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Alvarez Theory on Dinosaur Die-Out Upheld: Experts Find Asteroid Guilty of Killing the Dinosaurs

9 Mar 2010, 16:35 UTC An international panel of experts has ruled in favor of the theory proposed in 1980 by the late Berkeley Lab physicist Luis Alvarez and his son Walter, a UC Berkeley geologist, that a large asteroid struck the earth 65 million years ago, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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Keck telescope confirms smallest known star duo

9 Mar 2010, 08:00 UTC Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have identified the smallest known binary system to date. The system, called HM Cancri, consists of two dead stars that revolve around each other in 5.4 minutes, by far the shortest known orbital period of any pair of stars. The team, led by Gijs Roelofs of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics, used the 10-meter Keck I telescope with its Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph to study the velocity changes in the spectral lines in the light of HM Cancri. They observed that as the stars orbited each other, the system’s spectral lines shifted…

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features

Historic Deep Space Network Antenna Starts Major Surgery

8 Mar 2010, 20:03 UTC Like a hard-driving athlete whose joints need help, the giant "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, Calif. has begun major, delicate surgery.

Science and Technology Facilities Council News and Press Releases

STFC makes a BIG Bang in Manchester

8 Mar 2010, 12:07 UTC Scientists from across the STFC are heading to Manchester to take part in the largest science fair in the UK for students, the Big Bang Fair at Manchester Central, 11th - 13th March 2010

ESA Top News

Earth from Space: Icebreaker event

5 Mar 2010, 09:03 UTC This animation, made up of eight Envisat radar images, shows the 97-km long B-9B iceberg (right) ramming into the Mertz Glacier Tongue in Eastern Antarctica in early February. The collision caused a chunk of the glacier’s tongue to snap off, giving birth to another iceberg nearly as large as B-9B.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features

Is That Saturn's Moon Titan or Utah?

4 Mar 2010, 20:03 UTC Planetary scientists, who have been puzzling for years over the surface features on Saturn's moon Titan, have now found some recognizable analogies to a type of terrain on Earth known as karst topography.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features

NASA's Kepler Mission Celebrates One Year in Space

4 Mar 2010, 20:03 UTC One year ago this week, NASA's Kepler mission soared into the dark night sky, leaving a bright glow in its wake as it began to search for other worlds like Earth.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features

Mars Dunes: On the Move?

4 Mar 2010, 20:03 UTC Mars has diversity. In at least one area, Martian sand dunes are actively migrating. In another, they have been stationary for 100,000 years.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features

Herschel Finds Possible Life-Enabling Molecules in Space

4 Mar 2010, 20:03 UTC The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potentially life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion nebula.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

STAR Discovers the Strangest Antimatter Yet

4 Mar 2010, 19:09 UTC The strangest form of antimatter ever seen has been discovered by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. The new particle goes by the jawbreaking name “anti-hyper-triton.” It could not have been detected without STAR's main detector, a time projection chamber invented, designed, and built at Berkeley Lab.

