Kepler mission discovers tiny planet system
Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun.
Feb 20th, 2013
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Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun.
Feb 20th, 2013
Read moreNASA's Space Technology Program is calling for proposals to develop miniaturized electrospray propulsion technologies that could revolutionize small satellite propulsion systems.
Feb 20th, 2013
Read moreBerkeley Lab's Chemical Dynamics Beamline points to why isotope ratios in interplanetary dust and meteorites differ from Earth's
Feb 20th, 2013
Read moreNew infrared VISTA image of NGC 6357.
Feb 20th, 2013
Read moreExperts have developed a new coating for space satellite cryocoolers - the specialist devices that regulate their temperature and enable them to function in space.
Feb 20th, 2013
Read moreScientists believe that their light source is a very bright gaseous disk surrounding a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. Gas streams called "outflows" move outward from the disk and have a substantial influence on surrounding interstellar/intergalactic regions. However, because quasars at large distances look like mere stars, their internal structures are not easy to investigate.
Feb 20th, 2013
Read moreThe fledgling Beidou satellite navigation system will soon benefit hundreds of millions of users, and provide a cheaper and in some cases better alternative than the Global Positioning System, industry specialists said.
Feb 20th, 2013
Read moreAustralian researchers have developed a substance that looks and behaves like soil from the moon's surface and can be mixed with polymers to create 'lunar concrete', a finding that may help advance plans to construct safe landing pads and mines on the moon.
Feb 19th, 2013
Read moreSpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc. (SEI) today released an update to its nanosatellite and microsatellite market analysis study. The study presents the latest observations, trends, and projections for the nano/microsatellite market.
Feb 19th, 2013
Read moreUniversity faculty and students interested in learning how to build scientific experiments for spaceflight are invited to join RockOn 2013 from June 15-20 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Feb 19th, 2013
Read moreScientists are still sorting out the details of last year's discovery of the Higgs boson particle, but add up the numbers and it's not looking good for the future of the universe, they report.
Feb 19th, 2013
Read moreNASA, universities and private groups in the US are working on asteroid warning systems that can detect objects from space like the one that struck Russia last week with a blinding flash and mighty boom.
Feb 18th, 2013
Read moreAided by technology, scientists are surmounting the challenge of inferring the atmospheric composition of planets that were invisible to humans just a few years ago.
Feb 18th, 2013
Read morePerforming sensitive biological experiments is always a delicate affair. Few researchers, however, contend with the challenges faced by Cheryl Nickerson, whose working laboratory aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is located hundreds of miles above the Earth, traveling at some 17,000 miles per hour.
Feb 18th, 2013
Read moreTraces of water have been detected within the crystalline structure of mineral samples from the lunar highland upper crust obtained during the Apollo missions, according to a University of Michigan researcher and his colleagues.
Feb 18th, 2013
Read moreU.S. astronomers looking for life in the solar system believe that Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, which has an ocean, is much more promising than desert-covered Mars, which is currently the focus of the US government's attention.
Feb 17th, 2013
Read moreUC Santa Barbara physicist and professor Philip M. Lubin, and Gary B. Hughes conceived DE-STAR, or Directed Energy Solar Targeting of Asteroids an exploRation, as a realistic means of mitigating potential threats posed to the Earth by asteroids and comets.
Feb 15th, 2013
Read moreA new study using observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals the first clear-cut evidence the expanding debris of exploded stars produces some of the fastest-moving matter in the universe. This discovery is a major step toward understanding the origin of cosmic rays, one of Fermi's primary mission goals.
Feb 14th, 2013
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