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23 Apr 2014
- 11:34 UTC American Astronomic... Two Reasons to Update Your AAS Member Profile For many years it has been clear that the capability to easily disambiguate individuals with similar names would have benefits for scholarship. A broad-based initiative called ORCID (Open Researcher and ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... IRIS Science Cafe #2 - The Mission You asked us about the structure of the sun and how it functions. Come learn more about how the center of our solar system really works!
22 Apr 2014
- 19:39 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Featured Prominently at USA Science and Engineering ... Media are invited to join a host of NASA scientists, engineers and managers at the USA Science and Engineering Festival, April 25-27 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 ...
- 17:24 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... James Webb Space Telescope Highlighted at USA Science and... The James Webb Space Telescope is going to "fly" into the USA Science and Engineering Festival on April 26 and 27 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. EDT at the ...
- 17:11 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Powerful Asteroids Strike Earth with Surprising Frequency... The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization operates a network of sensors that can detect nuclear detonations and asteroid impacts. B612 Impact Video. Credit: B612/D Josh Rosen Since the start of ...
- 16:22 UTC American Astronomic... AAS 2015 Prize Nominations Are Due 30 June The AAS needs your help in getting due recognition for our most outstanding colleagues. Nominations and letters of support for the AAS prizes for 2015 must arrive in the Secretary's ...
- 14:30 UTC ESA Top News ESA’s weightless plants fly on a Dragon It is a race against time for ESA’s Gravi-2 experiment following launch last Friday on the Dragon space ferry. Stowed in Dragon’s cargo are lentil seeds that will be nurtured ...
- 14:02 UTC Science and Technol... UK's lead in physics healthy but insecure The quantity and quality of scientific papers produced by UK physicists indicates that the UK remains in an elite group of nations contributing at the leading edge of physics research. ...
- 12:01 UTC Science and Technol... Bath researcher scoops top neutron scattering prize Dr Anita Zeidler (University of Bath) has been awarded the prestigious '2014 B.T.M. Willis Prize' for neutron scattering in recognition of her studies of a wide range of materials including ...
- 11:32 UTC ESA Science & Techn... XMM-Newton:Unique pair of hidden black holes discovered b... A pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around one another have been spotted by XMM-Newton. This is the first time such a pair have been seen in an ordinary ...
- 10:30 UTC American Astronomic... From the Executive Office As I and the rest of the AAS Executive Office staff prepare the final details for the Boston meeting coming up 1-5 June, we are also looking ahead to 3-14 ...
- 09:15 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Earth Day Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Copenhagen seen from International Space Station
- 08:00 UTC Max Planck Institut... A Dance of Black Holes Unique pair of supermassive black holes in an ordinary galaxy discovered by XMM-Newton
- 07:59 UTC ESA Top News Green city The 2014 European Green Capital, Copenhagen, sets a stellar example as a ‘green city’ – the theme for this year’s Earth Day
- 07:27 UTC ESA Space Science X-raying the cosmos Space science image of the week: Swarms of black holes and clusters of galaxies in the X-ray sky
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Why Earth Matters to NASA: A Conversation with Harrison F... Actor Harrison Ford was on location at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., last November to film a segment of Showtime's "Years of Living Dangerously" documentary on climate change.
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... LADEE Project Scientist Update: The Legacy Lives On! The LADEE spacecraft has impacted the Moon, capping an extremely successful operational mission. Science analysis will continue for months, as the science teams churn through the data and write papers ...
21 Apr 2014
- 20:51 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute among NASA C... When the SpaceX-3 cargo resupply mission launched to the International Space Station April 18, an experiment designed by the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute of Buffalo, N.Y., was among the cargo ...
- 19:34 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... JPL Cargo Launched to Space Station JPL's OPALS lasercomm experiment arrived at the International Space Station on April 20, 2014, via SpaceX Dragon.
- 16:50 UTC NASA's MESSENGER Mi... MESSENGER Completes Its 3,000th Orbit of Mercury, Sets Ma... On April 20, MESSENGER completed its 3,000th orbit of Mercury and moved closer to the planet than any spacecraft has been before, dropping to an altitude of 199 kilometers (123.7 ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Harvard Research among NASA Cargo Launching to Space Stat... When the SpaceX-3 cargo resupply mission launched to the International Space Station April 18, an experiment designed by David A. Weitz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Merck among NASA Cargo Launching to Space Station When the SpaceX-3 cargo resupply mission launched to the International Space Station April 14, an experiment designed by Merck Research Laboratories of Kenilworth, N.J., was among the cargo headed to ...
- 15:37 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... For an Immune Cell, Microgravity Mimics Aging NASA and the National Institute on Aging have teamed up to support space station research that may advance medical care and quality of life.
- 14:23 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Selects Commercial Crew Program Manager NASA has selected Kathy Lueders as program manager for the agency's Commercial Crew Program (CCP). Lueders, who has served as acting program manager since October 2013, will help keep the ...
