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18 Apr 2013
- 19:47 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA'S Kepler Discovers its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Pla... NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of ...
- 19:04 UTC Science@NASA Sci@NASA: Kepler Discovers Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Plan... NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of ...
- 19:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Kepler Discovers its Smallest Habitable Zone Planets NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone."
- 18:15 UTC Harvard-Smithsonian... Two Water Worlds for the Price of One April 18, 2013: In our solar system, only one planet is blessed with an ocean: Earth. Our home world is a rare, blue jewel compared to the deserts of Mercury, ...
- 16:58 UTC Carnegie Institutio... New Earth-like planets found Washington, D.C.—A team of scientists, including Carnegie’s Alan Boss, has discovered two Earth-like planets in the habitable orbit of a Sun-like star. Their work is published in Science Express. Using ...
- 13:54 UTC Arianespace Press R... Stephane Israel named Chairman and CEO of Arianespace The Board of Directors of Arianespace today named Stephane Israel Chairman and CEO of the company, effective Monday, April 22, 2013.
- 12:30 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Astronaut Chris Hadfield launches the National Film Board... Last opportunity for media to ask questions before landing - Longueuil, Quebec, April 18, 2013 – On April 22, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield, currently commander of the ...
- 08:07 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space Join us Friday, 19 April, at 10:00 CEST for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellites
- 07:01 UTC ESA Top News Focus on growing threat of space debris The continuing growth in space debris poses an increasing threat to economically vital orbital regions. Next week, hundreds of top experts from across the globe will meet at Europe’s largest-ever ...
- 05:00 UTC Planetary Society P... The Planetary Society Takes Central Role in Asteroid Dete... At a major planetary defense conference in Flagstaff, AZ last evening, the Planetary Society announced the winners of its 2013 Shoemaker Near Earth Object (NEO) grants, and was recognized itself ...
- 05:00 UTC Planetary Society P... The Planetary Society Takes Central Role in Asteroid Dete... At a major planetary defense conference in Flagstaff, AZ last evening, the Planetary Society announced the winners of its 2013 Shoemaker Near Earth Object (NEO) grants, and was recognized itself ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Marshall Center Honored by Alabama Legislature Patrick Scheuermann, director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, met with Alabama state leaders and legislators April 18.
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Kepler News a... Kepler Discovers its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets to... NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone."
17 Apr 2013
- 20:42 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Mars Orbiters Have New Project Managers Two NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars, both working long past their original prime missions, have new project managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
- 17:44 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... JPL: Astronomers Discover Massive Star Factory in Early U... Busy-bee galaxy seen churning out stars when our universe was just a baby.
- 17:40 UTC ESA Space Science Star factory in the early Universe challenges galaxy evol... ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered an extremely distant galaxy making stars more than 2000 times faster than our own Milky Way. Seen at a time when the Universe was ...
- 17:19 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... X-Ray View of A Thousand-Year-Old Cosmic Tapestry A supernova remnant whose progenitor explosion was seen from Earth over a thousand years ago.
- 17:00 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Herschel:Star factory in the early Universe challenges ga... ESA&aposs Herschel space observatory has discovered an extremely distant galaxy making stars more than 2000 times faster than our own Milky Way. Seen at a time when the Universe was ...
- 14:58 UTC Herschel Results HFLS3 Astronomers using Herschel have found a distant galaxy that challenges our understanding of galaxy evolution read more
- 14:51 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Go Luca Six weeks to launch for ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano's Volare mission
- 11:00 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Commander Chris Hadfield Communicates Through Amateur Rad... Longueuil, Quebec, April 17, 2013 – As part of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield will answer questions live ...
- 10:00 UTC ESO Top News ALMA Pinpoints Early Galaxies at Record Speed A team of astronomers has used the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope to pinpoint the locations of over 100 of the most fertile star-forming galaxies in the early ...
- 10:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Stellar Baby Boom The biggest bursts of star birth in the early Universe took place in galaxies that contained lots and lots of cosmic dust. But the dust that makes these galaxies so ...
- 10:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Un "baby boom" estelar Los mayores brotes de nacimiento de estrellas en el Universo primitivo tuvieron lugar en galaxias que contenían grandes cantidades de polvo cósmico. Pero el polvo que contienen esas galaxias tan ...
- 08:12 UTC ESA Top News Nanocoating Technology image of the week: Nanoparticle coatings improve heat transfer and reduce carbon emission
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Solar Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg AFB for Launch IRIS spacecraft arrives at VAFB for final preparations for a NET May 28 launch aboard a Pegasus rocket.
