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  Honolulu HI (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 Research at the University of Hawai?i at Manoa could play a major role in NASA's goal to travel to Mars in the 2030s, including what the astronauts could eat during that historic mission. A trip to Mars and back is estimated to take about two and half years, and ideally, their diet would be healthy while requiring minimal effort and energy. UH Manoa mechanical engineering student Aleca Borsuk may have the solution. "I picked a really hearty, heat tolerant, drought tolerant species of edible ... read more |
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More Earth-like than moon-likeBaton Rouge LA (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 Mars' mantle may be more complicated than previously thought. In a new study published in the Nature-affiliated journal Scientific Reports, researchers at LSU document geochemical changes over time ... more 
NASA mulls putting astronauts on deep space test flightMiami (AFP) Feb 25, 2017 The US space agency said Friday it is considering putting astronauts on an upcoming test flight of the deep space capsule Orion as it aims to orbit the Moon. ... more 
Opportunity leaving crater rim for the Plains of MeridianiPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2017 Opportunity is located on the rim of Endeavour crater, about to leave the rim and get back on the plains of Meridiani. The rover is not leaving the crater, just setting up for faster progress ... more  
Dawn discovers evidence for organic material on CeresPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2017 NASA's Dawn mission has found evidence for organic material on Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest body in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists using the spacecraft's visibl ... more |
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Scientists say Mars valley was flooded with water not long agoDublin, Ireland (UPI) Feb 15, 2017 Researchers have discovered the signature of periodic groundwater flooding in a Martian valley - further evidence that water flowed on Mars in the not-so-distant past. ... more 
Researchers pinpoint watery past on MarsDublin, Ireland (SPX) Feb 17, 2017 Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have discovered a patch of land in an ancient valley on Mars that appears to have been flooded by water in the not-too-distant past. In doing so, they have pi ... more 
Minor planet named Bernardperth, Australia (SPX) Feb 21, 2017 A minor planet in the Solar System will officially be known as Bernardbowen after Australian citizen science project theSkyNet won a competition to name the celestial body. The minor planet wa ... more 
Opportunity passes 44 kilometers of surface travel after 13 yearsPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 14, 2017 Opportunity is located on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is making progress towards the next major scientific objective, the gully less than a kilometer south of the current location. ... more 
Scientists shortlist three landing sites for Mars 2020Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 14, 2017 Participants in a landing site workshop for NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission have recommended three locations on the Red Planet for further evaluation. The three potential landing sites for N ... more 
Angling up for Mars scienceParis (ESA) Feb 08, 2017 ESA's latest Mars orbiter has moved itself into a new path on its way to achieving the final orbit for probing the Red Planet. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter arrived last October on a multiyear missi ... more |
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 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter plays crucial role in search for landing sites 
ISRO saves its Mars mission spacecraft from eclipseNew Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 10, 2017 Scientists from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) have successfully executed crucial orbital maneuvering on Mars spacecraft to give it another lease of life. The Mission was facing imm ... more 
Swirling spirals at the north pole of MarsParis (ESA) Feb 03, 2017 A new mosaic from ESA's Mars Express shows off the Red Planet's north polar ice cap and its distinctive dark spiralling troughs. The mosaic was generated from 32 individual orbit 'strips' captured b ... more 
Curiosity rover sharpens paradox of ancient MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 07, 2017 Mars scientists are wrestling with a problem. Ample evidence says ancient Mars was sometimes wet, with water flowing and pooling on the planet's surface. Yet, the ancient sun was about one-third les ... more 
Opportunity Takes Advantage of her Location to do a Mini Science CampaignPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 07, 2017 Opportunity is located on the rim of Endeavour Crater, heading south. The rover is trying to make progress towards the next major scientific objective, the gully about a kilometer south of the ... more |
  New Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 17, 2017 
ISRO has started a series of ground tests for testing the performance of sensors and actuators for soft landing of the Lander on the lunar surface.
India Space Research Organization (ISRO) has selected Russian company JSC Isotope for supply of Radionuclide curium-244 (Cm-244) that enables sources to determine chemical composition of any rocks and soils.
