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  Los Alamos NM (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 The discovery of boron on Mars gives scientists more clues about whether life could have ever existed on the planet, according to a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "Because borates may play an important role in making RNA - one of the building blocks of life - finding boron on Mars further opens the possibility that life could have once arisen on the planet," said Patrick Gasda, a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead author on the paper. " ... read more |
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Life on Mars: Let's Try Oman Desert First for Space MissionMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 05, 2017 Life on Mars may still be light years away - but it clearly hasn't stopped us from thinking ahead. Next year six space-suited and booted astronauts will head to the Dhofar desert in Oman in an attem ... more 
Opportunity seeks energy-favorable locations to recharge during winterPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2017 Opportunity is exploring "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour crater as mission planners prepare to park the rover for a winter layover. Winter substainally constrains the energy ... more 
For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the SunPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2017 This month, movements of the planets will put Mars almost directly behind the sun, from Earth's perspective, causing curtailed communications between Earth and Mars. NASA will refrain from sen ... more 
Tributes to wetter times on MarsParis (ESA) Jul 14, 2017 A dried-out river valley with numerous tributaries is seen in this recent view of the Red Planet captured by ESA's Mars Express. This section of the Libya Montes region, which sits on the equator a ... more |
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Opportunity will spend three weeks at current location due to Solar ConjunctionPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2017 Opportunity is in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has arrived at the location within the valley where she will spend the approximately three-week solar conjuncti ... more 
Curiosity Mars Rover Begins Study of Ridge DestinationPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2017 The car-size NASA rover on a Martian mountain, Curiosity, has begun its long-anticipated study of an iron-bearing ridge forming a distinctive layer on the mountain's slope. Since before Curios ... more 
Citizen scientists spot Martian 'spiders' in unexpected placesWashington (UPI) Aug 30, 2017 Bowie wasn't lying about Ziggy's bandmates - there are spiders from Mars. Sort of. ... more 
Big dishes band togetherParis (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 Earlier this month, radio dishes from three deep-space networks combined to catch faint 'survival' whispers from one of ESA's Mars orbiters, underlining the value of international collaboration for ... more 
New mini tool has massive implicationsSalt Lake City UT (SPX) Aug 31, 2017 Brigham Young University researchers have created a miniaturized, portable version of a tool now capable of analyzing Mars' atmosphere - and that's just one of its myriad possible uses. For de ... more 
Opportunity staying put for a bit to image valleyPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 28, 2017 Opportunity is located in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has been staying in place collecting extensive Panoramic Camera (Pancam) stereo panoramas. ... more |
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 NASA's Next Mars Mission to Investigate Interior of Red Planet 
The Moving Martian Bow ShockParis (ESA) Aug 23, 2017 As the energetic particles of the solar wind speed across interplanetary space, their motion is modified by objects in their path. A study, based on data from ESA's Mars Express orbiter, has thrown ... more 
Mars weather: 'Cloudy, chance of nighttime snowstorm'Paris (AFP) Aug 21, 2017 Mars is buffeted by turbulent snowstorms that occur only at night, according to a study released Monday that revises our understanding of Red Planet weather. ... more 
Mars 2020 mission to use smart methods to seek signs of past lifeWashington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which will look for signs of past life on Mars, will use smart methods originally developed to find the oldest life on Earth, according the mission's Deputy Project Scienti ... more  
Tracking a solar eruption through the Solar SystemParis (ESA) Aug 17, 2017 Ten spacecraft, from ESA's Venus Express to NASA's Voyager-2, felt the effect of a solar eruption as it washed through the Solar System while three other satellites watched, providing a unique persp ... more |
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  Paris (ESA) Aug 22, 2017 
The European Space Agency (ESA) invites members of the science community in Europe to propose ideas for research that could be performed on the Deep Space Gateway, a crewed spaceship in lunar vicinity.
The Deep Space Gateway is a strategic platform that is being prepared by the International Space Station partner agencies to be humanity's next step beyond Low-Earth Orbit and out into the S ... more San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2017Analysis of a 'rusty' lunar rock suggests the moon's interior is dry  Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 21, 2017Roscosmos Approves Luna-25 Space Station Model in Moon Exploration Project  New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Moon's magnetic field lasted far longer than once believed |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 31, 2017 
China and Russia plan to sign an agreement in October on joint space exploration from 2018 and 2022, which would benefit both nations particularly in manned and future missions to the moon, CGTN reported on Monday.
