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10 Nov 2009
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News WISE Star and Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Topic of NASA B... NASA will hold a media briefing on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at noon EST, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission.
- 05:00 UTC Planetary Society P... Press Release: Planetary Society Awards Thomas O. Paine A... Planetary Society Awards Thomas O. Paine Award to Steve Squyres and Mars Exploration Rover Team
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... 2012: Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility Some people speculate gigantic natural disasters that will destroy Earth as we know it on December 21, 2012 -- but a killer solar flare is a physical impossibility.
- 03:51 UTC Keck Observatory Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star BERKELEY, CA—An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data taken at the W. M. Keck Observatory and Lick Observatory may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Swift Gamma-... Swift XMM-Newton Satellites Tune Into a Middleweight Blac... While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers at NASA's ...
9 Nov 2009
- 23:00 UTC ESA Top News Climate studies to benefit from 12 years of satellite aer... Aerosols, very small particles suspended in the air, play an important role in the global climate balance and in regulating climate change. They are one of the greatest sources of ...
- 09:00 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Asteroid Explorer "HAYABUSA" Ion Engine Anomaly On November 4th (Wed., Japan Standard Time), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency identified that
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA's Stuck Martian Rover Spirit Topic of Media Call Nov... NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 12, to discuss attempts to free the Mars rover Spirit from sandy soil where the venerable robot ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA and Spaceward Foundation Award Prize Money for Succe...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Live Digital Network Brings Apollo 11 Experts into C... Forty years after humans first walked on the moon, NASA is offering the next generation of explorers a chance to learn how the challenges of the Apollo 11 mission were ...
- 05:00 UTC Planetary Society P... Press Release: Planetary Society to Sail Again with Light... Planetary Society to Sail Again with LightSail
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Awards Institutional Support Services Contract for K... NASA has selected C&C International Computers and Consultants Inc. of Hollywood, Fla., to provide institutional support services at the agency's Kennedy Space Center.
7 Nov 2009
- 14:38 UTC Arianespace Press R... NEW MILESTONES FOR ARIANESPACE'S PARALLEL LAUNCH CAMPAIGN... Arianespace was founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch services provider.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... SOYUZ IS HEADED TO FRENCH GUIANA In an historic step for Arianespace's expansion of its launcher family, the initial two Soyuz vehicles have been loaded aboard a roll-on/roll-off ship at St. Petersburg, Russia for their transatlantic ...
6 Nov 2009
- 21:27 UTC Gemini Observatory The Early Life of a Galaxy read more
- 21:27 UTC Gemini Observatory The Early Life of a Galaxy read more
- 19:00 UTC NAOJ Top News Science Results - “Dropouts” pinpoint earliest galaxies Pasadena, CA―Astronomers, conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang, have found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one ...
- 15:00 UTC National Radio Astr... Gamma-ray Sources Guide Astronomers to Pulsars WASHINGTON - Energetic gamma rays are providing astronomers with a new way to hunt those hard-to-find whirling dervishes known as pulsars...
- 13:38 UTC Carnegie Institutio... “Dropouts” pinpoint earliest galaxies
- 12:21 UTC ESA Space Science Rosetta approach on schedule After the trajectory correction manoeuvre on 22 October, Rosetta has lined up on a near-perfect Earth approach path. The manoeuvre was so precise that mission controllers decided not to use ...
- 12:00 UTC ESA Top News Hylas payload shipped to India Hylas, a flexible, broadband Ka-band satellite, is steadily moving towards completion. The communications payload has been shipped from England to India for integration with the platform, marking a key milestone ...
- 11:24 UTC ESA Top News Development of the ESMO student Moon satellite gets under... ESA's Education Office has awarded a contract to Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd of the UK to manage the development and testing of the first European student mission to the Moon. ...
- 10:04 UTC German Aerospace Ce... Chaotic terrain between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae Mars Express flew over the boundary between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae and the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; ...