"Supplied by JSC Isotope sourc ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 01, 2017Complete Lunar-cy: The Earth Has Sprayed the Moon With Oxygen for Billennia  Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 01, 2017Private Space Race Heats Up, Moon Landing Expected in Late 2017  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2017LunaH-Map CubeSat to map the Moon's water deposits |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 21, 2017 
China plans to launch Shijian-13, its first high-throughput communications satellite, in April, the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Friday.
The 4.6-tonne satellite, with a message capacity of more than 20 GB, will be carried into orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, according to the CAST.
An increase in satellite throughput will provide better access to the Internet ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 15, 2017Chinese cargo spacecraft set for liftoff in April  Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2017China looks to Mars, Jupiter exploration Beijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2017China's first cargo spacecraft to leave factory |
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 Chincoteague Island, VA (SPX) Oct 31, 2016 
This week, astronauts are unloading more than 5,000 pounds of cargo and crew supplies from the Cygnus spacecraft to support dozens of science and research investigations. However, this shipment has special significance. This shipment arrived via an Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's pad 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
Rocket launches to the International Space ... moreMiami (AFP) Oct 23, 2016Orbital cargo ship arrives at space station  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2016New Instrument on ISS to Study Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases  Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 19, 2016Two Russians, one American blast off to ISS |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2017 
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, which has been in orbit around the gas giant since July 4, 2016, will remain in its current 53-day orbit for the remainder of the mission. This will allow Juno to accomplish its science goals, while avoiding the risk of a previously-planned engine firing that would have reduced the spacecraft's orbital period to 14 days.
"Juno is healthy, its science instrum ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2017Europa Flyby Mission Moves into Design Phase  Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 10, 2017NASA receives science report on Europa lander concept  Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 03, 2017New Horizons Refines Course for Next Flyby |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2017 
On Feb. 17, 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft was making the first-ever close pass over Saturn's moon Enceladus as it worked through its detailed survey of the planet's icy satellites. Exciting, to be sure, just for the thrill of exploration. But then Cassini's magnetometer instrument noticed something odd. Since NASA's two Voyager spacecraft made their distant flybys of Enceladus about 20 years p ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2017Close views show Saturn's Rings in unprecedented detail  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 23, 2017Cassini captures stunning view of Saturn moon Daphnis  Paris (ESA) Jan 17, 2017Catching Cassini's call |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
The Earth's core consists mostly of a huge ball of liquid metal lying at 3000 km beneath its surface, surrounded by a mantle of hot rock. Notably, at such great depths, both the core and mantle are subject to extremely high pressures and temperatures.
Furthermore, research indicates that the slow creeping flow of hot buoyant rocks - moving several centimeters per year - carries heat away f ... more San Francisco CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2017MDA to Acquire DigitalGlobe  Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 27, 2017Sentinel-2B satellite ready for launch from Kourou  Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 17, 2017NASA to launch sequel to successful Lightning Study Mission |
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 
Research at the University of Hawai?i at Manoa could play a major role in NASA's goal to travel to Mars in the 2030s, including what the astronauts could eat during that historic mission.
A trip to Mars and back is estimated to take about two and half years, and ideally, their diet would be healthy while requiring minimal effort and energy. UH Manoa mechanical engineering student Aleca Bor ... more Gabreski ANGB NY (SPX) Feb 27, 2017Guardsmen to test space capsule recovery systems  Moscow (AFP) Feb 24, 2017Russian cargo ship docks with space station  Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 21, 2017Mystery surrounds return of Pentagon's secretive X-37B spaceplane |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
Pluto has long been viewed as a distant, cold and mostly dead world, but the first spacecraft to pass by it last year revealed many surprises about this distant dwarf planet. Data from the New Horizons flyby finished downloading to Earth in October, and while it will take many years for scientists to complete their inventory and model the results, early studies offer intriguing hints of its comp ... more Sheffield UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2017Evidence of Star Wars-like Planetary System  Madison WI (SPX) Feb 22, 2017From Rocks, Evidence of a 'Chaotic Solar System'  Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 23, 2017  U.S. Navy research teams recently completed combat trials with the branch's Tactical Battle Manager system using unmanned aerial vehicles.
