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8 Apr 2013
- 13:23 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Applications invited for Paneth Meteorite Trust internshi... Applications are invited for undergraduate internships in meteoritics, to be held during summer 2013. The internships will be funded by the F.A. Paneth Meteorite Trust, which was set up ‘to ...
- 10:00 UTC ESA Top News Shaking ExoMars Space science image of the week: the ExoMars Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module undergoes vibration tests at ESA’s ESTEC test centre
- 10:00 UTC ESA Space Science Shaking ExoMars Space science image of the week: the ExoMars Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module undergoes vibration tests at ESA’s ESTEC test centre
6 Apr 2013
- 05:27 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Student 'Launchfest' Live April 20 on Ustream, Twitter Members of the news media and public are invited to watch live, online coverage of the 2012-13 NASA Student Launch Projects "launchfest."
5 Apr 2013
- 23:48 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Taps the Power of Zombie Stars in Two-in-One Instrum... NICER will not only reveal why neutron stars are the densest objects in nature, but also demonstrate navigation technology that could revolutionize travel to the far reaches of the solar ...
- 20:45 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from stars.
- 20:40 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Commercial Crew Partner Boeing Completes Launch Vehi... The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, has successfully completed a preliminary design review (PDR) of the component that would connect the company's new crew ...
- 19:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Bi-ocular Animations of Two Oceans This new combination video of NOAA's GOES-13 and GOES-15 satellite data shows two rounded images of the Earth as if you were simultaneously looking at the Atlantic and Pacific oceans ...
- 18:57 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Hubble Sees Light and Dust in a Nearby Starburst Galaxy Visible as a small, sparkling hook in the dark sky, J082354.96 is a starburst galaxy, so named because of the incredibly high rate of star formation occurring within it.
- 16:38 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Celebrates Four Decades of Plucky Pioneer 11 Forty years ago a small, ambitious spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, heading towards the third-brightest point of light in the night sky.
- 15:47 UTC NASA Breaking News Texas Students To Speak Live with Space Station Astronaut... Students from Mary Marek Elementary School in Pearland, Texas, will speak with Expedition 35 crew members and NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy aboard the International Space Station at ...
- 15:15 UTC ESA Top News Eyes on our Sun: ESA opens new space weather centre in Br... This week, ESA opened a new Space Weather Coordination Centre to gather up-to-date information on our Sun. It is the first such data coordination centre opened under the Agency’s Space ...
- 12:50 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Commander Chris Hadfield Communicates Through Amateur Rad... Longueuil, Quebec, April 5, 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 ...
- 11:35 UTC ASTRON ASTRON at Holland High Tech House - Hannover Messe 2013 The Holland High Tech House, among which ASTRON, is presenting itself at the Hannover Messe, the largest industrial trade fair in the world, from 8 through 12 April 2013, in ...
- 09:58 UTC Surrey Satellite Te... SSTL CEO Matt Perkins appointed Vice-Chair of UKspace Dr. Matt Perkins, CEO of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), has been elected Vice-Chair of the UK Industry Association for Space (UKspace), the trade association of the UK space industry.
- 06:16 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Mapping the Chemistry Needed for Life at Europa A new study led by a NASA researcher provides the first observations of the global distribution of hydrogen peroxide across the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Students Ready to Keep Wheels Turning Team representatives are available for interviews about their hard work and preparation for the event.
- 02:36 UTC Keck Observatory NASA and Caltech Astronomers Find Potential Energy Supply... KAMUELA, HI – Observations of Europa from the W. M. Keck Observatory help NASA and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers go one step further in demonstrating life may be ...
4 Apr 2013
- 21:54 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... High Resolution Lunar Orbiter V Mosaic of Crater Copernic... LOIRP produces one of the largest images of planetary data ever put together into one mosaic. Copernicus Crater Floor Mosaic. One of the later Apollo missions was originally planned to ...
- 21:30 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Scientists to Io: Volcanoes are in the Wrong Spot Unexpected locations of volcanoes provide a clue that we don't fully understand Jupiter's moon Io, a fiery world observed by NASA's Voyager and Galileo spacecraft.
- 21:00 UTC NASA: GALEX News GALEX: Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einst... The light of a red star is warped and magnified by its dead-star companion, as detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope.
- 19:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein The light of a red star is warped and magnified by its dead-star companion, as detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope.
- 18:36 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Marks 30th Anniversary of TDRS Era On April 4, 1983, space shuttle Challenger began its maiden voyage carrying a new satellite that would revolutionize low-Earth orbit communications.
- 18:06 UTC NASA Breaking News Registration Opens for NASA Night Rover Energy Challenge Registration is open for teams seeking to compete in the $1.5 million energy storage competition known as the Night Rover Challenge, sponsored by NASA and the Cleantech Open of Palo ...
