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  Pasadena CA (JPL) May 30, 2019 NASA's Curiosity rover has confirmed that the region on Mars it's exploring, called the "clay-bearing unit," is well deserving of its name. Two samples the rover recently drilled at rock targets called "Aberlady" and "Kilmarie" have revealed the highest amounts of clay minerals ever found during the mission. Both drill targets appear in a new selfie taken by the rover on May 12, 2019, the 2,405th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. This clay-enriched region, located on the side of lower Mou ... read more |
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US and Japan partner on future moon missionWashington DC (VOA) May 30, 2019 At a May meeting in Washington, U.S. and Japanese officials affirmed the desire for continued scientific cooperation between the two countries. They collaborate on space exploration, space and earth ... more  
Cosmonauts complete spacewalk at International Space StationWashington (UPI) May 29, 2019 A pair of Russian cosmonauts completed a spacewalk on Wednesday to retrieve science experiments and carry out maintenance on the International Space Station. ... more 
NASA Navigation Tech Shows Timing Really Is EverythingGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2019 Without accurate timekeeping, space navigation would be impossible. As NASA goes forward to the Moon with the Artemis missions, precise measurements of time are key to mission success. To calc ... more 
Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on MarsPasadena CA (SPX) May 30, 2019 Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators for a very good reason--we humans need molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe, and space is essentially devoid of it. E ... more |
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Artificial intelligence becomes life-long learner with new frameworkResearch Triangle Park NC (SPX) May 23, 2019 A project of the U.S. Army has developed a new framework for deep neural networks that allows artificial intelligence systems to better learn new tasks while forgetting less of what they have learne ... more  
US says N.Korea program violates UN resolutions, after Trump tweetWashington (AFP) May 28, 2019 The US State Department said Tuesday that North Korea's overall program of weapons of mass destruction violated UN resolutions, after President Donald Trump brushed off recent missile launches. ... more  
First ICESat-2 Global Data Released: Ice, Forests and MoreGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2019 More than a trillion new measurements of Earth's height - blanketing everything from glaciers in Greenland, to mangrove forests in Florida, to sea ice surrounding Antarctica - are now available to t ... more  
Researchers wonder if ancient supernovae prompted human ancestors to walk uprightLawrence KS (SPX) May 30, 2019 Did ancient supernovae induce proto-humans to walk on two legs, eventually resulting in homo sapiens with hands free to build cathedrals, design rockets and snap iPhone selfies? A paper publis ... more  
Ocean and space exploration blend at URI's Graduate School of OceanographyKingston RI (SPX) May 30, 2019 Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography as colleagues explore the deep Pacific Ocean to pr ... more |
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 UK-led mission to improve climate change forecasts added to ESA mission 
Getting ready for Mars - on the Space StationParis (ESA) May 28, 2019 From disrupted biological clocks to radiation and contamination hazards, Europe is running experiments on the International Space Station to take human exploration one step closer to Mars. As ... more  |
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SpaceX satellites pose new headache for astronomersWashington (AFP) May 29, 2019 It looked like a scene from a sci-fi blockbuster: an astronomer in the Netherlands captured footage of a train of brightly-lit SpaceX satellites ascending through the night sky this weekend, stunning space enthusiasts across the globe. ... more  
Rare earths: the latest weapon in the US-China trade warBeijing (AFP) May 29, 2019 They are used in everything from lightbulbs to guided missiles, but with China controlling 95 percent of the world's supply of rare earth metals, they are also a potentially powerful weapon in Beijing's trade war with Washington. ... more 
'A long ride': 50 years ago, a dress rehearsal for the Moon landingWashington (AFP) May 25, 2019 As Earth grew ever smaller below his spacecraft, Apollo 10 commander Tom Stafford made an unusual request to mission control. ... more  
NASA Makes Progress Assembling Massive Space Launch System Rocket StageMichoud LA (SPX) May 30, 2019 NASA and Boeing technicians have begun the second of three major activities to join the large structural parts of the core stage for NASA's deep space rocket, the Space Launch System. When this task ... more  
The 'forbidden' planet has been found in the 'Neptunian Desert'Warwick UK (SPX) May 30, 2019 An exoplanet smaller than Neptune with its own atmosphere has been discovered in the Neptunian Desert, by an international collaboration of astronomers, with the University of Warwick taking a leadi ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2019 
Without accurate timekeeping, space navigation would be impossible. As NASA goes forward to the Moon with the Artemis missions, precise measurements of time are key to mission success.
To calculate where a spacecraft is in the solar system, NASA must measure the time it takes for electromagnetic waves traveling at the speed of light to flow between the spacecraft and known locations, like ... more |
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 Michoud LA (SPX) May 30, 2019 
NASA and Boeing technicians have begun the second of three major activities to join the large structural parts of the core stage for NASA's deep space rocket, the Space Launch System. When this task is completed, four of the five major core stage structures - most of the massive 212-foot stage-- will be assembled. Boeing and NASA will add the engine section and the four RS-25 engines to complete ... more |
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 Washington UPI) May 28, 2019 
A new photo captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and shared online this week features the landing site for the space agency's Mars 2020 mission.
The Mars 2020 rover, scheduled to launch next year, is expected to land in the Jezero Crater, located in a region of Mars known as the Syrtis Major quadrangle.
The crater is thought to have once been filled with water, and its ... more |
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 Taiyuan (XNA) May 27, 2019  The attempt to launch a remote sensing Yaogan-33 satellite carried by a Long March-4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province was unsuccessful on Thursday morning.
The first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, while the third stage had abnormal operation.
Based on monitoring data, the third stage of the rocket and satellite debris ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 29, 2019 
It looked like a scene from a sci-fi blockbuster: an astronomer in the Netherlands captured footage of a train of brightly-lit SpaceX satellites ascending through the night sky this weekend, stunning space enthusiasts across the globe.
But the sight has also provoked an outcry among astronomers who say the constellation, which so far consists of 60 broadband-beaming satellites but could one ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 29, 2019 
They are used in everything from lightbulbs to guided missiles, but with China controlling 95 percent of the world's supply of rare earth metals, they are also a potentially powerful weapon in Beijing's trade war with Washington.
Here are some key questions and answers on the prized elements.
- What are rare earths? -
The bedrock of electrical manufacturing, rare earths are 17 elemen ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) May 27, 2019 
Astronomers believe planets like Jupiter shield us from space objects that would otherwise slam into Earth. Now they're closer to learning whether giant planets act as guardians of solar systems elsewhere in the galaxy.
A UCR-led team has discovered two Jupiter-sized planets about 150 light years away from Earth that could reveal whether life is likely on the smaller planets in other solar ... more |
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 Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) May 21, 2019 
With less than a fifth of the Moon's mass, Pluto can still retain an atmosphere, though a tenuous envelope of gas produced by the periodical sublimation of nitrogen ices. A study that followed the evolution of Pluto's atmosphere for fourteen years shows its seasonal nature, and predicts that it will now start to condensate as frost.
This study1 was published in the journal Astronomy and As ... more |
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 Kingston RI (SPX) May 30, 2019 
Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography as colleagues explore the deep Pacific Ocean to prepare to search for life in deep space.
The SUBSEA (Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog) research program is a partnership among NASA's Ames Research Center in Si ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 27, 2019 
The output value of China's satellite navigation industry is expected to surpass 400 billion yuan (about 57.9 billion U.S. dollars) in 2020, according to the ongoing 10th China Satellite Navigation Conference on Thursday.
"Currently, we have built the complete industry chain which is made up of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) basic products, application terminals and systems, ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 25, 2019 
As Earth grew ever smaller below his spacecraft, Apollo 10 commander Tom Stafford made an unusual request to mission control.
The year was 1969, and his vessel was the first to be equipped with a color camera, which was beaming live images to an awestruck global audience.
"I was feeling real high," recalled Stafford, who is now 88 and the last surviving member of the crew.
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 Aalborg, Denmark (SPX) May 27, 2019 
GomSpace's subsidiary in Luxembourg and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a contract of EUR 400.000 for the Phase A design of the Miniaturised Asteroid Remote Geophysical Observer (M-ARGO) mission.
Under the contract GomSpace will be in charge of preliminary design of the mission, spacecraft and implementation planning. A "12U" CubeSat spacecraft configuration is envisioned for t ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2019 
More than a trillion new measurements of Earth's height - blanketing everything from glaciers in Greenland, to mangrove forests in Florida, to sea ice surrounding Antarctica - are now available to the public. With millions more observations added each day, data from NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 is providing a precise global portrait of elevation and will allow scientists to t ... more |
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 Dublin, Ireland (SPX) May 27, 2019 
Scientists from Ireland and France have announced a major new finding about how matter behaves in the extreme conditions of the Sun's atmosphere.
The scientists used large radio telescopes and ultraviolet cameras on a NASA spacecraft to better understand the exotic but poorly understood "fourth state of matter". Known as plasma, this matter could hold the key to developing safe, clean and ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) May 30, 2019 
While we now know of thousands of exoplanets - planets around other stars - the vast majority of our knowledge is indirect. That is, scientists have not actually taken many pictures of exoplanets, and because of the limits of current technology, we can only see these worlds as points of light. However, the number of exoplanets that have been directly imaged is growing over time. When NASA's Jame ... more |
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) May 28, 2019 
Researchers from Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg present a new method which can double the energy of a proton beam produced by laser-based particle accelerators. The breakthrough could lead to more compact, cheaper equipment that could be useful for many applications, including proton therapy.
Proton therapy involves firing a beam of accelerated ... more |
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