The bilateral agreement will cover five areas including lunar to deep space exploration, special materials development, collaborations in the area of satellite systems, Earth re ... more Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2017Kuaizhou-11 to send six satellites into space  Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017Russia, China May Sign 5-Year Agreement on Joint Space Exploration  Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017ESA and Chinese astronauts train together |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Sep 11, 2017 
Using Earth's gravity to give it an orbital boost, OSIRIS-REx will rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu in 2018. The Earth flyby will give astronomers and those with high-end cameras a chance to view this rare encounter.
OSIRIS-REx is on an extraordinary journey to bring back to Earth a sample from the surface of the carbonaceous asteroid Bennu that could potentially record the early history ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2017Radar Reveals Two Moons Orbiting Asteroid Florence  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 04, 2017NASA's Asteroid-Bound Spacecraft to Slingshot Past Earth  Paris (ESA) Sep 01, 2017Close encounters of the stellar kind |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2017 
Scientists on NASA's Juno mission have observed massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter's polar regions that contribute to the giant planet's powerful auroras - only not in ways the researchers expected.
Examining data collected by the ultraviolet spectrograph and energetic-particle detector instruments aboard the Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft, a team led by Barry Mauk of the Jo ... more Washington DC (SPX) Sep 11, 2017Pluto features given first official names  Washington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2017Juno Scientists Prepare for Seventh Science Pass of Jupiter  Washington DC (SPX) Sep 06, 2017New Horizons Files Flight Plan for 2019 Flyby |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 11, 2017 
As the Cassini spacecraft nears the end of a long journey rich with scientific and technical accomplishments, it is already having a powerful influence on future exploration. In revealing that Saturn's moon Enceladus has many of the ingredients needed for life, the mission has inspired a pivot to the exploration of "ocean worlds" that has been sweeping planetary science over the past decade.
... more Paris (ESA) Sep 11, 2017Europe's Science Highlights With Cassini  Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2017Cassini's 21st dive is over  Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 30, 2017Saturn Plunge Nears for Cassini Spacecraft |
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 Palo Alto CA (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 
In a first for the industry, six satellites, built in California, to be launched in California, for a California company have arrived at the Vandenberg Air Force Base, where they are scheduled to be launched on a Minotaur rocket in October.
Space Systems Loral (SSL), a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, built the six high-resolution small satellites for Plane ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2017Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows  Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 04, 2017Pinpointing the sources of trans-Pacific dust  Essex, UK (SPX) Sep 01, 2017Teledyne e2v sensors will play a vital role in ESA's FLEX satellite mission to study plant health and stress from space |
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 Berlin (AFP) Sept 5, 2017  Berlin's IFA technology fair, Europe's largest and a bellwether for the Christmas season, draws to a close Wednesday. Here is a quick overview of what's hot and what's not in the aisles.
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- Tablets: the fever that greeted Apple's launch of the iPad in 2010 has long dissipated. Smartphones boast increasingly large screens and high performance in a handier package than the no ... more Miami (AFP) Sept 5, 2017'Star Trek' actor Shatner sends message to Voyager  Paris (ESA) Sep 05, 2017ESA retrieves NASA astronauts with new procedure in wake of hurricane  Washington (AFP) Sept 3, 2017Record-breaking NASA astronaut comes back to Earth |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 
A new X-ray study has revealed that stars like the Sun and their less massive cousins calm down surprisingly quickly after a turbulent youth. This result has positive implications for the long-term habitability of planets orbiting such stars.
A team of researchers used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton to see how the X-ray brightness of stars similar to the Su ... more Washington DC (SPX) Sep 07, 2017Could TRAPPIST-1's Seven Earth-size Planets Have Gas Giant Siblings  Boston MA (SPX) Sep 01, 2017Ultraviolet Light May Be Ultra Important in Search for Life  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 05, 2017FINESSE Mission to Investigate Atmospheres of Hundreds of Alien Worlds |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 08, 2017 
The fifth launch of the X-37B robot spaceplane almost makes this vehicle look routine. This time, liftoff has come with a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX instead of an Atlas V, a change from old-school launchers to NewSpace.
