[ October 17, 2016 ] European Mars lander released from ExoMars mothership News and other top stories.

• [ October 17, 2016 ] European Mars lander released from ExoMars mothership News

  

  Artist’s concept showing separation of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and the Schiaparelli landing module. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab A saucer-shaped entry, descent and landing demonstrator separated from Europe’s ExoMars orbiter Sunday, beginning a three-day approach aiming to become the first European-built craft to set down on the red planet and return data. Named for Giovanni Schiaparelli, the Italian astronomer who charted the first rudimentary maps of Mars in the 19th century, the landing pr..

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• Rapid Carbon Rise Due to Comet Colliding With Earth 56 Million Years Ago?

  

  Approximately 56 million years ago, the Earth went through a period of warming that has caused some scientists to wonder exactly what happened to cause this abrupt warmup. Now, new research indicates that it is possible that it was either an asteroid or comet impacting the surface of the planet that may have ultimately triggered this ancient period of warming. Earth could have been hit by a comet which may have caused the planet to experience a rapid warmup In the journal, Science, a new, deta..

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• Countries Reach Landmark Deal to Limit Global Warming

  

  More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change-causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels. The deal reached in Kigali, Rwanda, comes after years of wrangling over HFCs—short for hydrofluorocarbons—and could on its own prevent a 0.5°C (0.9°F) rise in temperature by 2100. Scientists say such an achievement could be crucial to the goal laid out ..

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• The amazing sweating robot: A seriously cool solution for hot machines

  

    VIDEO At five-and-a-half feet tall, its face fixed between a grin and a grimace, the humanoid robot Kengoro is something of a synthetic Arnold Schwarzenegger. That is not to say the machine, created by University of Tokyo’s JSK laboratory, is a recursive time-traveling assassin. Rather, Kengoro is a sweaty beefcake among metal bipeds. The average two-legged machine does not have Kengoro’s stamina. For a svelte robot, Kengoro is strong, powered by 108 motors. Thanks to this large number of m..

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• Orbital ATK Delays Antares Rocket Launch 24 Hours Due to Glitch

  

  The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, stands tall on the launchpad as the sun rises behind it on Sunday (Oct. 16) at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — The long-awaited launch of an Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying cargo to the International Space Station today has been delayed until Monday, a 24-hour slip, due to a glitch with ground support equipment, NASA officials said Sunday (Oct. 16). Antar..

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• [ October 17, 2016 ] Chinese astronauts launch on month-long space mission News

  

  The Shenzhou 11 spacecraft lifted off at 2330 GMT (7:30 p.m. EDT) Sunday, or 7:30 a.m. Beijing time Monday. Credit: Xinhua Two Chinese military pilots rode a Long March 2F rocket into orbit Sunday, heading for the Tiangong 2 research lab to conduct experiments and practice procedures to be used on China’s future space station. Commander Jing Haipeng, a veteran of two previous space missions, and rookie flight engineer Chen Dong were fastened inside the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft for the 10-minute r..

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