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3 Dec 2009
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA TV Covers Next Space Station Crew's Journey to Orbit NASA Television will air the events surrounding the launch and delivery of the next three residents to the International Space Station.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... ARIANESPACE MARKS 30th ANNIVERSARY OF ARIANE'S FIRST FLIG... Thirty years of launch services excellence with the Ariane launcher family was celebrated by Arianespace in Washington, D.C. Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall recalled the maiden flight of Ariane ...
2 Dec 2009
- 22:00 UTC South African Astro... Travelling to the Kalahari in a spaceship That's exactly what future space travellers might just do. That's of course if “Kalahari” is the winning name of South Africa's “Name our Asteroid” competition. The competition, which is open ...
- 18:57 UTC Lawrence Berkeley N... A Superbright Supernova That’s the First of Its Kind A superbright supernova found in a dwarf galaxy by the Nearby Supernova Factory based at Berkeley Lab is the first confirmed example of a pair-instability supernova, the result of the ...
- 18:28 UTC Keck Observatory First of its kind superbright supernova Berkeley, Calif. – A discovery of an extraordinarily bright, extraordinarily long-lasting supernova named SN 2007bi turns out to be the first known example of the earliest types of stars that ...
- 17:00 UTC NASA: GALEX News GALEX Status Update: December 2, 2009 Engineers and scientists have several laboratory activities underway that are expected to aid in recovering the far-ultraviolet instrument on NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
- 12:00 UTC Jodrell Bank Centre... Newly discovered star one of hottest in Galaxy Astronomers at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics have discovered one of the hottest stars in the Galaxy - with a surface temperature of around 200,000 degrees, ...
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... ARIANESPACE'S LAST ARIANE 5 FLIGHT OF 2009 ENTERS FINAL P... Ariane 5 is being readied for its year-end launch with France's Helios 2B military observation satellite. This seventh mission of 2009 is set for 1:26 p.m. on December 9 from ...
- 00:00 UTC International Centr... Agreement brings State one step closer to SKA The Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) Indigenous land use agreement is now in place.
1 Dec 2009
- 20:12 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Another Stall of Right-Rear Wheel Ends Drive Spirit's right-rear wheel stalled again on Sol 2099 (Nov. 28, 2009) during the first step of a two-step extrication maneuver.
- 18:54 UTC Gemini Observatory December 2009 Issue of GeminiFocus Available Please help us to evaluate and assess the possible futures of GeminiFocus by taking our short online survey.read more
- 11:00 UTC Hubble Space Telesc... Photo Release: Blushing dusty nebula A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of part of NGC 7023, or the Iris Nebula, highlights a perfect dust laboratory in the sky.
- 08:05 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... ESA astronaut Frank De Winne safely back on Earth ESA PR 30-2009. The Soyuz TMA-15 reentry module landed safely in Kazakhstan at 13.15 local time (08.15 CET), bringing ESA astronaut Frank De Winne, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... LCROSS Press Conference Miss the Nov. 13 announcement about preliminary LCROSS results?
- 00:00 UTC Surrey Satellite Te... Space pioneer Sir Martin Sweeting awarded the IET’s Farad... Sir Martin Sweeting of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been awarded the Faraday Medal, the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) most prestigious award, for his outstanding contribution to ...
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... News article: Minus K Technology's Negative-Stiffness Vi... Minus K Technology, Inc. has been selected by ITT Space Systems, LLC, subcontractor to Northrop Grumman Corporation, to provide vibration isolators for the ground testing of the new James Webb ...
30 Nov 2009
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Scientists Explain Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Titan Researchers suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of lakes over the polar regions of the planet's largest moon, ...
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Orbiter Puts Itself Into Safe Standby NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on Saturday, Nov. 28, and the team operating the spacecraft has begun implementing careful steps designed to resume Odyssey's ...
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... WISE Snug in Its Nose Cone NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has been wrapped in the outer nose cone, or 'fairing,' that will protect it during its scheduled Dec. 9 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, ...
- 19:00 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Press Release: Spitzer to Unveil Biggest Milky Way View a... In an unveiling of truly galactic proportions, the world's largest image of our Milky Way galaxy, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will be unveiled at the Adler Planetarium in ...
- 16:03 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Space and astronomy digest: December 2009 (RAS PN 09/60) The latest digest of astronomy and space news, from the Royal Astronomical Society. This month sees the launch of a mission mapping the Universe in infrared light, the maximum of ...
- 11:00 UTC ESO Top News Black Hole Caught Zapping Galaxy into Existence? ESO 46/09 - Science Release: Which come first, the supermassive black holes that frantically devour matter or the enormous galaxies where they reside? A brand new scenario has emerged from ...
- 09:00 UTC CERN LHC sets new world record Geneva, 30 November 2009. CERN1’s Large Hadron Collider has today become the world’s highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV ...
- 07:00 UTC National Optical As... NEWFIRM Discovery of Warm Molecular Hydrogen in the Wind ... Using NEWFIRM on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak, Veilleux, Rupke and Swaters have reported the discovery of warm H2 gas in the prototypical galactic wind of M82. They ...
