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29 Apr 2013
- 13:40 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Herschel:Observation gives way to examination as Herschel... The liquid helium coolant that enabled instruments on board the Herschel space observatory to collect extraordinary images and spectra has finally run out. Launched in 2009, the ESA mission collected ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Preparing for SLS Core Stage Testing Before NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) flies to space on its inaugural mission in 2017, it will fly in place at Stennis Space Center.
27 Apr 2013
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Winners Announced! 2013 NASA Great Moonbuggy Race NASA has declared the winners of the 20th NASA Great Moonbuggy Race at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.
- 01:11 UTC Science@NASA Cassini Catches Meteors Hitting Saturn's Rings NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids crashing into Saturn's rings and breaking into streams of rubble.
26 Apr 2013
- 16:36 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Satu... NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole.
- 16:08 UTC ESA Top News Vega poised for commercial launches The second Vega launch marks the transition to commercial exploitation, showcasing a mature launcher with increased capabilities and flexibility to meet the different demands of the launchers market.
- 10:33 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Stress to rest On Sunday, ESA’s bedrest volunteers began lying down for their second three-week session with their heads angled below the horizontal to help research the effects of weightlessness on the human ...
- 10:11 UTC ESA Top News Week In Images Our week through the lens: 22-26 April 2013
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA, Partners Solicit Creative Materials Manufacturing S... NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. State Department and Nike have issued a challenge to identify 10 game-changing innovations that could enable fabric systems to enhance ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Hubble’s View of a Changing Fan PV Cep is a favorite target for amateur astronomers because the fan-shaped nebulosity, known as GM 1-29 or Gyulbudaghian’s Nebula, changes over a timescale of months.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Dr. Paul Racette: Spirit in the Fire Dr. Paul Racette raises consciousness by bridging how Native Americans and Western scientists view the world.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Arianespace’s launcher cadence continues with four missio... The Spaceport is operating to the rhythm of Arianespace’s launcher family, with four parallel mission campaigns now underway in French Guiana for the heavy-lift Ariane 5, medium-lift Soyuz and lightweight ...
25 Apr 2013
- 18:58 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... The Sun Sends Two CMEs Toward Mercury On the night of April 24 and the morning of April 25, 2013, the sun erupted with two coronal mass ejections (CMEs), solar phenomena that can send billions of tons ...
- 18:55 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Mission to Study What Disrupts Radio Waves A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will launch this spring to observe the formation of electrical storms in Earth's upper atmosphere that can negatively affect satellite communication and global positioning signals.
- 18:48 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Dr. Jennifer Wiseman Discusses the Hubble Jennifer Wiseman, senior project scientist for Hubble, discusses the history and the status of the pioneering space telescope.
- 18:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... The Warped Fabric of Our Universe Have you ever wondered why people on the other side of the world don't fall off? In the 17th Century, a man called Isaac Newton came up with an answer: ...
- 18:00 UTC ESO Top News Einstein Was Right — So Far Astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope, along with radio telescopes around the world, to find and study a bizarre stellar pair consisting of the most massive neutron star confirmed ...
- 18:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... El tejido deformado de nuestro Universo ¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué la gente del otro lado del planeta no se cae? En el siglo XVII, un señor llamado Isaac Newton encontró una respuesta: gravedad. ...
- 17:54 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Selects Small Businesses for Innovative Research and... NASA has selected 44 additional proposals from 42 small high-technology companies to enter into negotiations for Phase 2 contract awards through the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program.
- 17:54 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Curiosity Wins National Air and Space Museum Trophy The team in charge of landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, received the museum's highest group honor.
- 16:46 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Extends Mission Operations Support Contract NASA has exercised a contract option with Lockheed Martin Corp. of Gaithersburg, Md., to provide continued mission control systems services, development, maintenance and operations support as part of the Facilities ...
- 15:53 UTC ESA Top News From space: incubation programme creates a thousand jobs The creation of a thousand new high-tech jobs over the last nine years was celebrated at the Agency’s business incubator in southern Germany on Wednesday. The centre and its start-ups ...
- 14:48 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Annual General Meeting 2013 The 193rd Annual General Meeting of the RAS will be held in the lecture theatre of the Geological Society, Burlington House, London, on 10th May 2013 at 16:00. It is ...
- 14:08 UTC Arianespace Press R... Arianespace VV02 - Proba-V, VNREDSat-1 and ESTCube-1: Lau... To carry out additional checks on the mobile gantry system used on the Vega launch complex (SLV), the European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace have decided to postpone the Vega ...
