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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 29, 2009 
"You bet, I'm really excited about this flyby," said William C. Feldman, a Senior Scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute and Cognizant Co-Investigator for the Neutron Spectrometer flying aboard the MESSENGER spacecraft. MESSENGER will make its third and final pass around Mercury before returning in March 2011 to go into orbit around the solar system's innermost planet. ... read more 
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 29, 2009A team of researchers from the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) and the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS, in France) has developed a "scintillating bolometer", a device that the scientists will use in efforts to detect the dark matter of the Universe, and which has been tested at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory in Huesca, Spain. "One of the biggest challenges in Physics today is ... more
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Paris, France (SPX) Sep 29, 2009The third image of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project has just been released online, completing this eye-opening dive into our galactic home in outstanding fashion. The latest image follows on from views, released over the last two weeks, of the sky as seen with the unaided eye and through an amateur telescope. This third instalment provides another breathtaking vista of an astronomical object ... more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 29, 2009Exactly what is dark energy? Astrophysicists would also like to know the answer to this question - it determines how the Universe will develop. Cosmologists are fairly sure that it has been expanding since the Big Bang. What is still uncertain is whether this expansion will continue forever or whether the Universe will one day begin to collapse again, and also how much mass is present in ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 29, 2009The European Space Agency's SMART-1 team has released an image of the future impact site of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). LCROSS will search for water ice on the Moon by making two impacts into a crater named Cabeus A at the lunar South Pole. The impacts are scheduled for 11:30 am UT on 9 October 2009. Bjoern Grieger, the liaison scientist for SMART-1's ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Sep 28, 2009NASA has selected nine scientific teams to work on future high-altitude balloon and sounding rocket payloads. The selected proposals address a wide range of astrophysical mysteries from dark matter and cosmic-ray antiprotons to studies of galaxy clusters and supernova remnants. "The suborbital research program is a very important part of astrophysics," said Jon A. Morse, director of the ... more 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Sept 25, 2009India on Friday hailed the discovery of water on the moon as a triumph for its lunar programme as the country aims to cement its reputation as a serious player in the space industry. The mood among India's space scientists has gone from disappointment last month when its Chandrayaan-1 satellite mission was prematurely aborted to jubilation with news of a major discovery made in partnership ... more
College Park MD (SPX) Sep 25, 2009New data from the Deep Impact spacecraft and the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), an instrument aboard India's recently ended Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, provide, for the first time, clear evidence that water exists on the surface of the Moon. "The Deep Impact observations of the Moon not only unequivocally confirm the presence of OH/H2O on the lunar surface, but also reveal that the entire ... more |
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