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7 Jul 2014
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA's Aquarius Returns Global Maps of Soil Moisture Relying on data from NASA's Aquarius instrument, new worldwide maps of soil moisture show how the wetness of the land varies with the seasons.
- 10:07 UTC Institute of Astrop... Researchers from the IAA win the "Beauty Contest", an int... Researchers from the IAA win the "Beauty Contest", an international competition to obtain optical/infrarred interferometric images 03/07/2014 Imaging at optical/infrared wavelengths is a novel technique that has been developed during ...
- 09:42 UTC ESA Space Science Hang out on Venus How to surf the Venus atmosphere: join Venus Express mission experts in a Google+ Hangout, Thursday, 10 July, 15:00 GMT (17:00 CEST)
- 09:31 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Small, but plentiful: how the faintest galaxies illuminat... Astronomers investigating behaviour of the universe shortly after the Big Bang have made a surprising discovery: the properties of the early universe are determined by the smallest galaxies. The team ...
- 08:26 UTC ESA Space Science Farewell Lutetia Space Science Image of the Week: An ethereal final view of asteroid Lutetia from Rosetta’s July 2010 flyby
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Soyuz rolls out to the launch zone for Arianespace's July... The Soyuz for Arianespace's next medium-lift mission has arrived at the launch zone in French Guiana, where it stands ready to receive the four satellite passengers that will join O3b ...
6 Jul 2014
- 22:00 UTC CERN Results from CERN presented at ICHEP Geneva, 7 July 2014. Speaking at press conference held during the 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP, in Valencia, Spain this morning CERN1 Director General Rolf Heuer gave ...
4 Jul 2014
- 17:00 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Small, but plentiful: how the faintest galaxies illuminat... Astronomers investigating behaviour of the universe shortly after the Big Bang have made a surprising discovery: the properties of the early universe are determined by the smallest galaxies. The team ...
- 13:35 UTC ESA Top News Week In Images Our week through the lens: 30 June - 04 July 2014
- 10:39 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... IAC 2014 The 65th International Astronautical Congress will take place in Toronto, Canada, from 29 September to 3 October 2014 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.“Our World Needs Space” will be the ...
- 10:19 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... The latest tests for Bepi Colombo Exactly two years remaining to the lift-off of the most ambitious mission to date scheduled by the ESA in interplanetary exploration: Bepi Colombo, so named in honour of the Italian ...
- 08:44 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... Copernicus, towards an inter-ministerial coordination A workshop on the development of the European Copernicus satellite program, held on June 27 at the Multipurpose Hall of Santa Maria in Via, Rome, was attended by all the ...
- 08:05 UTC ESA Top News Pinatubo Earth observation image of the week: Sentinel-1A image over the Philippine island of Luzon with Mount Pinatubo, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
- 06:05 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Newfound Frozen World Orbits in Binary Star System A planet twice the mass of Earth has been spotted with twin parent stars.
3 Jul 2014
- 20:00 UTC Isaac Newton Group ... 3D Map Shows Dusty Structure of the Milky Way A team of international astronomers has created a detailed three-dimensional map of the dusty structure of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s northern hemisphere. This extinction map derives from ...
- 18:42 UTC Arianespace Press R... RUAG Space wins major Ariane 5 payload fairing contract RUAG Space announced today that it has won a major payload fairing contract from Arianespace. Signed today in Zurich by Stéphane Israël, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Holger Wentscher, ...
- 18:05 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Comet Pan-STARRS Marches Across the Sky Comet Pan-STARRS poses with a spiral galaxy in new snapshots from NASA's NEOWISE mission.
- 17:14 UTC Sanford Underground... SD Mines President Wilson Joins Science and Technology Au... Rapid City—(July 3, 2014) —Effective July 1, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology President Heather Wilson joined the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority (SDSTA) Board. Created by the ...
- 16:20 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... OCO-2 Takes the A-Train to Study Earth's Atmosphere New NASA satellite will be the latest addition to an international line of Earth observers.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Arthur (Atlantic Ocean) Aqua passed over Tropical Storm Arthur on July 2 and saw a cloud-covered eye as the storm was on the way to becoming a hurricane.
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Major Air Pollution Studies to Converge Over Denver Two NASA aircraft are participating in field campaigns beginning this month in Colorado that will probe the factors leading to unhealthy air quality conditions and improve the ability to diagnose ...
- 15:46 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Television Coverage Set for Orbital-2 Mission to Spa... NASA Television will provide live coverage of the upcoming Orbital Sciences Corp.'s mission to resupply the International Space Station. Orbital's Cygnus cargo spacecraft is scheduled to launch from the Mid-Atlantic ...
- 15:20 UTC ESA Top News 100 000 Our ESA Google+ page has just reached 100 000 followers, thanks to all of you!
- 13:02 UTC Institute of Astrop... Rosetta’s comet takes shape Rosetta’s comet takes shape 03/07/2014 In current images obtained by OSIRIS, Rosetta’s scientific imaging system, the nucleus of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko covers good four pixels read more
- 12:30 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space Join us Friday, 04 July, at 10:00 CEST for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellites
- 12:10 UTC Universe Awareness ... Cosmic Cloud Seen From the Highest and Driest Place on Ea... Some photographs are just too good not to share – this happens quite often when taking pictures of deep space. Take this stunning new picture from the European Southern Observatory ...
