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  Los Alamos NM (SPX) Aug 26, 2022 Scientists on NASA's Perseverance mission made a surprising discovery about the composition of rock in Jezero Crater, one that will help them get a better idea of when water existed on Mars, and ultimately, help them understand if the red planet was ever habitable to microbial life. "The SuperCam instrument suite of remote chemical and mineralogical tools on the Perseverance rover has made some exciting new detailed observations regarding Jezero Crater's history that could not be fully understood ... read more |
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Quantum Dot instrument enables spacecraft-as-sensor conceptGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 26, 2022 In NASA's hunt for water and resources beyond Earth, a new technology could coat the "skin" of a satellite, turning its entire surface into a sensor that tallies the chemicals present on distant pla ... more  
Russia's only female cosmonaut says 'ready' for Crew Dragon flightMoscow (AFP) Aug 26, 2022 Russia's only active female cosmonaut, Anna Kikina, said Friday she was ready for her upcoming flight to the International Space Station aboard Space X's Crew Dragon. ... more  
Boeing eyes February for space capsule's first crewed flightWashington (AFP) Aug 25, 2022 The first crewed flight of Boeing's space capsule Starliner is scheduled for February 2023, the company and NASA announced Thursday, as the United States seeks to secure a second way for its astronauts to reach the International Space Station. ... more  
SpaceX and T-Mobile unveil satellite plan to end cellphone 'dead zones'Los Angeles (AFP) Aug 26, 2022 Elon Musk's SpaceX satellites will connect directly to T-Mobile cellphones to provide service access even in the most remote places beyond the reach of cell towers from next year, the two companies announced Thursday. ... more |
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Webb detects carbon dioxide in exoplanet atmosphereParis (ESA) Aug 26, 2022 The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has found definitive evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star 700 light-years away. The result provide ... more  
NASA engineer develops tiny, high-powered laser to find water on the MoonGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 26, 2022 Finding water on the Moon could be easier with a Goddard technology that uses an effect called quantum tunneling to generate a high-powered terahertz laser, filling a gap in existing laser technolog ... more 
Lunar mining and Moon land claims fall into a gray area of international lawUniversity MS (SPX) Aug 26, 2022 It's been 50 years since humans last visited the Moon, and even robotic missions have been few and far between. But the Earth's only natural satellite is about to get crowded. At least six cou ... more  
As early Sun moved through Milky Way Earth's first continents formedBoulder CO (SPX) Aug 26, 2022 A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth's oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth's continental crust goes through cycles, with periods of increased crust production roughly ... more |
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Radar images from Perseverance reveal underground surprisesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2022 After a tantalizing year-and-a-half wait since the Mars Perseverance Rover touched down on our nearest planetary neighbor, new data is arriving - and bringing with it a few surprises. The rove ... more 
The sands of Mars are green as well as red, rover Perseverance discoversWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Aug 26, 2022 The accepted view of Mars is red rocks and craters as far as the eye can see. That's much what scientists expected when they landed the rover Perseverance in the Jezero Crater, a spot chosen partly ... more 
Perseverance Makes New Discoveries in Mars' Jezero CraterPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 26, 2022 Scientists got a surprise when NASA's Perseverance Mars rover began examining rocks on the floor of Jezero Crater in spring of 2021: Because the crater held a lake billions of years ago, they had ex ... more 
A World of FirstsPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 26, 2022 The Mars 2020 Mission is pushing the boundaries of what is possible on Mars. The most incredible part of working on Mars 2020, for me, has been the versatility of both the hardware and the operation ... more |
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The PI's Perspective: Extending Exploration and Making Distant DiscoveriesLaurel MD (SPX) Aug 26, 2022 New Horizons remains healthy from its position deep in the Kuiper Belt, even as it speeds farther and farther from the Earth and Sun by about 300 million miles per year. The spacecraft is about 54 t ... more 
JWST makes first unequivocal detection of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphereSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2022 For the first time, astronomers have found unambiguous evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system). The discovery, accepted for publication ... more 
Webb telescope finds CO2 for first time in exoplanet atmosphereWashington (AFP) Aug 25, 2022 The months-old James Webb Space Telescope has added another major scientific discovery to its growing list: detecting for the first time signs of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system. ... more 
An extrasolar world covered in waterMontreal, Canada (SPX) Aug 26, 2022 An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Universite de Montreal and member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), has announced the discovery ... more  
Scientists take another theoretical step to uncovering the mystery of dark matter, black holesStony Brook NY (SPX) Aug 25, 2022 Much of the matter in the universe remains unknown and undefined, yet theoretical physicists continue to gain clues to the properties of dark matter and black holes. A study by a team of scientists ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 17, 2022  A spacewalk by two Russians on Wednesday was ended abruptly due to a problem with the battery in cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev's suit, though at no point was he in any danger, the US and Russian space agencies said.
"Oleg, you must return to the airlock as soon as possible," the Earth-based Russian mission controllers ordered, more than two hours into his trip outside the International Space Stat ... more |
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 Forres, UK (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 
UK-based launch services company Orbex is hiring an additional fifty staff members over the next six months. The new team members will support the company's final push to prepare for the first vertical rocket launch from UK soil over the coming months.
