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  Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 28, 2019 Long ago on Mars, water carved deep riverbeds into the planet's surface - but we still don't know what kind of weather fed them. Scientists aren't sure, because their understanding of the Martian climate billions of years ago remains incomplete. A new study by University of Chicago scientists catalogued these rivers to conclude that significant river runoff persisted on Mars later into its history than previously thought. According to the study, published March 27 in Science Advances, the runoff w ... read more |
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Results of BIOMEX, the Biology and Mars Experiment on the ISSBerlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 Earth is a very special planet. It is the only celestial body in the solar system on which we know life exists. Could there be life on other planets or moons? Mars is always the first to be mentione ... more 
Mars callingParis (ESA) Mar 27, 2019 An exciting new competition is giving citizens of planet Earth the opportunity to get their voices to Mars in the next phase of the ExoMars programme. The ExoMars rover and platform will launch to t ... more 
Laser blasts show asteroid bombardment, hydrogen make great recipe for life on MarsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 26, 2019 A new study reveals asteroid impacts on ancient Mars could have produced key ingredients for life if the Martian atmosphere was rich in hydrogen. An early hydrogen-rich atmosphere on Mars could also ... more  
Dormant viruses reactivate during spaceflightWashington DC (SPX) Mar 19, 2019 Herpes viruses reactivate in more than half of crew aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions, according to NASA research published in Frontiers in Microbiology. While only a sma ... more |
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Rehearsing for the Mars landings in Hawaii and IdahoHamilton, Canada (SPX) Mar 19, 2019 Imagine astronauts on Mars, tasked with picking rock samples that will be used by scientists to search for signs of life. But they can only transport a limited number back to Earth. What should they ... more 
Bernese Mars Camera CaSSIS Returns Spectacular ImagesBern, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 Three years ago, on 14 March 2016, the Bernese Mars camera CaSSIS started its journey to Mars with the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft. The camera system developed at the University of Bern has ... more 
InSight lander among latest ExoMars image bountyNoordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 Curious surface features, water-formed minerals, 3D stereo views, and even a sighting of the InSight lander showcase the impressive range of imaging capabilities of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. ... more 
Pathfinder Rover May Have Explored Edges of Early Mars Sea in 1997Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 NASA's first rover mission to Mars, the Pathfinder, imaged an extraterrestrial marine spillover landscape 22 years ago, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Alexi ... more 
Opportunity's parting shot was a beautiful panoramaPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2019 Over 29 days last spring, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity documented this 360-degree panorama from multiple images taken at what would become its final resting spot in Perseverance Valley. ... more |
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NASA is with you when you fly, even on MarsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 According to the 1958 law that established NASA, where the first "A" in NASA stands for aeronautics, the agency is charged with solving the problems of flight within the atmosphere. But the la ... more  |
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SWIM Project Maps Potential Sources of Mars WaterTucson AZ (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of p ... more 
Major challenges to sending astronauts to search for life on MarsHamilton, Canada (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 An international team of researchers, which includes scientists from McMaster's School of Geography and Earth Sciences, NASA, and others, is tackling one of the biggest problems of space travel to M ... more 
Researchers outline goals for collecting and studying samples from MarsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 Returning samples from the surface of Mars has been a high-priority goal of the international Mars exploration community for many years. Although randomly collected samples would be potentially inte ... more 
Simulated extravehicular activity science operations for Mars explorationNew Rochelle NY (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 A new study describes the Science Operations component and new results from NASA's Biologic Analog Science Associated with Lava Terrains (BASALT). The goal of BASALT was to provide evidence-based re ... more 
Mars InSight Lander's 'Mole' Pauses DiggingPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 06, 2019 br> NASA's Mars InSight lander has a probe designed to dig up to 16 feet (5 meters) below the surface and measure heat coming from inside the planet. After beginning to hammer itself into th ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 26, 2019 
Donald Trump's administration announced Tuesday it was speeding up plans to send US astronauts back to the Moon, from 2028 to 2024, calling for a "spark of urgency" to prevail over delays that have plagued NASA's lunar return plans.
"It is the stated policy of this administration and the United States of America to return American astronauts to the Moon, within the next five years," Vice Pr ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 
Chinese scientists are designing what is expected to be the world's most powerful rocket, according to a senior researcher.
Li Hong, deputy general manager at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, said the Long March 9 super heavy-lift carrier rocket will be capable of lifting 140 metric tons of payload into a low-Earth orbit, or a 50-ton spacecraft to a lunar transfer orbit. The gi ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 2019 
This set of stereoscopic images provides a 3D view of the large, 170-foot (52-meter) boulder that juts from asteroid Bennu's southern hemisphere and the rocky slopes that surround it.