19 Apr 2014
- 13:57 UTC American Astronomic... Ecuador Establishes Division of Solar Physics Phenomena The following is adapted from a report by E. D. López (Quito Astronomical Observatory, Ecuador): There is a relatively new field of scientific research devoted to studying the physical phenomena ...
18 Apr 2014
- 22:09 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Cargo Launches to Space Station aboard SpaceX Resupp... Nearly 2.5 tons of NASA science investigations and cargo are on the way to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.
- 19:56 UTC Lawrence Berkeley N... In Memoriam: Andrew Sessler, Former Laboratory Director, ... Andrew Sessler, former Laboratory Director and Acclaimed Physicist and Humanitarian, has died.
- 18:38 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Celebrates Earth Day with Public Events and Online A... NASA will celebrate the 44th anniversary of Earth Day with a variety of live and online activities April 21-27 to engage the public in the agency's mission to better understand ...
- 18:13 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Sun Emits a Mid-level Solar Flare The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, an M7, peaking at 9:03 a.m. EDT on April 18, 2014, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the event.
- 17:29 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Announce ... Media are invited to attend a breakfast reception at 8:30 a.m. EDT April 23 to celebrate the 24th anniversary of Hubble Space Telescope's launch into space with the opening of ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Hubble Sees Galaxies Spiraling around Leo Shown here is a spiral galaxy known as NGC 3455, which lies some 65 million light-years away from us in the constellation of Leo (the Lion). Galaxies are classified into ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Innovative Advanced Concept Program Seeks Phase II P... NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program is seeking proposals for technologies that could be used on future exploration missions. The new proposals will build on the most promising ideas developed ...
- 15:20 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA's MMS Observatories Stacked For Testing Goddard technicians stack two, then all four of the MMS observatories in preparation for vibration testing. The tests help ensure the spacecraft can withstand launch and operating in space.
- 13:57 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Completes LADEE Mission with Planned Impact on Moon'... Ground controllers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., have confirmed that NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft impacted the surface of the moon, as ...
17 Apr 2014
- 18:37 UTC NASA: Kepler News a... NASA's Kepler Discovers First Earth-Size Planet In The 'H... Using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the "habitable zone" -- the range of distance from a star where liquid water ...
- 18:34 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Exoplanets Soon to Gleam in the Eye of NESSI The New Mexico Exoplanet Spectroscopic Survey Instrument, or NESSI, will soon get its first "taste" of exoplanets.
- 18:33 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... JPL: NASA's Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size P... Using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the "habitable zone."
- 18:13 UTC Gemini Observatory First Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized Planet Confirmed ... Resources En Español read more
- 16:53 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... LADEE Survives Lunar Eclipse LADEE is in the final low-altitude passes prior to its planned impact. NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) performed its final orbital maintenance maneuver (OMM-22) last Friday evening, ...
- 16:21 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... LADEE Project Manager Update: Who’s Afraid of the Dark? After the primary mission concluded in March, we have been allowing the spacecraft to go much lower in altitude, in order to obtain the really high-value science data, accepting the ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Administrator and Senior Leaders to Outline NASA's "... NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will outline NASA's human exploration path to Mars during a keynote address at the Humans to Mars Summit 2014 at 9 a.m. ET, Tuesday, April 22. ...
- 15:43 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Rover Opportunity's Selfie Shows Clean Machine A new self-portrait by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows gleaming solar arrays, thanks to recent help from dust-cleaning winds.
- 15:17 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Bright Points in Sun's Atmosphere Mark Patterns Deep In I... Like a balloon bobbing along in the air while tied to a child's hand, a tracer has been found in the sun's atmosphere to help track the flow of material ...
- 14:52 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Solved: mysteries of a nearby planetary system Mysteries of one of the most fascinating nearby planetary systems now have been solved, report authors of a scientific paper to be published by the journal Monthly Notices of the ...
- 14:50 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Red stars and big bulges: how black holes shape galaxies The universe we can see is made up of billions of galaxies, each containing anywhere from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of billions of stars. Large numbers of galaxies are ...
- 14:05 UTC ESA Top News Week in Images Our week through the lens: 14-18 April 2014
- 14:00 UTC Hubble Space Telesc... Photo Release: A cross-section of the Universe An image of a galaxy cluster taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope gives a remarkable cross-section of the Universe, showing objects at different distances and stages in cosmic history. ...
- 12:30 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Enter the Node Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Node 2 mock-up pictured by photographer Edgar Martins
- 09:41 UTC ASTRON Future 'Engineer PowerWomen' visit Dwingeloo How does a radio telescope work? Why do you need software for this? And how can you use this knowledge in everyday life? During the national Girlsday on Thursday 24 ...
- 06:22 UTC ESA Top News Turn your satnav ideas into business Propose a great satnav idea and win a prize with ESA support to create your own business. Previous winners are now running companies with systems for athlete tracking and indoor ...