Most Recent Posts

FEATURED IMAGE: 12 Jul 2018, 14:01 UTC | NASA’s Fermi Traces Source of Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole 16 July 2018, 8:18:41UTC

RSS | About | Contact | Site Map

Press Releases

For Journalists

Press Releases

For Press Officers

Past Releases

Submit Press Release Feed

Advertise

The PTTU Team

Home » News & Blogs » Posts » Most Recent

Expand Entries

2 Mar 2015
- 17:29 UTC Discovery News - Sp... DNews: The Space Station Isn't Ready for Retirement Yet The International Space Station may be seriously graying at the temples, but that doesn't mean it still can't contribute meaningfully to science. Trace explains why the venerable space lab still ...
- 17:28 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... Core work: Iron vapor gives clues to formation of Earth a... Recreating the violent conditions of Earth's formation, scientists are learning more about how iron vaporizes and how this iron rain affected the formation of the Earth and Moon.
- 17:24 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... Astronomers find dust in the early universe Astronomers have discovered a dust-filled galaxy from the very early universe. The discovery demonstrates that galaxies were very quickly enriched with dust particles containing elements such as carbon and oxygen, ...
- 17:00 UTC Scientific American Dawn Spacecraft Sees Spots as It Approaches Mysterious Ce... Spectacular new images are trickling in from NASA’s mission to a dwarf planet in the Asteroid Belt -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 17:00 UTC Scientific American Dawn Spacecraft Sees Spots as It Approaches Mysterious Ce... Spectacular new images are trickling in from NASA’s mission to a dwarf planet in the Asteroid Belt -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 16:51 UTC Universe Today Kamikaze Comet Loses its Head Like coins, most comet have both heads and tails. Occasionally, during a close passage of the Sun, a comet’s head will be greatly diminished yet still retain a classic cometary ...
- 16:48 UTC SPACE.com SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches ABS/Eutelsat-1 Satellites | Vide... The ABS 3A and EUTELSAT 115 West B satellites were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Mar. 1st, 2015.
- 16:47 UTC Science World Repor... Dusty, Distant Galaxy Looks Old in a Young Universe Astronomers have made a somewhat unusual finding. They've found a galaxy that looks old, but exists in a young universe. The findings reveal a bit more about galaxy formation and ...
- 16:43 UTC Space-For-All at Ho... The Space Show this week – March.2.2015 Guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week: 1. Monday, March 2, 2015: 2-3:30 PM PST (5-6:30 PM EST; 4-5:30 PM CST): We welcome back Dr. James ...
- 16:40 UTC ISS On-Orbit Status... ISS Daily Summary Report – 03/02/15 Crew Off Duty Day: The USOS crew was off duty following yesterday’s successful Extravehicular Activity (EVA). Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD): Today, 2 Dove satellites were successfully launched from Deployer #2 ...
- 16:30 UTC Bad Astronomy Crash Course Astronomy Episode 7: Gravity I was on travel last week and couldn’t put up a post about Crash Course Astronomy when it came out. So, belatedly, here is Episode 7: Gravity!Writing these episodes can ...
- 16:28 UTC Science World Repor... Stellar Nursery is Discovered on the Fringes of the Milky... NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has spotted a stellar nursery that's essentially in the middle of nowhere. The cluster of stars is forming at the very edge of the ...
- 16:14 UTC Parabolic Arc OneWeb Partners With Honeywell on High-Speed Satellite Se... PHOENIX, March 2, 2015 (Honeywell PR) — Honeywell Aerospace (NYSE: HON) and OneWeb Ltd. have signed a memorandum of understanding under which Honeywell will provide aircraft equipment and airtime services ...
- 16:05 UTC Sean Carroll Guest Post: An Interview with Jamie Bock of BICEP2 If you’re reading this you probably know about the BICEP2 experiment, a radio telescope at the South Pole that measured a particular polarization signal known as “B-modes” in the cosmic ...
- 16:01 UTC No Place Like Home For Dwarf Planet Ceres, 4.6 Billion Years of Anonymity En...
- 16:00 UTC Astronomy Now An old-looking, dusty galaxy in a young universe One of the most distant galaxies ever observed, A1689-zD1, has provided astronomers with the first detection of dust in such a remote star-forming system and tantalising evidence for the rapid ...
- 16:00 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Fibril Flowers on Sun's Surface: Photo This image isn't a close-up from the garden, but an active area of strong magnetic fields on the sun's chromosphere.
- 16:00 UTC New Scientist Weather forecast for early Earth involved iron rain Put iron under pressure and it vaporises – much more readily than previously thought. This means meteorite impacts on early Earth could have created iron rain
- 16:00 UTC io9 Space Kerbal Space Program Now Lets You Turn Your Ships Into 3D... Kerbal Space Program, the space flight sim about sending millions of Kerbal astronauts to an early grave/advancing the space-faring dreams of the Kerbal nation, is now offering a wave of ...
- 15:53 UTC Parabolic Arc Boeing Receives Signals From First All-Electric Satellite... CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Mar. 2, 2015 (Boeing PR) – Two Boeing [NYSE: BA] 702SP (small platform) satellites, the first all-electric propulsion satellites to launch, have sent initial signals from space, ...
- 15:41 UTC Parabolic Arc SpaceX Launches Two Electric Satellites SpaceX successfully launched two all-electric communications satellites on Sunday night, marking the first time the company’s Falcon 9 rocket has launched a pair of primary payloads. The Falcon 9 lifted ...
- 15:35 UTC io9 Space Just a couple of engineers hanging out Flight Engineers Elena Serova and Samantha Cristoforetti, both the first women stationed on the International Space Station from their respective countries, pose for a photo.Read more...
- 15:34 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... The huge “Y” in the atmosphere of Venus due to a wave dis... When observed in the ultraviolet range, Venus’ atmosphere reveals to be covered by a dark Y-shaped cloud whose origin and evolution have remained unexplained up to date
- 15:20 UTC io9 Space A Baby Star Pierces Through Its Blanket Of Interstellar D... Behold V1331Cyg, a young star located 1,800 light-years from Earth. This object, which is illuminating the dark cloud around it in spectacular fashion, is in the process of contracting as ...
- 15:16 UTC Quantum Diaries 30 reasons why you shouldn’t be a particle physicist 1. Some people think that physics is exciting. 2. They say “There’s nothing like the thrill of discovery”. 3. But that feeling won’t prepare you for the real world. 4. ...
- 15:08 UTC Starts With A Bang! Mostly Mute Monday: A GLIMPSE of the Galaxy (Synopsis) “Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.” -Albert ...
- 15:08 UTC Starts With a Bang! Mostly Mute Monday: A GLIMPSE of the Galaxy The Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged our entire galactic plane in the infrared, and it’s a 180,000 pixel spectacular.Continue reading on Medium »
- 15:01 UTC STARtorialist Check out these STUNNING pieces from dtekdesigns on Etsy.... Check out these STUNNING pieces from dtekdesigns on Etsy featuring some iconic sci-fi creations from Doctor Who, Star Wars, and Firefly!TARDIS diamond and sapphire ringLightsaber diamond and emerald ringImperial cog ...
- 14:58 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Fierce ‘Superflares’ from the Sun Zapped an Infant Earth Energetic solar flares might have hindered, or helped, life's start on Earth.
- 14:58 UTC EAAE News Celebrate the Hubble anniversary with a video contest! Source: ESA/Hubble On 23 April 2015, the European Space Agency together with NASA celebrate 25 years since the Hubble Space Telescope has been in orbit! We would like to invite ...
- 14:52 UTC The Universe Photo
- 14:47 UTC Astronomy Now The Moon meets Jupiter in the evening sky The waxing gibbous Moon passes close by the Solar System's largest planet, Jupiter, on the nights of March 2nd and 3rd. Jupiter was at opposition last month, but is still ...
- 14:38 UTC Drew Ex Machina 50 Years Ago Today: The Launch of Atlas-Centaur 5 The recent launch of the Atlas V with its Centaur upper stage was just the latest in a long series of such flights stretching back over half a century. Although ...
