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NASA Opens Media Accreditation for Next SpaceX Space Station Mission Launch

5 Mar 2015, 01:14 UTC Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA's next commercial cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station. SpaceX and NASA soon will set an April target date for launch of the company’s Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida.

NASA Breaking News

NASA Television to Air Major SLS Booster Test Firing Events, Media Invited

4 Mar 2015, 22:53 UTC The largest, most powerful booster ever built for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will fire up for a ground test at 11:30 a.m. EDT (9:30 a.m. MDT) Wednesday, March 11, at Orbital ATK Propulsion Systems’ test facilities in Promontory, Utah.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

NASA's Chandra Observatory Finds Cosmic Showers Halt Galaxy Growth

4 Mar 2015, 18:01 UTC A galaxy cluster located about one billion light years from Earth.

MIT

Why isn’t the universe as bright as it should be?

4 Mar 2015, 17:59 UTC Study explains why galaxies don’t churn out as many stars as they should. A handful of new stars are born each year in the Milky Way, while many more blink on across the universe. But astronomers have observed that galaxies should be churning out millions more stars, based on the amount of interstellar gas available. Now researchers from MIT, Columbia University, and Michigan State University have pieced together a theory describing how clusters of galaxies may regulate star formation. They describe their framework this week in the journal Nature. When intracluster gas cools rapidly, it condenses, then collapses to form new stars. Scientists have long thought that something must be keeping the gas from cooling enough to generate more stars — but exactly what has remained a mystery. For some galaxy clusters, the researchers say, the intracluster gas may simply be too hot — on the order of hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius. Even if one region experiences some cooling, the intensity of the surrounding heat would keep that region from cooling further — an effect known as conduction. “It would be like putting an ice cube in a boiling pot of water — the average temperature is pretty ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Goddard Invites Social Media for MMS Mission Tour

4 Mar 2015, 17:02 UTC Social media users are invited to a one-day NASA Social event on March 12, 2015, to tour the facilities where the MMS mission was born.

ESA Top News

ESA experts assess risk from exploded satellite

4 Mar 2015, 13:49 UTC After studying the recent explosive break-up of a US satellite, ESA space debris experts have concluded this event does not increase the collision risk to nearby ESA missions in any meaningful way.

ESA Human Spaceflight and Exploration

Test spacecraft piloting skills – in Antarctica

4 Mar 2015, 12:56 UTC ESA is looking for a medical doctor to spend a year at the remote Concordia Antarctic station. Like a martian outpost can be imagined, you will be away for over a year and cut off from the rest of the world, living and working with 15 colleagues to conduct science in preparation for missions to the Red Planet.

ESA Top News

Shimmering salt lake

4 Mar 2015, 09:50 UTC Technology image of the week: ESA's Proba-V minisatellite captures an Australian salt lake covered with water

NASA Breaking News

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Available for Interviews before One-Year Space Station Mission

3 Mar 2015, 19:42 UTC NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who is making final preparations for his launch this month to spend a year living and working on the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 5:30 to 7 a.m. EDT Monday, March 9.