The Tactical Battle Manager system, or TBM, is a software platform designed to coordinate combat missions using "wingman" UAVs to assist manned and unmanned teams in combat. Researchers tested the system in a simulated beyond-visual-range combat scen ... more Washington (UPI) Feb 24, 2017U.S. Air Force to retire MQ-1 Predator drone in 2018  Jerusalem (AFP) Feb 23, 2017Israeli warplanes shoot down Hamas drone: army  Rome (UPI) Feb 21, 2017Leonardo supplying radars for Patroller drones |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
The National Science Foundation to provide critical funding to nationwide eclipse data-gathering effort. The Citizen Continental America Telescopic Eclipse project, or Citizen CATE for short, will be deploying at least 56 identical telescopes across the path of totality thanks to the financial backing of the National Science Foundation.
The NSF is providing the largest contribution for the ... more Washington (UPI) Feb 25, 2017Rare 'Ring of Fire' eclipse to cross Southern Hemisphere  Paris (ESA) Feb 17, 2017Setting Sun on Space Station Solar research  Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Feb 08, 2017What happened to the sun over 7,000 years ago? |
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 Miami (AFP) Feb 23, 2017  An unmanned cargo ship packed with food and supplies for astronauts arrived safely at the International Space Station Thursday, a day after SpaceX aborted the process due to a GPS problem.
This time, the Dragon cargo ship made a "perfect approach to the capture point," a NASA commentator said, and was grabbed by the station's robotic arm at 5:44 am (1044 GMT).
Astronauts Thomas Pesquet o ... more Hawthorne CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Spacex To Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond The Moon Next Year  Poker Flat Research Range AK (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Sounding Rocket Flies in Alaska to Study Auroras  Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 22, 2017Energia to make 2 modifications of Federatsiya spaceship |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Feb 24, 2017
Plumbing a 90 million-year-old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University has found evidence confirming a critical theory of how the planets in our solar system behave in their orbits around the sun.
The finding, published Feb. 23, 2017 in the journal Nature, is important because it provides the firs ... more Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) Feb 24, 2017NASA to blast James Webb Space Telescope with 'earsplitting' noise  Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 27, 2017Dawn of a New Era for Supernova 1987A  Austin TX (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Experiments call origin of Earth's iron into question |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 
Our Galaxy's gravitational field limits the accuracy of astrometric observations of distant objects. This is most clearly appeared for objects that are visually located behind the central regions of the Galaxy and the Galactic plane, where the deviation can be up to several dozen microarcseconds.
And, more importantly, the effect of this gravitational "noise" cannot be removed. This means ... more Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 17, 2017New method uses heat flow to levitate variety of objects  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2017Increasing the sensitivity of next-generation gravitational wave detectors  Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 10, 2017New laser technology from Hannover enables more sensitive gravitational-wave detectors |
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 Sheffield UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 
Astronomers based at the University of Sheffield have found evidence that stars are ripped apart by supermassive black holes 100 times more often than previously thought.
Until now, such stellar cannibalism - known as tidal disruption events, or TDEs - had only been found in surveys which observed many thousands of galaxies, leading astronomers to believe they were exceptionally rare: only ... more Cracow, Poland (SPX) Feb 24, 2017First trace of differences between matter and 'ordinary' antimatter  Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Changes of supermassive black hole in the center of NGC 2617 galaxy  Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 22, 2017Why it will take supercomputers, AI to solve time travel conundrum |
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 Oxford, England (UPI) Feb 23, 2017  An analysis of bot behavior over the course of a decades shows even "benevolent" bots bicker. In fact, researchers found evidence of bot-versus-bot fights lasting several years.
The bots in question were employed by Wikipedia to perform a variety of editing and maintenance tasks. Editing bots repair vandalized text, enforce content and language bans, check and fix spelling, insert links ... more Lausanne, Switzerland (UPI) Feb 17, 2017Scientists invent new, faster gait for six-legged robots  Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 14, 2017Now you can 'build your own' bio-bot  Washington (AFP) Feb 11, 2017How algorithms secretly run the world |
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Beijing (XNA) Feb 21, 2017
China plans to launch Shijian-13, its first high-throughput communications satellite, in April, the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Friday.
The 4.6-tonne satellite, with a message capacity of more than 20 GB, will be carried into orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, according to the CAST.
An increase in satellite throughput will provide better access to the Internet ... moreMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 15, 2017Chinese cargo spacecraft set for liftoff in April Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2017China looks to Mars, Jupiter exploration Beijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2017China's first cargo spacecraft to leave factory |
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