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  College Park, United States (AFP) April 30, 2019 Here's a hypothetical: a telescope detects an asteroid between 100 and 300 meters in diameter racing through our solar system at 14 kilometers per second, 57 million kilometers from Earth. Astronomers estimate a one percent risk the space rock will collide with our planet on April 27, 2027. What should we do? It's this potentially catastrophic scenario that 300 astronomers, scientists, engineers and emergency experts are applying their collective minds to this week in a Washington suburb, the f ... read more |
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NASA chief calls for global effort to study asteroid threatWashington (UPI) Apr 29, 2019 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has called for more global participation in efforts to deflect asteroids that could collide with Earth. ... more 
Hermes to Bring Asteroid Research to the ISSHouston TX (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 Asteroid researchers on Earth will soon gain a powerful new way to remotely conduct experiments aboard the International Space Station. The device, called the Hermes Facility, is an experiment ... more  
ESA to Lose Member State Support if ExoMars Launch Postponed - Director-GeneralWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2019 The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos should not consider postponing the launch of the ExoMars mission as its rescheduling will lead to the loss of support from European member coun ... more  
New Hubble measurements confirm universe is expanding faster than expectedBaltimore MD (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 New measurements from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the Universe is expanding about 9% faster than expected based on its trajectory seen shortly after the big bang, astronomers say. ... more |
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Xplornet and Hughes to deliver high-speed broadband to rural CanadaGermantown MD (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, has announced that Xplornet Communications Inc., Canada's leading rural broadband provider, has ... more  
Tesla pushes autonomous driving with new chip; Probes Shanghai fire.San Francisco (AFP) April 22, 2019 Tesla on Monday unveiled computer hardware for "full self-driving" capabilities as part of its strategy to bring autonomous cars to the mainstream. ... more  
Pentagon ends 59-year contract with top-secret group of advisorsWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 29, 2019 The Department of Defence has decided to end its contract with a mysterious group of scientists who had worked with the DoD since early Cold War, Gizmodo reports. With their funding cut abruptly, th ... more  
NASC TigerShark-XP UAV Receives FAA Experimental CertificationWarminster, PA (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC) received a Special Airworthiness Certification in the Experimental Category from the FAA for two of its NASC TigerShark-XP aircraft, the N1740X and N1750X. ... more 
Trump Space Force Aimed at Reviving Reagan-Era Star Wars Insanity - Russian MoDMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2019 The Trump administration has committed considerable resources to expanding the scope of the US' modernisation of its nuclear forces, proposing a new 'Space Force' branch for the armed forces and wit ... more |
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Study: Microbes could influence Earth's geological processes as much as volcanoesKnoxville TN (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 By acting as gatekeepers, microbes can affect geological processes that move carbon from the earth's surface into its deep interior, according to a study published in Nature and coauthored by microb ... more  |
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Slime mold memorizes foreign substances by absorbing themWashington (UPI) Apr 22, 2019 The slime mold Physarum polycephalum doesn't have a nervous system, yet the single-celled organism is capable of learning and communicating. ... more  
Princeton geoscientists find new fallout from 'the collision that changed the world'Princeton NJ (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 When the landmass that is now the Indian subcontinent slammed into Asia about 50 million years ago, the collision changed the configuration of the continents, the landscape, global climate and more. ... more  
Illuminating Gases in The Sky: NASA Technology Pinpoints Potent Greenhouse GasesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Whether they're idyllic floating cotton balls on an otherwise blue sky or ominous grey swirls that block the sun, clouds all begin as an invisible dot of water vapor. This elusive gas has been trick ... more  
International Space Station suffers partial power loss, no danger to crewWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 30, 2019 Astronauts on the International Space Station are working to restore full power after a partial failure in the orbiting laboratory's electrical system Monday morning that imposed no danger to the cr ... more 
Gaia survey reveals three new asteroidsWashington (UPI) Apr 29, 2019 The ongoing Gaia survey has turned up a trio of new asteroids in the solar system. ... more |
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 Friedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 
Airbus is bringing another experimental system to the International Space Station (ISS) in the form of the photobioreactor (PBR). The PBR, developed by the University of Stuttgart and built by Airbus on behalf of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), is designed to convert part of the CO2 extracted by the 'LSR' Life Support Rack on board the ISS into oxyge ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 25, 2019 
NASA and SpaceX remained tight-lipped Thursday about what caused a mysterious but apparently serious incident last weekend during engine tests on the Crew Dragon capsule designed to carry US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year.
