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13 May 2013
- 17:57 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Announces Summer Learning Opportunities For U.S. Stu... NASA has unveiled plans for its 2013 Summer of Innovation project, which challenges middle school students across the United States to share in the excitement of scientific discovery and space ...
- 17:37 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Astronaut Chris Hadfield performs “Space Oddity” onboard ... International Space Station Commander, Chris Hadfield, performs a revised version of David Bowies Space Oddity. A revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board ...
- 16:42 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Satellites See Double Jeopardy for Socal Fire Season New insights into two factors that are creating a potentially volatile Southern California wildfire season come from an ongoing project using NASA and Indian satellite data.
- 13:09 UTC ESA Top News Leak repaired on International Space Station Over the weekend the crew of the International Space Station worked overtime to fix a leaking cooling network outside the orbital outpost. Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn ventured into ...
- 12:08 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space Join us Tuesday, 14 May, at 14:00 CEST as ESA’s Stephen Coulson joins the show to discuss how banks use satellite data
- 09:30 UTC ESA Top News Galaxy zoom Space science image of the week: a space-time magnifying glass by the Hubble space telescope
- 06:19 UTC Harvard-Smithsonian... New Method of Finding Planets Scores its First Discovery May 13, 2013: Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Impacts of Strong Solar Flares Some people worry that a gigantic "killer solar flare" could hurl enough energy to destroy Earth, but this is not actually possible.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Space Station Expedition 35 Astronauts Land Safely in Kaz... Three members of the International Space Station Expedition 35 crew undocked from the orbiting laboratory and returned safely to Earth Monday, May 13, wrapping up a mission lasting almost five ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Scheuermann to Host Center Director's Breakfast Patrick Scheuermann will discuss the Marshall Center's activities and outlook at the annual Marshall Center Director's Breakfast on Wednesday, May 15.
12 May 2013
- 22:00 UTC CERN CERN inaugurates a scientific tourist trail, the Passport... On 2 June 2013 CERN1, in collaboration with its local partners, will be inaugurating a scientific tourist trail through the Pays de Gex and the Canton of Geneva known as ...
10 May 2013
- 23:47 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Robotic Refueling Mission Practices New Tasks RRM uses the space station as a test bed for repair and refueling maneuvers to prepare for in orbit satellite-servicing tasks.
- 23:15 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Sets TV Briefing Today to Discuss Space Station Stat... NASA managers will discuss the status of the International Space Station, including the latest on an external cooling loop leak that developed Thursday, during a televised briefing today at 3 ...
- 19:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... New Telescope Set for Launch May 11 from New Mexico NASA will launch a new telescope designed to observe distant galaxies on a suborbital sounding rocket at 1 a.m. EDT, May 11, from the White Sands Missile Range in New ...
- 18:55 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... More Webb Telescope Mirrors Delivered Another delivery of the James Webb Space Telescope's flight mirrors arrived at a NASA facility during the week of April 29, 2013.
- 18:45 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Hubble Tells a Tale of Galactic Collisions 2MASX is an ultraluminous infrared galaxy which emits a tremendous amount of light at infrared wavelengths. Scientists connect this to intense star formation.
- 18:43 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Solar Eclipse's Shadow on Earth On May 10, 2013, the sun experienced what's called an annular eclipse -- when the moon moves directly in front of the sun, but doesn't obscure it completely....
- 18:11 UTC NASA Breaking News Media Accreditation Open For Launch Of NASA's Next Missio... International and U.S. media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission.
- 16:07 UTC Science@NASA Planets Aligning in the Sunset Sky Mercury, Venus and Jupiter are lining up for a beautiful sunset conjunction at the end of May.
- 09:29 UTC ESA Top News Week In Images Our week through the lens: 06-10 May 2013
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Solar Eclipse on May 10 On May 10, 2013, Earth, the sun and the moon lined up to create a solar eclipse visible from the South Pacific.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Extends Safety and Mission Assurance Contract at Mar... NASA has exercised a second two-year award term option with Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston for continued services to support the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate at the agency's Marshall ...
9 May 2013
- 23:28 UTC Thirty Meter Telesc... Request for Proposal for TMT Geotechnical Investigation –... Request for Proposal (“RFP”) for the TMT Mauna Kea Geotechnical Investigation – Submission Date: June 15, 2013 RFP - 2013 - TMT Geotechnical Investigation Exhibit A - RFP - TMT ...
- 23:28 UTC Thirty Meter Telesc... Request for Proposal for TMT Geotechnical Investigation –... Request for Proposal (“RFP”) for the TMT Mauna Kea Geotechnical Investigation – Submission Date: June 15, 2013 RFP - 2013 - TMT Geotechnical Investigation Exhibit A - RFP - TMT ...
