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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 17, 2017 Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover continued with several days of collecting color, stereo, Panoramic Camera (Pancam) panoramas of the surrounding terrain. Then, on Sol 4934 (Dec. 10, 2017), after a sol of recharging, Opportunity drove about 28 feet (8.4 meters), approximately east, down the valley to a modest energy lily pad. Beyond this point the channel features of the valley split into a left and right fo ... read more |
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Planting oxygen ensures a breath of fresh airParis (ESA) Dec 17, 2017 When resources are limited, you have to work with what you have - especially in the harsh environment of space. Though the International Space Station is regularly restocked by cargo vessels, like t ... more  
Green Light for Continued Operations of ESA Science MissionsNoordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Dec 14, 2017 ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) has approved indicative extensions, up to 2019-2020, for the operation of eight scientific missions. During its meeting at ESA Headquarters in Paris, on ... more 
Designing future human space exploration on Hawaii's lava fieldsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 On the lava fields of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, a team of NASA researchers and partners have been busy doing science in a most unusual way. They were studying the biology and geology of this remarka ... more  
Trump tells NASA to send Americans to MoonWashington DC (AFP) Dec 12, 2017 US President Donald Trump directed NASA on Monday to send Americans to the Moon for the first time in decades, a move he said would help prepare for a future Mars trip. "This time we will not ... more |
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Space Policy Directive calls for human expansion across the solar systemWashington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2017 President Donald Trump is sending astronauts back to the Moon. The president Monday signed at the White House Space Policy Directive 1, a change in national space policy that provides for a U.S.-led ... more 
Space program should focus on Mars, says editor of New SpaceNew Rochelle, NY (SPX) Dec 11, 2017 The U.S. space exploration program should continue to focus on robotic sample recovery and human missions to Mars, says Scott Hubbard, Editor-in-Chief of New Space. He details the benefits and risks ... more 
EU exempts fuel for ExoMars mission from Russian sanctionsMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 04, 2017 The ExoMars 2020 mission is the first joint program between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos space corporation. "On November 30, 2017, the Council adopted Decision (CFSP) ... more 
Mars Rover Team's Tilted Winter Strategy WorksPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 07, 2017 NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, has just passed the shortest-daylight weeks of the long Martian year with its solar panels in encouragingly clean condition for entering a potential dust-storm ... more 
NASA's oldest Mars rover survives another harsh winterWashington (UPI) Dec 7, 2017 Opportunity, NASA's senior Mars rover, has lasted through another harsh winter on the Red Planet. ... more 
Brown: Clay on Mars May Have Formed in Primordial Steam BathProvidence RI (SPX) Dec 06, 2017 Planetary scientists from Brown University have proposed a new scenario for the formation of ancient clay minerals on Mars that, if shown to be true, could rewrite the early history of the red plane ... more |
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 Winter wanderings put Opportunity at 28 Miles on the odometer
Opportunity Greets Winter SolsticePasadena CA (JPL) Nov 29, 2017 Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of the Noachian-aged Endeavour crater. The winter solstice occurred on Sol 4915 (Nov. 20, 2017). Energy ... more 
NASA builds its next Mars rover missionPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 29, 2017 In just a few years, NASA's next Mars rover mission will be flying to the Red Planet. At a glance, it looks a lot like its predecessor, the Curiosity Mars rover. But there's no doubt it's a souped-u ... more 
Space Farms: 'Mark Watney in The Martian Was Right to Add Poop to the Soil'Wageningen, Netherlands (Sputnik) Nov 30, 2017 A group of researchers from Wageningen University and Research has found that earthworms can thrive and reproduce in simulated Martian soil. Given that the creatures are a crucial factor in making s ... more 
Scientists developed a new sensor for future missions to the Moon and MarsMoscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 A team of scientists from the Faculty of Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University and their colleagues developed a compact spectral polarimeter for carrying outmineralogical investigations on th ... more |
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  Beijing (XNA) Dec 12, 2017 
Scientists are mulling a robot moon station, Chinese space experts said on Tuesday.
The base can conduct bigger, more complicated research and experiments, according to space officials who announced the plan at an international symposium in Shanghai at the end of November.
Such a station could slash the costs of returning rock samples to Earth, Jiao Weixin, a Peking University space ... more Rome (SPX) Dec 17, 2017Thales Alenia Space signs 3 contracts for NASA's deep space exploration  Dallas TX (SPX) Dec 13, 2017Researchers analyze thousands of hours of Apollo mission audio  Miami (AFP) Dec 14, 2017Will Trump send Americans to the Moon? Money talks: experts |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017 
China is now the world leader in remote sensing technologies for scientific purposes and is able to provide an unprecedented amount of data to support research and development for the world, officials said on Tuesday.
