Scientists shortlist three landing sites for Mars 2020
Feb 13, 2017, at 02:40 pm
Washington, Feb 13 (IBNS): Participants in a landing site workshop for NASA’s upcoming Mars 2020 mission have recommended three locations on the Red Planet for further evaluation.
Next generation batteries could provide power to microsatellites, cubesats
Feb 12, 2017, at 12:32 am
Washington,Feb 11 (IBNS): Sometimes good things come in very small packages. Just ask Dr. Luke Roberson, senior principal investigator for Flight Research within the Exploration Research and Technology Directorate at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Asteroid resembles dungeons and dragons dice
Feb 12, 2017, at 12:30 am
Washington, Feb 11 (IBNS): Radar images of asteroid 2017 BQ6 were obtained on Feb. 6 and 7 with NASA’s 70-meter (230-foot) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx begins Earth-Trojan Asteroid search
Feb 10, 2017, at 10:12 pm
Washington, Feb 10 (IBNS): A NASA spacecraft begins its search Thursday for an enigmatic class of near-Earth objects known as Earth-Trojan asteroids. OSIRIS-REx, currently on a two-year outbound journey to the asteroid Bennu, will spend almost two weeks searching for evidence of these small bodies.
NASA, UCI reveal new details of Greenland Ice loss
Feb 10, 2017, at 09:48 pm
Washington, Feb 10 (IBNS): Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign last March, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland's ice sheet is melting from below.
NASA's Curiosity Rover sharpens paradox of ancient Mars
Feb 07, 2017, at 03:12 pm
Washington, Feb 7 (IBNS): Mars scientists are wrestling with a problem. Ample evidence says ancient Mars was sometimes wet, with water flowing and pooling on the planet’s surface.
NASA makes an epic update to website for daily Earth pics
Feb 03, 2017, at 02:30 pm
Washington, Jan 3 (IBNS): NASA has upgraded its website that provides daily views of the Earth from one million miles away. NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera imagery website was recently updated allowing the public to choose natural or enhanced color images of the Earth and even zoom into an area on the globe.
NOAA’s GOES-16 Satellite sends first images to Earth
Jan 24, 2017, at 02:45 pm
Washington, Jan 24 (IBNS): GOES-16, the first spacecraft in NOAA’s next-generation of geostationary satellites, has sent the first high-resolution images from its Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument. Included among them are a composite color full-disk visible image of the Western Hemisphere captured on January 15, 2017. Created using several of the ABI’s 16 spectral channels, the full-disk image offers an example the satellite’s advanced technology.
NASA, NOAA Data show 2016 warmest year on record globally
Jan 19, 2017, at 02:25 pm
Washington, Jan 19 (Just Earth News): Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Hubble captures ‘Shadow Play’ caused by possible planet
Jan 10, 2017, at 03:09 pm
Washington, Jan 10 (IBNS): Searching for planets around other stars is a tricky business. They’re so small and faint that it’s hard to spot them. But a possible planet in a nearby stellar system may be betraying its presence in a unique way: by a shadow that is sweeping across the face of a vast pancake-shaped gas-and-dust disk surrounding a young star.
NASA selects two missions to explore the early solar system
Jan 05, 2017, at 02:55 pm
Washington, Jan 5 (IBNS): NASA has selected two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar system – a time less than 10 million years after the birth of our sun. The missions, known as Lucy and Psyche, were chosen from five finalists and will proceed to mission formulation, with the goal of launching in 2021 and 2023, respectively.
NASA selects mission to study Black Holes, cosmic x-ray mysteries
Jan 04, 2017, at 02:56 pm
Washington, Jan 4 (IBNS): NASA has selected a science mission that will allow astronomers to explore, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical objects, such as stellar and supermassive black holes, neutron stars and pulsars.
