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  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 Astroscale has been awarded a grant of up to US $4.5 million from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's "Innovation Tokyo Project" to build a roadmap for commercializing active debris removal (ADR) services. The project, which was launched last year, aims to subsidize up to half of the expenses required for the commercialization and development of innovative services and products for venture companies and small and medium-sized enterprises. Astroscale received the maximum amount covering half of its ... read more |
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NESSI emerges as new tool for exoplanet atmospheresPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 24, 2020 The darkness surrounding the Hale Telescope breaks with a sliver of blue sky as the dome begins to open, screeching with metallic, sci-fi-like sounds atop San Diego County's Palomar Mountain. The hi ... more  
New insights about the brightest explosions in the UniverseStockholm, Swden (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 Swedish and Japanese researchers have, after ten years, found an explanation to the peculiar emission lines seen in one of the brightest supernovae ever observed - SN 2006gy. At the same time they f ... more 
Astronomers detect large amounts of oxygen in ancient star's atmosphereMaunakea HI (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 An international team of astronomers from the University of California San Diego, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), and the University of Cambridge have detected large amounts of oxyge ... more  
Borexino experiment releases new data on geoneutrinosJuelich, Germany (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 Scientists involved in the Borexino collaboration have presented new results for the measurement of neutrinos originating from the interior of the Earth. The elusive "ghost particles" rarely interac ... more |
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The Salt of the CometBern, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 More than 30 years ago, the European comet mission Giotto flew past Halley's comet. The Bernese ion mass spectrometer IMS, led by Prof. em. Hans Balsiger, was onboard. A key finding from the measure ... more 
XMM-Newton maps black hole surroundingsParis (ESA) Jan 22, 2020 Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space - and now, for the first time, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has used the reverberating echoes of this radiation to map the dynami ... more 
Astrophysicist finds massive black holes wandering around dwarf galaxiesBozeman MT (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 A new search led by Montana State University has revealed more than a dozen massive black holes in dwarf galaxies that were previously considered too small to host them, and surprised scientists wit ... more  
Warming up for the SunParis (ESA) Jan 22, 2020 Today, the Solar Orbiter control team is simulating launch for the penultimate time, before the Sun-seeking spacecraft lifts-off for real. After months of nerve-wracking simulation training, w ... more  
ESA opens oxygen plant - making air out of moondustNoordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 A prototype oxygen plant has been set up in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory of the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, based in Noordwijk in the Netherlands. ... more |
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 Scientists pinpoint release of energy that powered series of solar flares 
First building blocks of life on Earth was a big messBoston MA (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 When the Earth was born, it was a mess. Meteors and lightning storms likely bombarded the planet's surface where nothing except lifeless chemicals could survive. How life formed in this chemical may ... more  |
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Some non-photosynthetic orchids consist of dead woodKobe, Japan (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 Botanists have long held a fascination for heterotrophic plants, not only because they contradict the notion that autotrophy (photosynthesis) is synonymous with plants, but also because such plants ... more 
Taming electrons with bacteria partsEast Lansing MI (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 Electrons are tough to pin down in biology. Learning how to harness electrons is no fool's errand because, when electrons move, they are the electricity that powers life. Electrons power the p ... more 
Ghostly particles detected in condensates of light and matterSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 Bose-condensed quantum fluids are not forever. Such states include superfluids and Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). There is a beautiful purity in such exotic states, in which every par ... more 
Physicists trap light in nanoresonators for record timeSt Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 An international team of researchers from ITMO University, the Australian National University, and Korea University have experimentally trapped an electromagnetic wave in a gallium arsenide nanoreso ... more 
Core of massive dying galaxies formed early after Big BangCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 Astrophysics, Galaxies: The most distant dying galaxy discovered so far, more massive than our Milky Way - with more than a trillion stars - has revealed that the 'cores' of these systems had formed ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 06, 2020 
Safe to say, 2020 came in more quietly for many members of the New Horizons mission team than did 2019.
A year ago, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (now known as Arrokoth) in the early hours of New Year's Day, ushering in an era of exploration of the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins ... more |
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 Preston UK (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 
New astronomy research from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) suggests giant planets could form around small stars much faster than previously thought.
