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30 Apr 2010
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Explorer Schools Symposium Showcases Student Researc... Students will share their research findings at a NASA Explorer Schools symposium May 5-8 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Awards Engineering And Technolgy Support Services Co... NASA has awarded a sole source bridge contract for Multidisciplinary Engineering and Technology Support, or METS, services to Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT), Inc. of Greenbelt, Md.
- 04:00 UTC Planetary Society P... News: Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Snoozes Past... Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Snoozes Past Viking, Opportunity Returns Breathtaking Image of Endeavour
29 Apr 2010
- 19:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Cassini and Amateurs Chase Storm on Saturn With the help of amateur astronomers, the composite infrared spectrometer instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken its first look at a massive blizzard in Saturn's atmosphere.
- 19:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Radar Clicks Asteroid's Pic Near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 was "imaged" by the Arecibo Radar Telescope in Puerto Rico on April 19.
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... "Survivor" Black Holes May Be Mid-Sized This composite image of M82 shows Chandra X-ray Observatory data in blue, optical data from Hubble in green and orange, and infrared data from Spitzer in red.
- 15:39 UTC ESA Top News Launch of new ESA Business Incubation Centre in the Nethe... ESA’s new Business Incubation Centre was formally launched yesterday in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Over the next four years, 40 innovative companies will be helped to bring space technology down to ...
- 14:02 UTC Science@NASA NASA Has Big Plans for Humanoid Robot NASA is making a to-do list for the space station's new humanoid robot. Nicknamed R2, the mechanical crew member's chores could range from the most delicate science experiments to old-fashioned ...
- 09:32 UTC German Aerospace Ce... TerraSAR-X's 'twin' satellite, TanDEM-X, certified ready ... Construction of the German radar satellite TanDEM-X is complete and the satellite has been qualified for space operations during a series of tests conducted in Ottobrunn, near Munich. As with ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA TV Provides Coverage Of New Launch Abort System Test NASA Television will provide live coverage of the May 6 launch of the Pad Abort 1 flight test.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Sensor Technology Helps Recreational Boaters Make Wa... NASA-developed wireless sensor technology is giving recreational boat owners safer and more accurate readings of how much fuel is in their tanks.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... NASA TV Provides Coverage of New Launch Abort System Test NASA Television will provide live coverage of the May 6 launch of the Pad Abort 1 flight test.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... 'Survivor' Black Holes May Be Mid-Sized New evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton strengthens the case that two mid-sized black holes exist close to the center of a nearby starburst galaxy.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA to Probe the Universe's First Moments Sophisticated technologies developed at Goddard are enabling them to build an instrument designed to probe the first moments of the universe's existence.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Cassini and Amateurs Chase Storm on Saturn Using Goddard ... With the help of amateur astronomers, the composite infrared spectrometer instrument aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has taken its first look at a massive blizzard in Saturn’s atmosphere.
28 Apr 2010
- 19:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Study Sheds Light on Ozone Hole Chemistry A new NASA study of Earth's polar ozone layer reinforces scientists' understanding of how human-produced chlorine chemicals involved in the destruction of ozone interact with each other.
- 19:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Scientists Say Ice Lurks In Asteroid's Cold Heart Scientists using a NASA funded telescope have detected water-ice and carbon-based organic compounds on the surface of an asteroid.
- 11:55 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... OasISS crew visits ESA Columbus Control Centre ESA astronaut Frank De Winne and his OasISS mission crewmates Roman Romanenko and Bob Thirsk were welcomed on Monday at ESA’s Columbus Control Centre near Munich. The centre supported De ...
- 09:26 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... Investments in space and high technology This sound and original research coordinated on behalf of the ASI by Professor Giancarlo Graziola of the University of Bergamo is the most complete and up-to-date economic analysis currently available ...
- 09:22 UTC Royal Astronomical ... 2011 RAS Awards and Medals Nominations are sought for the 2011 awards in astronomy and astrophysics (cosmology, astrobiology, cosmochemistry, astroparticle physics, computational astrophysics, etc.) and solar-system physics (geophysics, solar physics, solar-terrestrial physics, planetary sciences, etc.)....
- 09:08 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... COSMO-SkyMed trains its eyes on Etna At 22.04 on 2 April 2010 the seismic monitoring network of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Catania (INGV-CT) started registering a seismic swarm in the middle ...
- 09:02 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... Third ATV named after Edoardo Amaldi The third ATV (automated transfer vehicle) built by the European Space Agency for the International Space Station has been named after Edoardo Amaldi, the great Italian physicist and pioneer in ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA's Webb Telescope Passes Key Mission Design Review Mi... NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed its most significant mission milestone to date, the Mission Critical Design Review.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Ames Researcher Makes Flying Safer It’s comforting to know that when you board a commercial airline Ames Researcher Ashok Srivastava is working to ensure that you enjoy a safe flight.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Webb Telescope Passes Mission Milestone The James Webb Space Telescope passed the Mission Critical Design Review, the most significant milestone yet!