- 13:00 UTC Hubble Space Telesc... Science Release: Entire galaxies feel the heat from newbo... Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have shown for the first time that bursts of star formation have a major impact far beyond the boundaries of their host galaxy. ...
- 10:30 UTC ESA Top News Global experts agree action needed on space debris There is an urgent need to remove orbiting space debris and to fly satellites in the future without creating new fragments, Europe’s largest-ever space-debris conference announced today.
- 09:49 UTC Universe Awareness ... Comet Makes a Splash on Jupiter Jupiter is a gas giant and the largest planet in our Solar System, containing 70% of the mass of all the other planets combined! When scientists named Jupiter a gas ...
- 09:49 UTC Universe Awareness ... Un cometa que causó sensación en Júpiter Júpiter es un gigante gaseoso y el planeta mayor de nuestro Sistema Solar, conteniendo el 70% de la masa de todos los otros planetas juntos. Cuando los científicos llamaron a ...
- 07:53 UTC ESA Top News Against-the-clock rehearsal for Station immunology test Simply getting anything into space is tough, but doing so against a strict deadline can be really stressful. Researchers in an ESA’s laboratory nervously checked the clock as they extracted ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings.
- 04:00 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Japan-Italy Cooperation Event Japan and Italy: ... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the "Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI, Italian
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings.
- 02:08 UTC Science@NASA See Saturn at its Best and Brightest Saturn and Earth are having a close encounter. See the ringed planet at its best and brightest on April 28th.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... The dawn of a new era in connectivity: O3b Networks’ firs... The initial four O3b spacecraft to be launched by Arianespace on Soyuz have arrived in French Guiana, taking the global satellite operator one step closer to its goal of deploying ...
24 Apr 2013
- 23:09 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Prepares for International Space Biology Mission NASA and the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow are collaborating to understand better how life adapts to microgravity.
- 20:48 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Invites the Public to Fly Along with Voyager NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are on the verge of plunging into interstellar space -- the space between stars -- and two new Web tools let the public fly along.
- 20:08 UTC Carnegie Institutio... Ancient Earth crust stored in deep mantle Washington, D.C.— Scientists have long believed that lava erupted from certain oceanic volcanoes contains materials from the early Earth’s crust. But decisive evidence for this phenomenon has proven elusive. New ...
- 19:30 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Commander Chris Hadfield Communicates Through Amateur Rad... Longueuil, Quebec, April 24, 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 ...
- 19:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding with Saturn's Rings NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings.
- 19:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding with Saturn's Rings NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings.
- 18:54 UTC Planetary Society P... Planetary Society Testimony for Congressional NASA FY14 B... The Planetary Society's official testimony to Congress on the FY14 NASA Budget proposal.
- 18:00 UTC Isaac Newton Group ... Discovery of the First Isolated Compact Elliptical (cE) G... Astronomers have used the ACAM instrument on the William Herschel Telescope in the discovery of a unique, isolated, compact elliptical galaxy.
- 16:07 UTC Science@NASA Hubble Sees Comet ISON
- 14:21 UTC Arianespace Press R... Success of the 1,803rd launch of Soyuz The 1,803rd flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed on Wednesday, 24 April 2013 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 14:12 Moscow time (12:12 Paris time).
- 14:07 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Doctor needed for mission to white space It is cold, dark, dangerous and lonely but the views and experience are unforgettable. ESA is looking for a medical doctor to run experiments at the Concordia research base in ...
- 11:19 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Mysterious hot spots observed in a cool red supergiant Astronomers have released a new image of the outer atmosphere of Betelgeuse – one of the nearest red supergiants to Earth – revealing the detailed structure of the matter being ...
- 11:02 UTC Science and Technol... UK scientists one step closer to finding the missing anti... A subtle difference between matter and antimatter has been observed for the first time by the LHCb experiment at CERN. The observation has been made in the neutral Bs meson ...
- 10:35 UTC ESA Top News Webcast Watch the closing press conference live from the 6th European Conference on Space Debris, 25 April 12:45 CEST
- 08:00 UTC CERN LHCb experiment observes new matter-antimatter difference Geneva, 24 April 2013. The LHCb collaboration at CERN1 today submitted a paper to Physical Review Letters on the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays of the particle ...
- 07:53 UTC ESA Top News Vega VV02 Fully assembled Vega VV02 on pad