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  Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 11, 2019 There is a new plan to support the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Mars 'Mole' that is part of NASA's InSight mission. The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) Mole is a self-driving penetrator that has hammered itself into the Martian subsurface to a depth of approximately 30 centimetres. Since 28 February 2019, it has no longer been able to move deeper beneath the surface. Tests with the Mole on Mars and replicas of the instrument located at DL ... read more |
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Mars Helicopter Testing Enters Final PhasePasadena CA (JPL) Jun 10, 2019 NASA's Mars Helicopter flight demonstration project has passed a number of key tests with flying colors. In 2021, the small, autonomous helicopter will be the first vehicle in history to attempt to ... more 
Watch NASA Build Its Next Mars RoverPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 10, 2019 A newly installed webcam offers the public a live, bird's-eye view of NASA's Mars 2020 rover as it takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. You can watch as JPL engin ... more  
New era for New Norcia deep space antennaParis (ESA) Jun 06, 2019 The 35-m deep space antenna in New Norcia, Western Australia, is being looked after by a new team, led for the first time by a female site manager, Suzy Jackson. The New Norcia station is key ... more 
Massive Mars crater could have hosted lifeMoscow (Sputnik) Jun 06, 2019 Physicist Brian Cox says the Red Planet Mars, which looks like a rocky desert now, might have once been a true paradise with waterfall cascades and rivers, offering conditions that made life possibl ... more |
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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Clay CachePasadena CA (JPL) May 30, 2019 NASA's Curiosity rover has confirmed that the region on Mars it's exploring, called the "clay-bearing unit," is well deserving of its name. Two samples the rover recently drilled at rock targets cal ... more 
Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on MarsPasadena CA (SPX) May 30, 2019 Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators for a very good reason--we humans need molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe, and space is essentially devoid of it. E ... more 
The radiation showstopper for Mars explorationParis (ESA) Jun 02, 2019 An astronaut on a mission to Mars could receive radiation doses up to 700 times higher than on our planet - a major showstopper for the safe exploration of our Solar System. A team of European exper ... more 
A European mission control for the Martian roverParis (ESA) May 31, 2019 The ExoMars rover has a brand new control centre in one of Europe's largest Mars yards. The Rover Operations Control Centre (ROCC) was inaugurated in Turin, Italy, ahead of the rover's exploration a ... more 
Getting ready for Mars - on the Space StationParis (ESA) May 28, 2019 From disrupted biological clocks to radiation and contamination hazards, Europe is running experiments on the International Space Station to take human exploration one step closer to Mars. As ... more |
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Europe to Mars and backParis (ESA) May 28, 2019 Europe has been in orbit around Mars for more than 15 years and is almost a year away from launching its first rover mission, but ambitions are already running high to go one step further: returning ... more  |
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Strange Martian mineral deposit likely sourced from volcanic explosionsProvidence RI (SPX) May 23, 2019 Ashfall from ancient volcanic explosions is the likely source of a strange mineral deposit near the landing site for NASA's next Mars rover, a new study finds. The research, published in the journal ... more 
NASA's Mars 2020 Mission Drops in on Death ValleyPasadena CA (JPL) May 27, 2019 On a test flight in Death Valley, California, anAirbus helicopter carried an engineering model of the Lander Vision System (LVS) that will help guide NASA's next Mars mission to a safe touchdown on ... more 
Mars 'Actually the Only Planet' Humans Can Go to Escape Earth, Professor ClaimsMoscow (Sputnik) May 23, 2019 In recent years, humanity's most brilliant minds have been working to send the first human to the Red Planet. According to physicist Brian Cox, Mars might be the only space travel option for people, ... more 
NASA Closer to Discovering What Lies Beneath the Surface of Airless Planetary BodiesGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 22, 2019 NASA is a step closer to eventually discovering what lies up to 32 feet or 10 meters beneath the surfaces of Mars, the Moon or any airless body in the solar system - a region roughly the length of a ... more 
On Mars, sands shift to a different drumTucson AZ (SPX) May 24, 2019 Wind has shaped the face of Mars for millennia, but its exact role in piling up sand dunes, carving out rocky escarpments or filling impact craters has eluded scientists until now. In the most ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 7, 2019 
US President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that NASA should stop talking about going back to the Moon, which caused confusion since his administration aims to restart Moon landings by 2024.
"For all the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago," Trump tweeted from Air Force One while returning from a visit to Europe.
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 
Luokung Technology Corp. has announced a strategic partnership with Land Space Technology Corporation Ltd. ("Land Space"). The two parties will work together and take advantage of respective strength on commercial space cooperation with satellite remote sensing data applications as the main target market.
They will jointly develop domestic and foreign markets of products and services which ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 10, 2019 
Researchers have located the epicenter of an ancient meteorite impact along the Scottish coast, the largest impact in the British Isles.
Scientists first identified evidence of the impact in 2008, but they were unable to pin down the exact location of the crater. Over the last decade, researchers conducted field studies and analyzed rock samples in the lab. Their findings allowed them t ... more |
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 Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) May 21, 2019 
With less than a fifth of the Moon's mass, Pluto can still retain an atmosphere, though a tenuous envelope of gas produced by the periodical sublimation of nitrogen ices. A study that followed the evolution of Pluto's atmosphere for fourteen years shows its seasonal nature, and predicts that it will now start to condensate as frost.
This study1 was published in the journal Astronomy and As ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) May 01, 2019 
Rain, seas and a surface of eroding organic material can be found both on Earth and on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. However, on Titan it is methane, not water, that fills the lakes with slushy raindrops.
While trying to find the source of Titan's methane, University of Arizona researcher Caitlin Griffith and her team discovered something unexoldpected - a long ice feature that wraps nearl ... more |
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 Munster, Germany (SPX) Jun 10, 2019 
The huge magnetic field which surrounds the Earth, protecting it from radiation and charged particles from space - and which many animals even use for orientation purposes - is changing constantly, which is why geoscientists keep it constantly under surveillance.
The old well-known sources of the Earth's magnetic field are the Earth's core - down to 6,000 kilometres deep down inside the Ea ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2019 
NASA is opening the International Space Station for commercial business so U.S. industry innovation and ingenuity can accelerate a thriving commercial economy in low-Earth orbit.
This move comes as NASA focuses full speed ahead on its goal of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, where American companies also will play an essential role in establishing a sustainable pre ... more |
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 Lincoln UK (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 
Moons orbiting planets outside our solar system could offer another clue about the pool of worlds that may be home to extra-terrestrial life, according to an astrophysicist at the University of Lincoln.
Exoplanets are planets outside our solar system and up to this point nearly 4,000 have been discovered. Only a small proportion of these are likely to be able to sustain life, existing in w ... more |
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 Las Vegas (AFP) June 5, 2019 
Amazon said Wednesday it expects to begin large-scale deliveries by drone in the coming months as it unveiled its newest design for its "Prime Air" fleet.
Jeff Wilke, head of Amazon's consumer operations, told the company's Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics and Space conference in Las Vegas that drones would play a role in ramping up efforts to shorten delivery times for many items to j ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 
An international team of scientists led by Skoltech professor Tatiana Podladchikova developed a new 3D method for reconstructing space weather phenomena, in particular, shock waves produced by the Sun's energy outbursts. Their findings can help better understand and predict extreme space weather occurrences that affect the operation of engineering systems in space and on Earth. The results of th ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 10, 2019 
NASA is planning to sign its first-ever contract with a private commercial launch site - in Australia's remote Northern Territory.
The space agency said it needs to conduct launches of suborbital sounding rockets in that region for astrophysics science experiments.
"One of the advantages of using sounding rockets for scientific research is the mobility to go where the science is happ ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) May 30, 2019 
While we now know of thousands of exoplanets - planets around other stars - the vast majority of our knowledge is indirect. That is, scientists have not actually taken many pictures of exoplanets, and because of the limits of current technology, we can only see these worlds as points of light. However, the number of exoplanets that have been directly imaged is growing over time. When NASA's Jame ... more |
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 Sendai, Japan (SPX) May 23, 2019 
One of the most unknown phenomena in modern physics is gravity. Its measurement and laws remain somewhat of an enigma. Researchers at Tohoku University have revealed important information about a new aspect of the nature of gravity by probing the smallest mass-scale.
Professor Nobuyuki Matsumoto has led a team of researchers to develop a gravity sensor based on monitoring the displacement ... more |
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 Evanston IL (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 
An international team has constructed the most detailed, highest resolution simulation of a black hole to date. The simulation proves theoretical predictions about the nature of accretion disks - the matter that orbits and eventually falls into a black hole - that have never before been seen.
The research will publish on June 5 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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 Research Triangle Park NC (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 
In a research project for the U.S. Army, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley developed an agile robot, called Salto that looks like a Star Wars Imperial walker in miniature and may be able to aid in scouting and search-and-rescue operations.
Robots like this may one day be used to save lives of both warfighters and civilians, researchers said.
Topping out at less th ... more |
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Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 03, 2019
Luokung Technology Corp. has announced a strategic partnership with Land Space Technology Corporation Ltd. ("Land Space"). The two parties will work together and take advantage of respective strength on commercial space cooperation with satellite remote sensing data applications as the main target market.
They will jointly develop domestic and foreign markets of products and services which ... more |
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