NASA gets down to Earth this year with globe-spanning expeditions
Mar 24, 2016, at 04:26 am
Washington, Mar 23 (IBNS) NASA is sending scientists around the world in 2016 – from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet to the coral reefs of the South Pacific – to delve into challenging questions about how our planet is changing and what impacts humans are having on it.
Solar storms ignite X-ray "Northern Lights" on Jupiter
Mar 24, 2016, at 03:29 am
California, Mar 23 (IBNS) Solar storms are triggering X-ray auroras on Jupiter that are about eight times brighter than normal over a large area of the planet and hundreds of times more energetic than Earth’s "northern lights," according to a new study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
New gravity map gives best view yet inside Mars
Mar 22, 2016, at 03:27 pm
California, Mar 22 (IBNS) A new map of Mars' gravity made with three NASA spacecraft is the most detailed to date, providing a revealing glimpse into the hidden interior of the Red Planet.
Launch, docking returns International Space Station crew to full strength
Mar 20, 2016, at 02:44 pm
Washington, Mar 20 (IBNS) NASA astronaut Jeff Williams is now the first American to become a three-time, long-term resident of the International Space Station.
HSI India and PFA welcome India decision to end repeat animal testing of drugs
Mar 18, 2016, at 06:47 pm
New Delhi, Mar 18 (Just Earth News/IBNS) Leading animal protection organizations Human Society International (HSI) and People for Animal (PFA) on Friday lauded the move by the Union Ministry of Health and Family banning repeat animal testing of new drugs already tested abroad, thus sparing cruelty to thousands of animals.
Astronomers discover colossal 'Super Spiral' galaxies
Mar 18, 2016, at 02:50 pm
Washington, Mar 18 (IBNS) A strange new kind of galactic beast has been spotted in the cosmic wilderness. Dubbed "super spirals," these unprecedented galaxies dwarf our own spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, and compete in size and brightness with the largest galaxies in the universe.
Science papers reveal new aspects of Pluto and its Moons
Mar 18, 2016, at 02:45 pm
Washington, Mar 18 (IBNS): A year ago, Pluto was just a bright speck in the cameras of NASA’s approaching New Horizons spacecraft, not much different than its appearances in telescopes since Clyde Tombaugh discovered the then-ninth planet in 1930.
Mar 17, 2016, at 01:58 pm
Washington, Mar 17 (IBNS) The gantry arms close around the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft to secure the rocket, as seen in this long exposure taken on Wednesday at launch pad 1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
South Africa snapped from Space Station's EarthKAM
Mar 16, 2016, at 03:23 pm
Washington, Mar 16 (Just Earth News/IBNS) The remotely controlled Sally Ride EarthKAM aboard the International Space Station snapped this striking photograph during a flyover of South Africa on Feb. 9, 2016.
NASA selects proposals to build better solar technologies for Deep Space Missions
Mar 15, 2016, at 03:33 pm
Washington, Mar 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS): NASA’s Game Changing Development (GCD) program has selected four proposals to develop solar array technologies that will aid spacecraft in exploring destinations well beyond low-Earth orbit, including Mars.
ExoMars on its way to solve red planet's mysteries
Mar 15, 2016, at 03:17 pm
Washington, Mar 15 (IBNS) The first of two joint ESA–Roscosmos missions to Mars has begun a seven-month journey to the Red Planet, where it will address unsolved mysteries of the planet’s atmosphere that could indicate present-day geological – or even biological – activity.
NASA measures U.S. south heavy rainfall from space
Mar 15, 2016, at 03:07 pm
Washington, Mar 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Extremely heavy rain fell over the southern United States during the past week and data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission core satellite and others in the GPM constellation provided a look at areas with heaviest rainfall. The data showed the largest amounts of rain fell from north central Louisiana to southern Arkansas.
Dueling climate cycles may increase sea level swings
Mar 15, 2016, at 02:38 pm
Washington, Mar 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS):The tropical Pacific Ocean isn't flat like a pond. Instead, it regularly has a high side and a low side. Natural cycles such as El Niño and La Niña events cause this sea level seesaw to tip back and forth, with the ocean near Asia on one end and the ocean near the Americas on the other.
Harvard researchers design 3D material with controllable shape and size
Mar 15, 2016, at 03:32 am
New York, Mar 14 (IBNS) Harvard researchers have designed a new type of foldable material that is versatile, tunable and self actuated. It can change size, volume and shape; it can fold flat to withstand the weight of an elephant without breaking, and pop right back up to prepare for the next task.
Experiments show magnetic chips could dramatically increase computing’s energy efficiency
Mar 15, 2016, at 02:47 am
Los Angeles, Mar 14 (IBNS) In a breakthrough for energy-efficient computing, UC Berkeley engineers have shown for the first time that magnetic chips can actually operate at the lowest fundamental energy dissipation theoretically possible under the laws of thermodynamics.
Satellites and Shipwrecks: Landsat satellite spots foundered ships in coastal waters
Mar 12, 2016, at 11:08 pm
Washington, Mar 12 (IBNS) An estimated 3 million shipwrecks are scattered across the planet’s oceans. Most maritime mishaps take place close to shore where hazards to navigation — such as rocks, reefs, other submerged objects and vessel congestion — are abundant. While there is a romantic association of shipwrecks and buried treasure, it is desirable to know where they are located for many other practical reasons. The ships may be of historical significance or, if the hard substrate of the ship has created a reef, of ecological significance.
NASA selects scientists for Mars Rover research projects
Mar 12, 2016, at 11:01 pm
Washington, Mar 12 (IBNS) NASA has selected 28 researchers as participating scientists for the Curiosity Mars rover mission, including six newcomers to the rover's science team.
Mar 12, 2016, at 10:33 pm
Washington DC, Mar 12 (IBNS) Far in the western hemisphere, scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission have discovered what looks like a giant “bite mark†on Pluto’s surface. They suspect it may be caused by a process known as sublimation—the transition of a substance from a solid to a gas. The methane ice-rich surface on Pluto may be sublimating away into the atmosphere, exposing a layer of water-ice underneath.
Astronaut Scott Kelly to retire from NASA in April
Mar 12, 2016, at 02:51 pm
Washington, Mar 12 (IBNS) NASA astronaut and one-year crew member Scott Kelly will retire from the agency, effective April 1.
Arts@CERN launches COLLIDE International Award
Mar 12, 2016, at 01:47 am
Geneva, Mar 11 (IBNS): Arts@CERN on Friday launched an international call for artists for the COLLIDE International Award-a new collaboration between CERN and FACT1.
NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Record-Breaking U.S. Astronaut
Mar 11, 2016, at 04:46 pm
Washington, Mar 11 (IBNS) On a second American record-breaking mission for 2016, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station at 5:26 p.m. EDT Friday, Mar 18, with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA Television launch coverage will begin at 4:30 p.m.
NASA Selects Instruments to Study Air Pollution, Tropical Cyclones
Mar 11, 2016, at 04:44 pm
Washington, Mar 11 (Just Earth News/IBNS) NASA has selected two proposals for new Earth science investigations that will put new instruments in low-Earth orbit to track harmful particulate air pollutants and study the development of tropical cyclones.
NASA Station leads way for improved measurements of Earth Orientation, shape
Mar 11, 2016, at 03:41 pm
Washington, Mar 11 (Just Earth News/IBNS) NASA has demonstrated the success of advanced technology for making precise measurements of Earth’s orientation and rotation – information that helps provide a foundation for navigation of all space missions and for geophysical studies of our planet.
PSLV-C32 successfully launches India's sixth Navigation Satellite IRNSS-1F
Mar 11, 2016, at 12:02 am
Sriharikota, Mar 10 (IBNS): In its thirty fourth flight (PSLV-C32), ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched the 1425 kg IRNSS-1F, the sixth satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) on Thursday from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.
India's sixth navigation satellite launched successfully
Mar 10, 2016, at 10:41 pm
Sriharikota, Mar 10 (IBNS) Indian rocket PSLV C-32 successfully put into orbit the country’s sixth navigation satellite, the 1,425-kg IRNSS-1F, around 20 minutes into flight, and at an altitude of 488.9 km, after a successful lift off from Sriharikota (Tamil Nadu) at 4pm on Thursday.
Solar eclipse over South Pacific Ocean
Mar 10, 2016, at 02:55 pm
California, Mar 10 (IBNS) During the afternoon of March 9, 2016, a total solar eclipse was visible in parts of southeast Asia and a partial eclipse was visible in parts of Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and America Samoa.
NASA targets May 2018 launch of Mars InSight Mission
Mar 10, 2016, at 02:51 pm
California, Mar 10 (Just Earth News/IBNS) NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to study the deep interior of Mars is targeting a new launch window that begins May 5, 2018, with a Mars landing scheduled for Nov. 26, 2018.
NASA tests inflatable heat shield technology for deep space missions
Mar 09, 2016, at 04:03 pm
New york, Mar 9 (IBNS) Before NASA uses its new inflatable technology for slowing spacecraft that are entering the atmospheres of other planets, it will first need to be packed into the tight confines of a rocket.
NASA Glenn Technology pumps hope into broken hearts
Mar 09, 2016, at 03:46 pm
New York, Mar 9 (IBNS) Dr. Mark Rodefeld knows the hearts of children. As a pediatric heart surgeon at Indiana University, he’s spent decades fixing them.
NASA recognizes outstanding small businesses with industry awards
Mar 09, 2016, at 03:45 pm
New York, Mar 9 (IBNS) The winners of the Fiscal Year 2015 agency-level Small Business Industry Awards (SBIA) were announced Tuesday during the spring 2016 NASA Industry Forum meeting hosted by the agency’s Office of Small Business Programs at NASA Headquarters in Washington.