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  Greenbelt MD (AFP) Jul 13, 2022 The James Webb Space Telescope began releasing a new wave of cosmic images on Tuesday, heralding a new era of astronomy. "Every image is a new discovery," said NASA administrator Bill Nelson. "Each will give humanity a view of the universe that we've never seen before." On Monday, Webb revealed the clearest image to date of the early universe, going back 13 billion years. One new image on Tuesday shown water vapor in the atmosphere of a faraway gas planet. The spectroscopy - an analysis of ... read more |
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Webb telescope reveals deepest image of early universeWashington (AFP) July 12, 2022 Humanity's view of the distant cosmos will never be the same. ... more 
Webb Telescope is now fully ready for scienceBaltimore MD (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 The months-long process of preparing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope for science is now complete. All of the seventeen ways or 'modes' to operate Webb's scientific instruments have now been checke ... more 
Prospecting for Interstellar OilBornova, Turkey (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 We have developed a new method to look for carbon compounds in space, akin to prospecting for oil on Earth. Between the stars lie vast amounts of interstellar gas and dust, spread thinly throughout ... more  
The life puzzle: the location of land on a planet can affect its habitabilityLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 New climate models have found that the amount and location of land on a planet's surface can significantly impact its habitability. Astronomers have identified substantial differences in surface tem ... more |
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Black Hole Hunters - A citizen science search for black hole self-lensingLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 A research team from the Open University and the University of Southampton is asking for the public's help to find some of the most mysterious, elusive objects in the Universe - black holes. By exam ... more 
Can FAST Detect Auroras on Brown DwarfsBeijing, China (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 Brown dwarfs are known as "failed stars", owing to the lack of central hydrogen burning. They bridge the gap between planets and stars. Some brown dwarfs are found to maintain kilogauss magnetic fie ... more  
AFRL spacecraft recurve launches on Virgin Orbit Space Force missionKirtland AFB NM (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate spaceflight experiment Recurve was launched July 2, 2022, from the Mojave Air and Space Port on the Virgin Orbit space system in Californ ... more  
Follow CAPSTONE's Four-Month Journey to the Moon in Real TimeMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 10, 2022 NASA's microwave oven-sized CubeSat dubbed CAPSTONE is flying solo, blazing an unusual yet efficient deep space route to the Moon. The CubeSat is heading toward an unique orbit intended in the futur ... more |
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Chinese scientists help solve riddle of Moon's largest craterBeijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2022 Chinese scientists have published a study that helps to explain an anomaly in the composition of the Moon's biggest crater - the South Pole-Aitken Basin - identifying the abnormal materials there as ... more 
Chinese, Australian astronomers detect key process of binary evolutionBeijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2022 A joint research team of Chinese and Australian astronomers has detected a binary star system ejecting a common envelope, a key process of the binary star evolution, which could be of great importan ... more  
Virgin Galactic picks Boeing subsidiary to build two mothershipsWashington (AFP) July 6, 2022 Space travel company Virgin Galactic on Wednesday said it had reached an agreement with Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build two new air launch carrier aircraft for its spaceships. ... more  
Using lasers and 'tow-trucks', Japanese firms target space debrisTokyo (AFP) July 8, 2022 From laser beams and wooden satellites to galactic tow-truck services, start-ups in Japan are trying to imagine ways to deal with a growing environmental problem: space debris. ... more |
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Upside-down design expands wide-spectrum super-camera abilitiesDurham NC (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 By turning a traditional lab-based fabrication process upside down, researchers at Duke University have greatly expanded the abilities of light-manipulating metasurfaces while also making them much ... more 
Discs for fault detectionParis (ESA) Jul 10, 2022 Embedded within these resin discs are vital clues to determine whether future space missions will fail or thrive. These are microsections taken from printed circuit boards (PCBs) and other par ... more  
Everyone gets to savour the Avanavero flavours: Sols 3528-3529Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 10, 2022 Both the CheMin and SAM instruments have dined on the Avanavero drill samples and have decided their appetites are sated. CheMin has completed X-ray diffraction mineralogical analysis of the Avanave ... more 
Experts find way to make better use of lunar samplesBeijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2022 Though China now has more than 1.7 kilograms of lunar soil gathered from its historic Chang'e 5 mission, the government practices a prudent policy when it comes to distributing these valuable sample ... more  
Jacobs Awarded $3.9B Engineering and Science Contract at NASADallas TX (SPX) Jul 10, 2022 Jacobs (NYSE:J) was awarded the JSC Engineering, Technology, and Science (JETS) II contract at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Jacobs is scheduled to begin contract transition on ... more |
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 Boca Raton LA (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, has announced the successful completion of CAPSTONE's first TCM burn (TCM-1). As the first statistical maneuver of the mission, TCM-1 is designed to clean up expected dispersions from the launch vehicle injection - enabling CAPSTONE to ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 
The challenges of the hypersonic era in military operations are immense. But so are the abilities of innovators who work together to solve them.
