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  Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2018 As the space race heats up, the first contracts for the manufacture of key components for humanity's Gateway orbital lunar base will be awarded in 2019, according to NASA. Expected to begin next year, a big push to reignite space exploration will see landmark awards for contractors to begin building humanity's first orbital moon base, according to NASA. Intended to be used as a staging area for deep-space exploration and study, the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G) will orbit the moon, ... read more |
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Four Years of NASA NEOWISE DataPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 23, 2018 NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its fourth year of survey data. Since the mission was restarted in December 2013, after a period of hibern ... more  
Atoms may hum a tune from grand cosmic symphonyCollege Park MD (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 Researchers playing with a cloud of ultracold atoms uncovered behavior that bears a striking resemblance to the universe in microcosm. Their work, which forges new connections between atomic physics ... more 
Moon Colonization: Why do we want it and what technologies do we have?Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 20, 2018 Scientists are convinced that humankind is capable of turning the Moon into a space outpost: people have cosmodromes, heavy carrier rockets, space modules and lunar rovers. Sputnik reveals what is b ... more 
SSTL and Goonhilly Earth Station Sign Collaboration Agreement with ESA for Commercial Lunar MissionsGuildford, UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Goonhilly Earth Station (GES) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a collaboration agreement for Commercial Lunar Mission Support Services at the ... more |
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Indian Space Agency claims to have saved $120 mln on second Lunar missionNew Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 20, 2018 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has claimed that it has saved $120 million in public money in the upcoming moon mission "Chandrayaan-2," which is expected to be launched in October-Nov ... more  
We think we're the first advanced earthlings - but how do we really know?Rochester UK (SPX) Apr 18, 2018 Imagine if, many millions of years ago, dinosaurs drove cars through cities of mile-high buildings. A preposterous idea, right? Over the course of tens of millions of years, however, all of the dire ... more  
Structured light and nanomaterials open new ways to tailor light at the nanoscaleHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Apr 23, 2018 What happens when you excite novel assemblies of nanomaterials using structured light? Joint research between Tampere University of Technology (TUT) (Finland) and University of Tubingen (Germany) ha ... more 
Lyrid meteor shower to peak over the weekendWashington (UPI) Apr 20, 2018 The second major meteor shower of 2018 is set to peak this weekend. The Lyrids will deliver roughly 20 streaking meteors per hour during its peak. ... more 
Are we alone? NASA's new planet hunter aims to find outTampa (AFP) April 16, 2018 SpaceX postponed the launch of NASA's new planet-hunting mission Monday in order to verify the Falcon 9 rocket's navigation systems, the California-based company said. ... more |
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Close Call: Giant Asteroid Flies Through the Earth-Moon OrbitTucson AZ (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2018 With just a few hours' notice, a relatively large asteroid whipped through the Earth-moon orbit over the weekend. You may have missed it though; humanity only learned of the asteroid hours before th ... more  |
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Understanding Mercury's Magnetic TailCollege Park MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 Theoretical physicists used simulations to explain the unusual readings collected in 2009 by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission. The origin of ener ... more 
Newly discovered salty subglacial lakes could help search for life in solar systemAustin TX (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 Researchers from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have helped discover the first subglacial lakes ever found in the Canadian High Arctic. The two new lakes are a potenti ... more 
Chemical analysis technique gets major upgrade from Russian scientistsMoscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 Researchers from Skoltech and MIPT have developed a device for upgrading mass spectrometers, which are used to analyze the chemical makeup of unknown substances. The new device analyzes one substanc ... more 
SPHERE Reveals Fascinating Zoo of Discs Around Young Stars Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 12, 2018 New images from the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope are revealing the dusty discs surrounding nearby young stars in greater detail than previously achieved. They show a bizarre varie ... more 
Once upon a time, an exoplanet was discoveredWashington DC (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 In recent history, a very important achievement was the discovery, in 1995, of 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet ever found around a normal star other than the Sun. In a paper published ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
Legendary explorers and visionaries, real and fictitious, are among those immortalized by the IAU in the first set of official surface-feature names for Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The names were proposed by the New Horizons team and approved by IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for na ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 17, 2018 
By blasting a small iron sample with high-powered lasers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientists can replicate the extreme pressure and density conditions found inside the cores of large, rocky exoplanets.
The experiments have offered scientists unique insights into the core conditions found inside faraway super-Earths.
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 20, 2018  As Curiosity rover marches across Mars, the red planet's watery past comes into clearer focus.
In early 2017 scientists announced the discovery of possible desiccation cracks in Gale Crater, which was filled by lakes 3.5 billion years ago. Now, a new study has confirmed that these features are indeed desiccation cracks, and reveals fresh details about Mars' ancient climate.
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 18, 2018 
It's one of the deepest 'swimming pools' in Europe, but for three years has been helping preparations for a human return to the Moon. ESA's Neutral Buoyancy Facility at the European Astronaut Centre has been the site of the 'Moondive' study, using specially weighted spacesuits to simulate lunar gravity, which is just one sixth that of Earth.
The three-year study took place in the Centre's ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
Somewhere in the vastness of the universe another habitable planet likely exists. And it may not be that far - astronomically speaking - from our own solar system.
Distinguishing that planet's light from its star, however, can be problematic. But an international team led by UC Santa Barbara physicist Benjamin Mazin has developed a new instrument to detect planets around the nearest stars. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
Two thirds of Earth's surface are covered by water - and two thirds of Earth's atmosphere reside over the oceans, far from land and the traditional ways that people measure the gases and pollutants that cycle through the air and around the globe.
While satellites in space measuring the major gases can close some of that gap, it takes an aircraft to find out what's really happening in the c ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 23, 2018 
NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its fourth year of survey data. Since the mission was restarted in December 2013, after a period of hibernation, the asteroid- and comet-hunter has completely scanned the skies nearly eight times and has observed and characterized 29,375 objects in four years of operations. This total includes 788 near-Ea ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 11, 2018 
How the sun looks through the lens of a telescope depends on which frequency is being observed. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is capable of imaging the sun in a wide range of frequencies.
In a new composite image, shared this week by NASA, the sun is showcased in three different extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. As evidenced by the image, each frequency reveals different structures a ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 17, 2018  China plans to launch its heavy-lift carrier rocket, the Long March-5 Y3, in late 2018, after finding the cause of the failure of the Long March-5 Y2, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.
The Long March-5 Y2 rocket was launched from Wenchang Space Launch Center in the southern province of Hainan on July ... more |
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Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2018
Somewhere in the vastness of the universe another habitable planet likely exists. And it may not be that far - astronomically speaking - from our own solar system.
Distinguishing that planet's light from its star, however, can be problematic. But an international team led by UC Santa Barbara physicist Benjamin Mazin has developed a new instrument to detect planets around the nearest stars. ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 
Evidence that humans can genetically adapt to diving has been identified for the first time in a new study. The evidence suggests that the Bajau, a people group indigenous to parts of Indonesia, have genetically enlarged spleens which enable them to free dive to depths of up to 70m.
It has previously been hypothesised that the spleen plays an important role in enabling humans to free dive ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Apr 19, 2018  Standard flat imagery of space science is a thing of the past for researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center and Procter and Gamble Co. (P and G). Using the International Space Station's newly upgraded microscope, the Light Microscopy Module (LMM), scientists can now see microscopic particles in 3-dimensional images.
On April 12, researchers first viewed the particles, called colloids, in ... more |
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 Hobart, Australia (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
A new IMAS-led study has revealed a previously undocumented process where melting glacial ice sheets change the ocean in a way that further accelerates the rate of ice melt and sea level rise.
Led by IMAS PhD student Alessandro Silvano and published in the journal Science Advances, the research found that glacial meltwater makes the ocean's surface layer less salty and more buoyant, preven ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2018 
Just after the likely next head of US Pacific Command told Congress China's undersea warfare capability is one of the most pressing threats to the US, a new report says Beijing is establishing another base in the South China Sea for deploying manned and unmanned submersible vehicles.
The base would be located in Sanya, a city on the southern edge of China's Hainan island, Asia Times report ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 
A permanent Max Planck Independent Research Group under the leadership of Dr. M. Alessandra Papa has been established at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) in Hannover.
The primary goal of the research group "Searching for Continuous Gravitational Waves" is to make the first direct detection of gravitational waves from rapidly rotating neutr ... more |
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