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9 Jul 2014
- 15:00 UTC IAU Press Releases NameExoWorlds: An IAU Worldwide Contest to Name Exoplanet... For the first time, in response to the public’s increased interest in being part of discoveries in astronomy, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is organizing a worldwide contest to give ...
- 13:27 UTC Science and Technol... STFC RAL Space team is Ground Control for Newly Launched ... Two UK satellites, TechDemoSat-1 and UKube-1 have been launched overnight in part thanks to the efforts of the team at STFC RAL Space. Both satellites were launched on 8 July ...
- 12:00 UTC ESA Top News Rosetta, are we there yet? After a 10-year journey that has clocked up more than 6 billion kilometres, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft is rapidly closing in on its destination comet, and ESA is inviting you along ...
- 11:07 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Carbon monoxide predicts ‘red and dead’ future of gas guz... Astronomers have studied the carbon monoxide in a galaxy over 12 billion light years from Earth and discovered that it's running out of gas, quite literally, and headed for a ...
- 08:40 UTC ESA Top News Rosetta's rites of passage Technology image of the week: ESA’s Rosetta comet chaser is fast nearing its target. Here it is 12 years ago, undergoing testing for space
- 08:15 UTC Surrey Satellite Te... SSTL announces the successful launch of UK in-orbit demon... Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) today announced the successful launch of TechDemoSat-1, an in-orbit technology demonstration mission for innovative UK spacecraft equipment and software. The spacecraft was launched into 635km ...
- 05:00 UTC Planetary Society P... LightSail has a launch date! The Planetary Society announces that its LightSail solar sail spacecraft will reach space on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch in 2016.
- 00:15 UTC International Centr... Carbon monoxide predicts ‘red and dead’ future of gas guz... Astronomers have studied the carbon monoxide in a galaxy over 12 billion light years from Earth and discovered that it’s running out of gas, quite literally, and headed for a ...
8 Jul 2014
- 22:00 UTC Southwest Research ... Laboratory models suggest that stretching forces shaped J... Ganymede grooves similar to Earth tectonic process
- 21:53 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Ames Launches Smartphone Upgrade and CubeSat Aboard ... Ames will launch a variety of experiments into space aboard NASA's second commercial cargo resupply flight of the Orbital Sciences Corporation Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station.
- 19:55 UTC American Astronomic... Get Your Copy of the AAS 2013 Annual Report The American Astronomical Society’s annual report for calendar year 2013 is now available for downloading as a 2.2-megabyte PDF file. To read and/or print it, you'll need a PDF reader, ...
- 19:07 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Mars Orbiter Views Rover Crossing Into New Zone A recent image from a telescopic camera orbiting Mars caught NASA's Curiosity Mars rover reaching the edge of its landing ellipse.
- 19:07 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Mars Orbiter Views Rover Crossing Into New Zone A recent image from a telescopic camera orbiting Mars caught NASA's Curiosity Mars rover reaching the edge of its landing ellipse.
- 16:36 UTC NASA Breaking News Testing Completed on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Ba... NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has reached another development milestone with the completion of static load testing of its primary mirror backplane support structure (PMBSS) moving the telescope one step ...
- 16:20 UTC American Astronomic... NRAO Semester 2015A Call for Proposals The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) invites scientists to respond to the NRAO Semester 2015A Call for Proposals for the Very Large Array (VLA), the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) ...
- 16:10 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Ralph Kahn - Working For Earth's Future Atmospheric physicist Ralph Kahn works with a brilliant climate change community, from the national to international level.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Antares Fairing Installed The payload fairing is installed on the Orbital Sciences Antares rocket at the Horizontal Integration Facility at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. The ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Astronomers Bring The Third Dimension To A Doomed Star's ... Eta Carinae erupted in the 1800s, briefly becoming the night sky's second-brightest star. Now scientists have modeled the outburst's expanding cloud.
- 15:48 UTC Carnegie Institutio... Cosmic Accounting Reveals Missing Light Crisis Pasadena, CA—Something is amiss in the Universe. There appears to be an enormous deficit of ultraviolet light in the cosmic budget. The vast reaches of empty space between galaxies are ...
- 15:08 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Astronomers bring the third dimension to a doomed star's ... Astronomers have created a detailed 3D model of the expanding cloud of debris produced in the outburst of a doomed star. The model can be reproduced at home by anyone ...
- 15:08 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Astronomers bring the third dimension to a doomed star's ... Astronomers have created a detailed 3D model of the expanding cloud of debris produced in the outburst of a doomed star. The model can be reproduced at home by anyone ...
- 14:48 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Neoguri’s eye Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Super typhoon Neoguri’s 65- km -wide eye seen from the International Space Station
- 14:20 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA-JAXA's New Precipitation Satellite Sees First Atlant... The five GPM passes over Arthur are the first time a precipitation-measuring satellite has been able to follow a hurricane through its full life cycle with high-resolution measurements of rain ...
- 14:00 UTC Science@NASA Fruit Flies on the International Space Station A new species is about to join astronauts on the International Space Station: Drosophila melanogaster, also known as the "fruit fly." Genetically speaking, the bug-eyed insects have a lot in ...
- 12:41 UTC Institute of Astrop... Descifradas las ondas atmosféricas de Venus, una de las c... Descifradas las ondas atmosféricas de Venus, una de las claves para comprender la superrotación de la atmósfera del planeta 09/07/2014 La atmósfera de Venus muestra velocidades de hasta sesenta veces ...
- 09:09 UTC ASTRON Astronomers find supermassive black hole blasting molecul... New research led by Clive Tadhunter (Sheffield University) and including Raffaella Morganti, Tom Oosterloo (ASTRON/Kapteyn Institute Groningen University) and Raymond Oonk (ASTRON/Leiden University), has solved a long-standing mystery surrounding the ...
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... O3b Networks' four satellites are integrated on Soyuz for... Arianespace's next medium-lift Soyuz to be launched from French Guiana is now complete following the integration of its "upper composite," made up of four O3b Networks connectivity satellites, their protective ...
7 Jul 2014
- 23:20 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA's RapidScat to Unveil Hidden Cycles of Sea Winds NASA is sending a new instrument to the International Space Station that will be the first to observe how winds over the ocean grow and change each day.
- 23:15 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Sun Sends More 'Tsunami Waves' to Voyager 1 NASA's Voyager has experienced more "tsunami waves" from the sun -- the same kind that led to the realization last year that the spacecraft had entered interstellar space.
- 19:15 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Invites Media to Facility Renaming Ceremony in Honor... NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is renaming one of its iconic facilities in honor of legendary astronaut and the first person to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong.
- 18:45 UTC Sanford Underground... Neutrino Day to host a variety of events Neutrino Day, Sanford Lab's free annual science festival, is just around the corner. The event welcomed over 1,000 visitors to Lead last year and will continue to build on the ...
- 18:37 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Canada News Centre - Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Dav... July 7, 2014 - Longueuil, Quebec - Canadian Space Agency - On July 8, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut David Saint-Jacques will be at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) to ...
- 16:41 UTC American Astronomic... Submillimeter Array Issues Call for Proposals The Submillimeter Array (SMA), the radio interferometer on Mauna Kea built by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, makes available a fraction of ...
- 16:28 UTC American Astronomic... New AIP Report on Astronomy Enrollments & Degrees This item comes from Patrick Mulvey, Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics (AIP): Interest in astronomy degrees in the US remains strong, with astronomy enrollments at or near all-time ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA's Undergraduate Student Instrument Program Launches College and university students from across the country are taking science to greater heights thanks to a new NASA program.
- 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 ...