The stereo pair was created by stereo image processing scientists Dr. Brian May, who is also the lead guitarist for the rock band Queen, and Claudia Manzoni. In January, May and Manzoni formally joined NASA's ... more |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Mar 24, 2019 
It is known that gas giants around other stars are often located very near their sun. According to accepted theory, these gas planets were formed far away and subsequently migrated to an orbit closer to the star.
Now researchers from Lund University and other institutions have used advanced computer simulations to learn more about Jupiter's journey through our own solar system approximatel ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 
A new Southwest Research Institute study tackles one of the greatest mysteries about Titan, one of Saturn's moons: the origin of its thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. The study posits that one key to Titan's mysterious atmosphere is the "cooking" of organic material in the moon's interior.
"Titan is a very interesting moon because it has this very thick atmosphere, which makes it unique amo ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2019 
Maps that show where sharks and tunas roam in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and where fishing vessels travel in this vast expanse, could help ocean managers to identify regions of the high seas where vulnerable species may be at risk.
Researchers at Stanford University have created such a map by analyzing the habitats occupied by more than 800 sharks and tunas and 900 industrial fishing vesse ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 27, 2019 
NASA responded to accusations of sexism Wednesday over its decision to cancel a planned historic spacewalk by two women astronauts due to a lack of well-fitting spacesuits.
On Monday, the US space agency announced that Christina Koch will perform tasks in space Friday with fellow American Nick Hague - rather than with Anne McClain as originally planned.
Had Koch and McClain done their s ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 
Giant planets like Uranus and Neptune may contain much less free hydrogen than previously assumed. Researchers from the German Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) drove shock waves through two different types of plastic to reach the same temperatures and pressures present inside such planets, and observed the behavior using ultra-strong X-ray laser pulses.
Unexpectedly, one of thes ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 27, 2019 
Russian cosmonauts will carry out an experiment on controlling a drone driven by a propeller on board the International Space Station, Alexander Bloshenko, a science advisor to the Roscosmos's chief, told Sputnik on Wednesday.
"The experiment has been introduced into the program", Bloshenko said. During experiments with the propeller-driven drone, it is first planned to work out the design ... more |
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Mar 24, 2019 
The ongoing climate changes make it increasingly difficult to predict certain aspects of weather, according to a new study from Stockholm University. The study, focusing on weather forecasts in the northern hemisphere spanning 3- 10 days ahead, concludes that the greatest uncertainty increase will be regarding summer downfalls, of critical importance when it comes to our ability to predict and p ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 27, 2019 
The rocket launch by the Beijing-based OneSpace has failed. The startup was attempting to send China's first privately funded orbital rocket into space.
Shortly after blastoff, the OS-M Chongqing launch vehicle's second stage failed, according to NASASpaceFlight.com.
The rocket, which launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia's Gobi desert, was attempting to ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 28, 2019 
The study of stellar activity associates many aspects of stellar physics. In the past 40 years, the understanding of stellar activity and its relation with stellar structure and evolution has obtained great progress. One landmark is the discovery of the activity-rotation relation, which indicates the connection between stellar activity and stellar evolution.
However, there are still some f ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 
UK astrophysicists are gearing up to resume the search for gravitational waves, the ripples in spacetime caused by some of the universe's most spectacular events, after substantial upgrades to the three global detectors mean that they will be able to survey an even larger volume of space than ever before for powerful, wave-making events, such as the collisions of black holes.
Over the last ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 
A team of scientists has proposed a powerful new test for inflation, the theory that the universe dramatically expanded in size in a fleeting fraction of a second right after the Big Bang. Their goal is to give insight into a long-standing question: what was the universe like before the Big Bang?
Although cosmic inflation is well known for resolving some important mysteries about the struc ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 
GITAI (Head Office: San Francisco, US; Japanese Branch: Meguro, Tokyo) has signed a joint research agreement with JAXA (the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency).
Experiments in using GITAI's robot as a substitute for astronauts in performing work have been conducted in a mock-up version of JAXA's Japanese Experiment Module for the International Space Station, "Kibo."
The Japanese A ... more |
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Xichang (XNA) Mar 12, 2019
Chinese scientists are designing what is expected to be the world's most powerful rocket, according to a senior researcher.
Li Hong, deputy general manager at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, said the Long March 9 super heavy-lift carrier rocket will be capable of lifting 140 metric tons of payload into a low-Earth orbit, or a 50-ton spacecraft to a lunar transfer orbit. The gi ... more |
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