Many of the new roles will support 'integrated testing' of the complete rocket at the Orbex LP1 launch platform test facility at Kinloss. T ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 16, 2022 
We filled much of today's plan imaging the wonders around and ahead of us as we pick our way through "Paraitepuy Pass" - the towering buttes, geologic relationships, and layers that have drawn our attention for a literal decade.
But it is also fun to look back on how we got to where we are. The image above traces a small segment of our path traversing the obstacles that guard the pass - ov ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 26, 2022 
On Friday, China carried out a key flight test of its reusable suborbital spaceplane, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's leading space contractor.
The State-owned company said in a news release that the spaceplane started its own propulsion system and then conducted a vertical liftoff from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) Aug 26, 2022 
Elon Musk's SpaceX satellites will connect directly to T-Mobile cellphones to provide service access even in the most remote places beyond the reach of cell towers from next year, the two companies announced Thursday.
The new service, which will work on existing cellphones and utilize SpaceX's network of thousands of Starlink satellites in Earth's orbit, will begin offering text messaging se ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 26, 2022 
In NASA's hunt for water and resources beyond Earth, a new technology could coat the "skin" of a satellite, turning its entire surface into a sensor that tallies the chemicals present on distant planets.
Solving the mysteries of our home planet, solar system, and beyond is a key priority for NASA, and the new sensor could be a powerful tool in the investigation. Mahmooda Sultana, an instru ... more |
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 Arlington, TX (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 
A new study by a trio of physics researchers attempts to quantify how many moons the Earth, or an exoplanet with the mass of Earth orbiting a Sun-like star, could host in its orbit. Their findings: Anywhere from three to seven, depending on the moon's mass.
The study, titled "Moon-packing around an Earth-mass planet", was published in the August 1 online edition of the Monthly Notices of t ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 24, 2021 
As part of a cosmic phenomenon called retrograde motion, Uranus - the second-to-last planet in our solar system - will reverse its eastward course on Wednesday and begin moving west in the sky for a few months.
Retrograde motion occurs as the Earth moves around the sun and the stellar views at night change little by little. The orbit, in turn, makes objects like planets in our solar s ... more |
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 Reston VA (SPX) Aug 25, 2022 
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), a FORTUNE 500 science and technology leader, was recently selected by the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to design and build a medium-size unmanned undersea vehicle. The single award, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract holds an approximate value of $358 million if all options are exercised. Work will be performed primarily in Lynnwood, Washington.
"Our decades of ex ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 
MariaDB Corporation has announced it has acquired CubeWerx, leaders in geospatial solutions, for an undisclosed amount. With the acquisition, MariaDB adds cloud-native, scalable geospatial capabilities that the company plans to offer through its fully managed cloud service MariaDB SkySQL. Applications that leverage geospatial data are truly transformative, enabling businesses to offer new produc ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 19, 2022 
It might be considered cheating, as this picture was taken over two Moons ago, but this Moonrise seen from the International Space Station deserves extra attention - and so, we are submitting this image for NASA's Moon Snap.
Taken by ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti from orbit during her Minerva mission, it is a sight rarely seen: Earth's natural satellite appearing over the horizon ab ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 24, 2022 
A fireball spotted over Madrid has had its astronomical ancestry unearthed. While it ended its days burning up in Earth's atmosphere on 31 July this year, the fragment began its life as part of Comet 169P/NEAT, responsible for the annual Alpha Capricornids meteor shower.
Meteor showers occur as Earth passes through the debris-strewn path of a comet, which as it edges closer to the Sun and ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 
Synspective Inc., a SAR satellite data and analytic solutions provider, reports that the official launch schedule of StriX-1, the company's third SAR satellite.
StriX-1 has a launch window starting from mid-September (UTC). Exact lift-off target date and time will be confirmed soon.
Please note that the launch may be postponed or canceled due to unforeseen weather conditions or compl ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 18, 2021 
A plume of "dark plasma" from the sun is expected to be overtaken by a "cannibal" solar burst that may cause an aurora display visible throughout large portions of the United States on Thursday.
The first "dark plasma explosion" was first seen on Sunday after erupting from a sunspot on the sun's surface at a speed of 1.3 million mph, tearing through the sun's atmosphere and creating a c ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 
A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will observe the remnants of an exploded star, uncovering new details about the eruption event while testing X-ray detector technologies for future missions. The High-Resolution Microcalorimeter X-ray Imaging, or Micro-X, experiment will launch Aug. 21 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
The mission's target of study is some 11,000 light- ... more |
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 Stony Brook NY (SPX) Aug 25, 2022 
Much of the matter in the universe remains unknown and undefined, yet theoretical physicists continue to gain clues to the properties of dark matter and black holes. A study by a team of scientists including three from Stony Brook University proposes a novel method to search for new particles not currently contained in the standard model of particle physics. Their method, published in Nature Com ... more |
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