- 07:00 UTC National Optical As... NEWFIRM Discovery of Warm Molecular Hydrogen in the Wind ... Using NEWFIRM on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak, Veilleux, Rupke and Swaters have reported the discovery of warm H2 gas in the prototypical galactic wind of M82. They ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Sets Briefing to Discuss Ares I-X Launch Data NASA will host a media teleconference with Bob Ess, Ares I-X mission manager, at 1 p.m. CST on Thursday, Dec. 3.
- 05:00 UTC Planetary Society P... News: Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Turns Wheels... Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Turns Wheels, Opportunity Rests at Rare Martian Rock
27 Nov 2009
- 12:00 UTC Herschel Results Spectrum of massive star VY Canis Majoris Spectroscopy of the largest known star in our Galaxy, VY Canis Majoris, has shown the presence of water in its outer atmosphere. The star VY Canis Majoris is the largest ...
- 11:00 UTC Herschel News Seeing Between the lines: First spectra from SPIRE Thumbnail: The first spectra from SPIRE and the other instruments on Herschel have been released. SPIRE spectrum of the giant star VY Canis Majoris, with the inset showing the star ...
- 10:32 UTC Science and Technol... Herschel takes a peek at the ingredients of the galaxies The European Space Agency has today (25th Nov) released spectacular new observations from the Herschel Space Observatory, including the UK-led SPIRE instrument.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Space Shuttle Crew Returns Home after 11-Day Mission Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts ended an 11-day journey of nearly 4.5 million miles with a 9:44 a.m. EST landing Friday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center ...
26 Nov 2009
- 10:29 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... Inauguration of site of Galileo station at Kourou The site, which was made available by France's Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES), will play an essential role in the setting up of the Galileo system, since it will accommodate ...
- 09:21 UTC ESA Top News ESA supports the European launch of Oceans Oceans cover nearly three-quarters of Earth's surface, yet they remain the least explored territories of our planet. Oceans, a new film produced by filmmaker Jacques Perrin, captures the mysterious and ...
- 08:21 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Fly me to ... a lunar parabola Parabolic flights with aircraft have provided microgravity conditions for scientific research, technology testing and astronaut training for the last 25 years in Europe. Now the flights can reach further into ...
- 05:00 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Japanese Kibo Mission MAXI acquires all-sky X-r... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and RIKEN have successfully acquired an all-sky X-ray
25 Nov 2009
- 20:43 UTC Keck Observatory A Galactic “fossil” in the core of the Milky Way KAMUELA, HI—Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope have identified two distinct groups of stars within the Milky Way Galaxy’s globular cluster ...
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... No Wheel Stall in Diagnostic Drive On Sol 2095 (Tuesday, Nov. 24), Spirit performed a set of diagnostic actions related to a stall of the right-rear wheel on the previous drive, three days earlier.
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Prometheus Plays Tug of War with One of Saturn's Rings The diminutive moon Prometheus whips gossamer ice particles out of Saturn's F ring in this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 21, 2009.
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a sample of the variety and complexity of processes that may occur on ...
- 18:00 UTC ESO Top News Cosmic "Dig" Reveals Vestiges of the Milky Way's Building... ESO 45/09 - Science Release: Peering through the thick dust clouds of our galaxy's "bulge" (the myriads of stars surrounding its centre), and revealing an amazing amount of detail, a ...
- 12:43 UTC ESA Top News ‘Keys’ to GOCE satellite handed over ESA’s GOCE gravity mission has achieved another major milestone as control of the satellite is transferred to the operations teams, marking the end of its commissioning and calibration phase.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA'S WISE Spacecraft Ready for Launch Dec. 9 from Calif... The launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, aboard a Delta II rocket is scheduled to occur between 9:09 a.m. and 9:23 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Dec. 9, ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Space Shuttle Atlantis Crew Set to Land in Florida Friday Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member crew are expected to return to Earth on Friday, Nov. 27, after an 11-day mission.
- 00:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Team Plans Uplink of Protective Files The team operating NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter plans to uplink protective files to the spacecraft next week as one step toward resuming the orbiter's research and relay activities.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... THE FIRST DELIVERY OF SOYUZ LAUNCHERS TO FRENCH GUIANA IS... All elements of the initial two Soyuz vehicles shipped to the Spaceport have now been brought ashore and are on French Guiana soil. This completes a three-day unloading process from ...
24 Nov 2009
- 19:08 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance Of Saturn's Northern Light... In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known "northern lights" in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness ...
- 10:44 UTC Science and Technol... T2K neutrino experiment starts its search for the unknown UK particle physicists working on the T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) neutrino experiment in Japan celebrated today (24th Nov) as the experiment detected its first neutrinos - fundamental particles which are amongst the ...
- 10:11 UTC ASTRON Vidi grant for ASTRON astronomer Marijke Haverkorn Marijke Haverkorn, astronomer at ASTRON, has received a Vidi grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO. With this grant, Marijke will investigate the magnetic field of the Milky ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Honors Biloxi's Apollo Astronaut Fred Haise with Moo... NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will present astronaut Fred Haise, Jr., with NASA's Ambassador of Exploration Award during a ceremony on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at the Gorenflo Elementary School in Biloxi, ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA TV to Broadcast Space Station Crew Soyuz Landing Eve... NASA Television will air the events surrounding the landing of three International Space Station crew members who will return to Earth Dec. 1.