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August 16, 2016

Bringing Home NASA's First Asteroid Samples
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 15, 2016
Studying comet and asteroid samples may seem like science fiction, but it's all in a day's work for NASA Johnson Space Center's Planetary Mission Research Scientist Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, Ph.D. The Kansai, Japan native began her work with NASA as an intern in 1996 in JSC's Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division, which is charged with preserving NASA's collection of extraterrestrial samples, keeping them safe and providing them to the global scientific community for rese ... read more

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New study confirms possibility of fifth force of nature New research confirms the science behind a previous study suggesting the existence of a fifth force of nature. ... more		Scientists to unveil new Earth-like planet: report Scientists are preparing to unveil a new planet in our galactic neighbourhood which is "believed to be Earth-like" and orbits its star at a distance that could favour life, German weekly Der Spiegel reported Friday. ... more		Methane-Filled Canyons Line Titan's Surface Liquid methane-filled canyons hundreds of meters deep with walls as steep as ski slopes etch the surface of Titan, researchers report in a new study. The new findings provide the first direct eviden ... more
				Neutrinos, ever bizarre, enjoy the spotlight Buzzing through space, through our bodies, virtually everywhere, are billions upon billions of neutrinos. Behind only photons as the most abundant fundamental particle in the universe, neutrinos are ... more		Discovery of a time-resolved supernova signal in Earth's microfossils Physicists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have succeeded in detecting a time-resolved supernova signal in the Earth's microfossil record. As the group of Prof. Shawn Bishop could show ... more

Transition from Operations to Decommissioning by Preparing a Safe, Cost-Effective Shut Down and Waste Management Strategy

NASA's Fermi Mission Expands its Search for Dark Matter Dark matter, the mysterious substance that constitutes most of the material universe, remains as elusive as ever. Although experiments on the ground and in space have yet to find a trace of dark mat ... more		Much ado about nothing: Astronomers use empty space to study the universe Researchers who are looking for new ways to probe the nature of gravity and dark energy in the universe have adopted a new strategy: looking at what's not there. In a paper to appear in upcomi ... more		U.S. defense in free fall Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact Brazil, Chile sign defense agreement		NASA's Hubble Spots a Lopsided Lynx This galaxy, known as NGC 2337, resides 25 million light-years away in the constellation of Lynx. NGC 2337 is an irregular galaxy, meaning that it - along with a quarter of all galaxies in the unive ... more
				NASA to map Asteroid Bennu from the ground up How do you study the topography of an asteroid millions of miles away? Map it with a robotic cartographer! NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith E ... more		A Black Hole Story Told by a Cosmic Blob and Bubble Two cosmic structures show evidence for a remarkable change in behavior of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astro ... more

2nd Integrated Air and Missile Defense - Securing the Complex Air Domain: Requirements for Sustainable, Global, and Reliable Solutions to Next Generation Air & Missile Threats - 28-30 September, 2016 | Washington D.C.

The World's Largest Commercial Drone Conference and Expo - Sept 7-9 - Las Vegas

DDO 68: Among Galaxies, A Flea, But A Voracious One Even a dwarf galaxy with very low mass is capable of accreting smaller nearby galaxies, according to an international team of astronomers led by Francesca Annibali of INAF, the Italian National Inst ... more		Hubble spots pair of wild galaxies joining cosmic civilization After billions of years wandering in the proverbial wilderness, two galaxies, Pisces A and B, are returning to cosmic civilization. ... more		GUARDIAN Tsunami Detection Tech Catches Wave in Real Time Galileo daughter mission named Celeste to strengthen navigation resilience How quantum computers can be validated when solving unsolvable problems		The long hunted sterile neutrino cannot be traced Some of the most abundant particles in the universe are the so-called ghost particles, neutrinos, which travel through virtually anything on their journey through the universe. Researchers have iden ... more
The First Commercial Interplanetary Mining Mission Deep Space Industries has announced its plans to fly the world's first commercial interplanetary mining mission. Prospector-1 will fly to and rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid, and investigate t ... more		Cassini discovers flooded canyon on Titan Saturn's moon Titan is home to a steep canyon flooded with hydrocarbons. Radar instruments on Cassini revealed the canyon as the NASA probe explored the branches of Titan's northern sea Ligeia Mare. ... more		Cassini shares infrared imagery of Saturn clouds Cassini's latest offering could be an abstract painting, a close-up of a marble or tie-dyed T-shirt. But according to NASA, which shared the image online Wednesday, the shot reveals Saturn's clouds. ... more		Cosmic blob and bubble tell story of supermassive black hole Two structures in a faraway galaxy, a cosmic blob and a gas bubble, are helping scientists understand the history of a supermassive black hole. It's an exercise in detective work researchers hope could be used to probe the evolution of other black holes. ... more

	Researchers find most volcanic activity on Mercury stopped over 3 billion years ago New research from North Carolina State University finds that major volcanic activity on the planet Mercury most likely ended about 3.5 billion years ago. These findings add insight into the geologic ... more		Rhea Shines Brightly About Saturn Rhea, like many moons in the outer solar system, appears dazzlingly bright in full sunlight. This is the signature of the water ice that forms most of the moon's surface. Rhea (949 miles or 1, ... more

Ohio State scientists advance focus on nuclear propulsion

Mixing neutrinos of colliding neutron stars changes how merger unfolds

China launches experimental satellites to enhance mobile space internet

1967 solar storm nearly took US to brink of war		Perseid meteors could see 'surge in activity' on Aug. 11-12		IceCube search for the 'sterile neutrino' draws a blank		Perseid meteor shower 'surge in activity' Thursday, Friday		Lockheed Martin, NASA Ink Deal for SkyFire Infrared Lunar Discovery Satellite
IRIS Spots Plasma Rain on Sun's Surface		SwRI space scientists observe Io's atmospheric collapse during eclipse		As dry as the moon		Astronomers catalogs most likely 'second-Earth' candidates		A Giant Stellar Void in the Milky Way

What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data

Decades of Discovery: NASA's Exploration of Jupiter

Do Black Holes Have a Back Door

IceCube Search for 'Sterile Neutrino' Draws a Blank

Scientists discover light could exist in a previously unknown form

Chorus of Black Holes Sings in X-Rays

US company gets historic nod to send lander to moon

Is Earthly life premature from a cosmic perspective?

The discovery of new emission lines from highly charged heavy ions

Bump in LHC data is not a new particle, scientists announce

Bridging the gap between the quantum and classical worlds

Mapping the exotic matter inside neutron stars

Proton pinball on the catalyst

Scientists model the 'flicker' of gluons in subatomic smashups

China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies in blaze of online glory

A mini-antenna for the data processing of tomorrow

Five Years Post-Launch, Juno Is at a Turning Point

Space... the final frontier

Farewell Philae: Earth severs link with silent comet probe

PPPL applies quantum theory and Einstein's special relativity to plasma physics

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