyuz rocket carrying two people failed last month. ... more  
NASA wants people on Mars within 25 yearsWashington (AFP) Nov 13, 2018 Deadly radiation from the cosmos, potential vision loss, and atrophying bones are just some of the challenges scientists must overcome before any future astronaut can set foot on Mars, experts and top NASA officials said Tuesday. ... more  
Cells require background levels of radiation for normal growthDaytona Beach FL (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 Research by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Dr. Hugo Castillo that challenges conventional thinking about the impacts of low-level radiation exposure has drawn international attention from ot ... more |
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Gaia spots a 'ghost' galaxy next doorCambridge UK (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 The Gaia satellite has spotted an enormous 'ghost' galaxy lurking on the outskirts of the Milky Way. An international team of astronomers, including from the University of Cambridge, discovere ... more 
New horizon for space transportation servicesParis (ESA) Nov 14, 2018 ESA reaches out to encourage open innovation and offer support. A global response to ESA's call for ideas on new space transportation services has resulted in 79 proposals of which 41 were considere ... more 
Observatory joins Ceph Foundation to advance open source storageBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 Yesterday in Berlin SARAO joined 30 other members in the establishment of the Ceph Foundation, to manage the massive growth in data and information generated from cloud, container and artificial int ... more  
Chinese satellites provide advanced solutions to modeling small particlesNanjing, China (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 The assimilation of aerosol optical depth (AOD) observational data from the Chinese satellite Fengyun-3A (FY-3A) can significantly improve the ability to model aerosol mass, according to Prof. Jinzh ... more 
Colonizing Mars means contaminating MarsNashville TN (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 The closest place in the universe where extraterrestrial life might exist is Mars, and human beings are poised to attempt to colonize this planetary neighbor within the next decade. Before that happ ... more |
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How Earth volcanoes offer a window into the evolution of life and the solar systemGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 Violent and destructive, active volcanoes ought to be feared and avoided. Yet, these geological cauldrons expose the pulse of many planets and moons, offering clues to how these bodies evolved from ... more  |
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Turkey Announces Successful Test of 'Sapan' Railgun Hypervelocity WeaponAnkara, Turkey (Sputnik) Nov 13, 2018 Ankara announced that it successfully tested an electromagnetic kinetic weapon, joining a club of developers alongside Russia, the US, China, and India. Turkey announced a successful test of i ... more  
Charles Stark Draper Lab tapped for nuclear missile tube researchWashington (UPI) Nov 12, 2018 The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has been awarded $109.5 million for research into common missile compartment guidance requirements for the U.S. Columbia-class and U.K. Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarine programs. ... more 
North Korea 'hiding missile bases', US researchers sayWashington (AFP) Nov 13, 2018 North Korea is operating at least 13 undeclared bases to hide mobile, nuclear-capable missiles, a new study asserted Monday, as progress stalls on US President Donald Trump's signature foreign policy initiative. ... more  
From the cosmos to fusion plasmas, PPPL presents findings at global APS gatheringPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Nov 13, 2018 More than 135 researchers and students from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) presented their latest findings at the 60th annual meeting of the America ... more  
Half moons and pinch points: Same physics, different energyOnna, Japan (SPX) Nov 13, 2018 When physicists send neutrons shooting through a frustrated magnet, the particles spray out the other side in signature patterns. The designs appear because, even at low temperatures, atoms in a fru ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 14, 2018  A US spaceship loaded with supplies for the International Space Station is poised to launch Thursday, marking the first such trip since a Soyuz rocket carrying two people failed last month.
At the last moment, NASA added some extra supplies for the three orbiting scientists, just in case. The next Soyuz launch, with three more astronauts on board - one Russian, one Canadian and one Americ ... more |
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ESA reaches out to encourage open innovation and offer support. A global response to ESA's call for ideas on new space transportation services has resulted in 79 proposals of which 41 were considered eligible for expert advice from ESA.
This call for ideas is part of an overall initiative within ESA to provide tools necessary to identify and promote innovation within the European space sec ... more |
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 Nashville TN (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
The closest place in the universe where extraterrestrial life might exist is Mars, and human beings are poised to attempt to colonize this planetary neighbor within the next decade. Before that happens, we need to recognize that a very real possibility exists that the first human steps on the Martian surface will lead to a collision between terrestrial life and biota native to Mars.
