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28 Mar 2014
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Hubble: Magnifying the Distant Universe Galaxy clusters are some of the most massive structures that can be found in the Universe — large groups of galaxies bound together by gravity. This image from the NASA/ESA ...
- 15:51 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Engineers Install Near Infrared Camera into the Heart of ... Inside the world's largest clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked tirelessly to install another essential part of the James Webb Space Telescope - ...
- 14:43 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Research Clarifies Health Costs of Air Pollution from Agr... Ammonia pollution from agricultural sources poses larger health costs than previously estimated, according to NASA-funded research.
- 14:15 UTC ESA Top News Week in Images Our week through the lens: 24-28 March 2014
- 13:30 UTC ESA Space Science ESA and CERN sign cooperation agreement ESA, the European Space Agency, and CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, signed a cooperation agreement on 28 March to foster future collaborations on research themes of common interest.
- 12:29 UTC American Astronomic... Job Opportunity at the AAS: Science Highlights Editor The AAS seeks a knowledgeable, talented, and experienced science writer to help the Society deliver high-impact scientific results to the astronomical research community and to journalists who cover the astronomical ...
- 12:06 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Director's Desk:ESA and CERN sign cooperation agreement ESA, the European Space Agency, and CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, signed a cooperation agreement on 28 March to foster future collaborations on research themes of common interest.
- 11:50 UTC ESA Space Science The Solar Cycle Space science image of the week: The rise and fall of solar activity, as seen by SOHO
- 10:03 UTC ESA Top News Monitoring air quality takes next step With air pollution linked to millions of deaths around the world, it has never been more important to monitor the air we breathe. Today marks a significant step forward as ...
- 09:05 UTC ESA Top News Colourful cultivations Earth observation image of the week: radar vision over southwest Iran, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
- 08:32 UTC ESA Top News Give a name to ESA’s zone of silence Kept isolated from the external Universe, a special ESA chamber simulates the boundless emptiness of space for testing satellite antennas. Recently refitted, it is in need of a new name. ...
- 04:44 UTC Science@NASA The Opposition of Mars Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter in April, an event astronomers call "the opposition of Mars."
27 Mar 2014
- 23:00 UTC CERN CERN and ESA sign cooperation agreement Geneva, 28 March 2014. At a ceremony today at Geneva airport, CERN1 and ESA signed a framework agreement for future cooperation on research and technology in areas of mutual interest. ...
- 21:20 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Cleaner NASA Rover Sees Its Shadow in Martian Spring NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has captured a shadow selfie on a slope it is exploring with an increasing power supply, as winds remove some dust and spring days grow longer.
- 21:18 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... JPL: Rosetta Sets Sights on Destination Comet The Rosetta spacecraft caught its first glimpse of its destination comet since waking up from deep-space hibernation on Jan. 20, 2014.
- 17:59 UTC Planetary Society P... The Planetary Society Decries NASA Budget Cuts for Scienc... The Planetary Society has released its official response to the President’s 2015 NASA budget request, in which it decries the hundreds of millions of dollars of cuts to NASA’s science ...
- 17:30 UTC American Astronomic... Contribute to the AAS's Spring 2014 Campaign To foster and recognize excellence in astronomy, the AAS awards prizes for outstanding contributions to research, instrumentation, education, and service. The achievements of AAS prizewinners are celebrated throughout the world. ...
- 17:26 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Spitzer Sees the Galactic Dawn with 'Frontier Fields' NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, in tandem with other major NASA observatories, has recently embarked on a major new mission to glimpse the universe's very first galaxies.
- 16:35 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... First-Ever Asteroid With Rings The curious Centaur object reportedly has both water ice AND rings. This ESOcast shows how observations at many sites in South America, including ESO’s La Silla Observatory, have made the ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Satellite Time-Lapse Movie Shows U.S. East Coast Snowy Wi... A new time-lapse animation of data from NOAA's GOES-East satellite provides a good picture of why the U.S. East Coast experienced a snowier than normal winter.
- 15:28 UTC Science@NASA A Tetrad of Lunar Eclipses A total lunar eclipse on April 15th marks the beginning of a remarkable series of eclipses all visible from North America.
- 15:00 UTC Johns Hopkins Unive... APL Hosts Baltimore/Washington D.C. Space Apps Challenge Tech-savvy creative teams from across the region will gather on April 12-13 to take part in the International Space Apps Challenge - a global, two-day marathon of coding and design ...
- 14:15 UTC Science and Technol... First antenna launched on precursor to world’s largest t... British technologies at the heart of the world's largest radio telescope and British scientists will be amongst the first in line to use it in 2015. The first of 64 ...
- 14:00 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Canada Invests in Health Technologies for Astronauts March 27, 2014 - Longueuil, Quebec - Canadian Space Agency - Today, the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), announced five ...
