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  Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 How do researchers explore nature on its most fundamental level? They build "supermicroscopes" that can resolve atomic and subatomic details. This won't work with visible light, but they can probe the tiniest dimensions of matter with beams of electrons, either by using them directly in particle colliders or by converting their energy into bright X-rays in X-ray lasers. At the heart of such scientific discovery machines are particle accelerators that first generate electrons at a source and then boost t ... read more |
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Seeking innovative ideas for exploring lunar cavesParis (ESA) Aug 22, 2019 How would you design a system to detect, map and explore caves on the Moon? Our latest hunt for ideas is seeking novel initiatives that address this question. While the surface of the Moon has ... more 
MDA selected to build robotic interfaces for Canadarm3 on Lunar GatewayBrampton, Canada (SPX) Aug 21, 2019 MDA, a Maxar company, has been awarded two contracts from the Canadian Space Agency for work on Phase A of the Gateway External Robotic Interfaces project. The Gateway External Robotic Interfa ... more  
Study: NASA data shows Earth-sized exoplanet lacks atmosphereWashington (UPI) Aug 19, 2019 A rocky planet orbiting a star beyond the Sun does not have an atmosphere, according to a study released Monday. ... more 
Astrobotic selects United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur Rocket for its first Moon missionPittsburgh PA (SPX) Aug 21, 2019 Astrobotic reports it has selected United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket in a competitive commercial procurement to launch its Peregrine lunar lander to the Moon in 2021. "We ar ... more |
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Unique electrical properties in quantum materials can be controlled using lightPhiladelphia PA (SPX) Aug 19, 2019 Insights from quantum physics have allowed engineers to incorporate components used in circuit boards, optical fibers, and control systems in new applications ranging from smartphones to advanced mi ... more  
Giant Impact Disrupted Jupiter's CoreBern, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 New interior models of Jupiter based on data gathered by NASA's Juno mission suggested that the giant gas planet might not have a small compact core but rather a diluted, "fuzzy" one. Now, an intern ... more  
Data rate increase on the International Space Station supports future explorationGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 20, 2019 NASA recently doubled the rate at which data from the International Space Station returns to Earth, paving the way for similar future upgrades on Gateway, NASA's upcoming outpost in lunar orbit, and ... more 
India's Moon probe enters lunar orbitBangalore, India (AFP) Aug 20, 2019 India's Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Tuesday, executing one of the trickiest manoeuvres on its historic mission to the Moon. ... more 
NASA asks American companies to deliver supplies for Artemis Lunar missionsKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 20, 2019 In another major step toward landing American astronauts on the lunar surface by 2024, NASA is asking industry to respond to a Request for Proposals to deliver cargo, science experiments and supplie ... more |
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 Scientists to use near-Earth object telescope to observe cosmic mergers 
Mission to Jupiter's icy moon confirmedPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 20, 2019 An icy ocean world in our solar system that could tell us more about the potential for life on other worlds is coming into focus with confirmation of the Europa Clipper mission's next phase. T ... more  |
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Lab-based dark energy experiment narrows search options for elusive forceLondon, UK (SPX) Aug 20, 2019 An experiment to test a popular theory of dark energy has found no evidence of new forces, placing strong constraints on related theories. Dark energy is the name given to an unknown force tha ... more  
Best of both worlds: asteroids and massive mergersTucson AZ (SPX) Aug 19, 2019 The race is on. Since the construction of technology able to detect the ripples in space and time triggered by collisions from massive objects in the universe, astronomers around the world have been ... more
NASA Marshall to lead Artemis Program's human lunar lander developmentHuntsville AL (SPX) Aug 19, 2019 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine was joined Friday by U.S. Representatives Mo Brooks and Robert Aderholt of Alabama and Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center i ... more
Chandrayaan-2 mission to reach Lunar orbit on 20 AugustNew Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 14, 2019 India's second moon mission the 'Chandrayaan-2' is expected to reach the orbit of the moon on 20 August and land on the lunar surface on 7 September, ISRO chief Dr K. Sivan said on Monday. Ind ... more 
Boosting Space Situational Awareness: SMC awards SBIR Phase 2 contractLos Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Directorate of Special Programs (DirSP) awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 2 contract to Bluestaq LLC who will develop the ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 20, 2019 
An icy ocean world in our solar system that could tell us more about the potential for life on other worlds is coming into focus with confirmation of the Europa Clipper mission's next phase.
The decision allows the mission to progress to completion of final design, followed by the construction and testing of the entire spacecraft and science payload.
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 Paris, France (SPX) Aug 20, 2019 
A team of astronomers led by Anne-Marie Lagrange, a CNRS researcher at the Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (CNRS/Universite Grenoble Alpes), has discovered a second giant planet in orbit around Beta Pictoris, a star that is relatively young (23 million years old) and close (63.4 light-years) and surrounded by a disk of dust.
The Beta Pictoris system has fascinated a ... more |
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 
Scientists have taken an important step towards revealing the mysterious source of methane on Mars, by refining estimates of the gas in the planet's atmosphere.
The methane puffing from a huge crater on Mars could be a sign of life or other non-biological activity under the planet's surface. Gale crater, which is 154 km in diameter and about 3.8 billion years old, is thought by some to con ... more |
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 Bangalore, India (AFP) Aug 20, 2019 
India's Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Tuesday, executing one of the trickiest manoeuvres on its historic mission to the Moon.
After four weeks in space, the craft completed its Lunar Orbit Insertion as planned, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement.
The insertion "was completed successfully today at 0902 hrs IST (0332 GMT) as planned, using t ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2019  Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the discovery of the most massive star ever known to be destroyed by a supernova explosion, challenging known models of how massive stars die and providing insight into the death of the first stars in the universe.
First noticed in November 2016 by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia satellite, three year ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 
Capella Space, an information services company that provides on-demand Earth observation imagery, has announced its partnership with SpaceNet, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating open source, artificial intelligence (AI) applied research for geospatial applications.
Capella joins the collaborative SpaceNet partnership alongside In-Q-Tel's (IQT) CosmiQ Works, Maxar Technologi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 16, 2019 
Scientists have reprogrammed the Catalina Sky Survey's near-Earth object telescopes to look for both asteroids and cosmic mergers.
"Catalina Sky Survey has all of this infrastructure for their asteroid survey," Michael Lundquist, postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona, said in a news release. "So we have deployed additional software to take gravitational wave alert ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2019 
NASA has selected two proposals to demonstrate small satellite technologies to improve science observations in deep space, which could help NASA develop better models to predict space weather events that can affect astronauts and spacecraft.
"This is the first time that our heliophysics program has funded this kind of technology demonstration," said Peg Luce, deputy director of the Helioph ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 21, 2019 
China's new communication satellite ChinaSat 18, sent into space on Monday, has experienced abnormalities, and space engineers are investigating the cause.
The ChinaSat 18 satellite was launched at 8:03 p.m. (Beijing Time) on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
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Boston MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2019 Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the discovery of the most massive star ever known to be destroyed by a supernova explosion, challenging known models of how massive stars die and providing insight into the death of the first stars in the universe.
First noticed in November 2016 by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia satellite, three year ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 
It has long been thought that the brain size of anthropoid primates-a diverse group of modern and extinct monkeys, humans, and their nearest kin-progressively increased over time. New research on one of the oldest and most complete fossil primate skulls from South America shows instead that the pattern of brain evolution in this group was far more checkered.
The study, published in the jou ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 21, 2019  NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan will conduct a spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday to install a docking adapter, NASA said on Tuesday.
"NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan, assigned as flight engineers for Expedition 60 aboard the International Space Station, will begin a planned six-and-a-half-hour s ... more |
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 Copenhagen (AFP) Aug 21, 2019  The diplomatic row that has erupted between Washington and Copenhagen over Greenland is just one part of a broader strategic battle being waged over control of the Arctic, according to one expert.
US President Donald Trump has cancelled a trip to Denmark and launched a war of words with his Danish counterpart, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, after she rejected his idea of the US buying Gre ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Aug 15, 2019 
Dozens of countries will push at a global meeting for regulations on trade in 18 types of shark and ray, with conservationists warning Thursday of looming extinction for many species.
"Sharks and rays are pretty much unmanaged still in fisheries around the world and are disappearing before our eyes," Luke Warwick of the Wildlife Conservation Society told reporters in Geneva.
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Aug 09, 2019  Researchers have, for the first time, identified the sufficient and necessary conditions that the low-energy limit of quantum gravity theories must satisfy to preserve the main features of the Unruh effect.
In a new study, led by researchers from SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Waterloo, a solid theoretica ... more |
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