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14 Dec 2009
- 20:59 UTC Keck Observatory First super-earths discovered around sun-like stars MAUNA KEA, HI—Planet hunters using the W. M. Keck Observatory have identified at least six low-mass planets around two nearby, Sun-like stars. Two of the planets are five and 7.5 ...
- 20:33 UTC Science and Technol... New planets found around Sun-like stars An international team of planet hunters has today announced the discovery of four new planets orbiting nearby stars like our Sun.
- 20:12 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA's WISE Eye on the Universe Begins All-Sky Survey Mis... NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light.
- 20:12 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... WISE has launched! WISE has launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
- 20:12 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Data Reveal Major Groundwater Loss in California NASA data show California's primary agricultural area and major mountain water source lost nearly enough groundwater since fall 2003 to fill America's largest reservoir.
- 19:36 UTC Carnegie Institutio... First super-Earths discovered around Sun-like stars
- 15:00 UTC Hubble Space Telesc... Photo Release: Born in beauty: proplyds in the Orion Nebu... A collection of 30 never-before-released images of embryonic planetary systems in the Orion Nebula are the highlight of the longest single Hubble Space Telescope project ever dedicated to the topic ...
- 14:49 UTC ESA Space Science Born in beauty: proplyds in the Orion Nebula A collection of 30 never-before-released images of embryonic planetary systems in the Orion Nebula are the highlight of the longest single Hubble Space Telescope project ever dedicated to the topic ...
- 09:47 UTC ESA Top News ‘Environmental Atlas of Europe’ unveiled at COP15 In support of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change taking place in Copenhagen, the European Environment Agency hosted the 'Bend the Trend' event on Sunday evening to provide ...
- 09:00 UTC CERN CERN Colour X-ray Technology Set to Save Lives Geneva, 14 December 2009 Medical studies are soon to start with the MARS scanner, a revolutionary CT scanner developed by the University of Canterbury1, New Zealand. The scanner, which incorporates ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News From Endangered Fish to Saturn's Rings: NASA Science High...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Challenges of Living and Working Aboard the Space Station... After three months living aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Nicole Stott will be available for satellite interviews from Houston between 6 a.m. and 7:45 a.m. CST on Thursday, ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA's WISE Eye on the Universe Begins All-Sky Survey Mis... NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light.
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Highlighted at American Geophysical Union Meeting SAN FRANCISCO -- NASA researchers are presenting a wide range of science results at the 2009 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Launches Web Site for Teenagers That Want More Class NASA has launched a new Web site created specifically for teenagers that provides teens access to current NASA spacecraft data for use in school science projects, allows them to conduct ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Astronaut, Food Scientist Available for Interviews a... Irradiated smoked turkey, thermostabilized yams and NASA's own special stuffing recipe can mean only one thing -- holiday season aboard the International Space Station.
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Calif. Astronaut to Fly on Next Space Shuttle Mission Steve Robinson, from Sacramento, Calif., will make his fourth journey into orbit on space shuttle Endeavour's next mission to the International Space Station.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... NASA Chat: Geminids Meteor Shower The Geminids meteor shower will cast a glow in December's skies. At 3 p.m. on Dec. 11, NASA scientist Bill Cooke answered your questions. › Chat Transcript
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... NEW LAUNCH DATE SET FOR ARIANE 5'S FINAL MISSION OF THE Y... Arianespace's year-end mission with Helios 2B is now set for December 17 from the Spaceport in French Guiana. The French military observation satellite is riding as a solo payload on ...
13 Dec 2009
- 20:12 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... WISE Ready to Soar Into Space The tower around the Delta II rocket carrying the WISE spacecraft has been rolled back, in preparation for a Monday morning launch.
12 Dec 2009
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... Read: The January 2010 issue of Sky and Telescope JWST Project Scientist Jon Gardner wrote the cover article on "Finding the First Galaxies" for the January 2010 issue of Sky and Telescope. It's on the newstands now!
11 Dec 2009
- 20:12 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Magnetic Dance of Titan and Saturn To Be Main Attraction ... When it flies by Saturn's largest moon, Titan, this weekend, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will study the interactions between the magnetic field of Saturn and Titan.
- 19:00 UTC NAOJ Top News Science Results - First Direct Imaging of a Young Binary ... A team of astronomers from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and other universities have captured the first direct image of a young binary ...
- 14:07 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Flurry of Geminid meteors to light up December sky (RAS P... On the evening of 13th and the morning of 14th December, skywatchers across the northern hemisphere will be looking up as the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak, in what ...
- 12:01 UTC Science and Technol... Russian Space Agency set to take-off in UK Collaborations between UK and Russian space scientists and engineers could be on the horizon.
- 11:28 UTC Science and Technol... First stunning images captured by VISTA Telescope A new UK-designed telescope, that can map the sky much faster and deeper than any other infrared telescope, has made its first release of stunning images. VISTA (the Visible and ...
