FLORIDA—(ENEWSPF)—August 13, 2018 Contacts: Dwayne Brown, Karen Fox, Geoffrey Brown, and Tori McLendon Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake a landmark mission. The spacecraft will transmit[Read More…]
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Creek Walk for Kids Coming Up at Thorn Creek Nature Center
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Children ages 6 to 12 are invited to the Creek Walk for Kids, to be held at Thorn Creek Nature Center on Sunday, August 12. Between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m., children will be able to walk the creek, make observations, and take measurements to learn about[Read More…]
Saturn and Mars Team Up to Make Their Closest Approaches to Earth in 2018
Baltimore, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—July 26, 2018 Contacts: Ann Jenkins and Ray Villard, Space Telescope Science Institute NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed Saturn and Mars near their closest approaches to Earth in June and July 2018. It’s now summertime in Saturn’s northern hemisphere and springtime in Mars’ southern hemisphere. The Hubble images[Read More…]
NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Planet-Hunting Mission
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—April 12, 2018 By: Felicia Chou, and Joshua Finch On a mission to detect planets outside of our solar system, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is scheduled to launch no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT Monday, April 16. Prelaunch mission coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency’s[Read More…]
Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen
Baltimore, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—April 3, 2018 By: Ann Jenkins, Ray Villard, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, and Patrick Kelly, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen. Normally, it would be much too faint to view,[Read More…]
Scientists Confirm Water Trapped Inside Diamonds Deep Below Earth’s Surface
X-rays at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source reveal new mineral CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 30, 2018 By: Karen Mellen Water occurs naturally as far as at least 250 miles below the Earth’s surface, according to a study published in Science last week by researchers from the University of Chicago and others. The discovery, which[Read More…]
UChicago Scientists Build Trap to Make Tiny Packages of Light ‘Collide’
Study examines how to manipulate photons for quantum engineering CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 27, 2018 By: Louise Lerner The universe is illuminated via photons, the tiny individual particles that make up light, but they don’t interact with each other. To make them see the light, a team of University of Chicago physicists built[Read More…]
Taking the Pulse of Greenhouse Gases
Hampton, VA—(ENEWSPF)—March 23, 2018 By: Joe Atkinson, NASA Langley Research Center It can happen in a flash — airborne science, that is. Two hundred microseconds, to be exact. With lasers shot from the belly of a King Air B200 aircraft. That’s right, scientists are shooting lasers at atmospheric gases —[Read More…]
Hubble Solves Cosmic ‘Whodunit’ with Interstellar Forensics
Baltimore, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—March 22, 2018 By: Ann Jenkins, Ray Villard, and Andrew Fox On the outskirts of our galaxy, a cosmic tug-of-war is unfolding—and only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope can see who’s winning. The players are two dwarf galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, both of which[Read More…]
NASA to Discuss Upcoming Launch of Next Planet Hunter on March 28 (Video)
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 19, 2018 By: Felicia Chou and Claire Saravia Join NASA at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 28, as astrophysics experts discuss the upcoming launch of NASA’s next planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.[Read More…]