16 Apr 2013
- 23:49 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... How to Target an Asteroid The hunt is on for methods to aim a spacecraft at an asteroid.
- 23:10 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Awards Cooperative Agreement for Internships NASA's Office of Education has awarded a cooperative agreement to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to support the agency's education internship programs.
- 22:15 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... SOFIA Observations Reveal Star Formation Surprise Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy researchers capture mid-infrared images of massive G35 star condensing in dense dust and gas cocoon.
- 22:07 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Media Invited to View Wildfire Sensor On USFS Jet Media are invited to view the USFS jet on the tarmac in front of the Moffett Tower and talk to USFS, NASA and CALFIRE personnel.
- 20:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA’s Wind Mission Encounters ‘SLAMS’ Waves SLAMS, or short large amplitude magnetic structures, have been spotted in the froth of waves in front of Earthspace as it moves through the solar system. They create a magnetic ...
- 19:59 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Dying Supergiant Stars Implicated in Hours-long Gamma-Ray... Three unusually long-lasting stellar explosions discovered by NASA's Swift satellite represent a new class of gamma-ray bursts that likely arise from dying stars hundreds of times larger than the sun.
- 19:30 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Eye Exam for LDCM Once a satellite is in orbit, it's not ready to take measurements until a series of check-out procedures have been performed.
- 18:48 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Hosts Media Briefing on Kepler Planetary Discovery NASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT), Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency's Kepler mission.
- 16:10 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Winning Scienc... Longueuil, Quebec, April 16, 2013 – Today, during a live connection from aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Commander Chris Hadfield performed a science experiment designed by Kendra Lemke and ...
- 15:09 UTC University of Wisco... International astrophysics reaches Milwaukee Trips to the South Pole usually require a lot of specialized equipment, but Nils Irland's packing list for his November 2012 visit included some items unusual even by those standards: ...
- 14:05 UTC ESA Top News V for Vegetation Minisatellite tracking global vegetation growth: new video highlights Proba-V for Vegetation
- 13:05 UTC ESA Top News 90 million laser shots bring wind satellite back on track Developing new ways of monitoring Earth is always demanding, but ESA’s Aeolus mission has faced some particularly difficult technical challenges. However, with the success of intense high-energy tests on its ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Marshall to Be Honored by Alabama Legislature April 18 The Marshall Center will be honored by the Alabama Legislature with resolutions and proclamations recognizing the center's achievements.
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Swift Gamma-... Dying Supergiant Stars Implicated in Hours-long Gamma-Ray... Three unusually long-lasting stellar explosions discovered by NASA's Swift satellite represent a previously unrecognized class of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Two international teams of astronomers studying these events conclude that they ...
15 Apr 2013
- 22:34 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Full tank, please Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: ATV-4 fuelling
- 22:12 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Hosts Media Briefing to Discuss Kepler Discovery NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency's Kepler mission.
- 22:00 UTC CERN CERN to host its first TEDx Geneva, 16 April 2013. The inaugural TEDxCERN event will take place on 3 May 2013, under the theme ‘Multiplying Dimensions’, at the Globe of Science and Innovation with a Live ...
- 20:34 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NLSI HQ Seminar Series – Ben Bussey: Talk now available! Watch the recording of our latest NLSI HQ Seminar Series with Dr. Ben Bussey. Slides are available for download. If you were unable to attend this meeting, the recording and ...
- 20:23 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design test.
- 19:10 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Celebrating CINDI on Its Fifth Anniversary On April 16, 2008, a suite of NASA instruments was launched to study a unique region of space: the electrically charged portion of the upper atmosphere called the ionosphere, a ...
- 19:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Titan's Methane: Going, Going, Soon to Be Gone? NASA's Cassini mission tracks long-lived lakes in Titan's northern hemisphere and finds that the moon's methane may be disappearing.
- 18:44 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Engineers Rehearse Placement of Webb's Microshutters Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. are currently rehearsing with the placement of the Webb's Microshutter Array into the NIRSpec.
- 18:27 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Is There an Atmosphere on the Moon? Recent studies confirm that our moon does indeed have an atmosphere consisting of some unusual gases, including sodium and potassium. The Lunar Atmospheric Composition Experiment (LACE) deployment during the Apollo ...
- 16:20 UTC Science and Technol... New UK particle accelerator heralds exciting opportunitie... The new UK particle accelerator VELA (Versatile Electron Linear Accelerator) has achieved a significant electron acceleration milestone, which heralds exciting new opportunities for industry to apply the latest particle accelerator ...