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  Tokyo (AFP) Jan 30, 2020 A Japanese billionaire who launched a public search for a girlfriend willing to join him on a trip into space abruptly cancelled the hunt on Thursday, despite attracting nearly 30,000 applicants. Yusaku Maezawa earlier this month said he was looking for a mate willing to join him when he heads on a trip around the Moon in 2023 or later, as the first private passenger on a voyage offered by Elon Musk's SpaceX. His search for a soulmate was due to be turned into a TV show for a web-streaming servi ... read more |
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Voyager 2 engineers working to restore normal operationsPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 30, 2020 Engineers for NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft are working to return the mission to normal operating conditions after one of the spacecraft's autonomous fault protection routines was triggered. Mul ... more  
Two defunct satellites narrowly miss collision: officialsWashington (AFP) Jan 30, 2020 Two decommissioned satellites sped past each other Wednesday after experts had warned they may collide at a combined speed of 33,000 miles (53,000 kilometers) an hour, sending thousands of pieces of debris hurtling through space. ... more  
Space super-storm likelihood estimated from longest period of magnetic field observationsWarwick UK (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 A 'great' space weather super-storm large enough to cause significant disruption to our electronic and networked systems occurred on average once in every 25 years according to a new joint study by ... more 
First images of Sun released from World's largest solar telescopeHonolulu HI (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 Researchers and the general public are getting a glimpse of the most detailed view ever of the Sun, thanks to the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) on Haleakala, ... more |
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How to take a picture of a light pulseVienna, Austria (SPX) Jan 28, 2020 Today, modern lasers can generate extremely short light pulses, which can be used for a wide range of applications from investigating materials to medical diagnostics. For this purpose, it is import ... more 
Stellar explosions and jets showcased in new three-dimensional visualizationsHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 Since ancient times, the study of astronomy has largely been limited to the flat, two-dimensional projection of what appears on the sky. However, just like a botanist puts a plant under a microscope ... more  
Meteorite chunk contains unexpected evidence of presolar grainsSt. Louis MO (SPX) Jan 29, 2020 An unusual chunk in a meteorite may contain a surprising bit of space history, based on new research from Washington University in St. Louis. Presolar grains - tiny bits of solid interstellar ... more 
NASA'S Interstellar Mapping And Acceleration probe mission enters design phaseSan Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 29, 2020 A mission to study the interaction of the solar wind with the ancient cast-off winds of other stars, and the fundamental process of particle acceleration in space, has completed a critical NASA revi ... more 
New mission will take 1st peek at Sun's polesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 28, 2020 A new spacecraft is journeying to the Sun to snap the first pictures of the Sun's north and south poles. Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between the European Space Agency, or ESA, and NASA, wil ... more |
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 Quantum physics: On the way to quantum networks  
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  |
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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 
TV provider shifting satellite to high orbit over explosion fearsWashington (AFP) Jan 24, 2020 US authorities said Friday they had granted permission to a TV provider to urgently lift a four-ton (3,600-kilogram) satellite to a so-called "graveyard orbit" over fears a battery fault may soon cause it to explode. ... more 
Tethers Unlimited reports successful operation of space-debris removal deviceBothell WA (SPX) Jan 29, 2020 Tethers Unlimited has successfully demonstrated on-orbit operation of the Terminator Tape, an affordable, lightweight solution for removing space debris from on orbit. In early September 2019, ... more 
Russia considers assessing risk of Soviet-made nuclear-powered satellites falling to EarthMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 29, 2020 The Soviet Union launched a total of 33 satellites equipped with on-board nuclear power units between 1965 and 1988, in a bid to monitor NATO ships. The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)'s Cou ... more 
Astroscale awarded grant From to commercialize active debris removal servicesTokyo, 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) se ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 
Have a good-sized telescope with a digital camera? Then you can team up with NASA's New Horizons mission this spring on a really cool - and record-setting - deep-space experiment.
In April, New Horizons, which by then will be more than 46 times farther from the Sun than Earth, nearing 5 billion miles (8 billion kilometers) from home, will be used to detect "shifts" in the relative position ... more |
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 Fukuoka, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 
New research from Kyushu University in Japan could one day help provide humans living away from Earth some of the nutrients they need to survive in space or even give clues to how life started.
Researchers at the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research reported a new process using electricity to drive the efficient synthesis of amino acids, opening the door for simpler a ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 
Presently, Earth is the only known location where life exists in the Universe. This year the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three astronomers who proved, almost 20 years ago, that planets are common around stars beyond the solar system.
Life comes in various forms, from cell-phone-toting organisms like humans to the ubiquitous micro-organisms that inhabit almost every square inch of ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Jan 30, 2020 
A Japanese billionaire who launched a public search for a girlfriend willing to join him on a trip into space abruptly cancelled the hunt on Thursday, despite attracting nearly 30,000 applicants.
Yusaku Maezawa earlier this month said he was looking for a mate willing to join him when he heads on a trip around the Moon in 2023 or later, as the first private passenger on a voyage offered by E ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 
Since ancient times, the study of astronomy has largely been limited to the flat, two-dimensional projection of what appears on the sky. However, just like a botanist puts a plant under a microscope or a paleontologist digs for fossils, astronomers want more "hands on" ways to visualize objects in space.
A new set of computer simulations represents an exciting step in that direction. Each ... more |
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 Rome, Italy (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 
The first phase of the UNOSAT Challenge has just ended. The UNOSAT Challenge is the important Phi-Unet (ESA) contest for UNOSAT (United Nations) in partnership with ESA, RUS COPERNICUS, UNOSAT and with the technical support of CERN openlab.
The aim of the contest is to put artificial intelligence and Earth Observation data at the service of a humanitarian cause: support the Iraqi governmen ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 29, 2020 
The Russian automated tool of monitoring hazardous situations in near-Earth space will be given a new name of "Milky Way," the first deputy director of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yury Urlichich, said on Tuesday.
"We have decided to rename the system to 'Milky Way.' As of today, it is called the NES ASPOS [Warning Automated System of Hazardous Situations in near-Earth Space]", Urlichic ... more |
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 
Researchers and the general public are getting a glimpse of the most detailed view ever of the Sun, thanks to the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) on Haleakala, Maui. The imagery, released January 29, 2020, shows cell-like structures the size of Texas roiling on the Sun's surface and the tiny footprints of magnetism that reach into space.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2020 
China plans to launch more space science satellites in the coming three to four years, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The satellites will be used to detect electromagnetic signals associated with gravitational waves, solar eruption activities, astronomy and the interaction between solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere.
Four new missions include the Gravitation ... more |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 30, 2020
Since ancient times, the study of astronomy has largely been limited to the flat, two-dimensional projection of what appears on the sky. However, just like a botanist puts a plant under a microscope or a paleontologist digs for fossils, astronomers want more "hands on" ways to visualize objects in space.
A new set of computer simulations represents an exciting step in that direction. Each ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 
Ancient skulls from the cave systems at Tulum, Mexico suggest that the earliest populations of North America may have already had a high level of morphological diversity, according to a study published January 29, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Mark Hubbe from Ohio State University, USA, Alejandro Terrazas Mata from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, and colleagues. ... more |
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 Melissa Gaskill for ISS News 
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 30, 2020
Investigations studying tissue culturing, bone loss and phage therapy will be launching, along with more scientific experiments and supplies, to the International Space Station on a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft. The vehicle launches no earlier than Feb. 9 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
This is the second mission under Northrop's Commer ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 28, 2020 
Ice loss from Pine Island Glacier has contributed more to sea-level rise over the past four decades than any other glacier in Antarctica. However, the way this huge glacier is thinning is complex, leading to uncertainty about how it is likely to raise sea level in the future. Thanks to ESA's CryoSat mission, scientists have now been able to shed new light on these complex patterns of ice loss. ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 28, 2020 
Science Applications International Corp. has received a one-year, $13.9 million contract to provide animal care, training and maintenance of marine mammals in the Navy Marine Mammal Program, the Pentagon announced.
The Navy Marine Mammal Program, which began in 1959 and has been headquarted at Point Loma in San Diego since the 1960s, trains bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions t ... 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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