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31 Jul 2014
- 19:03 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Reveals New Source of Gamma ... Observations by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of several stellar eruptions, called novae, firmly establish these relatively common outbursts almost always produce gamma rays, the most energetic form of light.
- 18:56 UTC American Astronomic... Lunacy in August on the AAS Wall Calendar If you're a fan of the annual Perseid meteor shower, which peaks on the night of 11-12 August, you might be excited by the new Moon shown on 10 August ...
- 17:30 UTC ESA Top News Tales of tails Fabulous fables and tales of tails: Rosetta and Philae learn about the history of comets from their grandfather, Giotto
- 17:18 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red... The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully-selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the Red Planet.
- 16:53 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Invites Educators to 2014 Summer iConference Goddard's education office is inviting educators and members of the public to participate in its 2014 Summer iConference Aug. 5 to 7.
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Hosts 3 p.m. EDT Teleconference with Mars 2020 Princ... NASA will host a teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT today with the principal investigators of the selected instruments that will fly aboard the agency’s Mars 2020 rover.
- 14:35 UTC American Astronomic... Toward Job Satisfaction LETTER TO THE EDITOR There comes a time in the lives of some academics when they wonder whether they are a happy fit into their department (or similar professional unit). ...
- 14:00 UTC HubbleSite NewsCent... Hubble Shows Farthest Lensing Galaxy Yields Clues to Earl... Get larger image formats Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have unexpectedly discovered the most distant cosmic magnifying glass yet, produced by a monster elliptical galaxy. The galaxy, seen here ...
- 13:40 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space This week, the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme features a Sentinel-1A image of the Rub’ al Khali desert. Join us Friday, 1 August, at 10:00 CEST
- 12:05 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... New videos for the classroom to celebrate the successful ... Following the exciting launch of the 5th Automated Transfer Vehicle, ESA Education is proud to present a series of new educational videos that secondary school teachers will be able to ...
- 10:13 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Rosetta:Catching up with the comet's coma With the incredible images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko&aposs nucleus grabbing most of the attention over the last few weeks, we shouldn&apost forget about the comet&aposs coma. Of course, you can still ...
- 09:30 UTC ESA Top News ATV set loose Watch from close by as ATV-5 separates from the Ariane 5 rocket that took it into orbit
- 00:49 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... New NASA Research Shows Giant Asteroids Battered Early Ea... New research shows that more than four billion years ago the surface of Earth was heavily reprocessed – or melted, mixed, and buried – as a result of giant asteroid ...
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Arianespace to launch all-electric Eutelsat 172B satellit... European space telecommunications operator Eutelsat has chosen Arianespace to launch its 172B satellite. EUTELSAT 172B will be equipped with a multibeam payload covering the Asia-Pacific region, designed specially to support ...
30 Jul 2014
- 20:41 UTC American Astronomic... OIR Committee Meets 31 July & 1 August The National Research Council (NRC) OIR System Study Committee, chaired by former AAS President Debra Elmegreen (Vassar College), will hold its first meeting on 31 July and 1 August in ...
- 20:40 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Selects Instruments to Track Climate Impact on Veget... NASA has selected proposals for two new instruments that will observe changes in global vegetation from the International Space Station. The sensors will give scientists new ways to see how ...
- 20:31 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA to Announce Mars 2020 Rover Instruments NASA will announce on Thursday, July 31, the instruments that will be carried aboard the agency’s Mars 2020 mission, a roving laboratory based on the highly successful Curiosity rover. The ...
- 17:00 UTC ESO Top News ALMA Finds Double Star with Weird and Wild Planet-forming... Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in the binary system HK Tauri. These new ALMA observations ...
- 17:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Slanted Solar Systems Surprise Scientists It’s well known that the planets, moons, asteroids and other objects in our Solar System orbit the Sun in a more-or-less perfectly flat, disc-like motion, like a spinning CD. But ...
- 16:06 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Comet Siding Spring C/2013 A1 Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring heads toward a close flyby of Mars on Oct. 19, 2014. This graphic depicts the orbit of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring as it swings ...
- 16:06 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Holds Space Tech Mission Directorate Update Media Ca... NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Aug. 5, to discuss the activities of the agency's Space Technology Mission Directorate and how technology drives exploration.
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA, Small Business Administrators and U.S. Sen. Cardin ... NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will join Small Business Administrator (SBA) Maria Contreras-Sweet and U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, a member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, Friday, Aug. 1 ...
- 15:35 UTC Arianespace Press R... Ariane 5 is Authorized for Launch with Terrestar-1 Arianespace
- 15:24 UTC Science and Technol... Launchpad to support space-related businesses at Harwell ... Space-related SMEs connected to the Harwell space cluster have the chance to secure up to £1m of funding and support in business development of products and services thanks to the ...
