Earth watcher Proba-V opens its eyes
Earth watcher Proba-V is in good health following its launch last week. The Vegetation imager has been switched on and the first image has been captured over western France.
May 18th, 2013
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NASA's asteroid sample return mission moves into development (w/video)
NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016.
May 18th, 2013
Read more2nd Luxembourg Workshop on Satellite Communication
The University of Luxembourg in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law and the SES Chair in Satellite Communication and Media Law present the 2nd Luxembourg Workshop on Satellite Communication entitled Satellite Communication and Dispute Resolution.
May 17th, 2013
Read moreNew method proposed for detecting gravitational waves from ends of universe
A new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a device proposed by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno and Stanford University that would detect elusive gravity waves from the other end of the cosmos.
May 16th, 2013
Read moreWeather on the outer planets only goes so deep
Weizmann Institute researchers and their colleagues set an upper limit for the thickness of jet streams on Uranus and Neptune.
May 16th, 2013
Read moreHiRISE Mars camera reveals hundreds of impacts each year
Taking before and after pictures of Martian terrain, researchers of the HiRISE imaging experiment have identified almost 250 fresh impact craters on the Red Planet, providing a more accurate yardstick of surface processes on Mars.
May 15th, 2013
Read moreScientists shape first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan
Scientists have created the first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan, giving researchers a valuable tool for learning more about one of the most Earthlike and interesting worlds in the solar system.
May 15th, 2013
Read moreBlack hole powered jets plow into galaxy
The intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to produce immense power in the form of jets moving at millions of miles per hour.
May 15th, 2013
Read moreOrion's hidden fiery ribbon
A dramatic new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion reveals what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky.
May 15th, 2013
Read moreNew method of finding planets scores its first discovery
Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial velocity (looking for wobbling stars) and transits (looking for dimming stars). A team at Tel Aviv University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has just discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein's special theory of relativity.
May 13th, 2013
Read moreAfter Chelyabinsk: European experts assess asteroid options
This week, Deimos Space, an industrial partner working for ESA on SSA, has invited top researchers from universities, research institutes, national space agencies and industry in Europe and the USA to discuss the state of the art in near-Earth objects impact effects and threat mitigation.
May 13th, 2013
Read moreWater on moon, Earth have a common source
Water inside the Moon's mantle came from primitive meteorites, new research finds, the same source thought to have supplied most of the water on Earth. The findings raise new questions about the process that formed the Moon.
May 9th, 2013
Read moreHubble space telescope finds dead stars 'polluted' with planet debris
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place-- the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs.
May 9th, 2013
Read moreExotic atoms hold clues to unsolved physics puzzle at the dawn of the universe
An international team of physicists has found the first direct evidence of pear shaped nuclei in exotic atoms.
May 8th, 2013
Read moreAstronomers discover surprising clutch of hydrogen clouds lurking among our galactic neighbors
In a dark, starless patch of intergalactic space, astronomers have discovered a never-before-seen cluster of hydrogen clouds strewn between two nearby galaxies, Andromeda (M31) and Triangulum (M33). The researchers speculate that these rarefied blobs of gas condensed out of a vast and as-yet undetected reservoir of hot, ionized gas, which could have accompanied an otherwise invisible band of dark matter.
May 8th, 2013
Read more...and now for the weather on Mars
In the north of the red planet, snowfalls occur with great regularity and can be predicted quite accurately.
May 8th, 2013
Read moreFirst biological evidence of a supernova
In fossil remnants of iron-loving bacteria, researchers of the Cluster of Excellence Origin and Structure of the Universe at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), found a radioactive iron isotope that they trace back to a supernova in our cosmic neighborhood. This is the first proven biological signature of a starburst on our earth. The age determination of the deep-drill core from the Pacific Ocean showed that the supernova must have occurred about 2.2 million years ago, roughly around the time when the modern human developed.
May 8th, 2013
Read moreNASA will fly a space mission using a revolutionary 'green' spacecraft propellant
In 2015, NASA, for the first time, will fly a space mission utilizing a radically different propellant - one which has reduced toxicity and is environmentally benign.
May 7th, 2013
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