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  Paris (ESA) Mar 12, 2019 The International Space Station partners have endorsed plans to continue the development of the Gateway, an outpost around the Moon that will act as a base to support both robots and astronauts exploring the lunar surface. The Multilateral Coordination Board, which oversees the management of the Space Station, stressed its common hope for the Gateway to open up a cost-effective and sustainable path to the Moon and beyond. The announcement comes after several years of extensive study among sp ... read more |
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ISS Multilateral Coordination Board Joint StatementWashington DC (SPX) Mar 12, 2019 The International Space Station (ISS) Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB), which oversees the management of the ISS, met on March 5th, 2019. Its members[1] acknowledged the recent 20th anniversary ... more 
NASA selects experiments for possible Lunar flights in 2019Washington DC (SPX) Mar 12, 2019 NASA has selected 12 science and technology demonstration payloads to fly to the Moon as early as the end of this year, dependent upon the availability of commercial landers. These selections repres ... more 
NASA selects teams to study untouched Lunar samplesWashington DC (SPX) Mar 12, 2019 NASA has selected nine teams to continue the science legacy of the Apollo missions by studying pieces of the Moon that have been carefully stored an untouched for nearly 50 years. A total of $8 mill ... more 
How a vintage film format brought 'Apollo 11' back to lifeWashington (AFP) March 10, 2019 New documentary "Apollo 11," which tells the story of man's first steps on the Moon, contains footage so striking that it seems practically a crime that it remained hidden for nearly five decades. ... more |
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UK to tackle danger of solar wind and find new Earth-like planetsSwindon UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 New national space funding worth 7 million pounds will ensure UK scientists play a leading role in a new space weather mission, the Science Minister Chris Skidmore announced on the first day of Brit ... more 
K stars more likely to host habitable exoplanetsWashington (UPI) Mar 8, 2019 Scientists have dubbed K stars "Goldilocks stars." According to a new study, K stars are more likely to host habitat exoplanets than other types of stars. ... more  
Ultracold atoms could provide 2D window to exotic 1D physicsHouston TX (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 Rice University physicists Matthew Foster and Seth Davis want to view a vexing quantum puzzle from an entirely new perspective. They just need the right vantage point and a place colder than deep sp ... more  
NASA captures unprecedented images of supersonic shockwavesWashington (AFP) March 8, 2019 NASA has captured unprecedented photos of the interaction of shockwaves from two supersonic aircraft, part of its research into developing planes that can fly faster than sound without thunderous "sonic booms". ... more 
Tuning quantum vacuum forces from attractive to repulsiveTempe AZ (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 The force is strong not only in Star Wars lore but also as a fundamental property in physics. For example, scientists can put two uncharged metal plates close together in a vacuum, and "voila!" - -t ... more |
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Light pulses provide a new route to enhance superconductivityTokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 Materials known as Mott insulators are odd things. Under normal electron band theory they ought to conduct electricity, but they do not, due to interactions among their electrons. But now, sci ... more  |
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Yale researchers create a 'universal entangler' for new quantum techNew Haven CT (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 One of the key concepts in quantum physics is entanglement, in which two or more quantum systems become so inextricably linked that their collective state can't be determined by observing each eleme ... more  
How to freeze heat conductionVienna, Austria (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 Every day we lose valuable energy in the form of waste heat - in technical devices at home, but also in large energy systems. Part of it could be recovered with the help of the "thermoelectric effec ... more 
New collection of Einstein documents unveiled in IsraelWashington (UPI) Mar 6, 2019 Dozens of new manuscript pages composed by Albert Einstein were unveiled at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel on Wednesday. The new collection of documents also features several letters and notes penned by the famed scientist. ... more  
ESA helps business fly in spaceParis (ESA) Mar 12, 2019 New 'cubesat' technology and falling launch costs mean that businesses, universities and other organisations are increasingly able to launch their own small satellites. Now ESA is offering facilitie ... more 
Space workshops to power urban innovationParis (ESA) Mar 12, 2019 In May, two workshops organised with the help of ESA, will foster industrial collaboration between space and non-space-based industry to boost urban innovation. The two events, one in Marseill ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 12, 2019 
The International Space Station (ISS) Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB), which oversees the management of the ISS, met on March 5th, 2019. Its members[1] acknowledged the recent 20th anniversary of the launch of the first International Space Station module and celebrated the success of the ISS partnership.
This international team has not only built the space station and risen to the ch ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 
China has made significant progress in the development of the key technologies of the heavy-lift carrier rocket, the Long March-9, which is expected to make its maiden flight around 2030.