By itself, this was controversial, but the spacecraft is in orbit as requested. Security for this launch seems to have been just as tight as for previous launches, with no ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 8, 2017AUD counter-drone system upgraded by Blighter  Riga, Latvia (SPX) Sep 07, 2017Atlas Dynamics Introduces Fixed Wing UAV with 5-Hour Flight Time, 150 Kilometer Operational Range  Riga, Latvia (SPX) Sep 07, 2017Atlas Dynamics Unveils NEST Smart Protective Charging Station for Enhanced Performance of Atlas Pro Platform |
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 7, 2017  Two high-intensity solar flares were emitted Wednesday, the second of which was the most intense recorded since the start of this sun cycle in December 2008, NASA said.
These radiation flares, which can disrupt communications satellites, GPS and power grids by reaching the upper Earth atmosphere, were detected and captured by the US Space Agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
According to ... more Paris (ESA) Sep 01, 2017Space-inspired Star Storm to premiere next month  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2017NASA's Lunar mission captures solar eclipse as seen from the moon  Joint Base Charleston SC (AFNS) Aug 28, 2017Charleston C-17 flies on "dark side of the moon" |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Sep 11, 2017 
Ten students from UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences took a long drive from Buffalo to the desert of New Mexico in late June, with a rocket called Volans Tauri in tow.
It was so hot, recalls Pete Wilkins, a rising senior majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering, that even under a tent, his camp chair melted from the 110-degree heat - and it was set up under a tent.
... more Patrick AFB FL (SPX) Sep 07, 201745th Space Wing carries out successful launch while Irma looms off coast  Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) Sep 04, 2017NASA Concludes Summer of Testing with Fifth Flight Controller Hot Fire  Port Vila, Vanuatu (SPX) Sep 05, 2017Kacific selects SpaceX to provide launch service |
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 Dwingeloo, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 
Astronomers have discovered two rapidly rotating radio pulsars with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope in the Netherlands by investigating unknown gamma-ray sources uncovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The first pulsar (PSR J1552+5437) rotates 412 times per second. The second pulsar (PSR J0952-0607) rotates 707 times per second, making it the fastest-spinning pulsar ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 07, 2017'Extreme' Telescopes Find the 2nd-Fastest-Spinning Pulsar  Toronto, Canada (SPX) Sep 11, 2017Canadian ingenuity crafts game-changing technology for CHIME telescope  Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 05, 2017Stellar Corpse Sheds Light on Origin of Cosmic Rays |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 
ESA this week helped to provide children with disabilities the opportunity to experience weightlessness and lunar gravity on aircraft flights.
Eight children from five ESA member states - UK, France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy -boarded the converted Airbus A310 in Bordeaux, France on 24 August as part of the Kid's Weightless Dreams campaign organised by Novespace and Reves de Gosse.
... more Bozeman MT (SPX) Jul 26, 2017MSU gravitational physicist receives NASA award to explore extreme gravity and the universe  Hull UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017First look at gravitational dance that drives stellar formation  Warwick UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017Telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves launched |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 
UCLA physicists have proposed new theories for how the universe's first black holes might have formed and the role they might play in the production of heavy elements such as gold, platinum and uranium.
A long-standing question in astrophysics is whether the universe's very first black holes came into existence less than a second after the Big Bang or whether they formed only millions of y ... more Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 07, 2017Aussie quantum tech has its sights set on human biochemistry  Iowa City IA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017Researchers propose how the universe became filled with light  Toronto, Canada (SPX) Aug 29, 2017Record-breaking galaxy 5 billion light-years away shows we live in a magnetic universe |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 7, 2017 
In the suburbs of China's capital, a 32-year-old engineer creates the kind of larger-than-life, shapeshifting robots that most have only seen in "Transformers" movies.
Sun Shiqian's roomy warehouse on the outskirts of Beijing houses a hulking menagerie, from a sleepy cow to a fiery metal dragon that stands 4.9 metres (16 feet) tall at the flip of a switch.
A graduate of China's prestigio ... more Berlin (AFP) Sept 4, 2017Voice assistants promise a light-fingered future  Boston MA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017New robot rolls with the rules of pedestrian conduct  (UPI) Aug 29, 2017Roboteam receives orders for tactical robots |
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Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 31, 2017
China and Russia plan to sign an agreement in October on joint space exploration from 2018 and 2022, which would benefit both nations particularly in manned and future missions to the moon, CGTN reported on Monday.
The bilateral agreement will cover five areas including lunar to deep space exploration, special materials development, collaborations in the area of satellite systems, Earth re ... moreBeijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2017Kuaizhou-11 to send six satellites into space Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017Russia, China May Sign 5-Year Agreement on Joint Space Exploration Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017ESA and Chinese astronauts train together |
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