- 12:10 UTC Universe Awareness ... Una nube cósmica observada desde el lugar más alto y seco... Algunas fotografías son simplemente demasiado buenas como para no compartirlas, y esto ocurre muy a menudo cuando se toman imágenes del espacio profundo. Considera, por ejemplo, esta asombrosa imagen nueva ...
- 12:10 UTC Universe Awareness ... Cosmic Cloud Seen From the Highest and Driest Place on Ea... Some photographs are just too good not to share – this happens quite often when taking pictures of deep space. Take this stunning new picture from the European Southern Observatory ...
- 12:10 UTC Universe Awareness ... Cosmic Cloud Seen From the Highest and Driest Place on Ea... Some photographs are just too good not to share – this happens quite often when taking pictures of deep space. Take this stunning new picture from the European Southern Observatory ...
- 12:10 UTC Universe Awareness ... Kosmische wolk gezien vanaf de hoogste en droogste plek o... Sommige foto’s zijn simpelweg te mooi om niet te delen. Dat komt vaak voor wanneer je plaatjes schiet van de ruimte. Neem bijvoorbeeld deze prachtige nieuwe foto van de European ...
- 08:22 UTC ESA Top News Dropship offers safe landings for Mars rovers The dramatic conclusion to ESA’s latest StarTiger project: a ‘dropship’ quadcopter steers itself to lower a rover gently onto a safe patch of the rocky martian surface.
- 06:18 UTC International Centr... 12 M€ for Netherlands contribution to design of the Squar... ICRAR collaborators in The Netherlands have been awarded 12 M Euro for their contribution to the Square Kilometre Array.
- 02:06 UTC Science@NASA Saturn's moon Titan has a very salty ocean Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Cassini mission have found evidence of an ocean inside Saturn's largest moon, Titan, which might be as salty as the Earth's Dead Sea.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... ATV Georges Lemaître receives its final cargo after integ... Europe's fifth, and final, Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is now integrated with its Ariane 5 launcher, enabling final cargo loading in preparation for Arianespace's July 24 mission from French Guiana.
2 Jul 2014
- 22:00 UTC Southwest Research ... Technical paper earns SwRI automotive engineers prestigio... Prestigious SAE International Harry L. Horning Memorial Award presented to SwRI
- 21:59 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Radio Delivered for Europe's 2016 Mars Orbiter The first of two NASA Electra radios that will fly aboard the European Space Agency's next mission to Mars has been delivered for installation onto the ESA ExoMars Trace Gas ...
- 20:49 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Ocean on Saturn Moon Could be as Salty as the Dead Sea Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini mission have firm evidence the ocean inside Saturn's largest moon, Titan, might be as salty as Earth's Dead Sea.
- 20:40 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Spitzer: Black Hole Fireworks in Nearby Galaxy Celebrants this Fourth of July will enjoy the dazzling lights and booming shock waves from the explosions of fireworks. A similarly styled event is taking place in the galaxy Messier ...
- 20:06 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NASA Ames Celebrates 75th Anniversary with ‘Living Museum... In partnership with Mountain View and Sunnyvale, NASA Ames will display items from the center's past and present in a "living museum." On December 20, 1939, the National Advisory Council ...
- 20:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Black Hole Fireworks in Nearby Galaxy "Fireworks" in a nearby galaxy are driving away its star-making fuel.
- 19:50 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Galactic Pyrotechnics On Display A spiral galaxy, also known as M106, about 23 million light years from Earth.
- 17:52 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Iron 'Fingerprints' Point Astronomers to Supernova Suspec... Astronomers using the Suzaku X-ray observatory developed a powerful technique for analyzing supernova remnants.
- 17:47 UTC Science@NASA NASA Launches New Carbon Observatory NASA has successfully launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2). OCO-2 soon will begin a minimum two-year mission to locate Earth's sources ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Taking NASA-USGS’s Landsat 8 to the Beach Landsat 8 is helping researchers spot algae from space, gathering information that could direct beach-goers away from contaminated bays and shores.
- 13:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Launches Carbon Mission to Watch Earth Breathe NASA successfully launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide at 5:56 a.m. EDT (2:56 a.m. PDT) Tuesday.
- 12:59 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 Lifts Off! The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 has launched into the night skies above the Pacific Ocean.
- 10:00 UTC Isaac Newton Group ... ING Schedules and Time Allocations 2014B Released ING schedules and time allocations for semester 2014B are already available online.
- 10:00 UTC ESO Top News A Stellar Womb Shaped and Destroyed by its Ungrateful Off... The little-known cloud of cosmic gas and dust called Gum 15 is the birthplace and home of hot young stars. Beautiful and deadly, these stars mould the appearance of their ...
- 10:00 UTC Isaac Newton Group ... ING Schedules and Time Allocations 2014B Released ING schedules and time allocations for semester 2014B are already available online.
- 09:32 UTC Institute of Astrop... IMaX, a Spanish instrument, reveals how magnetic structur... IMaX, a Spanish instrument, reveals how magnetic structures in the Sun are born and evolve 02/07/2014 IMaX, aboard the SUNRISE mission –a telescope that observed the sun from a stratospheric ...