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14 Jul 2010
- 19:07 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Meet the Titans: Dust Disk Found Around Massive Star A new discovery has the potential to answer the long-standing question of how massive stars are born -- and hints at the possibility that planets could form around the galaxy's ...
- 19:07 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Giant Antenna Propped Up, Ready for Joint Replacement Workers at NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Goldstone, Calif., are making progress on a major renovation on the 70-meter-wide "Mars antenna."
- 17:00 UTC ESO Top News Unravelling the Mystery of Massive Star Birth Astronomers have obtained the first image of a dusty disc closely encircling a massive baby star, providing direct evidence that massive stars form in the same way as their smaller ...
- 15:45 UTC Science and Technol... NASA award for telescope innovation to Edinburgh scientis... The late Dr Timothy Hawarden, who was based for many years at the STFC's UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC), has been awarded a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ...
- 15:07 UTC Penn State Astronom... Record-Breaking X-ray Blast Briefly Blinds Space Observat... A blast of the brightest X-rays ever detected from beyond our Milky Way galaxy's neighborhood temporarily blinded the X-ray eye on NASA's Swift space observatory earlier this summer, astronomers now ...
- 08:00 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Mars500 video diary 4 - it's housecleaning day! In one aspect the life of the Mars500 crew is just like home: they have to clean the microwave, scrub the toilet, mop the floors and vacuum around. In this ...
- 06:30 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator 'IKAROS' Su... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce that the GAmma-ray burst Polari
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Sets Briefing to Preview Space Station Spacewalk NASA officials will discuss an upcoming International Space Station spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts during a news briefing at 2 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, July 21.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Awards Rapid Response Space Works Contract Serving as a contracting agent for the Department of Defense’s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office, NASA has selected Millennium Engineering and Integration Co., of Arlington, Va., to receive a contract ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Supporting Gulf Oil Spill Wildlife Recovery NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is helping with the unprecedented effort to save wildlife from the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Unravelling the Mystery of Star Birth - Dust Disk Discove... Astronomers caught their first glimpse of a dusty disk closely encircling a massive baby star, providing direct evidence that massive stars form in the same way as their smaller counterparts.
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... Video: Science Friday A full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope, the planned successor to Hubble, is on the circuit -- making appearances at science conferences and festivals around the world. Science ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Unravelling the Mystery of Star Birth - Dust Disk Discove... Astronomers caught their first glimpse of a dusty disk closely encircling a massive baby star, providing direct evidence that massive stars form in the same way as their smaller counterparts.
13 Jul 2010
- 19:07 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Curiosity Spins Its Wheels The wheels that will touch down on Mars in 2012 are several rotations closer to spinning on the rocky trails of Mars.
- 19:07 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Study Finds Amazon Storm Killed Half a Billion Trees In 2005, scientists saw a spike in tree deaths in the Amazon, which was attributed to drought. Now a NASA-funded study finds a single, massive thunderstorm was also to blame.
- 17:07 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NASA Announces Three New Centennial Challenges Three new Centennial Challenges issued with an overall prize purse of $5 million.
- 14:56 UTC Carnegie Institutio... Galaxy Formation Pioneer Dr. Leonard Searle Dies Leonard Searle, astronomer and director emeritus of Carnegie Observatories, died at his home on July 2, 2010, in Pasadena, CA, in the midst of a busy retirement that followed a ...
- 12:45 UTC German Aerospace Ce... Turning robots into assistants for people: Alin Albu-Schä... In a German children's comic strip, Daniel Düsentrieb has a little helper - an electric bulb with two legs - always at his side to serve him. Although Alin Albu-Schäffer ...
- 11:42 UTC UK Space Agency Hubble captures cosmic cauldron A colourful star-forming region is featured in this stunning new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 2467.
- 10:00 UTC Hubble Space Telesc... Photo Release: Hubble snaps sharp image of cosmic concoct... A cosmic concoction in NGC 2467A colourful star-forming region is featured in this stunning new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 2467. Looking like a roiling cauldron of some ...
- 09:59 UTC ESA Top News Call for Media: ESA at Farnborough air show, 19–25 July ESA PR-16 2010: ESA, together with the UK Space Agency, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and industry, will be exhibiting in a dedicated Space Zone at the Farnborough International Air ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... See What's Brewing in "Hurricane Alleys" Live On-line, on... Scientists working for the GOES Project have developed continually updating "movies" of satellite imagery that allows on-line, iPhone and iPad viewing of any cyclone's movement in the Hurricane Alleys of ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Announces Three New Centennial Challenges NASA announced three new Centennial Challenges Tuesday, with an overall prize purse of $5 million. NASA's Centennial Challenges are prize competitions for technological achievements by independent teams who work without ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Selects Student Experiments For International Space ... NASA has selected nine experiments, designed by students at seven schools, for astronauts to perform on the International Space Station this summer. NASA selected the proposals from among 132 received ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Kepler Mission Manager Update, July 13, 2010 The project team recently completed another roll of the Kepler spacecraft and science data download.
- 01:44 UTC Science@NASA Down the Lunar Rabbit-hole Newly-discovered pits on the Moon could be entrances to a geologic wonderland of underground caves and tunnels. Researchers discuss the possibilities in today's story from Science@NASA.
12 Jul 2010
- 19:07 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Juno Armored Up to Go to Jupiter NASA's Juno spacecraft, which is currently being assembled, recently received its protective shield.
- 15:48 UTC Harvard-Smithsonian... Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions Still a Mystery July 12, 2010: When a star explodes as a supernova, it shines so brightly that it can be seen from millions of light-years away. One particular supernova variety - Type ...
- 11:29 UTC UK Space Agency Image of the day - UK satellite tracks Greenland glacier This image was taken by the UK- DMC2 satellite this year and shows the Helheim glacier in Greenland
- 10:40 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... ESA at Farnborough air show, 19–25 July ESA, together with the UK Space Agency, the Italian space agency and industry, will be exhibiting its wide range of activities - also human spaceflight related - in a dedicated ...
- 08:43 UTC UK Space Agency Rosetta triumphs at asteroid Lutetia Asteroid Lutetia has been revealed as a battered world of many craters
- 07:00 UTC Planetary Society P... Press Release: Where Should We Go in Space? Tell Bill Nye... Where Should We Go in Space? Tell Bill Nye During a Live Ustream Chat
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter NASA and Microsoft Research are bringing Mars to life with new features in the WorldWide Telescope software that provides viewers with a high-resolution 3-D map of the Red Planet.
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... Feature: Behind-the-Scenes Tests with the Webb Telescope'... There are a lot of things that happen "behind the scenes" when a space telescope is being built and all of the components are being tested. In this recent photo, ...
10 Jul 2010
- 21:48 UTC German Aerospace Ce... Rosetta spacecraft returns unique glimpses of asteroid Lu... The European Rosetta spacecraft has achieved a further milestone on its journey to the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. On 10 July 2010 at 17:45 CEST, the orbiter flew past asteroid Lutetia on ...
- 14:00 UTC ESA Top News Rosetta lines up for spectacular asteroid flyby Asteroid 21 Lutetia is growing larger in Rosetta's view as the ESA satellite zooms in for a spectacular flyby at 18:10 CEST today. Lutetia is the largest asteroid ever visited ...
- 08:00 UTC ESA Top News Rosetta Lutetia Flyby
9 Jul 2010
- 22:01 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Science Q&A with Noemi Pinilla-Alonso Noemi Pinilla-Alonso grew up in a city called Oviedo, in northern Spain, and specialized in astronomy and astrophysics at the University of La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
- 19:07 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Heavy Metal Rock Set to Take the Stage On its way to a 2014 rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, with NASA instruments aboard, will fly past asteroid Lutetia this Saturday, July 10.
- 17:12 UTC Science@NASA South Pacific Eclipse On Sunday, July 11th, a total eclipse of rare beauty will sweep across the South Pacific.
- 11:00 UTC ESA Top News Watch Rosetta webcast live 10 July starting 18:30 CEST Live webcast of the media event from ESA's European Space Operations Centre covering Rosetta's 10 July flyby of asteroid 21 Lutetia. Two-part programme starts 18:00 CEST for closest approach and ...
- 10:00 UTC German Aerospace Ce... DLR researchers conduct world’s first analysis of next-ge... Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have received and analysed navigation signals transmitted from the first GPS ‘IIF’ satellite, using the 30-metre antenna at the German Space Operations Centre, ...
- 09:38 UTC UK Space Agency Rosetta lines up for spectacular asteroid flyby On 10 July, ESA's Rosetta will fly past 21 Lutetia, the largest asteroid ever visited by a satellite. After weeks of manoeuvres and a challenging optical navigation campaign, Rosetta is ...
- 09:21 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Survival training for astronauts At the end of June, ESA’s six astronaut candidates were thrown out of a helicopter, left to drift at sea and were abandoned under the hot Mediterranean sun – but ...
- 07:00 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator 'IKAROS' Co... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce that we have confirmed the succ
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Names Lugo As Director Of Glenn Research Center NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Ramon "Ray" Lugo III as director of the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, effective July 18. Lugo has been Glenn's acting director since ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... SDO Captures Arcing Active Region As the arcing loops above an active region began to rotate into a nice profile view, SDO captured the dynamic, magnetic struggles taking place below (July 6-8, 2010).
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News First NASA Astronaut To Send Live Tweet From Space Hosts ... NASA invites its Twitter followers to a special Tweetup with astronaut T.J. Creamer at 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 29.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Total Solar Eclipse on July 11, 2010 On Sunday, July 11,2010, a total eclipse of the sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses Earth's Southern Hemisphere.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Mile-long chunk of ice calves off Greenland Glacier Jakobshavn Glacier shed 2.7 square miles of ice overnight as researchers watched the ice sheet rift and then retreat.