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  Miami (AFP) May 11, 2018 It's not easy having a green thumb in space. Without gravity, seeds can float away. Water doesn't pour, but globs up and may drown the roots. And artificial lights and fans must be rigged just right to replicate the sun and wind. But NASA has decided that gardening in space will be crucial for the next generation of explorers, who need to feed themselves on missions to the Moon or Mars that may last months or years. Necessary nutrients, like vitamins C and K, break down over time in freeze- ... read more |
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Opportunity team continues studies on origin of 'Perseverance Valley'Pasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2018 Opportunity is only halfway down in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour crater, pursuing several scientific hypotheses as to the origin of the valley including both water and wind ero ... more 
NASA plans to send mini-helicopter to MarsTampa (AFP) May 11, 2018 The US space agency said Friday it plans to launch the first-ever helicopter to Mars in 2020, a miniature, unmanned drone-like chopper that could boost our understanding of the Red Planet. ... more 
The challenge of space gardening: One giant 'leaf' for mankindMiami (AFP) May 11, 2018 It's not easy having a green thumb in space. ... more  
Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar SystemMunich, Germany (SPX) May 09, 2018 An international team of astronomers has used ESO telescopes to investigate a relic of the primordial Solar System. The team found that the unusual Kuiper Belt Object 2004 EW95 is a carbon-rich aste ... more |
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InSight probe to survey Mars for secrets inside the planetWashington DC (UPI) May 04, 2018 As NASA's Insight probe begins its trip to Mars on Saturday, the spacecraft is tasked with studying Mars' insides. But the probe's observations could offer insights into the formation and evolution of all rocky planets, including Earth. ... more 
NASA blasts off Mars-bound spaceship, InSight, to study quakesVandenberg Air Force Base, United States (AFP) May 5, 2018 NASA on Saturday launched its latest Mars lander, called InSight, designed to perch on the surface and listen for "Marsquakes" ahead of eventual human missions to explore the Red Planet. ... more 
Surviving the Inferno of Entry, Descent and LandingHampton VA (SPX) May 04, 2018 Anticipation is building as preparations are well underway for the launch of NASA's next Mars mission, InSight. But before the roar of the rocket lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base has subsi ... more 
Microbes living in a toxic volcanic lake could hold clues to life on MarsBoulder CO (SPX) May 03, 2018 Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered microbes living in a toxic volcanic lake that may rank as one of the harshest environments on Earth. Their findings, published recen ... more 
NASA's newest Mars lander to study quakes on Red PlanetTampa (AFP) May 3, 2018 NASA is poised to launch its first lander to Mars since 2012, an unmanned spacecraft called InSight that aims to listen for quakes and unravel the mystery of how rocky planets like Earth form. ... more |
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Results of Mars 2020 heat shield testingPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 30, 2018 A post-test inspection of the composite structure for a heat shield to be used on the Mars 2020 mission revealed that a fracture occurred during structural testing. The mission team is working to bu ... more  |
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Bernese Mars camera CaSSIS sends first colour images from MarsBern, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 27, 2018 The Mars camera CaSSIS on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has returned its first colour images of the red planet. The camera system, which was developed at the University of Bern, is now ready for the ... more 
A Yellowstone guide to life on MarsCincinnati OH (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 A University of Cincinnati geology student is helping NASA determine whether life existed on other planets. Doctoral candidate Andrew Gangidine is working with UC geology professor Andrew Czaj ... more 
ESA and NASA to investigate bringing martian soil to EarthParis (ESA) Apr 27, 2018 ESA and NASA signed a statement of intent today to explore concepts for missions to bring samples of martian soil to Earth. Spacecraft in orbit and on Mars's surface have made many exciting di ... more  
Extreme Environment of Danakil Depression Sheds Light on Mars, TitanMilton Keynes UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 The Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is a spectacular, hostile environment that may resemble conditions encountered on Mars and Titan - as well as in sites containing nuclear waste. From 20 to 28 Janu ... more  
Meet the nuclear-powered spaceships of the futureMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2018 Spaceships using conventional hydrogen-oxygen fuel will be able to take people to the moon, Mars or Venus. But human exploration of other planets in our solar system, and beyond it, will require the ... more |
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 Bethesda, MD (SPX) May 08, 2018 
Last December, President Trump signed the first set of National Space Council recommendations under Space Policy Directive 1. Vice President Pence recently noted that, "We will send American astronauts back to the moon, and after that we will establish the capacity, with international and commercial partners, to send Americans to Mars, and NASA will lead the way."
Newly appointed NASA Admi ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 14, 2018 
Launching rockets and satellites has long been the preserve of China's state-owned aerospace companies, but private space firms are now popping up hoping to find gold in the space dust.
A report by Beijing-based investment institution FutureAerospace says more than 60 private Chinese firms have entered the commercial space industry over the past three years, focusing on the production and ... more |
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 Silicon Valley, CA (SPX) May 11, 2018 
The Asteroid Institute, a program of the B612 Foundation, has announced a new collaboration with York Space Systems to explore a data-gathering constellation of satellites for a new asteroid tracking system. In addition, the Institute will join York's innovative program with Metropolitan State University (MSU) of Denver, by engaging students to work on the project, providing both motivation and ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) May 11, 2018  Members of NASA's Juno mission team, some of the world's leading observers of Jupiter, and citizen scientists from across the globe will attend a workshop 'New Views of Jupiter: Pro-Am Collaborations during and beyond the NASA Juno Mission' at the Royal Astronomical Society in London on 10-11 May.
JunoCam images presented at the meeting by citizen scientists Gerald Eichstadt and Sean Doran ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 
Using the now-complete Cassini data set, Cornell University astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain. Two papers, recently published in Geophysical Review Letters, describe the map and discoveries arising from it.
Creating the map took about a year, according to doctoral student ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 10, 2018  Though close to home, the space immediately around Earth is full of hidden secrets and invisible processes. In a new discovery reported in the journal Nature, scientists working with NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft - MMS - have uncovered a new type of magnetic event in our near-Earth environment by using an innovative technique to squeeze extra information out of the data.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 09, 2018 
A United Arab Emirates (UAE) national currently stands as the main candidate to become a space tourist on the International Space Station (ISS) in the spring of 2019, although similar offers of this opportunity were also sent to US-based company Space Adventures, the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, sources told Sputnik.
The tourist is supposed to arrive at the ISS on board Russia's S ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) May 10, 2018 
Dozens of potentially habitable planets have been discovered outside our solar system, and many more are awaiting detection. Is anybody - or anything - there?
The hunt for life in these places, which are impossible to visit in person, will begin with a search for biological products in their atmospheres. These atmospheric fingerprints of life, called biosignatures, will be detected using n ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 11, 2018  DARPA is progressing toward its plan to demonstrate airborne launch and recovery of multiple unmanned aerial systems (UASs), targeted for late 2019. Now in its third and final phase, the goal for the Gremlins program is to develop a full-scale technology demonstration featuring the air recovery of multiple low-cost, reusable UASs, or "gremlins."
Safety, reliability, and affordability are t ... more |
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 Newark NJ (SPX) May 09, 2018 
The Sun's corona, invisible to the human eye except when it appears briefly as a fiery halo of plasma during a solar eclipse, remains a puzzle even to scientists who study it closely. Located 1,300 miles from the star's surface, it is more than a hundred times hotter than lower layers much closer to the fusion reactor at the Sun's core.
A team of physicists, led by NJIT's Gregory Fleishman ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) May 09, 2018 
When it comes to NASA's Solar Electric Propulsion project, Daniel Herman helps lead the charge.
As an experienced electric propulsion team lead at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, he was a natural choice for the SEP project's electric propulsion system lead, providing technical oversight for all activities tied to the project - an alternative to using conventional chemical system ... more |
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 Raleigh NC (SPX) May 10, 2018 
Engineering and physics researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technology for steering light that allows for more light input and greater efficiency - a development that holds promise for creating more immersive augmented-reality display systems.
At issue are diffraction gratings, which are used to manipulate light in everything from electronic displays to fibe ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 
A permanent Max Planck Independent Research Group under the leadership of Dr. M. Alessandra Papa has been established at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) in Hannover.
The primary goal of the research group "Searching for Continuous Gravitational Waves" is to make the first direct detection of gravitational waves from rapidly rotating neutr ... more |
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 Durham UK (SPX) May 14, 2018 
A Multiverse - where our Universe is only one of many - might not be as inhospitable to life as previously thought, according to new research.
Questions about whether other universes might exist as part of a larger Multiverse, and if they could harbour life, are burning issues in modern cosmology.
Now new research led by Durham University, UK, and Australia's University of Sydney, We ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) May 10, 2018 
The new Google digital assistant converses so naturally it may seem like a real person.
The unveiling of the natural-sounding robo-assistant by the tech giant this week wowed some observers, but left others fretting over the ethics of how the human-seeming software might be used.
Google chief Sundar Pichai played a recording of the Google Assistant independently calling a hair salon and ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) May 14, 2018
Launching rockets and satellites has long been the preserve of China's state-owned aerospace companies, but private space firms are now popping up hoping to find gold in the space dust.
A report by Beijing-based investment institution FutureAerospace says more than 60 private Chinese firms have entered the commercial space industry over the past three years, focusing on the production and ... more |
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