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Amazon Bricking Its Astro For Business Security Robots | Inc.Com

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Read more: See here Headlines: • "Japanese Startup Develops Swarm Intelligence Technology for Robot Teams" (Source: TechCrunch) • "US Navy Injects AI into UUVs for Enhanced Surveillance Capabilities" (Source: Defense News) • "UK-based Firms Collaborate on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Development" (Source: The Engineer) • "Chinese Robotics Firm Launches 3D Mapping Drone for Environmental Monitoring" (Source: South China Morning Post) • "South Korea's DSTL Develops Advanced Drone-Powered Surveillance System" (Source: Yonhap News Agency) • "British Scientists Create Swarm-Bot Technology for Environmental Cleanup" (Source: BBC News) These real-world headlines showcase the cutt

The Early Solar System Was Donut-shaped, Meteorite Study Suggests

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Reference: Visit website Headlines: You're probably familiar with how the solar system looks today. There are eight officially recognized planets located more or less on the same plane, orbiting the sun. But have you ever given a thought to what it looked like billions of years ago? Things were very different back then. We used to think the early solar system looked a bit like a dartboard, with concentric rings of material orbiting our sun. But a team of researchers now suggests that the early solar system actually looked more like a donut. They've determined this from a rather unlikely source: iron meteorite

What Is Aphelion? Earth Reaches Its Greatest Distance From The Sun On Friday

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Reference: Visit website Headlines: It's summer in the Northern Hemisphere. But while you indulge in long, balmy days at the beach or elsewhere in nature, you may be surprised to learn that our planet is creeping toward its greatest distance from the sun, a point known as aphelion. That Earth has an aphelion is a result of its orbit being elliptical, rather than circular. According to Kirby Runyon, a geologist at the Planetary Science Institute, all planets in the solar system travel in elongated circles around the sun, rather than perfect ones. And it's most likely true for worlds around other stars, too. "All the planets tend to jostl

Happy World UFO Day! Watch The Best Alien Movies To Celebrate

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Read more: Visit website Headlines: According to the San José Public Library , World UFO Day is celebrated on two days: June 24, the day that pilot Kenneth Arnold allegedly saw flying saucers in 1947, and July 2, the day a spaceship supposedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Whether or not you believe in aliens, they have been been in the news lately. Just last year, a congressional hearing was formed to specifically to uncover the truth about UFOs, as the Deseret News previously reported. While we might not get to the truth about UFOs any time soon, we can at least watch movies about UFOs. In "Arrival," giant, mysterious alien

A Chinese Space Startup Launched Its New Rocket By Accident

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Read more: See here One of the most promising Chinese space startups, Space Pioneer, experienced a serious anomaly last weekend while testing the first stage of its Tianlong-3 rocket near the city of Gongyi. The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company , the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand "due to a structural failure." Video of the accidental a

Scientists Spot Unexplained ‘Tiny Bright Objects' In The Distant Universe

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Read more: See here Headlines: Our mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth. Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda. New research confirms that there are luminous red objects in the early cosmos – and that they cannot be explained by our understanding of how galaxies and black hole are born, Researchers spotted three of the mysterious objects. Their light came to us from when the universe was only 600-800 million years old, about 5 per cent of its current age. The objects appear to be filled with old stars and astonishingly massive black holes – neither of wh

S Starliner Can Stay In Space Beyond 45-day Limit, NASA Says

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More details: See here Headlines: NASA, Boeing Say Starliner And Astronauts To Continue Extended ISS Stay Boeing's leaky Starliner space capsule is poised to hang out at the International Space Station even longer, NASA told reporters Friday. The troubled vehicle is one of two that the agency selected through its Commercial Crew program to ferry astronauts to space. While the other vehicle NASA selected, the SpaceX Crew Dragon , has already completed several missions transporting astronauts to the ISS and back, Starliner's history has been full of false starts . During the current mission, which was the first to see Starliner carrying humans, issu

'Offer For Indians': Visit Space In $2.5 Onboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin

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Reference: See here Headlines: The Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) has teamed up with Blue Origin, led by Jeff Bezos, to offer Indian citizens an opportunity to venture into space. B lue Origin's New Shepa rd, a reusable suborbital rocket, will carry selected astronauts on an 11-minute journey beyond the Karman line, marking the boundary of space at 100 km above Earth's surface. Passengers will experience several minutes of weightlessness during the suborbital flight before returning safely to Earth. Candidates must meet Blue Origin's physical requirements and can campaign for votes across various platforms. The voting process progresses through multiple phases o

NASA Explains Debris Slamming North Carolina Mountain Resort From Space

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Reference: Found here Headlines: NASA reveals origins of bizarre 'furry UFO' that mysteriously slammed into luxury North Carolina mountaintop resort... Falling 'space junk' has been unmasked as the culprit behind a bizarre UFO sighting this past May, which saw a large mysterious object fall from the sky onto a mountaintop resort. The giant, foreign-looking object looked decidedly mechanical, but also appeared to covered in a strange material that appeared akin to fur. Those were actually frayed carbon fibers, a fact already aired to DailyMail.com by Smithsonian astrophysicist Dr Jonathan McDowell days after the find. D

NASA And SpaceX Studying Ways To Mitigate Dragon Trunk Debris

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International Asteroid Day: Asteroids Fly-by Earth In Serendipitous Celebration

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Read more: Found here Headlines: Two asteroids, one of them discovered earlier in June, passed by the Earth this week, a rare occurrence with serendipitous timing to commemorate the International Asteroid Day, according to space agencies around the world. Explaining the footage taken by The Virtual Telescope Project, astrophysicist Gianluca Masi said that asteroid 2024 MK, with a diameter of around 200 metres, was at a distance of about three lakh kilometres when closest to the Earth – 77% of the planet⁘s distance from the Moon. Masi, founder and director of the crowd-funded service provided by the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory, Italy, was the commentator of a YouTube

ISS Research Development Conference Showcases Space Science

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More details: Found here The ISS Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) , which its organizers bill as the only event dedicated to science and technology development on our nation's orbiting laboratory, will feature a session highlighting the partners supporting this research. ISSRDC 2024, highlighting the growing economy in low Earth orbit (LEO), will take place from July 29 to August 1 at Boston's Marriott Copley Place. The session will explore the unique process of conducting research through NASA and the ISS National Lab while also emphasizing

Maine's First Satellite Is Headed Into Orbit

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Read more: Visit website Headlines: The Portland Press Herald - Maine Sunday Telegram Maine's first research satellite will be launched into space aboard a private rocket just after midnight Tuesday. Wyc Grousbeck, whose family leads the ownership group, said it intends to sell the majority interest of the team this year or early next year. Reference: Visit website #news Barring weather or

Robots Get A Fleshy Face (And A Smile) In New Research

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More details: Visit website Headlines: * "Scientists Create Robot That Can Pick Fresh Fruits with Human-Like Precision" (The Verge, 2020) + Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a robotic arm that can pick intact apples from a tree, mimicking human picking techniques. * "New AI-Powered Prosthetic Hand Allows Amputees to Feel Touch" (The Guardian, 2020) + Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have designed a prosthetic hand that uses artificial intelligence to simulate the sensation of touch. * "Japan's Robot Nanny Can Watch and Care for Infants" (BBC News, 2019) + Toyota has developed a robot that can monitor and care for infants, including changing dia

The Shape Of The Solar System Has Changed Dramatically, Scientists Say

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Source: Found here Headlines: • "NASA's Parker Solar Probe Discovers Shocking Solar Wind Pattern" (NASA, 2022) - The Parker Solar Probe has discovered a new pattern of solar wind speed and direction that challenges current understanding of the Sun's corona. • "Black Hole at Center of Milky Way Galaxy Has a Feed of Material" (Science Daily, 2022) - Astronomers have discovered a massive reservoir of material at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, which is being consumed by the supermassive black hole. • "El Niño and La Niña Events Impact Global Weather Patterns" (National Geographic, 2022) - Scientists have found that El Niño and La Niña events have a significant i