- 14:00 UTC HubbleSite NewsCent... Hubble Sees Mars-Bound Comet Sprout Multiple Jets Get larger image formats Comet Siding Spring is plunging toward the Sun along a roughly 1-million-year orbit. The comet, discovered in 2013, was within the radius of Jupiter's orbit when ...
- 13:30 UTC ESA Top News Mars yard ready for Red Planet rover A state-of-the-art ‘Mars yard’ is now ready to put the ExoMars rover through its paces before the vehicle is launched to the Red Planet in 2018.
- 13:00 UTC ESA Top News Rosetta sets sights on destination comet ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has caught a first glimpse of its destination comet since waking up from deep-space hibernation on 20 January.
- 13:00 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space Join us Friday, 28 March, at 10:00 CET for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellites
- 11:57 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Aces Delicate Operation with Aircraft Tail They made it look easy. NASA engineers pulled off a tricky installation of a two-story aircraft tail in a wind tunnel.
- 09:45 UTC ESA Top News Pine Island retreat on the radar Twenty years of radar coverage from ESA satellites have been used to measure the rapid thinning of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier – and it’s losing more ice than previously thought.
- 09:37 UTC ESA Top News Pine Island retreat Twenty years of radar data from ESA satellites have been used to quantify the rapid thinning of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier – and it’s losing more ice than previously thought
- 05:30 UTC ESA Top News New Galileo station opens in Azores The latest addition to Galileo’s worldwide ground infrastructure has been made in the mid-Atlantic, on Portugal’s Santa Maria island in the Azores.
- 05:20 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] On global estimates of monthly methane flux bas... The Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite "IBUKI" (GOSAT), developed jointly by the Minist
26 Mar 2014
- 22:10 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Marks Major Programmatic Milestone for Spaceport of ... NASA achieved a major milestone this month in its effort to transform the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida into a multi-user spaceport by successfully completing the initial design and ...
- 20:54 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA TV to Air Arrival of New Space Station Crew Thursday NASA Television will broadcast the arrival of three crew members to the International Space Station beginning at 7 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 27. Their Soyuz spacecraft will dock with the ...
- 20:19 UTC Arianespace Press R... Success of the 1,816th launch of Soyuz The 1,816th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed on Wednesday, 26 March 2014 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 01:17 Moscow time (22:17 Paris time on Tuesday, ...
- 20:18 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Awards Contract for Intelligent Systems Research NASA has selected Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. (SGT) of Greenbelt, Md., for a contract for Intelligent Systems Research and Development Support services at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett ...
- 19:06 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... The Search for Seeds of Black Holes How does one grow supermassive black holes? A new study using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has turned up what might be their seeds.
- 19:05 UTC NASA Breaking News High School 'Final Five' Compete for Out-of-This-World Te... Five teams of high school student engineers have made it to the final round in a competition to build and test designs for radiation shields for NASA's new Orion spacecraft.
- 19:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... The Search for Seeds of Black Holes How does one grow supermassive black holes? A new study using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has turned up what might be their seeds.
- 18:57 UTC American Astronomic... Shop at Amazon.com & Support the AAS The AAS has joined AmazonSmile, giving members and friends a new way to support the Society. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the same low prices, vast selection, and ...
- 18:28 UTC Carnegie Institutio... Solar System's Edge Redefined Washington, D.C.—The Solar System has a new most-distant member, bringing its outer frontier into focus. New work from Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory reports the ...
- 18:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Rings Around an Asteroid The rings of Saturn are one of the most spectacular sights in the sky. Less striking rings have also been found around all the other giant planets in our Solar ...
- 18:00 UTC ESO Top News First Ring System Around Asteroid Observations at many sites in South America, including ESO’s La Silla Observatory, have made the surprise discovery that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings. ...
- 18:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Ringen rond een planetoïde De ringen van Saturnus behoren tot de meest spectaculaire schouwspelen aan de hemel. Minder indrukwekkende ringen zijn gevonden rond de andere gasreuzen in ons Zonnestelsel - Jupiter, Uranus en Neptunus. ...
- 17:27 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NASA Seeks Proposals on Asteroid Redirect Mission Concept... NASA plans to select 25 proposals and award as much as $6 million for asteroid mission concept studies. In support of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission – a key part of ...
- 16:05 UTC ESA Top News Growing more coffee Technology image of the week: ESA incubator app to help Rwandan coffee farmers
- 15:54 UTC ESA Top News Interactive Swarm Swarm at your fingertips: download the interactive brochure on ESA’s three-satellite magnetic field mission
- 14:20 UTC American Astronomic... Rep. Johnson Wins Brown Award for Science Leadership The following is adapted from a press release (PDF) issued by the Science-Engineering-Technology Working Group (SETWG), to which the AAS belongs: US Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30) has received the ...
- 12:30 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Canadian Space Agency Astronaut David Saint-Jacques meets... March 26, 2014 - Longueuil, Quebec - Canadian Space Agency - On March 27 and April 1, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut David Saint-Jacques will meet with hundreds of students ...