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  New Delhi (Sputnik) May 20, 2019 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has started to offer details about its most ambitious space mission to date, Chandrayaan 2, in bits and pieces, indicating that the agency is known for cost-effective launches among satellite-makers and may not delay the second lunar mission any further. ISRO has announced that all the modules are being prepared for the launch of Chandrayaan-2 during the window of 9 July to July 16, 2019, with an expected Moon landing on 6 September 2019. The Cha ... read more |
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NASA Team Teaches Algorithms to Identify LifeGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 19, 2019 If you've seen dental plaque or pond scum, you've met a biofilm. Among the oldest forms of life on Earth, these ubiquitous, slimy buildups of bacteria grow on nearly everything exposed to moisture a ... more 
Lunar South Pole Atlas Is Reference for Mission PlannersHouston TX (SPX) May 19, 2019 The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), managed by Universities Space Research Association (USRA), has a new online resource available for the Moon's south pole. Given NASA's recent direction to im ... more 
NASA Taps 11 American Companies to Advance Human Lunar LandersWashington DC (SPX) May 19, 2019 NASA has selected 11 companies to conduct studies and produce prototypes of human landers for its Artemis lunar exploration program. This effort will help put American astronauts - the first woman a ... more  
CosmoGAN: Training a neural network to study dark matterBerkeley CA (SPX) May 19, 2019 As cosmologists and astrophysicists delve deeper into the darkest recesses of the universe, their need for increasingly powerful observational and computational tools has expanded exponentially. Fro ... more |
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Beresheet Impact Site SpottedWashington DC (SPX) May 16, 2019 The photo above shows the landing site of the Israeli Beresheet spacecraft on a region of the Moon called Sea of Serenity, or Mare Serenitatis in Latin. On April 11, 2019, SpaceIL, a non-profi ... more  
NASA Scientist Receives Patent for Innovative Technique for Measuring Space Weather PhenomenaGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2019 A NASA expert in space-weather phenomena has won a patent for an idea that, if fully implemented, would create the world's largest scientific instrument for detecting a condition that has caused pow ... more  
'Extreme Crunch' Looming if No Limits Put on Space Mining 'Gold Rush' Washington DC (Sputnik) May 15, 2019 Researchers have been proposing to set a special "tripwire" that would issue a warning once humanity is close to mining one eighth of the solar system, which has been preliminarily estimated to occu ... more 
Strong Magnetic Storm May Cause Satellites to Deorbit - Russian AcademyMoscow (Sputnik) May 15, 2019 One of the strongest magnetic storms in recent years, which began earlier on 14 May and is forecast to continue through the evening, may increase the possibility of spacecraft deorbiting and cause p ... more 
Small, hardy planets can survive stellar end sequenceWarwick UK (SPX) May 15, 2019 Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed and swallowed up when their host star dies, new research from the University of Warwick has found. ... more |
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 UCLA students touch space with a microgravity experiment 
10 years ago, Hubble's final servicing mission made it better than everGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 14, 2019 Astronaut Mike Massimino floated next to the Hubble Space Telescope's cylindrical body and began to remove the screws that fastened a handrail to one of the telescope's instrument panels. The first ... more  |
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Study finds new Luna wrinklesPasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2019 Billions of years ago, Earth's Moon formed vast basins called "mare" (pronounced MAR-ay)*. Scientists have long assumed these basins were dead, still places where the last geologic activity occurred ... more 
Shrinking Moon may be generating moonquakesGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 14, 2019 The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, getting more than about 150 feet (50 meters) skinnier over the last several hundred million years. Just as a grape wrinkles as it shrinks down to a raisi ... more 
Lunar tunnel engineers excited by boring Moon coloniesNaples, Italy (AFP) May 10, 2019 As space agencies prepare to return humans to the Moon, top engineers are racing to design a tunnel boring machine capable of digging underground colonies for the first lunar inhabitants. ... more 
NASA dubs 2024 Moon mission 'Artemis,' asks for $1.6 billionWashington (AFP) May 14, 2019 NASA's next mission to the Moon will be called Artemis, the US space agency announced Monday, though it's still looking for the money to make the journey happen by its accelerated 2024 deadline. ... more  
Gravitational waves leave a detectable mark, physicists sayIthaca NY (SPX) May 10, 2019 Gravitational waves, first detected in 2016, offer a new window on the universe, with the potential to tell us about everything from the time following the Big Bang to more recent events in galaxy c ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) May 17, 2019 
NASA's New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69. Analyzing just the first sets of data gathered during the New Horizons spacecraft's New Year's 2019 flyby of MU69 (nicknamed Ultima Thule) the mission team quickly discovered an object far more complex than expected. The team pu ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 19, 2019 
If you've seen dental plaque or pond scum, you've met a biofilm. Among the oldest forms of life on Earth, these ubiquitous, slimy buildups of bacteria grow on nearly everything exposed to moisture and leave behind common tell-tale textures and structures identifying them as living or once-living organisms.