SpaceX said that an "anomaly" had occurred during Saturday's ground tests at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
A photo on the Florida Tod ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2019 
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos should not consider postponing the launch of the ExoMars mission as its rescheduling will lead to the loss of support from European member countries, Director-General Jan Woerner told Sputnik.
"I don't accept a discussion about rescheduling because we already postponed the launch for two years, from 2018 to 2020, and I believe industry ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 24, 2019 
Beijing plans to send a manned mission to the moon and to build a research station there within the next decade, state media reported Wednesday, citing a top space official.
China aims to achieve space superpower status and took a major step towards that goal when it became the first nation to land a rover on the far side of the moon in January.
It now plans to build a scientific researc ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 
In the San Augustine Plains of central New Mexico, 27 radio telescopes stand tall, operating nearly 24 hours, 7 days a week capturing extremely weak signals emitted from all over the Universe. This flat and vast land, once a seabed, sits at an altitude of 7,000 feet and is surrounded by 360 degrees of mountains. Despite the ideal conditions of this location, "listening" to these faint radio emis ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 
Scientists have been floating designs for solar sails to propel spacecraft for decades, but a new approach being developed by a Rochester Institute of Technology professor could be the key to helping spacecraft photograph the poles of the Sun for the first time.
NASA announced it is providing RIT Professor Grover Swartzlander a Phase II award through its NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts ( ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system has made questions about the potential for life to form on these planets fundamentally important in modern science.
Fundamentally important for the habitability of a planet is whether or not it can hold onto an atmosphere, which requires that the atmosphere is not completely lost early in the lifetime of the pl ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
Much has changed technologically since NASA's Galileo mission dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere to investigate, among other things, the heat engine driving the gas giant's atmospheric circulation.
A NASA scientist and his team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are taking advantage of those advances to mature a smaller, more capable net flux radiometer.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 25, 2019 
Hydroid was awarded a $23.1 million contract for production support of the MK 18 family of unmanned submersibles for the U.S. Navy.
With four option years, the cumulative contract could be worth up to $47.9 million, the Defense Department announced Wednesday.
Work will be performed at Hydroid's plant in Pocasset, Mass., with an expected completion date by April 2020 and with opti ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Apr 23, 2019 
China sent a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 10:41 p.m. Saturday.
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, it is the 44th satellite of the BDS satellite family and the first BDS-3 satellite in inclined geosynchronous Earth orbit.
After in-orbit tests, the satellite will work wi ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 29, 2019 
China has set an ambitious goal of building a scientific research centre on the moon in "about 10 years" in the area of its South Pole, the state agency Xinhua reported citing the head of the China National Space Administration (CSNA), Zhang Kejian.
The aim is quite a departure from what NASA attained as a result of its six successful Apollo missions that landed in close proximity to the M ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 29, 2019 
For the first time, ESA will cover a major international asteroid impact exercise live via social media, highlighting the the actions that might be taken by scientists, space agencies and civil protection organisations.
Every two years, asteroid experts from across the globe come together to simulate a fictional but plausible imminent asteroid impact on Earth. During the week-long scenario ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Whether they're idyllic floating cotton balls on an otherwise blue sky or ominous grey swirls that block the sun, clouds all begin as an invisible dot of water vapor. This elusive gas has been tricky to measure and track - until now.
Research scientists at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have created a new airborne instrument that can directly measure water vapor and f ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
The celestial phenomenon known as STEVE is likely caused by a combination of heating of charged particles in the atmosphere and energetic electrons like those that power the aurora, according to new research. In a new study, scientists found STEVE's source region in space and identified two mechanisms that cause it.
Last year, the obscure atmospheric lights became an internet sensation. Ty ... more |
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 
As fascinating as it is mysterious, dark matter is one of the greatest enigmas of astrophysics and cosmology. It is thought to account for 90% of the matter in the Universe, but its existence has been demonstrated only indirectly and recently called into question.
New research conducted by SISSA removes the recent doubts on the presence of dark matter within the galaxies, disproving the em ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 
Astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole almost 8000 light-years from Earth.
Published in the journal Nature, the research shows jets from V404 Cygni's black hole behaving in a way never seen before on such short timescales.
The jets appear to be rapidly rotating with high-speed clouds of plasma--potentially just minutes apart--shooting out of the bl ... more |
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