- 09:40 UTC ESA Top News Chaotic terrain between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae Mars Express flew over the boundary between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae and imaged the region, acquiring spectacular views of the chaotic terrain in the area.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Spinoff 2009 Highlights Technologies That Improve Li... The 2009 edition of NASA's Spinoff, a publication that shows how NASA technology is being put to use in everyday life here on Earth, is available in print and online.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Seeks Student Payloads for High-Flying Research Ball... NASA is accepting applications from students at U.S. colleges and universities who want to send their experiments to the edge of space on a high-flying scientific balloon.
- 00:00 UTC Surrey Satellite Te... Small satellite pioneer to oversee European student lunar... Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to manage a pan-European student built mission to the Moon. The European Student Moon Orbiter (ESMO) ...
5 Nov 2009
- 22:00 UTC South African Astro... Nationwide competition to officially name an asteroid As the International Year of Astronomy 2009 draws to a close, young people living in South Africa are invited to participate in a nationwide competition to name an asteroid. The ...
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Take Me Out to the Ballpark - On Mars! Students in fourth through seventh grade will work to create the ultimate baseball experience "on Mars," even designing the rules for how to play a game on the Red Planet.
- 14:24 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign successfully completed in B... ESA’s 51st Parabolic Flight Campaign took place this week in Bordeaux, France. Fourteen scientific experiments were conducted by European scientists under microgravity conditions on the modified Airbus A300 aircraft. Four ...
- 14:00 UTC HubbleSite NewsCent... Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pi... Get larger image formats The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Poisk Poised for Live NASA TV Space Station Docking NASA Television will air the docking of the newest Russian module to the International Space Station starting at 9 a.m. CST Nov. 12.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Ceremony Reset for ESA Handover of Tranquility to NASA The transfer of ownership of the Tranquility node from the European Space Agency, or ESA, to NASA has been rescheduled for 2 p.m. EST, Friday, Nov. 20.
- 05:00 UTC Planetary Society P... News: MESSENGER Rewrites Mercury Textbooks Even Before En... MESSENGER Rewrites Mercury Textbooks Even Before Entering Orbit
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life in Laboratory NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Kepler Mission Manager Update, Nov. 5, 2009 Kepler completed another science data download over October 18-19.
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Valley View Elementary Students to Test-Drive Rovers Fifth-grade students from Valley View Elementary School, Pleasanton, Calif., will experience robotic exploration by test-driving remote-controlled rovers around a student-designed obstacle course on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009.
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life in Laboratory NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.
4 Nov 2009
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary Sys... NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a young star with evidence of the same kind of orbital hyperactivity that our planets had before they found their way to the stable ...
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
- 17:19 UTC Arianespace Press R... ASSEMBLY MILESTONE FOR FOURTH ARIANE 5 OF 2009 Arianespace was founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch services provider.
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Carbon Atmosphere Discovered On Neutron Star A supernova remnant in the Milky Way with a neutron star at its center.
- 11:15 UTC ESA Top News Follow Rosetta’s final Earth boost ESA’s comet-chaser Rosetta will swing by Earth for the last time on 13 November to pick up energy and begin the final leg of its 10-year journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Showcases 'Green' Missions at SC09 Conference Five NASA centers join forces this month to showcase ³green² science, engineering, and technology achievements at SC09, the leading international conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Sets STS-129 Prelaunch Events and Countdown Details News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., are set for the upcoming launch of space shuttle Atlantis.
- 00:00 UTC International Centr... ICRAR awarded ARC Future Fellowships The Australian Government has announced the results of the first round of ARC Future Fellowships.
3 Nov 2009
- 18:43 UTC Johns Hopkins Unive... MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory On Mer... The Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging spacecraft, known as MESSENGER, flew by Mercury on Sept. 29. The probe completed a critical gravity assist to remain on course to ...
- 16:30 UTC ESA Top News SMOS forms three-pointed star in the sky Following the launch of ESA’s SMOS satellite on 2 November, the French space agency CNES, which is responsible for operating the satellite, has confirmed that the instrument’s three antenna arms ...
- 14:38 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... A roadmap for 29 "All for one and one for all." This could be the most appropriate slogan to summarise the spirit of the first summit meeting between the European Union and the European ...
- 07:00 UTC ESO Top News Shedding Light on the Cosmic Skeleton ESO 41/09 - Science Release: Astronomers have tracked down a gigantic, previously unknown assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years away from us. The discovery, made possible by combining ...