- 21:26 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Curiosity Rover Wins Prestigious Awards Two prominent aerospace industry organizations are recognizing the contributions of NASA, especially the achievements of the team that landed NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars in August, with coveted awards.
- 20:59 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NASA and Amateur Radio Operators Piece Together the Phone... Cell phone photos sent from space were reconstructed by the Ames Phonesat Team with the help of multiple amateur radio operators around the world. The ultimate goal of the PhoneSat ...
- 19:14 UTC Carnegie Institutio... Where on Earth Did the Moon’s Water Come From? Washington, D.C.— Water is perhaps the most important molecule in our solar system. Figuring out where it came from and how it was distributed within and among the planets can ...
- 19:05 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target ... The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling.
- 19:05 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target ... The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling.
- 19:00 UTC Canadian Space Agen... RADARSAT-1: Seventeen Years of Technological Success Longueuil, Quebec, May 9, 2013 – On March 29, 2013, Canada's first Earth Observation satellite, RADARSAT-1, experienced a technical anomaly after surpassing its expected lifetime by 12 years. In the ...
- 18:02 UTC Lawrence Berkeley N... Mathematics of Popping Bubbles in a Foam Bubble baths and soapy dishwater, the refreshing head on a beer and the luscious froth on a cappuccino. All are foams, beautiful yet ephemeral as the bubbles pop one by ...
- 17:08 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Sifting Through the Atmospheres of Far-off Worlds Researchers have begun taking infrared pictures of planets posing near their stars in family portraits.
- 15:51 UTC Carnegie Institutio... Geophysicist Lyman Tomas Aldrich Dies Washington, D.C.— Lyman Thomas Aldrich, 95, who worked as a geophysicist and geochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) for 34 years, including a stint ...
- 15:10 UTC Science and Technol... Gemini laser shows that Einstein's flying mirror thought-... Experimental results obtained using the Gemini laser in STFC's Central Laser Facility and published in Nature Communications are the first to demonstrate that laser light reflected from a ultrathin foil ...
- 14:30 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Astronaut Chris Hadfield returns to Earth Longueuil, Quebec, May 9, 2013 – The end of Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield's mission is fast approaching. Media representatives are invited to CSA Headquarters for the live ...
- 14:00 UTC HubbleSite NewsCent... Hubble Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted' with Planet Debris Get larger image formats Deep inside the Hyades star cluster, a pair of burned-out stars are yielding clues to the presence of rocky planets that may have whirled around them. ...
- 14:00 UTC Hubble Space Telesc... Science Release: Hubble finds dead stars 'polluted' with ... The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster. The white ...
- 13:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Rising From Ashes Like the legendary phoenix (or Fawkes, if you're a Harry Potter fan), a number of Earth-like planets have been spotted rising from the ashes of a pair of burnt-out stars, ...
- 07:00 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space Join us Friday, 10 May, at 10:00 CEST for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellites
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Kepler News a... Kepler Mission Manager Update During a scheduled contact, engineers discovered Kepler was in a self-protective mode. The spacecraft returned to science data collection on May 6.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target ... The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Mars has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Wins Prestigious Aerospace Industry Awards Two prominent aerospace industry organizations are recognizing the contributions of NASA, especially the achievements of the team that landed NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars in August, with coveted awards.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Commercial Partner Sierra Nevada Completes Safety Re... Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) Space Systems of Louisville, Colo., has completed its first major, comprehensive safety review of its Dream Chaser Space System.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Statement on New Manufacturing Innovation Institutes The following is a statement from NASA Associate Administrator for Space Technology Michael Gazarik about Thursday's announcement from the Obama Administration that it is launching competitions to create three new ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Administrator Tours Advanced Aviation Technology At ... NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will see technologies NASA is developing to make flying and the national air transportation system safer, cleaner and more efficient during a trip to NASA's Langley ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Partners With Ohio Non-Profit on Unmanned Air Challe... NASA has selected Development Projects Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, to manage a new Centennial Challenge prize competition involving unmanned aircraft systems in 2014.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Goddard Invites Children, Families to Learn About Contami... This May edition of Sunday Experiment will uncover the world of thermal coating and contamination engineering.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Marshall Islands Campaign Completed The launch of a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket on May 9 brought to an end a very successful campaign studying ionospheric activity and its impact on radio, communication and ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... New Public Application of Landsat Images Released Google has compiled more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space into an interactive time-lapse experience.
- 00:00 UTC Science and Technol... Nuclear physicists observe pear-shaped atomic nuclei Existing theories on the shape and structure of atomic nuclei have been put to the test as an international team of nuclear physicists have discovered that some can be 'pear' ...