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9 Mar 2010
- 16:35 UTC Lawrence Berkeley N... Alvarez Theory on Dinosaur Die-Out Upheld: Experts Find A... An international panel of experts has ruled in favor of the theory proposed in 1980 by the late Berkeley Lab physicist Luis Alvarez and his son Walter, a UC Berkeley ...
- 09:07 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Capillarity in action – a lesson from space In space, many things work differently, but not always. Take the movement of liquid in fine tubes. Gravity has something to do with this capillary action, but what? Students using ...
- 08:00 UTC Keck Observatory Keck telescope confirms smallest known star duo Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have identified the smallest known binary system to date. The system, called HM Cancri, consists of two dead stars that revolve around each ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Launches Interactive Simulation NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation for virtual explorers of all ages.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Launches Interactive Simulation of Satellite Communi... NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the International Space Station, experience a virtual trip to Mars ...
8 Mar 2010
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Historic Deep Space Network Antenna Starts Major Surgery Like a hard-driving athlete whose joints need help, the giant "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, Calif. has begun major, delicate surgery.
- 13:03 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Earthquake in Chile The astronomical community will be relieved to learn that, we understand, most astronomers working in Chile have been accounted for, and are safe and well , and that the observatories ...
- 12:07 UTC Science and Technol... STFC makes a BIG Bang in Manchester Scientists from across the STFC are heading to Manchester to take part in the largest science fair in the UK for students, the Big Bang Fair at Manchester Central, 11th ...
- 07:27 UTC ESA Top News How ESA got its tweet back On Friday, Esa Alanen and family visited the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, as guests of ESA, to say thanks for relinquishing the Twitter name www.twitter.com/esa.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Hosts First-Ever Water Sustainability Forum March 16... NASA today announced its founding partnership of Launch, an initiative to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges through a series of forums.
5 Mar 2010
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Watch Students Compete Using Lego Robotics Watch school teams test their software-enabled Lego robots via a live Internet program during the annual Southern California NASA Explorer Schools Robotics Competition.
- 09:03 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space: Icebreaker event This animation, made up of eight Envisat radar images, shows the 97-km long B-9B iceberg (right) ramming into the Mertz Glacier Tongue in Eastern Antarctica in early February. The collision ...
- 08:50 UTC ESA Top News New investment fund backs space technologies finding uses... For years, ESA has been bringing space technologies down to Earth through its Technology Transfer Programme and Business Incubation initiatives. Now, the Agency will strengthen these initiatives by supporting new ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Student Teams Ready to Battle Lunar Terrain at NASA's 17t... More than 100 student teams from around the globe will drive their lunar rovers through a course of moon-like terrain at NASA's 17th annual Great Moonbuggy Race April 9-10.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Briefing Highlights Education Outreach During Next S... NASA will highlight the educational activities planned on the next space shuttle mission during a news briefing at 12 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, March 9.
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... Talk: Visualizing James Webb Space Telescope Science If you're at NASA Goddard, come see this talk on science visualizations by an Academy Award nominee. March 11th. More info at the link!
4 Mar 2010
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Is That Saturn's Moon Titan or Utah? Planetary scientists, who have been puzzling for years over the surface features on Saturn's moon Titan, have now found some recognizable analogies to a type of terrain on Earth known ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA's Kepler Mission Celebrates One Year in Space One year ago this week, NASA's Kepler mission soared into the dark night sky, leaving a bright glow in its wake as it began to search for other worlds like ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Mars Dunes: On the Move? Mars has diversity. In at least one area, Martian sand dunes are actively migrating. In another, they have been stationary for 100,000 years.
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Herschel Finds Possible Life-Enabling Molecules in Space The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potentially life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion nebula.
- 19:09 UTC Lawrence Berkeley N... STAR Discovers the Strangest Antimatter Yet The strangest form of antimatter ever seen has been discovered by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. The ...
- 17:05 UTC Royal Astronomical ... RAS / IoP response to restructuring of the Science and Te... The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and the Institute of Physics (IOP) have responded to the statement by Lord Drayson, Minister of Science and Innovation, setting out reforms to the structure ...
- 15:00 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Hubble:Bully galaxy rules the neighbourhood [heic1004] In general, galaxies can be thought of as "social" - hanging out in groups and frequently interacting. However, this recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image highlights how some galaxies appear ...
- 15:00 UTC Hubble Space Telesc... Photo Release: Bully galaxy rules the neighbourhood In general, galaxies can be thought of as "social" — hanging out in groups and frequently interacting. However, this recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image highlights how some galaxies appear ...
