Most Recent Posts

FEATURED IMAGE: 18 Sep 2017, 17:00 UTC | Two Stars, Three Dimensions, and Oodles of Energy 19 September 2017, 5:10:04UTC

RSS | About | Contact | Site Map

Press Releases

For Journalists

Press Releases

For Press Officers

Past Releases

Submit Press Release Feed

Advertise

The PTTU Team

Home » News & Blogs » Posts » Most Recent

Expand Entries

19 Sep 2017
- 16:38 UTC The Daily Galaxy Water Worlds of the Universe Revealed --"Date Back to the... During almost four years of observing the cosmos, the Herschel Space Observatory traced out the presence of water. With its unprecedented sensitivity and spectral resolution at key wavelengths, Herschel revealed ...
- 16:36 UTC Astronomy Now Two stars, three dimensions, and oodles of energy V745 Sco is a close binary where a white dwarf pulls the red giant’s outer layers onto its surface, occasionally triggering an explosion. Astronomers have observed outbursts from V745 Sco ...
- 16:35 UTC Parabolic Arc AIA Names Eric K. Fanning as Next President & CEO Eric K. Fanning ARLINGTON, Va. (AIA PR) — The Aerospace Industries Association announced today that Eric K. Fanning will become its president and chief executive officer, effective January 1, 2018. ...
- 16:22 UTC Spaceflight Now Northrop Grumman to purchase Orbital ATK for $9.2 billion An Orbital ATK Antares rocket readies for launch to the International Space Station in this October 2016 file photo. Credit: Orbital ATK Northrop Grumman announced Monday plans to acquire Orbital ...
- 16:02 UTC The Daily Galaxy EcoAlert: NASA Sees Maria's "Hot Towers" Intensify Into A... NASA and NOAA satellites have provided data on Maria as it strengthened into a major Hurricane headed toward the Leeward Islands. NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared look at Maria ...
- 16:01 UTC astrobites Checking up on Circumstellar CO Title: The Photodissociation of CO in Circumstellar EnvelopesAuthors: M. A. T. GroenewegenFirst Author’s Institution: Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België, Ringlaan 3, B–1180 Brussels, BelgiumStatus: Astronomy & Astrophysics in Press [open access] ...
- 16:00 UTC AAS Nova Forming Planetesimals in a Dust and Gas Vortex Editor’s note: Astrobites is a graduate-student-run organization that digests astrophysical literature for undergraduate students. As part of the partnership between the AAS and astrobites, we repost astrobites content here at ...
- 16:00 UTC Air & Space Magazin... We Built the Saturn V
- 16:00 UTC Air & Space Magazin... A Swimming Pool For Spacefarers
- 15:54 UTC SPACE.com Hurricane Maria: See the Latest Videos from Space
- 15:48 UTC Astro Bob A Excellent Week To Visit Neptune Use this map to find Lambda (λ) Aquarii. The Great Square and bright Fomalhaut in Piscis Austrinus will help point you to the right spot. Then with binoculars, look just ...
- 15:41 UTC Space News New ICBM gets boost after Mattis’ endorsement NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The unexpected escalation of North Korea’s atomic weapons program and Russia’s nuclear posturing are providing fresh momentum to U.S. efforts to develop a new intercontinental ballistic ...
- 15:36 UTC All About Space Mercury’s poles likely to hold more ice than previously t... A false colour map of Mercury, taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft. Image credit: NASA The scorching hot surface of Mercury seems like an unlikely place to find ice, but research ...
- 15:33 UTC In the Dark A Fellow’s Diary Yet another sign that Autumn is on the way arrived yesterday in the form of my new Royal Astronomical Society diary, which comes with the subscription. This runs from October ...
- 15:30 UTC SPACE.com Watch Hurricane Maria in Action in These NASA and NOAA Gi...
- 15:14 UTC Spaceflight Now Live coverage: Atlas 5 countdown and launch journal Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the NROL-42 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no ...
- 15:05 UTC The Daily Galaxy NASA Astrobiologists --"Life On Saturn's Enceladus and Al... NASA astrobiologists say that we must recognize that life on Enceladus or other alien bodies may have originated by a process very different from the process by which life emerged ...
- 15:00 UTC OrbitalHub Dragon Departs Space Station NASA dixit: “The SpaceX/Dragon cargo craft departed the International Space Station September 17, one month after delivering more than three tons of supplies and scientific experiments for the station’s residents. ...
- 14:57 UTC Sky and Telescope Kepler Discovers Pulsations in the Pleiades The winking stars of the Pleiades are easy targets for backyard observers. They’re also frequent targets for professional ground-based telescopes, polarimeters, and interferometers. So it’s ironic that they’re some of ...
- 14:45 UTC All About Space Astronomers discover closest-ever supermassive black hole... Interacting galaxy NGC 7674, where the supermassive black hole was found. Image credit: NASA Dr Preeti Kharb and Dr Dharam Vir Lal from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), ...
- 14:44 UTC Astroblog The Sky This Week - Thursday September 21 to Thursday Sep... The First Quarter Moon is Thursday, September 28. Jupiter and the bright star Spica are nearby in the late twilight sky. The thin crescent Moon is close to Jupiter on ...