- 10:30 UTC ESO Top News VISTA: Pioneering New Survey Telescope Starts Work ESO 49/09 - Organisation Release: A new telescope - VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) - has just started work at ESO's Paranal Observatory and has made ...
- 10:10 UTC German Aerospace Ce... Martian moons Phobos and Deimos together in one image for... Ultimate precision is one of the most important prerequisites for successful space missions. The German Aerospace Center (DLR), in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) in Darmstadt, has now ...
- 09:47 UTC ESA Top News Space agencies join forces to systematically observe clim... Over 30 000 people from 190 nations are gathered at the two-week UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. On Thursday about 150 distinguished guests attended an ESA-hosted side event entitled ...
- 09:45 UTC ESA Space Science Pioneering images of both martian moons For the very first time, the martian moons Phobos and Deimos have been caught on camera together. ESA's Mars Express orbiter took these pioneering images last month. Apart from their ...
- 09:25 UTC ASTRON EXPReS hailed as "extraordinarily successful" to SKA desi... The European Commission concluded their final review of EXPReS (Express Production Real-time e-VLBI Service), hailing the project as "extraordinarily successful" and encouraging the team to "explore any opportunity for further ...
- 09:00 UTC ESA Top News ESA’s Tigers on prowl for solar corona’s secrets Bring together a small group of highly motivated researchers, grant them full access to laboratory and production facilities, remove all administrative distractions, and let them work intensively for four to ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Water on the Moon, Drought on Earth: NASA Experts Availab... Two NASA researchers will discuss the agency's latest findings about our home planet and its nearest neighbor in live interviews from the 2009 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Launch of NASA's Wise Spacecraft Delayed Until Dec. 14 The launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, spacecraft aboard a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has been rescheduled for Monday, Dec. 14.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Connecticut Students Set for Cosmic Conversation with Spa... Fifth grade students in Connecticut will talk science with International Space Station commander Jeff Williams as he orbits 200 miles above Earth on Dec. 15.
- 00:00 UTC Surrey Satellite Te... Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd backs formation of a UK S... SSTL applauds Lord Drayson’s announcement of a UK executive Space Agency and believes that in the current climate it is enormously encouraging that the Science Minister has the vision to ...
- 00:00 UTC International Centr... Launch of SKA website for schools An interactive educational website dedicated to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope to encourage Australian school students to reach for the stars. www.ska.edu.au
10 Dec 2009
- 22:00 UTC South African Astro... Once in a blue moon opportunity - end the International Y... The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) in Sutherland offers the public the unique opportunity to see the final sunset of 2009 from the biggest observatory on the African continent. This ...
- 21:24 UTC Royal Astronomical ... RAS welcomes UK space agency Minister of Science Lord Drayson today announced the creation of a UK space agency to replace the British National Space Centre.
- 20:12 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... WISE Launch Delayed 24 Hours Liftoff of a Delta II rocket and its NASA payload, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has been delayed 24 hours.
- 20:12 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Rear Wheel Trouble Continues Results of diagnostic tests on Spirit's right-rear wheel on Sol 2109 (Dec. 8, 2009) continue to indicate a troubled wheel, which may leave the rover with only four operable wheels.
- 20:12 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... WISE Launch Rescheduled for December 14 The launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is now rescheduled for Dec. 14.
- 20:12 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Reddish Dust and Ice Migration Darken Saturn's Moon Iapet... New views of Saturn's moon Iapetus accompany papers that detail how reddish dust swept up on the moon's orbit around Saturn.
- 20:12 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Climate Change Rains Down on JPL Undergrads Two JPL college interns delving into California's rainfall records have uncovered some interesting findings that may be linked to climate change.
- 17:41 UTC Science and Technol... New executive agency to be created A new executive agency will be created to take the UK's recession-busting space and satellite sector into a new space age, Science and Innovation Minister Lord Drayson said today (10 ...
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole This composite image of data from three different telescopes shows an ongoing collision between two galaxies, NGC 6872 and IC 4970.
- 14:50 UTC ESA Top News ATV Jules Verne operations team wins prestigious UK aeron... The UK's Royal Aeronautical Society has awarded its top Gold Medal Team prize to ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle operations team, in recognition of their achievement in operating ATV Jules Verne ...
- 14:37 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... XMM-Newton celebrates decade of discovery ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory is celebrating its 10th anniversary. During its decade of operation, this remarkable space observatory has supplied new data for every aspect of astronomy. From our cosmic ...
- 10:21 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Expert Launch Contract Signed With SRC Makeyev The launch operations and vehicle recovery contract for ESA’s European Experimental Re-entry Testbed (Expert) was signed on 2 December in Moscow, Russia, between ESA and the Russian Makeyev State Rocket ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Press Credentials Deadlines Set for Next Space Shuttle Fl... NASA has set media accreditation deadlines for the next space shuttle flight to the International Space Station.