The development of the heavy-lift rocket will greatly improve China's capacity of entering outer space. The Long March-9 rocket will support China's space industry development, utilization of space resour ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 
Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of potential shallow water-ice sources across the surface of the Red Planet.
Two teams led by Putzig and Morgan were contracted by NASA to pursue separate mapping efforts of subsurface ice deposits ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 
Chinese scientists are designing what is expected to be the world's most powerful rocket, according to a senior researcher.
Li Hong, deputy general manager at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, said the Long March 9 super heavy-lift carrier rocket will be capable of lifting 140 metric tons of payload into a low-Earth orbit, or a 50-ton spacecraft to a lunar transfer orbit. The gi ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 
China Sunday sent a new communication satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The "ChinaSat 6C" satellite was launched at 0:28 a.m. Beijing Time by a Long March-3B carrier rocket. It will provide high-quality radio and TV transmission services.
The satellite has been sent to the geostationary orbit, and can cover China, Aus ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 
Future technologies based on the principles of quantum mechanics could revolutionize information technology. But to realize the devices of tomorrow, today's physicists must develop precise and reliable platforms to trap and manipulate quantum-mechanical particles.
In a paper published Feb. 25 in the journal Nature, a team of physicists from the University of Washington, the University of H ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 
The SETI Institute, a non-profit scientific institution located in Mountain View, CA, and the French company Unistellar, located in Marseille, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will establish and enhance joint research, outreach and education activities aimed at developing the citizen science network on Unistellar telescopes. The project will be presented at the SXSW Interactiv ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Mar 11, 2019  Cross your eyes and break out the 3D glasses! NASA's New Horizons team has created new stereo views of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule - the target of the New Horizons spacecraft's historic New Year's 2019 flyby, four billion miles from Earth - and the images are as cool and captivating as they are scientifically valuable.
The 3D effects come from pairing or combining images ... more |
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 Quito (AFP) March 8, 2019 
A new breeding ground for endangered hammerhead sharks has been found in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador's government said.
This natural refuge off the island of Santa Cruz is home to about 20 of the sharks, the environment ministry said.
It is the second such refuge detected in the archipelago. The first, found in 2017, was shown to host around 30 hammerheads.
At the new one, researc ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 12, 2019 
The only thing more remarkable than how all of us are walking around with space-grade navigation capability and atomic clock timing precision in our pockets is how much we take all of this for granted. Satellite navigation has changed our lives, triggering a quiet revolution in our society and economy.
But it is easy to forget that satellite navigation is only a means to an end - that end ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 12, 2019 
NASA has selected nine teams to continue the science legacy of the Apollo missions by studying pieces of the Moon that have been carefully stored an untouched for nearly 50 years. A total of $8 million has been awarded to the teams.
"By studying these precious lunar samples for the first time, a new generation of scientists will help advance our understanding of our lunar neighbor and prep ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 6, 2019 
Japan's space agency, JAXA, released a video this week showcasing Hayabusa-2's successful asteroid touchdown.
Last month, the probe skimmed the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. A review of the landing data by JAXA scientists confirmed the touchdown sequence happened as expected.
"Data analysis from Hayabusa-2 confirms that the sequence of operation proceeded, including shooting a p ... more |
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 Bremen, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 
Methane is a very special molecule. It is the main component of natural gas and we heat our apartments with it, but when reaching the atmosphere it is a potent greenhouse gas.
It is also central in microbiology: In the absence of oxygen, a special group of microorganisms, the so-called methanogenic archaea, can produce methane. Other microorganisms - archaea living in symbiosis with bacter ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 
The four Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft are flying out of their element. The spacecraft have just completed a short detour from their routine science - looking at processes within Earth's magnetic environment - and instead ventured outside it, studying something they were not originally designed for.
For three weeks, MMS studied the solar wind - the stream of supersonic charged parti ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 
The 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope 4MOST will be the largest spectroscopic survey facility of its kind in the Southern hemisphere and address today's most pressing astronomical questions in the fields of galactic archaeology, high-energy astrophysics, galaxy evolution, and cosmology.
With the publication of 13 papers, the consortium introduces 4MOST to the scientific communit ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 
Physicists have used a seven-qubit quantum computer to simulate the scrambling of information inside a black hole, heralding a future in which entangled quantum bits might be used to probe the mysterious interiors of these bizarre objects.
Scrambling is what happens when matter disappears inside a black hole. The information attached to that matter - the identities of all its constituents, ... more |
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