If the ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018 
The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment components on Friday.
The selection of space equipment components involves reliability verification, data collection, transmission and comparison.
The smart solution will help shorten the time to ... more |
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 Aalborg, Denmark (SPX) Nov 13, 2018 
On 28 September 2018, the board of directors of GomSpace Group AB (publ) ("GomSpace" or the "Company") announced its intention, subject to an authorization subsequently received at the extraordinary general meeting held on 16 October 2018, to carry out a rights issue of approximately SEK 300 million with preferential rights for existing shareholders. GomSpace reports , through this press release ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply flight 10 (CRS-10) is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in mid-November. The craft's cargo includes several tons of crew supplies and science experiments ranging from 3D printing and recycling to simulating the creation of celestial bodies from stardust.
Read more about some of the science NG CRS-10 delivers to the space station: ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Nov 14, 2018  An international group of astronomers, involving the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, has succeeded in detecting a planet around Barnard's star, which is only six lightyears away.
The planet has just over three times the mass of Earth and is slightly colder than Saturn. The discovery was made by measuring the periodic change in the radial velocity of the parent star ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
A letter authored by SETI Institute scientist Oliver White was published by Nature Astronomy today. Co-authors included researchers Jeff Moore, Tanguy Bertrand and Kimberly Ennico at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
The letter "Washboard and Fluted Terrains on Pluto as Evidence for Ancient Glaciation" focuses on these distinctive landscapes that border the vast nitrogen ice p ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 
Earth's water may have originated from both asteroidal material and gas left over from the formation of the Sun, according to new research. The new finding could give scientists important insights about the development of other planets and their potential to support life.
In a new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, researcher ... more |
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 Oslo (AFP) Nov 13, 2018 
Oslo on Tuesday pointed a finger squarely at Russia, accusing it of jamming GPS signals in Norway's Far North when it hosted NATO's massive exercises in October and early November.
"We know that jamming was observed between October 19 and November 7, originating from Russian ground forces in (the) Kola" peninsula, a region of northwestern Russia close to Norway, the Norwegian defence ministr ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
Lunar Outpost, a space technology startup developing enabling technologies for a sustained presence on the Lunar surface, announced their Lunar Prospector designed to search for and map the Moon's natural resources.
The first Prospector was demonstrated driving and drilling in Lunar regolith simulant at the Colorado School of Mines' new Lunar testbed facility in the Earth Mechanics Institu ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft executed its fourth Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-4) yesterday. The spacecraft fired its Attitude Control System (ACS) thrusters to slow the spacecraft from approximately 0.31 mph (0.14 m/sec) to 0.10 mph (0.04 m/sec).
The ACS thrusters are capable of velocity changes as small as 0.02 mph (0.01 m/sec).
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 Nanjing, China (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
The assimilation of aerosol optical depth (AOD) observational data from the Chinese satellite Fengyun-3A (FY-3A) can significantly improve the ability to model aerosol mass, according to Prof. Jinzhong MIN, Vice President at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology.
Prof. MIN and his team - a group of researchers from the Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of the Min ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 12, 2018 
Space weather is no abstract concept - it may happen in space, but its effects on Earth can be significant. To help better forecast these effects, ESA's Cluster mission, a quartet of spacecraft that was launched in 2000, is currently working to understand how our planet is connected to its magnetic environment, and unravelling the complex relationship between the Earth and its parent star.
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 
Astronomers from CSIRO and The Australian National University have witnessed, in the finest detail ever, the slow death of a neighbouring dwarf galaxy, which is gradually losing its power to form stars.
The new peer-reviewed study of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), which is a tiny fraction of the size and mass of the Milky Way galaxy, uses images taken with CSIRO's powerful Australian SK ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 
Peering through thick walls of gas and dust surrounding the messy cores of merging galaxies, astronomers are getting their best view yet of close pairs of supermassive black holes as they march toward coalescence into mega black holes.
A team of researchers led by Michael Koss of Eureka Scientific Inc., in Kirkland, Washington, performed the largest survey of the cores of nearby galaxies i ... more |
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