Signing partnership agreement for ExoMars EU–(ENEWSPF)–14 March 2013.ESA and the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, have signed a formal agreement to work in partnership on the ExoMars programme towards the launch of two missions in 2016 and 2018. Establishing whether life ever existed on Mars is one of the outstanding[Read More…]
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New Results Indicate That New Particle is a Higgs Boson
Geneva–(ENEWSPF)–14 March 2013. At the Moriond Conference today, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN1’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented preliminary new results that further elucidate the particle discovered last year. Having analysed two and a half times more data than was available for the discovery announcement in July, they[Read More…]
X-ray Snapshots from Big Black Holes to Tiny Viruses
Mimi virus EU–(ENEWSPF)–12 March 2013. Cameras designed for capturing black holes are now exploring a new frontier: they are helping us to get up close to viruses on Earth, opening the door to solving medical problems. These space cameras are opening new frontiers in life sciences by probing ultrafast[Read More…]
Joint Statement from the First Meeting of the Japan-U.S. Comprehensive Dialogue on Space
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 11, 2013. Following is the text of a joint statement issued by the United States of America and the Government of Japan at the conclusion of the First Meeting of the Japan-U.S. Comprehensive Dialogue on Space. Begin Text: Pursuant to their shared goal of advancing bilateral space cooperation[Read More…]
GOCE: The First Seismometer in Orbit
EU–(ENEWSPF)–8 March 2013. Satellites map changes in Earth’s surface caused by earthquakes but never before have sound waves from a quake been sensed directly in space – until now. ESA’s hyper-sensitive GOCE gravity satellite has added yet another first to its list of successes. Earthquakes not only create seismic waves[Read More…]
Representative Wolf Reveals More Potential Security Violations at NASA Centers
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2013 – Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA, today held a press conference to discuss another potential security violation at NASA, this time at NASA Langley Research Center. Wolf also made several recommendations aimed at enforcing – and reforming –[Read More…]
Herschel to Finish Observing Soon
Herschel and Rosette Nebula EU–(ENEWSPF)–5 March 2013 ESA’s Herschel space observatory is expected to exhaust its supply of liquid helium coolant in the coming weeks after spending more than three exciting years studying the cool Universe. Herschel was launched on 14 May 2009 and, with a main mirror 3.5[Read More…]
Speedy Black Hole Holds Galaxy’s History
Rapidly rotating black hole accreting matter EU–(ENEWSPF)–28 February 2013. A rapidly rotating supermassive black hole has been found in the heart of a spiral galaxy by ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s NuSTAR space observatories, opening a new window into how galaxies grow. Supermassive black holes are thought to lurk in[Read More…]
NASA Deciphering the Mysterious Math of the Solar Wind
A constant stream of particles and electromagnetic waves streams from the sun toward Earth, which is surrounded by a protective bubble called the magnetosphere. A scientist at NASA Goddard has recently devised, for the first time, a set of equations that can help describe waves in the solar wind known[Read More…]
Mercury May Have Harbored an Ancient Magma Ocean
Massive lava flows may have given rise to two distinct rock types on Mercury’s surface. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2013. By analyzing Mercury’s rocky surface, scientists have been able to partially reconstruct the planet’s history over billions of years. Now, drawing upon the chemical composition of rock features on the planet’s[Read More…]
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