- 14:30 UTC ESA Space Science Bully galaxy rules the neighbourhood In general, galaxies can be thought of as sociable, hanging out in groups and frequently interacting. However, this recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image highlights how some galaxies appear to ...
- 12:25 UTC Science and Technol... ESO announcement on E-ELT site The European Southern Observatory has outlined the next steps in finalising a site for the European Extremely Large Telescope.
- 12:04 UTC ESA Space Science Phobos Flyby Success Mars Express encountered Phobos last night, smoothly skimming past at just 67 km, the closest any manmade object has ever approached Mars’ enigmatic moon. The data collected could help unlock ...
- 11:58 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Herschel:Herschel-HIFI unveils precursors of life-enablin... ESA&aposs Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potential life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion Nebula, a nearby stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy. This detailed spectrum, ...
- 10:01 UTC Science and Technol... UK company Viglen to help scientists analyse big bang con... UK manufacturer and IT solutions provider Viglen has been selected to provide part of the required processing power for analysing the conditions that existed a trillionth of a second after ...
- 08:11 UTC ESA Top News New Eduspace website offers schools a clearer window on t... For the past 12 years, ESA’s Eduspace website has been a window on the world for secondary students and teachers. Now the website has been completely redesigned and updated, so ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA and NOAA's GOES-P Satellite Successfully Launched The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-P, lifted off Thursday aboard a Delta IV rocket at 6:17 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Student Teams Ready to Battle Lunar Terrain at NASA's 17t...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Robot vs. Robot: Live In Washington and Across the Nation NASA, in cooperation with local technology firms and sponsors, launches a nationwide series of high school robotics competitions that begin March 5 and 6 at the Walter E. Washington Convention ...
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... Feature: Journey of the Mirrors Interactive Map Did you know Webb's mirrors have to make 14 stops to 11 places during their manufacture? We have a new interactive map to show you what happens at each step ...
3 Mar 2010
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Mars Orbiter Speeds Past Data Milestone NASA's newest Mars orbiter has passed a data-volume milestone unimaginable a generation ago and still difficult to fathom - 100 terabits.
- 18:05 UTC Harvard-Smithsonian... First of Missing Primitive Stars Discovered March 03, 2010: Astronomers have discovered a relic from the early universe - a star that may have been among the second generation of stars to form after the Big ...
- 18:03 UTC Carnegie Institute Old Star is “Missing Link” in Galactic Evolution A newly discovered star outside the Milky Way has yielded important clues about the evolution of our galaxy. Located in the dwarf galaxy Sculptor some 280,000 light-years away, the star ...
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Winds of Change: How Black Holes May Shape Galaxies This is a composite image of NGC 1068, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies containing a rapidly growing supermassive black hole. X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are ...
- 12:04 UTC ESA Top News Mars Express heading for closest flyby of Phobos ESA’s Mars Express will skim the surface of Mars’ largest moon Phobos this evening. Passing by at an altitude of 67 km, precise radio tracking will allow researchers to peer ...
- 11:00 UTC ESO Top News The Cosmic Bat The delicate nebula NGC 1788, located in a dark and often neglected corner of the Orion constellation, is revealed in a new and finely nuanced image that ESO is releasing ...
- 08:15 UTC ESA Science & Techn... JWST:James Webb Space Telescope sunshield passes critical... The James Webb Space Telescope sunshield has passed its critical design review, marking the successful completion of another mission milestone. The review certified that the sunshield design is complete and ...
- 07:00 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Launch Day of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 17 (... Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to an
- 07:00 UTC National Optical As... GLOBE at Night 2010 Builds toward Breaking the Record Set... With half of the world’s population now living in cities, many urban dwellers have never experienced—and maybe never will—the wonderment of pristinely dark skies. This loss, caused by light pollution, ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Winds of Change: How Black Holes May Shape Galaxies New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provide evidence for powerful winds blowing away from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA's International Space Station Program Wins Collier T... NASA's International Space Station Program has won the 2009 Collier Trophy, which is considered the top award in aviation.
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: Tracing ... It all started with 12 unpaid, highly qualified men, a budget of only $5,000 a year and an unbridled passion for promoting and conducting aeronautical research.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... FUELING PROCESS COMPLETED FOR ASTRA 3B ASTRA 3B has been "topped off" in preparation for its launch during Ariane 5's first mission of the year, which is set for later this month. This activity was performed ...
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... Webb Telescope’s First Primary Mirror Meets Cold Temperat... Webb's first primary mirror segment was cryo-polished to spec! Check out the linked press release for more details.
2 Mar 2010
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Radar Map of Buried Martian Ice Adds to Climate Record Extensive radar mapping of the middle-latitude region of northern Mars shows that thick masses of buried ice are quite common beneath protective coverings of rubble.
1 Mar 2010
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Salt-Seeking Satellite Shaken By Quake, But Not Stirred NASA's Aquarius instrument, and the Argentinian spacecraft that will carry it into space, rode out the Feb. 27 Chilean earthquake without a scratch.