- 16:39 UTC Indiana University ... All systems 'Go' in NOvA neutrino search, leaving IU phys... Taking data from cosmic rays for the first time and moving closer to the day later this year when physicists can begin measuring neutrino energies, the international NOvA experiment -- ...
- 14:04 UTC Science and Technol... Prototype MRI magnet's new life as a physics experiment -... STFC's Daresbury Laboratory is hosting the original prototype magnet that was used to develop Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in hospitals, in preparation for its use in an exciting new project ...
- 14:00 UTC HubbleSite NewsCent... Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova Get larger image formats A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a star detonated with enough energy to briefly shine with an intrinsic brightness of one billion ...
- 14:00 UTC Hubble Space Telesc... Science Release: Hubble breaks record for furthest supern... The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has broken the record in the quest to find the furthest supernova of the type used to measure cosmic distances. This supernova exploded more than ...
- 13:00 UTC HubbleSite NewsCent... Taken Under the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud Get larger image formats NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope has made the first detection of X-ray emission from young solar-type stars that lie outside our Milky Way galaxy. They live in ...
- 10:03 UTC Science and Technol... Could foot and mouth disease finally be controlled? Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) affects all cloven-hoofed animals, both domesticated and wild, and is one of the most contagious of animal diseases.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... 'Interdependence' Key Theme of 51st Goddard Memorial Symp... "Success Through Interdependence" was the theme of the American Astronautical Society's (AAS) 51st Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium held March 19-21 at the Marriott Hotel in Greenbelt, Md.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Registration Opens for NASA Night Rover Energy Challenge Registration is open for teams seeking to compete in the energy storage competition known as the Night Rover Challenge.
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Kepler News a... Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein The light of a red star is warped and magnified by its dead-star companion, as detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope.
- 02:31 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Used Parachute on Mars Flaps in the Wind Photos from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the parachute that helped NASA's Curiosity rover land on Mars last summer has changed its shape on the ground.
3 Apr 2013
- 19:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Flies Radar South on Wide-Ranging Expedition A versatile NASA airborne imaging radar system is showcasing its broad scientific prowess for studying our home planet during a month-long expedition over the Americas.
- 19:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... A Confetti-Like Collection of Stars Stars sparkle in this lively new view of the Small Magellanic Cloud from NASA's Great Observatories.
- 17:54 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Pre-existing Mineralogy May Survive Lunar Impacts NLSI scientists provide new insight into the fundamentals of how the cratering process works. Pre-existing mineral deposits on the Moon (sinuous melt, above) have survived impacts powerful enough to melt ...
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Taken Under the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors. Even though it is a small, or so-called dwarf galaxy, the SMC is so bright that ...
- 15:16 UTC ESA Top News Shining light on elusive dark matter The antimatter hunter AMS-02 on the International Space Station is searching for the missing pieces of our Universe. The project’s first results published today are hinting at a new phenomenon ...
- 14:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... The Galactic Empire
- 14:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... The Galactic Empire
- 14:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... El Imperio Galáctico Nuestra galaxia, La Vía Láctea, es más que sólo una espiral barrada gigante que contiene cientos de miles de millones de estrellas. También es el centro de un colosal imperio ...
- 10:41 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Astronomers anticipate 100 billion Earth-like planets Researchers at The University of Auckland have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets and they anticipate that the number will be in the order of 100 billion.The strategy ...
- 07:21 UTC ESA Top News Protecting history with satellites Looking down from orbit is an attractive way of monitoring historical sites in remote or politically unstable regions – and can even help archaeologists to make new discoveries.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Final MAVEN Instrument Integrated to Spacecraft An instrument that will measure the composition of Mars' upper atmosphere has been integrated to NASA's MAVEN spacecraft.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Fifth Lowest on Record The Arctic Ocean's icy cover reached its annual maximum extent on February 28. At 5.82 million square miles, the 2013 sea ice winter extent is the fifth lowest in the ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Free Lecture at Goddard: ‘Finding Other Worlds Beyond Our... The public is invited to a free presentation on exoplanets by senior Goddard astrophysicist Jennifer Wiseman, April 10 at the Goddard Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Measuring the Seeds of Noctilucent Clouds In October 2011, a NASA-funded sounding rocket called CHAMPS flew up through noctilucent ice clouds to measure the meteoric smoke that seeds the clouds.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Invests in Small Business Innovative Research and Te... NASA has selected 295 research and technology proposals from 216 American small businesses for negotiations that may lead to contract awards worth a combined $38.7 million.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Media Invited to NASA Commercial Partner New Rocket Rollo... News media are invited to cover the scheduled Saturday, April 6, morning rollout of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares launch vehicle to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight ...