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  Tokyo (AFP) June 10, 2022 Asteroid dust collected by a Japanese space probe contains organic material that shows some of the building blocks of life on Earth may have been formed in space, scientists said Friday. Pristine material from the asteroid Ryugu was brought back to Earth in 2020 after a six-year mission to the celestial body around 300 million kilometres away. But scientists are only just beginning to discover its secrets in the first studies on small portions of the 5.4 grams (0.2 ounces) of dust and dark, tiny ... read more |
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Updating our understanding of Earth's architectureAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 New models that show how the continents were assembled are providing fresh insights into the history of the Earth and will help provide a better understanding of natural hazards like earthquakes and ... more  
NASA gets serious about UFOsWashington (AFP) June 9, 2022 NASA is officially joining the hunt for UFOs. ... more  
James Webb telescope hit by micrometeoroid: NASAWashington (AFP) June 9, 2022 A mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope was struck by a micrometeoroid last month but is expected to continue to function normally, NASA said Thursday. ... more 
SEAKR Engineering Demonstrates Optical Communications on DARPA's Mandrake 2 SatellitesCentennial CO (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 SEAKR Engineering, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, announced a successful demonstration of optical inter-satellite links between two Defense Advanced Research Projects Agenc ... more |
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DARPA's ANSR to Improving Trustworthy AIWashington DC (SPX) Jun 07, 2022 Despite recent improvements to machine learning (ML) algorithms and assurance technologies, high levels of autonomy still remain elusive. The reasons for this are twofold. First, data-driven M ... more  
NRL CIRCE spacecraft to be part of historic UK launchWashington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 A joint U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)/ U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) experiment is preparing to measure Earth's ionosphere and particle radiation environment as part o ... more  
Uncovering a novel way to bring to Earth the energy that powers the sun and starsPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have uncovered critical new details about fusion facilities that use lasers to compress the fuel that p ... more  
Mars sleeps with one eye openParis (ESA) Jun 09, 2022 This scarred and colourful (by martian standards!) landscape shows part of Aonia Terra, an upland region in the southern highlands of Mars. The image was taken by ESA's Mars Express on 25 April 2022 ... more |
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France Signs Artemis Accords as French Space Agency Marks MilestoneWashington DC (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 France is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords, affirming its commitment to sustainable space exploration that follows a common set of principles promoting beneficial use of space for all ... more  
Detecting new particles around black holes with gravitational wavesAmsterdam. Netherlands (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 Clouds of ultralight particles can form around rotating black holes. A team of physicists from the University of Amsterdam and Harvard University now show that these clouds would leave a characteris ... more 
Colossal Collisions Linked to Solar System ScienceBoston MA (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 A new study shows a deep connection between some of the largest, most energetic events in the Universe and much smaller, weaker ones powered by our own Sun. The results come from a long observ ... more 
Colossal collisions linked to solar system scienceNottingham UK (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 A new study shows a deep connection between some of the largest, most energetic events in the universe and much smaller, weaker ones powered by our own Sun. The results come from a long observ ... more |
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Abell 2146: Colossal Collisions Linked to Solar System ScienceHuntsville AL (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 A new study shows a deep connection between some of the largest, most energetic events in the Universe and much smaller, weaker ones powered by our own Sun. The results come from a long observ ... more  
New insights into neutron star matterDarmstadt, Germany (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 Throughout the Universe, neutron stars are born in supernova explosions that mark the end of the life of massive stars. Sometimes neutron stars are bound in binary systems and will eventually collid ... more  
NJIT researchers unveil particle accelerator region inside a solar flareNewark NJ (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 Solar flares are among the most violent explosions in our solar system, but despite their immense energy - equivalent to a hundred billion atomic bombs detonating at once - physicists still haven't ... more 
An Unexpected Gamma Ray BurstRome, Italy (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 An international group led by INAF researchers have confirmed that the gamma-ray burst GRB 200826A, which lasted less than two seconds - typical of short bursts - is associated with the explosion of ... more 
Rapid-fire fast radio burst shows hot space between galaxiesIthaca NY (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 A recently discovered, rare and persistent rapid-fire fast radio burst source - sending out an occasional and informative cosmic ping from more than 3.5 billion light years away - helps to reveal th ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 
NASA and SpaceX are standing down from this week's Falcon 9 launch of the CRS-25 cargo mission to the International Space Station. Officials from NASA and SpaceX met today to discuss an issue identified over the weekend and the best path forward.
During propellant loading of the Dragon spacecraft, elevated vapor readings of mono-methyl hydrazine (MMH) were measured in an isolated region of ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 8, 2021 
SpaceX on Wednesday launched a communications satellite and recovered its Falcon 9 rocket at sea.
Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying a Nilesat 301 satellite at 5:04 p.m. on Wednesday.
The rocket's first stage booster returned to earth about 8 minutes and 45 seconds after launch and touched down on SpaceX's Just Read the Instructions d ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jun 07, 2022 
An international research team including the University of Gottingen has investigated the chances of survival of kombucha cultures under Mars-like conditions. Kombucha is known as a drink, sometimes called tea fungus or mushroom tea, which is produced by fermenting sugared tea using kombucha cultures - a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. Although the simulated Martian environment destroye ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 05, 2022 
China on Sunday successfully launched a manned mission to its Tiangong Space Station.
The three-person crew launched on the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft from the Jiquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 10:44 a.m. local time with the astronauts entering the Tianhe core module at 8:50 p.m.
The astronauts - Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe - will live and work in space for six m ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 7, 2021 
Maine leaders have long been searching for ways to keep more of high school and college graduates from leaving the state. But lobstering and forestry, two stalwarts of the Maine economy, aren't what they used to be.
Enter the new space economy.
"There's something sexy about space," Terry Shehata, executive director of the Maine Space Grant Consortium, a NASA-funded nonprofit, tol ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 9, 2022  A mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope was struck by a micrometeoroid last month but is expected to continue to function normally, NASA said Thursday.
"After initial assessments, the team found the telescope is still performing at a level that exceeds all mission requirements despite a marginally detectable effect in the data," the US space agency said.
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 07, 2022  With its mirror segments beautifully aligned and its scientific instruments undergoing calibration, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is just weeks away from full operation. Soon after the first observations are revealed this summer, Webb's in-depth science will begin.
Among the investigations planned for the first year are studies of two hot exoplanets cla ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 08, 2022 
The agency's mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon takes a big step forward as engineers deliver a major component of the spacecraft.
The main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has been delivered to the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Over the next two years there, engineers and technicians will finish assembling the craft by hand before testing it to make ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) June 3, 2022  A 10-day South Pacific island-hopping tour by China's top diplomat focused world attention on a usually overlooked region, opened a new front in Beijing's quest for global influence and challenged decades of Western primacy.
On the face of it, Wang Yi's trip was a failure.
His centrepiece proposal - a regional pact to turbocharge China's role in Pacific island security - was leaked to ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) May 31, 2022 
Astrocast, a leading global nanosatellite IoT network operator, has announced the signature of an agreement to acquire Hiber, a Netherlands-based, IoT-as-a-Service provider. Under the agreement, Astrocast agreed to acquire all of Hiber's shares in exchange for the issuance of new Astrocast shares, representing 16.5% of Astrocast's share capital, calculated prior to its previously announced publi ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 
France is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords, affirming its commitment to sustainable space exploration that follows a common set of principles promoting beneficial use of space for all of humanity.
Philippe Baptiste, president of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) - the French space agency - signed the document during an event hosted by the Ambassador of France to t ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 09, 2022 
ESA's Comet Interceptor mission to visit a pristine comet or other interstellar object just starting its journey into the inner Solar System has been 'adopted' this week; the study phase is complete and, following selection of the spacecraft prime contractor, work will soon begin to build the mission.
Comet Interceptor will share a ride into space with ESA's Ariel exoplanet mission in 2029. The ... more |
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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 
New models that show how the continents were assembled are providing fresh insights into the history of the Earth and will help provide a better understanding of natural hazards like earthquakes and volcanoes.
"We looked at the current knowledge of the configuration of plate boundary zones and the past construction of the continental crust," said Dr Derrick Hasterok, Lecturer, Department o ... more |
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 Newark NJ (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 
Solar flares are among the most violent explosions in our solar system, but despite their immense energy - equivalent to a hundred billion atomic bombs detonating at once - physicists still haven't been able to answer exactly how these sudden eruptions on the Sun are able to launch particles to Earth, nearly 93 million miles away, in under an hour.
Now, in a study published June 8 in Natur ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 
A recently discovered, rare and persistent rapid-fire fast radio burst source - sending out an occasional and informative cosmic ping from more than 3.5 billion light years away - helps to reveal the secrets of the broiling hot space between the galaxies. That's according to an international team of astronomers who published their findings in the journal Nature.
Fast Radio Burst 20190520B ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 
A group of astronomers led by Sarah Bosman from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have robustly timed the end of the epoch of reionisation of the neutral hydrogen gas to about 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang. Reionisation began when the first generation of stars formed after the cosmic "dark ages", a long period when neutral gas alone filled the Universe without any sources of light. T ... more |
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