That was the message when Wes Kremer, president of Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, spoke to investors about how teams are working across the company to solve the myriad science and engineering problems that come wi ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2022 
The six-wheeled explorer has inspected a stretch of the Red Planet to see if it is flat enough for NASA's next Mars lander.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is conducting its science campaign, taking samples at Jezero Crater's ancient river delta, but it's also been busy scouting. The rover is looking for locations where the planned Mars Sample Return (MSR) Campaign can land spacecraft and c ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2022 
Scientific endeavors aboard China's space station are expected to bear fruits, as the Shenzhou-14 taikonauts have devoted more time to microgravity experiments on the orbiting core module Tianhe since entering it a month ago.
China's space station is designed to be a versatile space lab, capable of accommodating 25 experiment cabinets for scientific exploration. The China Manned Space Agen ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 08, 2022 
The ESA astronaut selection has been progressing as planned, with phase two of the selection process ending in March this year, and phase three ending in June.
During phase three, just over 400 applicants attended ESA's European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, for thorough psychological assessment by an international team of experts. Though the precise tasks and tests are confidentia ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) July 8, 2022 
From laser beams and wooden satellites to galactic tow-truck services, start-ups in Japan are trying to imagine ways to deal with a growing environmental problem: space debris.
Junk like used satellites, parts of rockets and wreckage from collisions has been piling up since the space age began, with the problem accelerating in recent decades.
"We're entering an era when many satellites w ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 
New climate models have found that the amount and location of land on a planet's surface can significantly impact its habitability. Astronomers have identified substantial differences in surface temperature, sea ice and water vapour across a planet's surface for different land configurations. The work will be presented on Monday 11 July at the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2022) by Evelyn Macd ... more |
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 Minneapolis MN (SPX) Jun 23, 2022 
A new citizen science project, led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities with support from NASA, allows volunteers to play an important role in helping scientists learn more about the atmosphere on Jupiter. Citizen scientists can help astrophysicists categorize tens of thousands of stunning images taken from the Juno spacecraft with just a web browser.
The planet Jupite ... more |
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 Illmitz, Austria (AFP) July 11, 2022 
Kitesurfers and windsurfers dot picturesque Lake Neusiedl on the Austrian-Hungarian border - but the water is so low some get stuck in the mud.
The salt lake and its marshes - the largest of its kind in Europe and a UNESCO world heritage site - could soon run completely dry, and locals are worried.
The lake, only an hour from Vienna, last dried up in the 1860s yet was naturally replen ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Jul 10, 2022 
After an exclusive negotiation process that began in December 2021, Orolia - a company recognized globally for its positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) and related activities, technologies and equipment - today joins Safran Electronics and Defense, the European leader and world number three in inertial navigation systems.
Orolia employs more than 435 people in Europe and North America ... more |
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 Maxwell AFB AL (The Conversation) Jul 10, 2022 
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson recently expressed concerns over China's aims in space, and in particular, that China would, in some way, claim ownership over the Moon and stop other countries from exploring it. In an interview with a German newspaper, Nelson cautioned, "We must be very concerned that China is landing on the Moon and saying: 'It's ours now and you stay out.'" China immediately de ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 8, 2021 
An amazing surprise greeted NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it touched down on the asteroid Bennu in 2020 - The asteroid was not what it seemed - according to research published Thursday in the journals Science and Science Advances.
After it analyzed data from the spacecraft, NASA said it would have sunk into the asteroid if it hadn't fired thrusters to lift off as soon as it collecte ... more |
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 Arlington TX (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 
A space physicist at The University of Texas at Arlington will play a key role in NASA's Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission.
GDC is a coordinated group of satellites that will provide the first direct global measurements of the region of space enveloping earth known as the ionosphere and thermosphere (I-T) region, according to a NASA press release.
Rick Wilder, assistant p ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 
The motion of a tiny number of charged particles may solve a longstanding mystery about thin gas disks rotating around young stars, according to a new study from Caltech.
These features, called accretion disks, last tens of millions of years and are an early phase of solar system evolution. They contain a small fraction of the mass of the star around which they swirl; imagine a Saturn-like ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 
Brown dwarfs are known as "failed stars", owing to the lack of central hydrogen burning. They bridge the gap between planets and stars. Some brown dwarfs are found to maintain kilogauss magnetic fields and produce flaring radio emissions, similar to aurora on magnetized planets in solar system, arousing astronomers' curiosities about their field properties and dynamos.
Radio emissions from ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 
A research team from the Open University and the University of Southampton is asking for the public's help to find some of the most mysterious, elusive objects in the Universe - black holes. By examining data from the SuperWASP survey, the UK's leading extra-solar planet detection programme, the team hope to detect changes in starlight that may provide evidence for the existence of these black h ... more |
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