- 14:36 UTC The Solstice Blog Motivation Monday: Take a Break to Recharge One of the best things about being focussed and working hard is that it builds. You gain momentum. You have been making that small adjustment daily and things haven’t stopped ...
- 14:30 UTC Centauri Dreams Seeing Ceres: Then and Now I’m interested in how we depict astronomical objects, a fascination dating back to a set of Mount Palomar photographs I bought at Adler Planetarium in Chicago when I was a ...
- 14:30 UTC io9 Space How Radiation Nearly Broke Physics It was the heady days of the early 1900s, and radiation was all the rage. Researchers had just found a kind of radiation called "beta decay," and they discovered that ...
- 14:29 UTC Rosetta Blog Sideways – CometWatch 26 February This four-image mosaic comprises images taken from a distance of 94.3 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 26 February. The image resolution is 8.0 m/pixel and the individual ...
- 14:20 UTC NASA Watch Another Vulcan on ISS A New Science Officer on the Space Station Keith's note: In space Samantha Cristoforetti honors Leonard Nimoy/Spock by continuing the Vulcan science officer tradition on ISS. Altered imagery by Michael ...
- 14:14 UTC Parabolic Arc Euroconsult Sees Large Market for Smallsats Paris, Washington D.C., Montreal, Yokohama (Euroconsult PR) – According to Euroconsult’s newly released research titled Prospects for the Small Satellite Market, a total of 510 small satellites, or smallsats (meaning ...
- 13:54 UTC The Universe @nasa release the aliens n-a-s-a:Okay
- 13:49 UTC EarthSky Blog See Earth in the Mars night sky Have you ever seen planet Mars in your night sky? Well, here's planet Earth shining in the Martian night sky. Look hard! View larger. |Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMUOn January 31, 2014 about ...
- 13:35 UTC Coalition for Space... CSExtra – Top Space News for Monday, March 2, 2015 To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject ...
- 13:30 UTC If We Assume Maps of Twitter Maps of Twitter users are fairly common now - but they are still amazing. Here is (a screenshot from) one of my favorites by the good folks at Mapbox [link ...
- 13:12 UTC NASA Watch SpaceX Successfully Completes 3rd Mission of 2015 SpaceX Launches Dual Payload to GTO [With Video], SpaceRef Business "A SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched the ABS 3A and EUTELSAT 115 West B satellites towards a supersynchronous transfer orbit. ...
- 13:10 UTC Astroblog Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy Occasional Views January to Febr... Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy imaged on 17 January 2015. MEDIAN stack of 3x180 second luminance images BIN2, taken with iTelescope T14. North is left, East is bottom. Image inverted for ...
- 13:03 UTC NASA Watch Astronauts Complete Third Spacewalk in 8 Days Astronauts Complete Third International Space Station Spacewalk in Eight Days [With Video] "Outside the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA conducted ...
- 13:00 UTC Parabolic Arc ESA Launches Competition for Deep Space CubeSats PARIS (ESA PR) – Think of it as the ultimate hitchhiking opportunity: ESA is offering CubeSats a ride to a pair of asteroids in deep space. CubeSats are among the ...
- 12:28 UTC EarthSky Blog Touching NASA tributes to Leonard Nimoy’s passing Nimoy’s character Mr. Spock on Star Trek inspired generations of actual astronauts, space scientists and engineers, and space fans around the globe. What better tribute? Terry Virts in the International ...
- 12:24 UTC SPACE.com Russia Will Spin-Off ISS Parts for New Space Station Russia says it will support U.S. plans to keep the International Space Station operating through 2024, but then wants to split off three still-to-be launched modules to form a new ...
- 12:19 UTC SPACE.com Amazing Photo of Green Comet Lovejoy Captured by Dark Ene... The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera in Chile snapped a spectacular photo of Comet Lovejoy, formally known as C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy), on Dec. 27, 2014, while scanning the southern sky as ...

Displaying 137301-137350 of 407046 entries.

Previous | 1 ... 2743 2744 2745 2746 2747 2748 2749 2750 2751 2752 ... 8141 | Next

Most Recent Posts

Search and Filter

Search terms

Show

Latest Vodcast

Latest Podcast

Advertise PTTU

NASA Picture of the Day

Astronomy Picture of the Day