Gemini Observatory

Far from Home: Wayward Cluster is Both Tiny and Distant

3 Mar 2015, 18:42 UTC Resources En Español GMOS image of Kim 2, in g band. The image is 4 arcminutes across. read more

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5 Mar 2015
- 01:14 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Opens Media Accreditation for Next SpaceX Space Stat... Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA's next commercial cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station. SpaceX and NASA soon will set an April target date for ...
4 Mar 2015
- 23:20 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Attention, All Scientists: Do Improv! SSERVI teams will be doing improv exercises on the Sunday before the Exploration Science Forum this summer. Alan Alda, who played Hawkeye on “M*A*S*H,” using a improvisational exercise to teach ...
- 22:53 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Television to Air Major SLS Booster Test Firing Even... The largest, most powerful booster ever built for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will fire up for a ground test at 11:30 a.m. EDT (9:30 a.m. MDT) ...
- 19:00 UTC NAOJ Top News Science Results - Subaru Telescope Observes Rapid Changes... Images from a December 2013 observation of the comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) reveal clear details about rapidly changing activity over a period of 20 minutes in that comet's plasma tail. ...
- 18:01 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... NASA's Chandra Observatory Finds Cosmic Showers Halt Gala... A galaxy cluster located about one billion light years from Earth.
- 17:59 UTC MIT Why isn’t the universe as bright as it should be? Study explains why galaxies don’t churn out as many stars as they should. A handful of new stars are born each year in the Milky Way, while many more blink ...
- 17:25 UTC Science@NASA Subtracting Gravity from Alzheimer's The key to unraveling the mysterious cause of Alzheimer’s disease may not lie in the recesses of the human brain, but rather in the weightless expanse of space.
- 17:02 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Goddard Invites Social Media for MMS Mission Tour Social media users are invited to a one-day NASA Social event on March 12, 2015, to tour the facilities where the MMS mission was born.
- 16:37 UTC American Astronomic... ASTRO-1: A New-Generation UV-Visible Space Telescope Now that the space astronomy and astrophysics community is organizing to consider strategic facilities to recommend in the next decadal survey, we feel this is a good time to bring ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Television to Air Space Station Change of Commander,... Three International Space Station crew members are scheduled to leave the orbiting laboratory Wednesday, March 11 after almost six months in space performing scientific research and technology demonstrations.
- 15:30 UTC American Astronomic... NOAO Invites Observing Proposals for Semester 2015B The National Optical Astronomy Observatory announces the availability of observing time for the 2015B semester, August 2015 - January 2016. The facilities available this semester include the Gemini North and ...
- 14:56 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Invites Media to 53rd Annual Robert Goddard Memorial... The 53rd Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium is March 11 and 12 at the Greenbelt Marriott, 6400 Ivy Lane, Greenbelt, Maryland.
- 13:49 UTC ESA Top News ESA experts assess risk from exploded satellite After studying the recent explosive break-up of a US satellite, ESA space debris experts have concluded this event does not increase the collision risk to nearby ESA missions in any ...
- 12:59 UTC MIT Kavli Institute Why isn’t the universe as bright as it should be? A handful of new stars are born each year in the Milky Way, while many more blink on across the universe. But astronomers have observed that galaxies should be churning ...
- 12:56 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Test spacecraft piloting skills – in Antarctica ESA is looking for a medical doctor to spend a year at the remote Concordia Antarctic station. Like a martian outpost can be imagined, you will be away for over ...
- 09:50 UTC ESA Top News Shimmering salt lake Technology image of the week: ESA's Proba-V minisatellite captures an Australian salt lake covered with water
- 08:24 UTC ESA Science & Techn... SOHO's 3000th comet - contest It may have been designed to probe and monitor the Sun, but the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has also found fame as a comet finder. A record-breaking 2890 ...
3 Mar 2015
- 22:30 UTC American Astronomic... From the Executive Office May the Task Force Be With You Every day I come into the AAS Executive Office, I am amazed at the high level of dedication and even devotion of our ...
- 22:00 UTC Southwest Research ... SwRI's Walker named Fellow of American Institute of Aeron... Walker to be formally recognized May 6 at AIAA Aerospace Spotlight Awards Gala
- 21:40 UTC MIT Kavli Institute Fast Radio Bursts--What Can We Say About Emission Mechani... The pulse widths, dispersion measures and dispersion indices of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) impose coupled constraints that all models must satisfy. Conventional single thin screen scattering models imply electron densities ...
- 19:42 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Available for Interviews befor... NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who is making final preparations for his launch this month to spend a year living and working on the International Space Station, will be available for ...
- 18:42 UTC Gemini Observatory Far from Home: Wayward Cluster is Both Tiny and Distant Resources En Español GMOS image of Kim 2, in g band. The image is 4 arcminutes across. read more
- 18:32 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA-Funded Study Finds Two Solar Wind Jets in the Helios... New NASA-funded research found that the giant bubble around our solar system, the heliosphere, is much shorter and smaller than previously thought, dominated by two jets shooting out the north ...
- 17:44 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Hosts Events to Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of N... NASA is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its antecedent, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), with several events highlighting the historic committee’s contribution to the nation’s space program and ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Astronaut Steve Swanson Visits Washington with Open ... NASA astronaut Steve Swanson, who returned in September 2014 from 169 days of living and working aboard the International Space Station, is visiting the Washington area today through Thursday, March ...