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... Web Feature: Webb Telescope Passes Mission Milestone NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed its most significant mission milestone to date, the Mission Critical Design Review, or MCDR. This signifies the integrated observatory will meet all science ...
27 Apr 2010
- 21:22 UTC Gemini Observatory Minimizing Gemini’s Environmental Impact Reducing Gemini’s Environmental Impact Gemini Observatory aims to be one of the most energy efficient astronomical facilities, with the highest standards of environmental protection. Since it first encouraged, in 2008, ...
- 14:12 UTC ESA Top News Press invitation to the Herschel First Results Media Day ESA PR 08-2010. Media representatives are cordially invited to celebrate the release of the first results from ESA’s Herschel infrared space telescope. The theme of the media day is: Revealing ...
- 13:49 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Space Station calls EU Parliament A special exhibition opened on Monday at the EU Parliament in Brussels: 'European Amateur Radio Benefiting Society – Emergency Communications, Education and Space' shows how ham radios on the ground ...
- 13:30 UTC German Aerospace Ce... DLR-Webcast: Alan Bean - the fourth man on the Moon On 19 November 1969, when Alan Bean became the fourth person to walk on the surface of the Moon, telephones still had dials and the Internet was an experimental project ...
- 12:44 UTC German Aerospace Ce... New DLR Institute of Solar Research receives a 27 million... Over the next five years, the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will sponsor the formation of the DLR Institute of Solar Research within the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches ...
- 11:19 UTC ESA Top News ESA’s Envisat monitors oil spill These ESA Envisat images capture the oil that is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after a drilling rig exploded and sank off the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi, USA, ...
- 07:40 UTC ESA Top News StarTiger secures way to eclipse Sun in space Last September a team of researchers assembled in southern France. Their six month assignment: develop a new type of space mission, targeting a mysterious segment of the Sun normally hidden ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Announces Wednesday Media Teleconference About Searc... NASA will hold a news media teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, April 28, to discuss the status of agency-sponsored astrobiology research, including the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Ames Center Director Receives Arthur C. Clarke Award The director of NASA's Ames Research Center, S. Pete Worden, was recognized Tuesday by The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation for his leadership in space exploration.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Ames Center Director Receives Arthur C. Clarke Award NASA Ames Research Center Director S. Pete Worden was recognized Tuesday by The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation for his leadership in space exploration.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Television To Broadcast Arrival Of Space Station Car... The residents of the International Space Station will receive a new shipment of food, fuel and supplies on Saturday, May 1, and NASA Television will broadcast the arrival live.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Ames Takes Traveling Space Museum to Bay Area NASA is taking the “space experience” on the road to San Francisco Bay Area schools to motivate and inspire the next generation of space explorers.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Students Apply Science and Imagination In NASA Tilt-Rotor... Some helicopters of the future will look very different from today's, at least as imagined by high school students for a NASA aeronautics competition.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... GOES-15 Opens Its Infrared "Eyes" for First Image From approximately 22,236 miles in space, GOES-15 took its first full-disk infrared image of the Earth on April 26, 2010.
26 Apr 2010
- 23:00 UTC ESA Top News ESA rewards glass industry space tech spin-off ESA’s Space Spin-off Award for 2010 has been presented to Italian company Kentec for using space technology from the International Space Station’s Columbus laboratory and the Hubble telescope in a ...
- 19:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Cassini Measures Tug of Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be gliding low over Saturn's moon Enceladus for a gravity experiment designed to probe the moon's interior composition.
- 19:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Planck Sees a Cold and Stormy Orion The big hunter in the sky is seen in a new light by Planck, a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA participation.
- 19:00 UTC NAOJ Top News Science Results - Research Illuminates the Shape of Dark ... An international team of researchers from Japan, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom has provided the first direct and clear evidence for an extremely flattened shape of dark matter's distribution in ...
- 14:24 UTC Jodrell Bank Centre... Star formation processes revealed by Planck New images from the Planck space observatory reveal the gas and dust between the stars and isolate the physical processes at work in our Galaxy. The new images are an ...
- 14:00 UTC ESO Top News E-ELT Site Chosen On 26 April 2010, the ESO Council selected Cerro Armazones as the baseline site for the planned 42-metre European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). Cerro Armazones is a mountain at an ...
- 08:00 UTC ESA Space Science Planck highlights the complexity of star formation New images from ESA’s Planck space observatory reveal the forces driving star formation and give astronomers a way to understand the complex physics that shape the dust and gas in ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Selects Partners in Idaho, Massachusetts, New Mexico... NASA is partnering with the Space Grant Consortia of Idaho, Massachusetts, New Mexico and Wyoming in the Summer of Innovation initiative to use the agency's out-of-this-world missions and technology programs ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA TV Celebrates 20 Years Of Hubble Space Telescope Ope... NASA Television marks the 20th anniversary of on-orbit operations of the Hubble Space Telescope with a documentary that premieres Monday, April 26 at 2 p.m. EDT. It will re-air at ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA, EPA Extend Environmental And Earth Science Collabor... NASA and EPA signed a Memorandum of Agreement to continue collaboration between the two agencies in environmental and Earth sciences and applications