Without training and sophisticated microscopes, however, these biofilms can be diffi ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 20, 2019 
An engineer inspects the completed spacecraft that will carry NASA's next Mars rover to the Red Planet, prior to a test in the Space Simulator Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
From the top down, and suspended by cables, is the complete cruise stage, which will power and guide the Mars 2020 spacecraft on its seven-month voyage to the Red Planet.
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 19, 2019 
NASA has selected 11 companies to conduct studies and produce prototypes of human landers for its Artemis lunar exploration program. This effort will help put American astronauts - the first woman and next man - on the Moon's south pole by 2024 and establish sustainable missions by 2028.
"To accelerate our return to the Moon, we are challenging our traditional ways of doing business. We wi ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) May 19, 2019 
As cosmologists and astrophysicists delve deeper into the darkest recesses of the universe, their need for increasingly powerful observational and computational tools has expanded exponentially. From facilities such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to supercomputers like Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Cori system at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) fa ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 20, 2019 
A thorough understanding of the 'solid Earth' system is essential for deciphering the links between processes occurring deep inside Earth and those occurring nearer the surface that lead to seismic activity such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the rise of mountains and the location of underground natural resources. Thanks to gravity and magnetic data from satellites along with seismology, ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 16, 2019 
Bedbugs are notoriously difficult to eradicate. Not even the fiery asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs could rid Earth of its bedbug infestation.
DNA analysis of some 30 different bedbug species showed the insect has been around for at least 115 million years.
Previously, scientists suggested bedbugs emerged between 50 and 60 million years ago. Bats were supposedly the b ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2019 
A NASA expert in space-weather phenomena has won a patent for an idea that, if fully implemented, would create the world's largest scientific instrument for detecting a condition that has caused power outages in the past.
Antti Pulkkinen, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and his team have started implementing the idea. They've installed scientific s ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 17, 2019 
China has developed a number of new-generation carrier rockets to take the country's space industry to the next level.
b>The Long March-7 br> /b>
The Long March-7 is a medium-sized carrier rocket with high reliability and safety. It is designed to launch cargo vehicles during the construction of China's manned space station project and meet the long-term demand for upgrading manned carri ... more |
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Berkeley CA (SPX) May 19, 2019
As cosmologists and astrophysicists delve deeper into the darkest recesses of the universe, their need for increasingly powerful observational and computational tools has expanded exponentially. From facilities such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to supercomputers like Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Cori system at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) fa ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 15, 2019 
Neuroscientists have identified two different nerve cell populations within the brain's substantia nigra, a relay station that controls a diverse array of movements.
Physical movements are executed through the coordination of myriad neural signals. Like a relay center, sending and receiving information, the brain's substantia nigra performs the coordination.
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 19, 2019 
In an effort to increase the ability to provide astronauts nutrients on long-duration missions as the agency plans to sustainably return to the Moon and move forward to Mars, the Veg-PONDS-02 experiment is currently underway aboard the International Space Station.
The present method of growing plants in space uses seed bags, referred to as pillows, that astronauts push water into with a sy ... more |
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 Hobart, Australia (SPX) May 15, 2019  An innovative use of instruments that measure the ocean near Antarctica has helped Australian scientists to get a clearer picture of how the ocean is melting the Antarctic ice sheet.
Until now, most measurements in Antarctica were made during summer, leaving winter conditions, when the sea freezes over with ice, largely unknown.
But scientists from IMAS and the CSIRO, supported by AC ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 16, 2019 
As our climate changes, the availability of freshwater is a growing issue for many people around the world. Understanding the water cycle and how the climate and human usage is causing shifts in natural cycling processes is vital to safeguarding supplies. While numerous satellites measure individual components of the water cycle, it has never been described as a whole over a particular region - ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 10, 2019 
It took only 10 minutes and a ride aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard reusable rocket for 11 students in the Bruin Spacecraft Group to make history.
At 6:32 a.m. on May 2, their experimental pump designed for use in zero-gravity environments, named "Blue Dawn ," completed its flight into a low-Earth orbit and freefall - thereby becoming the first space payload developed and built entirely ... more |
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