- 15:58 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Matthew McGill - A Scientific Hybrid Innovator Matthew McGill is a hybrid - he can build instruments and do science.
- 15:57 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... The Sun Ushers in March with a Mid-class Flare The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, an M8.2-class, peaking at 8:35 p.m. EST on March 2, 2015.
- 15:49 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA, Honeywell Bring Hip-Hop Education Show to Northeast... NASA and Honeywell kicks off the spring 2015 tour of "FMA Live! Forces in Motion" Monday with shows at Talley Middle School in Wilmington, Delaware, marking the 11th year of ...
- 15:48 UTC NASA Breaking News Media Invited to See Bigelow Expandable Space Station Mod... NASA and Bigelow Aerospace invite media to a photo and interview opportunity at 10 a.m. PST on Thursday, March 12, at Bigelow Aerospace’s North Las Vegas facility to mark the ...
- 14:45 UTC ESA Top News Honing skills Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: mission control team trains for Sentinel-2A launch
- 05:00 UTC MIT New technique allows analysis of clouds around exoplanets Team describes use of method to determine properties of clouds surrounding the exoplanet Kepler-7b. Meteorologists sometimes struggle to accurately predict the weather here on Earth, but now we can find ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Ames Reproduces the Building Blocks of Life in Labor... NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, cytosine, and thymine, three key components of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.
2 Mar 2015
- 20:34 UTC American Astronomic... March 2015 Issue of Physics Today Is Online & in the Mail Physics Today, the flagship publication of the American Institute of Physics, is the most influential and closely followed physics magazine in the world. With authoritative features, full news coverage and ...
- 19:54 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Administrator Lauds Senator Mikulski for Championing... Statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Monday’s announcement by Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski of her plan to retire from Congress in 2016.
- 18:53 UTC Carnegie Institutio... Carnegie’s Hazen receives $1.4 million Keck grant Washington, D.C.—Carnegie’s Robert Hazen has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for a three-year data-driven research project on the co-evolution of the planet’s biology and ...
- 17:56 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Spacecraft Nears Historic Dwarf Planet Arrival NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has returned new images captured on approach to its historic orbit insertion at the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn will be the first mission to successfully visit a ...
- 16:36 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Astronauts on Space Station to Speak Live with Dalla... NASA astronauts on the International Space Station will speak with students and faculty from the School for the Talented and Gifted (TAG Magnet) at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center in ...
- 16:00 UTC ESO Top News An Old-looking Galaxy in a Young Universe One of the most distant galaxies ever observed has provided astronomers with the first detection of dust in such a remote star-forming system and tantalising evidence for the rapid evolution ...
- 15:47 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Announcement of Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Scienti... Through this Announcement of Opportunity (AO) ESA solicits the participation of the scientific community in the role of Interdisciplinary Scientists (IDSs) in the JUICE mission. Proposals are due by 15 ...
- 13:29 UTC Square Kilometer Ar... High-level visit at the South African SKA site Over the weekend the Deputy President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa visited the South African Square Kilometre Array (SKA) site in Carnarvon in the Northern Cape. He was hosted by ...
- 13:18 UTC Science and Technol... JCMT now under new ownership Effective on March 1, 2015, the James Clark Maxwell Submillimetre Telescope (JCMT) is now being operated by the East Asian Observatory (EAO).
- 13:00 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space Join us Tuesday, 3 March at 14:00 CET as Wolfgang Pitz from Airbus Defence and Space discusses testing the Sentinel-2A satellite
- 12:28 UTC Institute of Astrop... The huge “Y” in the atmosphere of Venus due to a wave dis... The huge “Y” in the atmosphere of Venus due to a wave distorted by the wind 24/02/2015 When observed in the ultraviolet range, Venus’ atmosphere reveals to be covered by ...
- 09:31 UTC ESA Space Science Simulating space for JWST Space Science Image of the Week: Instruments for JWST have been tested in a vacuum chamber to ensure they can withstand the intense cold of space
- 07:00 UTC Planetary Science I... Brother Guy is Featured Speaker at PSI Dinner April 1 Brother Guy Consolmagno, the Pope’s Astronomer, will be the featured speaker at the Planetary Science Institute’s Annual Fundraising Dinner April 1 at the Hilton El Conquistador resort. Brother Guy’s presentation, ...
- 00:00 UTC International Centr... World's Largest Astronomy Lesson breaks world record Over 1,000 people joined in at the Shire of Kalamunda's 'World's Largest Astronomy Lesson' on the weekend, helping to break a Guinness World Record.
28 Feb 2015
- 21:15 UTC Thirty Meter Telesc... TMT Scientists Discuss Serious Science and Classroom Fun ... TMT will participate again at this year's Journey Through The Universe's Family Science Day and Astronomy Educators in the Classroom. JTTU 2015 read more
- 08:00 UTC ESA Top News Week In Images Our week through the lens: 23-27 February 2015
27 Feb 2015
- 22:53 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Living on the Edge: Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center Data from NASA's WISE mission have led to the discovery of two clusters of newborn stars thousands of light-years below the plane of our galaxy.
- 21:41 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... OSIRIS-REx Mission Successfully Completes System Integrat... This week marked the completion of an important step on the path to spacecraft assembly, test, and launch operations for the OSIRIS-REx mission.