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MAJORANA, the Search for the Most Elusive Neutrino of All

16 May 2012, 20:09 UTC Neutrinos may be even stranger than they seem, if indeed they are the only fermions (particles of matter) that are their own antiparticles. Proof would be a rare form of radioactive decay called neutrinoless double-beta decay, which could only be seen if there’s virtually no background interference. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR now under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota aims to prove these near-perfect conditions can be met.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features

NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech

16 May 2012, 19:05 UTC NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos.

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

Fuel for the black hole

16 May 2012, 11:00 UTC

ESO Top News

A Deeper Look at Centaurus A

16 May 2012, 10:00 UTC The strange galaxy Centaurus A is pictured in a new image from the European Southern Observatory. With a total exposure time of more than 50 hours this is probably the deepest view of this peculiar and spectacular object ever created. The image was produced by the Wide Field Imager of the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile.

Universe Awareness - Space Scoop

Marking Out Galactic Boundaries

16 May 2012, 10:00 UTC

ESA Top News

Ariane 5’s second launch of 2012

15 May 2012, 22:05 UTC Early this morning, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, JCSAT-13 and Vinasat-2, into their planned transfer orbits.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features

JPL Invites all Earthlings to Annual Open House

15 May 2012, 22:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., invites the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, June 9, and Sunday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Science@NASA

Solar Eclipse this Weekend

15 May 2012, 18:47 UTC On Sunday, May 20th, the Moon will pass in front of the Sun, producing an annular solar eclipse visible across the Pacific side of Earth from China to the United States.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

A Supernova Cocoon Breakthrough

15 May 2012, 16:00 UTC Observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the star that exploded.

ESA Top News

‘The Rocket Man’ greets the ‘Rocket Men’

15 May 2012, 13:00 UTC Continuing the celebration of André Kuipers’ music in space, British rock legend Sir Elton John sent a special message to ESA, André and the crew of the ISS on the 40th anniversary of his classic song ‘Rocket Man’.