- 14:51 UTC ESA Top News Costa Concordia tow Sentinel-1A captured this radar image of the Costa Concordia cruise ship as it was being towed toward Genoa at the weekend
- 14:09 UTC American Astronomic... Two AAS Members Named AGU Fellows The American Geophysical Union (AGU) recently announced its 2014 class of Fellows. This honor is given to individual AGU members who have made exceptional scientific contributions and attained acknowledged eminence ...
- 13:56 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA's IceCube No Longer On Ice The tiny satellite known as IceCube or Earth-1 could help advance scientists’ understanding of ice clouds and their role in climate change.
- 12:49 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... NanotechItaly 2014 Organized every year since 2008, NanotechItaly is an international conference conceived to promote nanotechnologies and other Key Enabling Technologies (KET) and their industrial applications. NanotechItaly 2014 will be held in ...
- 12:27 UTC ESA Top News Lifetime of gravity measurements heralds new beginning Although ESA’s GOCE satellite is no more, all of the measurements it gathered during its life skirting the fringes our atmosphere, including the very last as it drifted slowly back ...
- 12:19 UTC Science and Technol... UK team supplies extremely powerful £2M laser for new int... A cutting-edge laser amplifier that can supply bursts of laser energy with power equivalent to that of a full-sized power station has been developed, built and supplied for a new ...
- 07:00 UTC ESA Top News Full ATV-5 launch replay Watch the full launch and lead-up to the Ariane 5 launch with ESA's last Automated Transfer Vehicle
- 00:45 UTC ESA Top News Replay ATV-5 liftoff Watch the launch of ESA's last Automated Transfer Vehicle – now enroute to the International Space Station
29 Jul 2014
- 23:50 UTC ESA Top News Last ATV liftoff Liftoff of an Ariane 5 launcher from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana with ESA's last Automated Transfer Vehicle to the International Space Station
- 19:40 UTC Arianespace Press R... The Ariane 5 flight with ATV Georges Lemaître enters its ... Arianespace's latest resupply mission for the International Space Station has entered its final countdown phase at the Spaceport, advancing preparations for tonight's Ariane 5 liftoff with a record-setting Automated Transfer ...
- 19:38 UTC NASA Breaking News Astronaut Mike Massimino Departs NASA for University Posi... After almost two decades with NASA, including two space shuttle missions, astronaut Mike Massimino left the space agency Monday for a full-time position with Columbia University in New York.
- 18:45 UTC ESA Top News Last ATV lifts off to supply the Space Station The fifth and final mission of ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle got off to a flying start today with its launch from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, heading for the ...
- 16:20 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Revolutionary Microshutter Technology Hurdles Significant... NASA technologists have hurdled a number of significant technological challenges in their quest to improve an already revolutionary observing technology originally created for the James Webb Space Telescope.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Christine Cottingham - Working the Thermal Program is Coo... Thermal engineer Christine Cottingham thinks it’s cool to work on Goddard’s thermally hottest program.
- 15:38 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Less to the Milky Way than previously thought The Milky Way is less massive than astronomers previously thought, according to new research. For the first time, scientists have been able to precisely measure the mass of the galaxy ...
- 14:00 UTC ESA Top News Where are YOU going? We don't know where you're going, but we do know that Rosetta is about to arrive at its comet
- 12:30 UTC ESA Top News Gaia: ‘Go’ for science Following extensive in-orbit commissioning and several unexpected challenges, ESA’s billion-star surveyor, Gaia, is now ready to begin its science mission.
- 08:43 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Rolling to launch Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: ATV-5 on its Ariane rolling out to the launch pad
- 00:20 UTC Arianespace Press R... O3b's satellite cluster receives its orbital "kick" for t...
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... A milestone Ariane 5 mission with ATV payload underscores... Ariane 5 marked a key operational milestone and set a new record on its 60th consecutive "mission accomplished," successfully orbiting the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Georges Lemaître and once again ...
28 Jul 2014
- 22:54 UTC Science@NASA Perseid Meteors vs. the Supermoon Which is brighter--a flurry of Perseid fireballs or a supermoon? Sky watchers will find out this August when the biggest and brightest full Moon of 2014 arrives just in time ...
- 21:23 UTC NASA Breaking News Cassini Spacecraft Reveals 101 Geysers and more on Icy Sa... Scientists using mission data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have identified 101 distinct geysers erupting on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. Their analysis suggests it is possible for liquid water to reach ...
- 20:30 UTC Science@NASA Mars Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving, and is not ...
- 20:20 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Selects Environmental Test and Integration Services ... NASA has awarded the Environmental Test and Integration Services II (ETIS II) contract to Sierra Lobo, Inc of Fremont, Ohio. The contract will support the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate ...
- 20:15 UTC NASA Breaking News Reporters Invited to NASA Hurricane Airborne Mission Medi... Media are invited to learn about NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) airborne mission from scientists and pilots and see the remotely-piloted aircraft used in the study from 10 ...
- 20:14 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Passes 25 Miles of... NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving.