Most Recent News | Portal to the Universe

FEATURED IMAGE: 15 May 2013, 10:00 UTC | Orion's Hidden Fiery Ribbon 20 May 2013, 9:20:51UTC

RSS | About | Contact | Site Map

Press Releases

For Journalists

Press Releases

For Press Officers

Past Releases

Submit Press Release Feed

Advertise

The PTTU Team

Home » Press Releases » Press Releases » Most Recent

News Reader

Expand Entries

18 Feb 2010
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Honors 2009 Centennial Challenges Winners NASA will honor the achievements of the 2009 Centennial Challenges prize winners and competition hosts with a technical symposium Feb. 25 and a recognition ceremony Feb. 26.
- 04:00 UTC Science@NASA Cool Movie: SDO Destroys a Sundog NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory amazed onlookers last week when it flew past a sundog and destroyed it. Must-see videos of the event captured shock waves from the rocket billowing through ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Jurassic Space: Telescopes Probe Ancient Galaxies Near Us Imagine finding a living dinosaur in your backyard. Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric life in our intergalactic backyard: a group of small, ancient galaxies that has waited ...
17 Feb 2010
- 20:02 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Enhanced 3D Model of Mars Crater Edge Shows Ups and Downs A dramatic 3D Mars view based on terrain modeling from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data shows "highs and lows" of Mojave Crater.
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... NASA's Chandra Reveals Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions This composite image of M31 (also known as the Andromeda galaxy) shows X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in gold, optical data from the Digitized Sky Survey in light ...
- 14:00 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... The Cupola opens its seven eyelids Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have opened the shutters on the seven Cupola windows this morning, providing them with the first view of Earth from their new observation deck.
- 11:00 UTC ESO Top News No Place to Hide: Missing Primitive Stars Outside Milky W... After years of successful concealment, the most primitive stars outside our Milky Way galaxy have finally been unmasked. New observations using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have been used to solve ...
- 08:46 UTC Science and Technol... First physics from the Large Hadron Collider's CMS detect... Scientists working on the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC have just published results of the first analysis of data from the highest energy particle collisions ever carried out.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA's WISE Mission Releases Medley of First Images A diverse cast of cosmic characters is showcased in the first survey images NASA released Wednesday from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News President Obama Scheduled to Speak to Orbiting Astronauts President Obama, congressional leaders and middle school students will speak with the astronaut crews of the International Space Station and the space shuttle Endeavour Wednesday at 5:15 p.m. EST to ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Chandra Reveals Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions Chandra examines the cosmic causes that push a white dwarf "over the edge."
- 05:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Studying Storms to Improve Global Weather Monitoring NASA studies data from three unique weather monitoring tools to help predict how storms evolve.
- 04:00 UTC Science@NASA 3D Sun for the iPhone Imagine holding the entire sun in the palm of your hand. Now you can. A new iPhone app developed by NASA-supported programmers delivers a live global view of the sun ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... NASA's Chandra Reveals Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions NASA's Chandra Reveals Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... NASA's Chandra Reveals Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions New findings from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided a major advance in understanding a type of supernova critical for studying the dark energy that astronomers think pervades the universe. ...
16 Feb 2010
- 20:02 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Cassini Shoots New Close-Ups of Death Star-like Moon Blazing through its closest pass of the Saturnian moon Mimas on Feb. 13, Cassini sent back striking close-ups of the moon likened to the Death Star from "Star Wars" and ...
- 20:02 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Get Set for a Possible Glimpse of an Asteroid The most prominent asteroid in the sky is currently yours for the perusing with binoculars -- and perhaps even the naked eye.
- 20:02 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Finds Warmer Ocean Speeding Greenland Glacier Melt A new NASA study finds undersea melting of glaciers in west Greenland due to ocean warming is playing a major, previously overlooked, role in their evolution.
- 16:26 UTC Johns Hopkins Unive... Sommerer to Head Space Department at Johns Hopkins APL John C. Sommerer has been appointed head of the Space Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.
- 15:36 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Dark matter detective arrives at ESTEC One of the most exciting scientific instruments ever built, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), arrived at ESA’s Test Centre in the Netherlands for testing before being launched on the Space ...
- 15:36 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Dark matter detective arrives at ESTEC One of the most exciting scientific instruments ever built, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), arrived at ESA’s Test Centre in the Netherlands for testing before being launched on the Space ...
- 15:36 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Anti and dark matter detective AMS arrives at ESTEC One of the most thrilling scientific instruments ever built, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) arrived today at ESTEC for exhaustive testing before it will be lofted to International Space Station ...
- 07:00 UTC ESA Top News Phobos flyby season starts again Today Mars Express began a series of flybys of Phobos, the largest moon of Mars. The campaign will reach its crescendo on 3 March, when the spacecraft will set a ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... LLNL, Navistar Fuel Efficiency Test at Ames Wind Tunnel Saving the nation $10 billion annually in diesel fuel costs may be possible in a few years, thanks to new devices developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and now being ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Extends Johnson Aircraft Maintenance Contract NASA will exercise a one-year extension option for a contract with Computer Science Corporation of Fort Worth, Texas, to provide aircraft maintenance and modification support.
15 Feb 2010
- 21:00 UTC HubbleSite NewsCent... Hubble Captures Saturn's Double Light Show Get larger image formats In January and March 2009, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings were edge-on, resulting ...
- 08:01 UTC ESA Top News CryoSat to observe Earth’s ice cover ESA PR 03-2010. The European Space Agency is about to launch the most sophisticated satellite ever to investigate the Earth’s ice fields and map ice thickness over water and land: ...
- 07:00 UTC National Optical As... Dr. Sidney Wolff Honored at Chilean Dedication The groundbreaking for the viewpoint Vista Sidney Wolff took place on February 1, 2010 on the road to the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. The site features a ...
- 06:00 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Space Station’s big bay window installed The biggest window ever launched to space has been installed in its final position on the Earth-facing port of Node-3. The latches and 16 electrically driven bolts were engaged today ...
13 Feb 2010
- 06:00 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Astronauts enter Space Station’s new Node-3 Astronauts of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and ISS opened the hatches between Node-1 and Node-3 at 03:17 CET (02:17 GMT) this morning and entered their new module. For the moment, ...
12 Feb 2010
- 20:02 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Voyager Celebrates 20-Year-Old Valentine to Solar System On Feb. 14, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 had sailed beyond the farthest planet in our solar system and snapped an image that was a parting valentine to our string of ...
- 13:35 UTC Science and Technol... Oxfordshire Schools Physicists of the Year Oxfordshire students enthusiastic about physics are celebrating after receiving Sixth Form Physicists of the Year (2009/10) awards at STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory last night, Thursday 11 February.
- 09:42 UTC Science and Technol... Science Minister visits ISIS Science Minister Lord Paul Drayson was briefed on the latest advances in nanotechnology and materials research during a visit to STFC's world-leading ISIS neutron and muon source on Thursday 11th ...
- 09:00 UTC CERN AMS experiment embarks on first leg of mission into space Geneva, 12 February 2010. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) left CERN1 this morning on the first leg of its journey to the International Space Station (ISS). A special convoy carrying ...
- 06:00 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Space Station gains a new room: Node-3 installed Almost exactly two years after the Columbus laboratory was added to the Space Station, the hi-tech Node-3, also ‘made in Europe’, was installed on the ISS this morning.
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... OMEGA Project Learn more about the Offshore Membrane Enclosure for Growing Algae (OMEGA) project.
- 05:00 UTC Planetary Society P... Press Release: Saving Earth One Asteroid at a Time Saving Earth One Asteroid at a Time
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... Feature: Watch testing of Webb hardware in the Goddard Cl... Watch the James Webb Space Telescope come together via our webcam! The screenshot is updated once every minute.
- 00:00 UTC International Centr... ICRAR Researchers featured in "Science Matters" ICRAR researchers have been featured in the latest issue of 'Science Matters', the newsletter of the Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences at UWA.
11 Feb 2010
- 22:44 UTC Gemini Observatory The Many Colors of Star Birth Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURASharpless 2-106 as imaged by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawai‘i. This color composite image shows the nursery of a ...
- 20:02 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... WISE Spies a Comet with its Powerful Infrared Eye WISE has discovered its first comet, one of many objects the mission is expected to find during its ongoing infrared survey of the sky.
- 20:02 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Layers in a Mars Crater Record a History of Changes Hundreds of exposed rock layers near the center of a Martian crater reveal a record of major environmental changes on Mars billions of years ago.
- 20:02 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Cassini Set to Do Retinal Scan of Saturnian Eyeball On Feb. 13, 2010, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make its closest examination yet of Mimas, Saturn's eyeball-shaped moon that has also been likened to the Death Star of "Star Wars."
- 20:02 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Spirit Finishes Pre-Winter Drives NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is now parked for the winter.
- 16:04 UTC Johns Hopkins Unive... Layers Piled in Martian Crater Record a History of Change... Near the center of a Martian crater about the size of Connecticut, hundreds of exposed rock layers form a mound as tall as the Rockies and reveal a record of ...
- 15:47 UTC Science and Technol... NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory launches successfully Scientists are celebrating as NASA successfully launched its high resolution Sun probe into space today, Thursday 11 February.
- 15:00 UTC Hubble Space Telesc... Photo Release: Saturn's aurorae offer stunning double sho... Researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings are edge-on, resulting in a unique movie featuring both of ...
- 08:01 UTC ESA Top News Last look at CryoSat-2 As preparations for the launch of ESA's ice mission on 25 February continue on schedule, an important milestone has just been reached with the team at the Baikonur Cosmodrome saying ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Orbiting Space Shuttle Astronauts Answer Questions from S... Students in elementary and middle schools nationwide will have their questions about space answered live on Feb. 14 by space shuttle astronauts orbiting 220 miles above Earth.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Successfully Launches a New Eye on the Sun NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41 on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the sun's inner workings in unprecedented ...