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  Lexington, KY (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 Space Tang reports it has been awarded funding for three projects focused on biomedical application development on the International Space Station (ISS) that will be supported by the NASA Research Opportunities for ISS Utilization. These projects will serve as a foundation for the development of capabilities and an infrastructure supporting the creation of a new biomedical market sector in the expanding space economy. "We appreciate the support from NASA for our efforts to establish biomedical dis ... read more |
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When the Moon dust settles, it won't settle in VIPER's wheelsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 Moon dust is a formidable adversary - the grains are as fine as powder and as sharp as tiny shards of glass. During the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon, the astronauts lamented how the dust found its ... more 
NASA awards contract to deliver science, tech to Moon ahead of human missionsHouston TX (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 NASA has selected Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California, to deliver and operate eight payloads - with nine science and technology instruments - to the Moon's South Pole in 2022, to help lay the ... more  
Australian researchers create new tools to detect gravitational waves.Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 A team from the University of Adelaide in South Australia are behind a new type of deformable mirror that could increase the sensitivity of ground-based gravitational wave detectors reaching into sp ... more  
Rethinking cosmology: Universe expansion may not be uniformParis (ESA) Apr 09, 2020 Astronomers have assumed for decades that the Universe is expanding at the same rate in all directions. A new study based on data from ESA's XMM-Newton, NASA's Chandra and the German-led ROSAT X-ray ... more |
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Journey to a metallic world called PsycheTempe AZ (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 The Arizona State University-led NASA Psyche mission, which is planned to launch in 2022, will travel to an asteroid named Psyche, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. This asteroid is of part ... more  
Sulfur 'spices' alien atmospheresBaltimore MD (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 They say variety is the spice of life, and now new discoveries from Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that a certain elemental 'variety' - sulfur - is indeed a 'spice' that can perhaps point to sign ... more 
Xplore receives USAF award for innovative commercial capabilities around the MoonSeattle WA (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 Xplore reports it has won an Air Force award to study positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) solutions for cislunar space. The award category, for commercial and technical innovations between the ... more 
NASA unveils more Moon to Mars mission plansWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 07, 2020 NASA's Artemis programme, named after the Greek goddess of the Moon, is part of an ambitious effort to place astronauts on the lunar surface and develop an ongoing human presence there by 2024. ... more  
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxiesClemson SC (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported the first definitive detection of a relativistic jet emerging from two colli ... more |
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NASA selects early-stage technology concepts for new, continued studyWashington DC (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 Future technologies that could image Exo Planets, enable quicker trips to Mars and send robots to explore ocean worlds might have started out as NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC). The program ... more  |
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Russian scientists propose new approach to measuring atomsSaint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 Today, when new drugs are designed with the help of supercomputers, and electronic devices operate on a nanoscale, it is very important for scientists to understand how neighboring molecules behave ... more 
Something is lurking in the heart of Quasar 3C 279Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 One year ago, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration published the first image of a black hole in the nearby radio galaxy M 87. Now the collaboration has extracted new information from the ... more 
Are gamma-ray bursts powered by a star's collapsing magnetic fields?Bath UK (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 When a massive star in a distant galaxy collapses, forming a black hole, two giant jets of light-emitting plasma shoot from its core. These extremely bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powe ... more 
Humans are not the first to repurpose CRISPRCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 In recent years, the development of CRISPR technologies and gene-editing scissors in particular have taken the world by storm. Indeed, scientists have learned how to harness these clever natural sys ... more  
Data from NASA's Cassini may explain Saturn's atmospheric mysteryPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2020 The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants - Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune - are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 
The ice giant Uranus' unusual attributes have long puzzled scientists. All of the planets in our Solar System revolve around the Sun in the same direction and in the same plane, which astronomers believe is a vestige of how our Solar System formed from a spinning disc of gas and dust. Most of the planets in our Solar System also rotate in the same direction, with their poles orientated perpendic ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 
Future technologies that could image Exo Planets, enable quicker trips to Mars and send robots to explore ocean worlds might have started out as NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC). The program, which invests in early-stage technology ideas from NASA, industry and academic researchers across the country, has selected 23 potentially revolutionary concepts with a total award value of $7 milli ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 06, 2020 
If you could bring something back from Mars to Earth, what would you choose? This question is becoming reality, as ESA opens a call for scientists to join a NASA team working to determine which martian samples should be collected and stored by the Perseverance rover set to launch this Summer.
Perseverance is a standalone mission seeking signs of habitable conditions on our neighbour planet ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 
NASA has selected Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California, to deliver and operate eight payloads - with nine science and technology instruments - to the Moon's South Pole in 2022, to help lay the foundation for human expeditions to the lunar surface beginning in 2024.
The payloads, which include instruments to assess the composition of the lunar surface, test precision landing technolog ... more |
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 Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 
An international team of astronomers has uncovered unusual features in the radio galaxy ESO 137-006 using MeerKAT data.
Launched in 2018, the South African MeerKAT radio telescope is a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which aims to answer fundamental astrophysical questions about the nature of objects in the Universe.
ESO 137-006 is a fascinating galaxy residing in the ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 09, 2020 
This week marks 10 years since a Dnepr rocket blasted off from an underground silo in the remote desert steppe of Kazakhstan, launching one of ESA's most remarkable Earth-observing satellites into orbit.
Tucked safely within the rocket fairing, CryoSat had a tough job ahead: to measure variations in the height of Earth's ice and reveal how climate change is affecting the polar regions. Car ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 
The Arizona State University-led NASA Psyche mission, which is planned to launch in 2022, will travel to an asteroid named Psyche, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. This asteroid is of particular interest in that it is rich in metal and may be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet, one of the building blocks of the sun's planetary system.
While we'll have to wait until t ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 
NASA has selected a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms - known as solar particle storms - into planetary space. Not only will such information improve understanding of how our solar system works, but it ultimately can help protect astronauts traveling to the Moon and Mars by providing better information on how the Sun's radiation affects the space ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 07, 2020 
China has been testing high-tech parachutes to control rocket debris and make space launches safer, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
During the March 9 launch of a Long March-3B rocket carrying a satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, a booster was equipped with parachutes and control devices.
After the booster separated from the rocke ... more |
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Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Apr 09, 2020
An international team of astronomers has uncovered unusual features in the radio galaxy ESO 137-006 using MeerKAT data.
Launched in 2018, the South African MeerKAT radio telescope is a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which aims to answer fundamental astrophysical questions about the nature of objects in the Universe.
ESO 137-006 is a fascinating galaxy residing in the ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 
Genetic information from an 800.000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results from the University of Copenhagen shed light on one of the branching points in the human family tree, reaching much further back in time than previously possible.
An important advancement in human evolution studies has been achieved after scientists retrieved the oldest human geneti ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 09, 2020 
The first European external commercial facility on the International Space Station arrived at its new home last week: the Columbus laboratory module.
Bartolomeo, named after the younger brother of Christopher Columbus, was installed by robotic arm on the forward-facing side of the space laboratory on 2 April 2020.
The platform, with blue hinges centre-right of the photo, is at the en ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 03, 2020 
Previous research studies have revealed how rising temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic may impact the rest of Earth's climate over seasons, years and even longer. Now, two researchers from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, are making the argument that the effects may actually be felt in a matter of weeks, but more robust, observational-based analysis is needed to fully understand how q ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 
When modeling the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ocean-climate cycle, adding satellite sea surface salinity - or saltiness - data significantly improves model accuracy, according to a new NASA study.
ENSO is an irregular cycle of warm and cold climate events called El Nino and La Nina. In normal years, strong easterly trade winds blow from the Americas toward southeast Asia, but in an ... more |
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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 
A team from the University of Adelaide in South Australia are behind a new type of deformable mirror that could increase the sensitivity of ground-based gravitational wave detectors reaching into space.
Gravitational waves are faint ripples in space time caused by distant events like collisions between black holes or neutron stars.
These cosmic waves are detected at places like the A ... more |
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