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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2009 
Humans might not be walking on Earth today if not for the ancient fusing of two microscopic, single-celled organisms called prokaryotes, NASA-funded research has found. By comparing proteins present in more than 3000 different prokaryotes - a type of single-celled organism without a nucleus - molecular biologist James A. Lake from the University of California at Los Angeles' Center for ... read more 
London UK (SPX) Aug 21, 2009A significant advance in our understanding of the early evolution of the universe has been achieved by a team of scientists associated with the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. The team's results will appear in the journal Nature. The gravitational-wave scientists, including Lee Samuel Finn, a Penn State ... more
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2009While far from a tropical rain forest, the equatorial region of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has recently displayed tantalizing evidence that the parched, dry desert can support large-scale storms. The research, published in the journal Nature, announces the discovery of significant cloud formation (about three million square kilometers) within the moon's tropical zone near its equator. ... more  
White Sands NM (SPX) Aug 20, 2009Anyone who's vacationed in the mountains or lived on a farm knows that it's hard to get good internet access or a strong cell phone signal in a remote area. Communicating across great distances has always been a challenge. So when NASA engineers designed the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), they knew it would need an extraordinary communications system. Over the next year, the LRO, NASA ... more 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 20, 2009For decades, microsatellites have been a boon to spaceflight. A small satellite can be built and launched fairly cheaply, sometimes hitching a ride for free aboard a large satellite launch. So far, microsatellites have not ventured very far into space. Could one go all the way to the Moon? Amateur groups have speculated on this possibility for years, but none have actually built a bird and ... more |
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New York NY (SPX) Aug 19, 2009Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle [Abrams; November 2009; hardcover], by author and filmmaker Michael Benson, assembles an outstanding collection of astronomical images from observatories around the world and in space. This fantastically illustrated and authoritatively written journey into the universe arrives in November 2009, the International Year of Astronomy, and the 400th anniversary of the ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 19, 2009GOES- 14, formerly GOES-O, has achieved another significant milestone with the release of the first formal Solar Image from the Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI). The engineering and operations team has finished its initial instrument calibration and alignments and produced the image of the sun on August 13, 2009 at approximately 10:05 EDT. The SXI instrument is built by Lockheed Martin Advanced ... more  
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 17, 2009A team of scientists in Australia and the United States, led by Associate Professor Miroslav Filipovic from the University of Western Sydney, have discovered a new class of object which they call "Super Planetary Nebulae." They report their work in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Planetary nebulae are shells of gas and dust expelled by stars near the end of ... more |
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