- 14:32 UTC 13.7 The Science And Art Of Mapping Animal Movements Technology allows mapping of wildlife movements with new precision — and a fresh approach to conservation — as evidenced by Where the Animal Go, released Tuesday in the U.S., says ...
- 14:31 UTC The Planetary Socie... OSIRIS-REx Earth flyby: What to Expect
- 14:24 UTC Space News Space Nation hires agency led by former Apple marketing c... SAN FRANCISCO — Space Nation, the Finnish startup developing an astronaut training smartphone application, announced plans Sept. 19 to join forces with West, the San Francisco-based branding and marketing agency ...
- 14:17 UTC Air & Space Magazin... “Go” for Restoration
- 14:01 UTC Starts With a Bang! Top 6 Discoveries Of Cassini As Its 20-Year Mission Comes... One of the most spectacular mosaic images of Saturn taken by Cassini, this 2016 view shows the north pole, the rings, the planet’s shadow, and the nearly-fully illuminated face of ...
- 14:00 UTC Starts With A Bang! New Space Telescope, 40 Times The Power Of Hubble, To Unl... “Hubble often takes images of distant gravitationally lensed galaxies to infer their substructure and to try to learn about early galaxies in general. For LUVOIR, we would have that same ...
- 13:59 UTC Seattle Astronomy Astro Biz: Moon Drop grapes
- 13:56 UTC Sky and Telescope Inside the November 2017 Issue PURCHASE PRINT ISSUE | PURCHASE DIGITAL ISSUE | PURCHASE BACK ISSUES | SUBSCRIBE Exploring Our Neighborhood: Racing to Mars, Our Neighbor Tarantula, and a Volcano on the Moon? Astronomers spend ...
- 13:45 UTC The Daily Galaxy "It's the Space Race of the 21st century" --The Major Roa... The quantum computer has the potential to revolutionize the 21st century, solving problems so massively complex th today’s computers would take a century to solve. But a single quantum computer ...
- 13:39 UTC The TeCake NASA confirms Biblical Apocalyptic claim is hoax The hoax created by some superstitious persons claiming that September 23 will be a doomsday for Earth has now proven false. Scientists from NASA has confirmed that the Biblical Apocalyptic ...
- 13:15 UTC Scientific American The Neutrino Puzzle
- 13:04 UTC The Solstice Blog Sample Size Solves Problems
- 12:37 UTC Astronaut.com Cassini is gone. What comes next? Europa, the outer solar system, and a lot of questions. It sent back data until the last possible moment, struggling against the atmospheric forces that would soon vaporize the spacecraft ...
- 12:15 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... Size matters in the detection of exoplanet atmospheres
- 12:00 UTC SPACE.com Curiosity Rover Climbing Steep Martian Ridge (Photos)
- 12:00 UTC SPACE.com Cold World, Hot Topic: Can Microbes Survive on Mars? CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A tiny version of Mars on Earth is tucked inside the Space Life Sciences Lab here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center — a specialized simulation chamber ...
- 12:00 UTC SPACE.com Jaw-Dropping Jupiter: Juno Probe Snaps Dramatic Up-Close ...
- 11:32 UTC Preparing for Lifto... Sentinel-5P ready to be fuelled While the Sentinel-5P is ready to be fuelled, before this can go ahead, the rocket has to be tested. So, on Sunday the rocket booster unit was taken to the ...
- 11:30 UTC Scientific American After Cassini's End at Saturn, Outer Planets Exploration ... NASA and the European Space Agency may soon launch new missions to the solar system’s largest planet -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 11:21 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Last Light for Cassini NASA — This monochrome view is the last image taken by the imaging cameras on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. It looks toward the planet’s night side, lit by reflected light from ...
- 11:05 UTC Space Fellowship Scientists Propose New Concept of Terrestrial Planet Form...
- 11:04 UTC Solar Radio Science... EUV-invisible reservoir of solar energetic particles by ... Large-scale magnetic structures, which likely make a “bridge” between the relatively compact particle acceleration site of a flare energy release and the interplanetary medium, are of particular importance because of ...
- 11:01 UTC Space Fellowship Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Exploded Star
- 11:00 UTC Ask a Spaceman! AaS! 64: What fate awaits the Voyagers? Why were the Voyager missions so important? Where are they now, and where are they going? What is their ultimate fate? And that Golden Record…good idea or bad idea? I ...
- 10:00 UTC Aeon To find aliens, we must think of life as we don’t know it
- 10:00 UTC Aeon To find aliens, we must think of life as we don’t know it
- 10:00 UTC SpaceFlight Insider MEV-1 working to expand spaceflight revolution, extend on... In this artist’s depiction, the MEV-1 spacecraft is attached to a customer’s satellite and is performing its role in extending its operational life. Image Credit: Nathan Koga / SpaceFlight Insider ...
- 09:58 UTC Backreaction Interna
- 07:41 UTC Parabolic Arc Orbital ATK Receives $21 Million Hypersonic Propulsion Co... DARPA’s new Advanced Full Range Engine (AFRE) program seeks to develop and demonstrate a new aircraft propulsion system that could operate at subsonic through hypersonic speeds and lay the framework ...

Displaying 1-50 of 389204 entries.

Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 7785 | Next

Most Recent Posts

Search and Filter

Search terms

Show

Latest Vodcast

Latest Podcast

Advertise PTTU

NASA Picture of the Day

Astronomy Picture of the Day