Remote sensing refers to aerial or satellite-based technologies to detect and measure objects on Earth's surface, atmosphere and oceans.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Sci ... more Beijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017China plans for nuclear-powered interplanetary capacity by 2040  Beijing (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017China plans first sea based launch by 2018  Beijing (XNA) Nov 02, 2017China's reusable spacecraft to be launched in 2020 |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2017 
Breakthrough Listen - the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe - is reporting preliminary results and making initial data available from its observations of the "interstellar visitor" 'Oumuamua.
The initial block of observations (the first of a planned four blocks) ran from 3:45 pm to 9:45 pm ET on Wednesday, December 13, using the Breakthrough Listen backend instru ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2017Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2017OSIRIS-REx cruising towards rendezvous with Asteroid Bennu  West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 14, 2017Research shows why meteroids explode before they reach Earth |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 
Scientists were already excited to learn this summer that New Horizons' next flyby target - a Kuiper Belt object a billion miles past Pluto - might be either peanut-shaped or even two objects orbiting one another. Now new data hints that 2014 MU69 might have company: a small moon.
That's the latest theory coming from NASA's New Horizons team, as it continues to analyze telescope data on th ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2017Juno probes the depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot  Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 11, 2017New Horizons Corrects Its Course in the Kuiper Belt  Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 07, 2017Wrapping up 2017 one year out from MU69 |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Dec 14, 2017 
A Langmuir probe, developed in Sweden and flown to Saturn on the Cassini spacecraft, has made exciting discoveries in the atmosphere of the planet. Jan-Erik Wahlund at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala and his colleagues show that there is a strong coupling, both chemically and electrically, between the atmosphere of Saturn and its rings. These research results have now been publ ... more Washington (UPI) Nov 21, 2017Unique atmospheric chemistry explains cold vortex on Saturn's moon Titan  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 22, 2017Cassini Image Mosaic: A Farewell to Saturn  Bristol UK (SPX) Nov 22, 2017Unexpected atmospheric vortex behavior on Saturn's moon Titan |
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 Liverpool UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2017 
Researchers from the University of Liverpool have spotted the equivalent of smoke-rings in the ocean which they think could 'suck-up' small marine creatures and carry them at high speed and for long distances across the ocean.
The ocean is full of eddies, swirling motions some tens to hundreds of kilometres across, which mix the water and carry it across the average currents.
The 'sm ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 14, 2017Space Mystery Solved by Student Satellite  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 18, 2017Scientists share various perspectives on ozone layer recovery  Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 15, 2017APL Monitoring Instrument Rides into Space |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 
NASA has established a new advisory group on behalf of the National Space Council that will represent the expertise, interests and perspectives of non-federal aerospace organizations to the National Space Council.
The official charter for the Users' Advisory Group (UAG) was signed by acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on Dec. 6, and subsequently announced in the Federal Register. I ... more Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2017PARC to Partner with Commercial Space Leader to Accelerate Space R and D  Miami (AFP) Dec 17, 2017'Dragon back' as cargo reaches space station  Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Dec 17, 2017SpaceX resupply truck Dragon on route to ISS for space research delivery |
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 College Park, Maryland (SPX) Dec 13, 2017  Where do the molecules required for life originate? It may be that small organic molecules first appeared on Earth and were later combined into larger molecules, such as proteins and carbohydrates. But a second possibility is that they originated in space, possibly within our solar system. A new study, published this week in The Journal of Chemical Physics, from AIP Publishing, shows that a numb ... more Washington DC (SPX) Dec 15, 2017NASA uses AI to uncover eighth planet circling distant star  Paris (AFP) Dec 14, 2017No alien 'signals' from cigar-shaped asteroid: researchers  Toronto, Canada (SPX) Dec 08, 2017Two Super-Earths around red dwarf K2-18 |
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 The Hague (AFP) Dec 13, 2017 
Dutch police have clipped the wings of their airborne drone-fighting force of eagles, and fired their winged warriors deeming them too expensive and too unruly to be effective.
