PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Source: European Southern Observatory Record-Breaking X-ray Blast Briefly Blinds Space Observatory The brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen in X-rays temporarily blinded Swift's X-ray Telescope on 21 June 2010. Read more…
The first spacecraft designed by NASA to orbit Mercury is giving scientists a new perspective on the planet's atmosphere and evolution. Read more…
On Monday, July 19, NASA Television will launch a full-time High Definition (HD) channel that media, cable and satellite service providers can access. Read more…
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Was Venus Once a Habitable Planet? PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, June 24, 2010 Source: ESA Venus Express Mission ESA's Venus Express is helping planetary scientists investigate whether Venus once had oceans. Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Friday, July 9, 2010 Source: Space Florida Space Florida Receives FAA License for Space Launch Complex 46 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, July 8, 2010 Source: Johnson Space Center NASA Announces Winners of Space Life Sciences Open Innovation Competition The Space Life Sciences Directorate (SLSD) at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has selected three winning solutions to address astronaut... Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, July 8, 2010 Source: Esri Esri Releases ArcGIS for iOS Smartphone App Allows Users to Navigate Maps, Capture and Report Data, and Perform GIS Analyses Esri has expanded its mobile geographic information system (GIS) platform to now support the iPhone, iPad,... Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Friday, June 18, 2010 Source: Hunting for Fossils on Europa Charles Q. Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Source: Space Telescope Science Institute Mysterious Flash on Jupiter Left no Debris Cloud Detailed observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an answer to the flash of light seen June 3 on Jupiter. Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, June 3, 2010 Source: Space Telescope Science Institute Hubble Images Suggest Rogue Asteroid Smacked Jupiter Without warning, a mystery object struck Jupiter on July 19, 2009, leaving a dark bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean. Read more…
STATUS REPORT Date Released: Monday, May 17, 2010 Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Engineers Diagnosing Voyager 2 Data System Engineers have shifted NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft into a mode that transmits only spacecraft health and status data while they diagnose an unexpected change in the pattern... Read more…
STATUS REPORT Date Released: Friday, July 9, 2010 Source: zero2infinity Stratospheric Spain - Soccer Team Shirt on a Balloon Barcelona, July 9th, 2010. Location: 33 kilometers over Igualada (Barcelona, Spain). Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Source: UK Space Agency Herschel Reveals Details of Distant Galaxies and Quasars Amazing new data captured by ESA's Herschel Space Observatory -- carrying the largest mirror ever launched into space -- have just been publicly released, allowing... Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Source: University of Hawaii UKIRT Unveils the Mysteries of Massive Star Formation Using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) astronomers have found the leading mechanism by which most of the massive stars form in our Galaxy. Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Source: European Southern Observatory R Coronae Australis - A Cosmic Watercolor This magnificent view of the region around the star R Coronae Australis was created from images taken with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at ESO's La Silla Observatory... Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Source: European Southern Observatory VLT Detects First Superstorm on Extrasolar Planet Astronomers have measured a superstorm for the first time in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, the well-studied "hot Jupiter" HD209458b. Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Source: Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias Super-Complex Organic molecules Found in Interstellar Space A team of scientists from the Instituto Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Texas has succeeded in identifying one of the... Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, June 17, 2010 Source: University of Edinburgh Scientists focus on revealing hidden mysteries of the Universe Secrets of the Universe are to be revealed as a new telescope equipped with the world's most powerful digital camera begins its observations of the... Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, June 17, 2010 Source: European Space Agency Jean-Jacques Dordain to continue as Director General of ESA The Council of the European Space Agency today announced that Jean-Jacques Dordain will continue as the Director General of ESA for a further period of four... Read more…
NASA invites its Twitter followers to a special Tweetup with astronaut T.J. Creamer at 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 29. Read more…
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Ramon "Ray" Lugo III as director of the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, effective July 18. Lugo has been Glenn's acting director since March. Read more…
NASA and its international partners, the Russia Federal Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), have assigned four new International Space Station crews. Read more…
NASA and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company paid tribute to the workforce who built the external tanks for the space shuttle fleet on Thursday at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Read more…
NASA has selected the winners in the 2010 Life and Work on the Moon Art and Design Contest from more than 200 international student entries. Read more…