As published in Astronomy and Astrophysics Journal, Dr Anthony Mercer and Dr Dimitris Stamatellos' new planet formation research challenges our understanding of planet formation.
Red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 22, 2020 
Members of the public have an opportunity to vote for their favorite name for NASA's next Mars rover. The nine candidate names were made possible by the "Name the Rover" essay contest, which invited students in kindergarten through 12th grade from across the United States to come up with a fitting name for NASA's Mars 2020 rover (https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020) and write a short essay about it. ... more |
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 Noordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 
A prototype oxygen plant has been set up in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory of the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, based in Noordwijk in the Netherlands.
"Having our own facility allows us to focus on oxygen production, measuring it with a mass spectrometer as it is extracted from the regolith simulant," Beth Lomax of the University of Glasgow, whos ... more |
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 Maunakea HI (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 
An international team of astronomers from the University of California San Diego, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), and the University of Cambridge have detected large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of one of the oldest and most elementally depleted stars known - a "primitive star" scientists call J0815+4729.
This new finding, which was made using W. M. Keck Observatory ... more |
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 Luxembourg (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 
Kleos Space S.A, a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company, has entered into a channel partner and data integrator agreement with UK geospatial intelligence and analysis company Geollect.
Geollect will procure and integrate data from Kleos' satellites as it becomes a global leader in dark vessel tracking capability whereas Kleos data will be used by Ge ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 
Preliminary results indicate that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site Nightingale yesterday as part of the mission's Reconnaissance B phase activities. Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx's primary sample collection site, is located within a crater high in asteroid Bennu's northern hemisphere.
To perform the pass, the spacecraft left its 0.75-mile (1.2 ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 22, 2020 
Today, the Solar Orbiter control team is simulating launch for the penultimate time, before the Sun-seeking spacecraft lifts-off for real.
After months of nerve-wracking simulation training, which has seen the control team play out a range of scenarios where something goes wrong, mission control is almost "green for launch".
On 6 February (CET), Solar Orbiter will begin its loopy jou ... more |
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 Wenchang (XNA) Jan 22, 2020 
A core module prototype of China's space station and a prototype of China's new-generation manned spacecraft arrived at the launch site in south China's Hainan Province after a week of ocean and rail transport, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced Monday.
The core module will take part in joint rehearsals with the Long March-5B carrier rocket at the Wenchang Space La ... more |
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Maunakea HI (SPX) Jan 24, 2020
An international team of astronomers from the University of California San Diego, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), and the University of Cambridge have detected large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of one of the oldest and most elementally depleted stars known - a "primitive star" scientists call J0815+4729.
This new finding, which was made using W. M. Keck Observatory ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 17, 2020  Neanderthals were capable of chomping on hard plants, like nuts and seeds, according to a new study.
Several recent studies have highlighted the resourcefulness of Neanderthals, capable of diving for clams and starting their own fires. But to take advantage of nuts, tough plants and other hardy food resources, Neanderthals would have needed resilient teeth.
To see what our early ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 24, 2020 
Spacewalk season continues on the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan are getting ready to step outside the Quest airlock for their fourth and final time together on Saturday. But before they do, we look back at an action-packed fortnight of science and operations on the world's only orbital outpost.
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 Toulouse, France (AFP) Jan 20, 2020 
Glaciers nestled in the lofty crags of the Pyrenees mountains separating France and Spain could disappear within 30 years as temperatures rise, upending ecosystems while putting local economies at risk, scientists say.
"We can't set a precise date but the Pyrenees glaciers are doomed," Pierre Rene, a glaciologist with the region's Moraine glacier study association, told AFP.
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 Miami Beach, United States (AFP) Jan 17, 2020 
Dozens of trucks have started dumping hundreds of thousands of tons of sand on Miami Beach as part of US government measures to protect Florida's tourist destinations against the effects of climate change.
"We have erosion hotspots," said Stephen Leatherman, an expert on beaches and the environment at Florida International University.
"When the beach is critically narrow, there's not en ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 
If you jump out of bed too quickly, you might feel a bit light-headed.
That's because when you're lying down, gravity causes your blood to pool in the lower parts of your body rather than in your brain. Fortunately, when you stand up, within a fraction of a second, your heart begins beating faster, moving the blood to your brain and allowing you to maintain your balance.
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