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16 May 2012
- 21:47 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NASA to Use Delta 4 Upper Stage on Moon Flights? Boeing's Delta Cryogenic Second Stage may be the only solution mature enough to meet requirements. Boeing may be best equipped to provide two cryogenic upper stages derived from the Delta ...
- 20:12 UTC Lawrence Berkeley N... Science Underground: Going to Great Depths The May 30, 2012 dedication of the Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), 4,850 feet down in South Dakota’s Homestake Mine, marks the official debut of research ...
- 20:09 UTC Lawrence Berkeley N... MAJORANA, the Search for the Most Elusive Neutrino of All Neutrinos may be even stranger than they seem, if indeed they are the only fermions (particles of matter) that are their own antiparticles. Proof would be a rare form of ...
- 19:05 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids.
- 19:05 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos.
- 11:00 UTC Max Planck Institut... Fuel for the black hole
- 10:00 UTC ESO Top News A Deeper Look at Centaurus A The strange galaxy Centaurus A is pictured in a new image from the European Southern Observatory. With a total exposure time of more than 50 hours this is probably the ...
- 10:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Marking Out Galactic Boundaries
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Goddard Attending 47th Nebula Awards Weekend NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will host two panel sessions at the 47th annual Nebula Awards Weekend on May 18.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Updated Coverage for NASA/Spacex Launch and Mission to St... The second SpaceX demonstration launch for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) is scheduled for liftoff on Saturday, May 19.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA's Deputy Administrator to Discuss Future of Commerci... NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will participate in a teleconference on Thursday, May 17, at 2 p.m. EDT with representatives of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation to brief journalists on the ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids.
- 00:00 UTC International Centr... I'm a scientist, get me out of here... …Is the cry coming from ICRAR Deputy Director Professor Steven Tingay, who's spending time over the next two weeks inspiring the next generation of high school student 'proto-scientists' - as ...
15 May 2012
- 22:05 UTC ESA Top News Ariane 5’s second launch of 2012 Early this morning, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, JCSAT-13 and Vinasat-2, into their planned transfer ...
- 22:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... JPL Invites all Earthlings to Annual Open House NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., invites the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, June 9, and Sunday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 19:28 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Chat With John Mather on Twitter Ask @NASAWebbTelescp and #JWST project scientist and Nobel Laureate John Mather your questions about #JWSTscience, May 17th at 2pm EDT.
- 19:04 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NASA’s Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition The event will take place May 21-26, 2012, at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. NASA’s Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition is a university-level competition designed to engage and ...
- 19:00 UTC NASA: GALEX News NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos.
- 18:47 UTC Science@NASA Solar Eclipse this Weekend On Sunday, May 20th, the Moon will pass in front of the Sun, producing an annular solar eclipse visible across the Pacific side of Earth from China to the United ...
- 16:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Breaking Free From a Cosmic Cocoon
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... A Supernova Cocoon Breakthrough Observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the star that exploded.
- 13:00 UTC ESA Top News ‘The Rocket Man’ greets the ‘Rocket Men’ Continuing the celebration of André Kuipers’ music in space, British rock legend Sir Elton John sent a special message to ESA, André and the crew of the ISS on the ...
- 12:00 UTC ESA Top News Watch the replay: Earth from Space – special edition Tommaso Parrinello, CryoSat Mission Manager, and Duncan Wingham, Chief Executive of the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council, join the Earth from Space programme to discuss ESA’s ice mission. Watch the ...
- 08:55 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... André Kuipers: world ambassador Observing Earth from far above, ESA astronaut André Kuipers is acting as a world ambassador for the WWF, which issued its flagship publication the Living Planet Report today.
- 08:25 UTC Leibniz Institute f... German astronomers finish Europe’s largest solar telescop... 15 May 2012. After ten years of development, the new German solar telescope GREGOR will start operating at the Spanish Observatorio del Teide of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... A Supernova Cocoon Breakthrough Observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may help astronomers understand why some supernovas are much more powerful than others.
14 May 2012
- 22:44 UTC Gemini Observatory Celestial Tapestry is Born of Uncertain Parentage Gemini Legacy image of the complex planetary nebula Sh2-71 as imagread more
- 17:00 UTC NASA: GALEX News GALEX: Managing the Unexpected Explorers are among the lowest-cost missions flown by NASA, but they can pack a big scientific punch. Such is the case with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or GALEX, a mission ...
- 16:55 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Telerobotics Could Help Humanity Explore Space Future human-robotic scientific activities could open up new frontiers in our scientific understanding of Mars, the moon, asteroids, Venus. Safely tucked inside orbiting habitat, space explorers use telepresence to operate ...
- 14:52 UTC ASTRON ASTRON proud at contribution to first instrument James We... On Wednesday 9 May, the official transfer took place of the Mid InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) by ESA to NASA. The NOVA Optical/ Infrared group at ASTRON was responsible for the ...
- 14:00 UTC ESA Top News Amateur astronomers boost ESA’s asteroid hunt A partnership with the UK’s Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the Agency’s space hazards research while helping students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks.
- 11:45 UTC ESA Top News Watch online: Earth from Space – special edition Tommaso Parrinello, CryoSat Mission Manager, and Duncan Wingham, Chief Executive of the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council, join the Earth from Space programme to discuss ESA’s ice mission. Watch online ...
- 11:32 UTC ASTRON Over 800 visitors on open day @ ASTRON's LOFAR telescope Over 800 people visited the LOFAR telescope last Saturday during the open day at ASTRON. Read more
- 09:09 UTC ASTRON Sounds of the Universe in 'De Wereld Draait Door Universi... On Ascension Day (Thursday, May 17), Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf will give a live class in the programme De Wereld Draait Door (DWDD). He will teach viewers about the origins of ...
- 08:48 UTC ASTRON "European" radio astronomy transcends borders; South Afri... The Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE) proved again Thursday that it is not restricted by its name, as it welcomed the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Testing for Dream Chaser® Space System Completed The Marshall Center successfully completed wind tunnel testing of the Dream Chaser® Space System for Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Expedition 31 Trio Blasts Off for International Space Sta... The Soyuz spacecraft launched at 10:01 p.m. CDT.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Modifies Launch Service Contract To Add Falcon 9 Roc... NASA has announced a modification of its NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract with Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., to add an additional configuration of the Falcon 9 ...
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Ariane 5 is moved to the launch zone for Arianespace's se... Arianespace's mission with the JCSAT-13 and VINASAT-2 spacecraft is on track for liftoff tomorrow evening, following the Ariane 5's rollout to its ELA-3 launch zone today at Europe's Spaceport in ...
12 May 2012
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Arianespace's Ariane 5 mission with twin telecommunicatio... The Ariane 5 mission with a "mirror" pair of relay satellites for Japan and Vietnam has been given the go-ahead for liftoff on May 15 from the Spaceport in French ...
11 May 2012
- 21:47 UTC Keck Observatory Video: How Stars Destroyed Almost All the Atoms in the Un... On Thursday, May 10, 2012, Keck Observatory hosted a live webcast of an astronomy talk by Dr. Brian Siana of the University of California at Riverside. Below is the recording ...
- 21:21 UTC Science and Technol... British astronaut Tim Peake flies in from Houston to meet... Tim Peake, the first UK astronaut to be selected by the European Space Agency, has taken time out from his heavy training schedule in Houston and spent the day with ...
- 19:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving Engineers ran rover-mobility tests on California sand dunes this week in preparation for operating NASA's Curiosity rover after it lands in Mars' Gale Crater.
- 11:58 UTC ESA Top News Farewell to the Sun The crew of the French–Italian Concordia research base in the Antarctic saw their last rays of Sun for over four months last weekend. Near the South Pole, the outpost will ...
- 07:50 UTC ESA Top News Watch 'Hot spots' on the Earth from Space programme Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. Join us every Friday at 10:00 CEST for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellites. ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Updated Coverage for NASA/SpaceX Launch and Mission to St... The second SpaceX demonstration launch for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) has been rescheduled for a liftoff on Saturday, May 19.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA $1.5 Million Robot Competition Rolls Onto WPI Campus... Autonomous robots created by 11 teams of engineers from across the country will compete for a NASA prize purse of $1.5 million on the campus of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), ...
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... EchoStar XVII comes to French Guiana for a dual-payload A... The initial passenger for Arianespace's third Ariane 5 mission of 2012 is now in French Guiana for a heavy-lift launch scheduled for June 19 from the Spaceport.
10 May 2012
- 22:15 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA's Juno Spacecraft Images Big Dipper En route to Jupiter, NASA's Juno mission has snapped a quick photo of a familiar sight in the nighttime sky--the Big Dipper.
- 21:32 UTC Keck Observatory Live Webcast: How Stars Destroyed Most of the Atoms in th... On Thursday, May 10, 2012, Keck Observatory is hosting a live webcast of an astronomy talk by Dr. Brian Siana of the University of California at Riverside. The first galaxies ...