After a series of tests in 2015, the police last year announced they were putting into operation a flock of the birds of prey to take down drones believed to be posing a danger to the public, such as near airports. ... more Washington (UPI) Dec 13, 2017Jet-powered drone tested by BAE Systems  Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2017Hensoldt intros new counter-drone system  Beijing (AFP) Dec 7, 2017China says Indian drone 'invaded' its airspace, crashed |
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 New Orleans LA (SPX) Dec 14, 2017 
It's not often geology and national security wind up in the same sentence. Most people don't think about electrical power in connection to either the ground under their feet or solar flares overhead, but Dr. Adam Schultz of Oregon State University, and EarthScope Magnetotelluric Program Lead Scientist, says that connection presents a clear and present risk that power utilities need to consider ... more Washington DC (SPX) Dec 18, 2017Eclipse 2017: Science from the Moon's Shadow  Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 11, 2017CU Boulder solar instruments, experiments headed for space  New York NY (SPX) Dec 11, 2017Mount Sinai researchers use breakthrough technology to understand eclipse eye damage |
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 Miami (AFP) Dec 15, 2017 
For the first time, SpaceX on Friday blasted off both a rocket and a cargo ship that have flown before, a step forward in the company's goal to lower the cost of spaceflight.
After the launch, the California-based company headed by Internet tycoon Elon Musk landed its rocket booster upright on solid ground at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
SpaceX has now managed to return 20 of its rocket boos ... more Moscow (AFP) Dec 12, 2017Russian space agency blames satellite loss on programming error  Paris, France (SPX) Dec 17, 2017ArianeGroup signs contract with ESA for future Prometheus engine  Washington DC (UPI) Dec 11, 2017Rocket Lab makes another attempt at rocket launch in New Zealand |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Dec 18, 2017 
The OmegaCAM camera on ESO's VLT Survey Telescope has captured this glittering view of the stellar nursery called Sharpless 29. Many astronomical phenomena can be seen in this giant image, including cosmic dust and gas clouds that reflect, absorb, and re-emit the light of hot young stars within the nebula.
The region of sky pictured is listed in the Sharpless catalogue of H II regions: int ... more Maunakea HI (SPX) Dec 18, 2017A new spin to solving mystery of stellar companions  Garching, Germany (SPX) Dec 18, 2017Astronomers approve 86 new star names from around the world  Rochester NY (SPX) Dec 14, 2017RIT Professor to study cosmic evolution with Webb Telescope |
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 Mainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 
The magnetic moment of an individual proton is inconceivably small, but can still be quantified. The basis for undertaking this measurement was laid over ten years ago, and physicists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, GSI Darmstadt, and the RIKEN research institute in Japan are still performing experiments to measure this force with a sin ... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Physicists make most precise measurement ever of a proton's magnetic moment  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2017Listening for gravitational waves using pulsars  New York NY (SPX) Nov 14, 2017Gravity waves from merging supermassive black holes will be found soon |
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 Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Dec 14, 2017 
Astronomers have used ESA's Herschel Space Observatory to solve a decades-old mystery about the origin of powerful cool gas winds in the hot environs of quasars. The evidence linking these powerful winds to star formation in the quasar host galaxies may also help resolve the mystery of why the size of galaxies in the universe appears to be capped.
Since their discovery in the 1960s quasars ... more Washington DC (SPX) Dec 14, 2017Most Distant Supermassive Black Hole Found  Vienna, Austria (SPX) Dec 14, 2017New manifestation of magnetic monopoles discovered  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Quantum-emitting answer might lie in the solution |
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 El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 
The Aerospace Corporation's (Aerospace) SeedTECH Artificial Intelligence (AI) team is one of 59 teams out of 147 that are advancing to the second round of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE - a $5 million AI and cognitive computing global competition. SeedTECH AI will take on the grand challenge of designing an AI that can dream.
"We're thrilled that Aerospace's all-volunteer team progressed to the ... more Ithaca NY (SPX) Dec 18, 2017Engineers program tiny robots to move, think like insects  Washington (UPI) Dec 8, 2017Speedy cockroaches help researchers train robots to walk  Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 13, 2017Not Your Grandpa's Robot: Russian Robot 'FEDOR' May Become Self-Learning |
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Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017
China is now the world leader in remote sensing technologies for scientific purposes and is able to provide an unprecedented amount of data to support research and development for the world, officials said on Tuesday.
Remote sensing refers to aerial or satellite-based technologies to detect and measure objects on Earth's surface, atmosphere and oceans.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Sci ... moreBeijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017China plans for nuclear-powered interplanetary capacity by 2040 Beijing (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017China plans first sea based launch by 2018 Beijing (XNA) Nov 02, 2017China's reusable spacecraft to be launched in 2020 |
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