NASA readies for major Orion milestones in 2017
Dec 22, 2016, at 02:29 pm
Washington, Dec 22 (IBNS): From the beginning of assembly work on the Orion crew module at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to testing a range of the spacecraft systems, engineers made headway in 2016 in advance of the spacecraft’s 2018 mission beyond the moon.
Small troughs growing on Mars may become 'Spiders'
Dec 21, 2016, at 03:35 pm
Washington, Dec 21 (IBNS): Erosion-carved troughs that grow and branch during multiple Martian years may be infant versions of larger features known as Martian "spiders," which are radially patterned channels found only in the south polar region of Mars.
Space Laser reveals Boom-and-Bust Cycle of Polar Ocean plants
Dec 21, 2016, at 03:23 pm
Washington, Dec 21 (IBNS): A new study using a NASA satellite instrument orbiting Earth has found that small, environmental changes in polar food webs significantly influence the boom-and-bust, or peak and decline, cycles of phytoplankton.
Revolutions in understanding the Ionosphere, Earth’s interface to space
Dec 15, 2016, at 01:53 pm
Washington , Dec 15 (IBNS): Scientists from NASA and three universities have presented new discoveries about the way heat and energy move and manifest in the ionosphere, a region of Earth’s atmosphere that reacts to changes from both space above and Earth below.
NASA Juno Mission prepares for Dec 11 Jupiter flyby
Dec 10, 2016, at 01:57 pm
Washington, Dec 10 (IBNS): On Sunday, December 11, at 9:04 a.m. PST (12:04 p.m. EST, 17:04 UTC) NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its third science flyby of Jupiter.
Japanese cargo craft flying to station
Dec 10, 2016, at 01:47 pm
Tokyo, Dec 10 (IBNS): The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)’s H-IIB rocket launched at 8:26 a.m. EST (10:26 p.m. Japan time) on Friday, Dec. 9 from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, read the NASA website.
Scientists probe mystery of Pluto’s icy heart
Dec 03, 2016, at 12:07 am
Washington, Nov 2 (IBNS): Scientists are offering several new scenarios to explain the formation of Pluto’s frozen heart-shaped feature, first spotted by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.
Space food bars will keep orion weight off and crew weight on
Nov 24, 2016, at 06:00 pm
Washington, Nov 24 (IBNS): When astronauts in the Orion spacecraft travel beyond the moon to explore deep space destinations, they’ll need a robust diet to keep them healthy and sharp.
NASA nears finish line of annual study of changing Antarctic Ice
Nov 19, 2016, at 10:15 pm
Washington, Nov 19 (IBNS): Operation IceBridge, NASA’s airborne survey of changes in polar ice, is closing in on the end of its eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment, and will likely tie its 2012 campaign record for the most research flights carried out during a single Antarctic season.
New crew launches to space station to continue scientific research
Nov 18, 2016, at 03:07 pm
New York, Nov 18 (IBNS): Three crew members representing the United States, Russia and France are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:20 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 17 (2:20 a.m. Nov. 18, Baikonur time).
Kolkata witness biggest 'supermoon' in last 68 years
Nov 15, 2016, at 03:11 am
Kolkata, Nov 14 (IBNS): The people, living in Kolkata, witnessed a glimpse of the 'supermoon' on Monday evening.
November Supermoon a spectacular sight
Nov 13, 2016, at 09:16 pm
Washington, Nov 13 (IBNS):The moon is a familiar sight in our sky, brightening dark nights and reminding us of space exploration, past and present.
NASA small satellites set to take a fresh look at Earth
Nov 08, 2016, at 11:56 pm
New York, Nov 8 (IBNS): Beginning this month, NASA is launching a suite of six next-generation, Earth-observing small satellite missions to demonstrate innovative new approaches for studying our changing planet.
NASA's MMS breaks Guinness World Record
Nov 05, 2016, at 01:57 pm
Washington, Nov 5 (IBNS): NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, or MMS, is breaking records. MMS now holds the Guinness World Record for highest altitude fix of a GPS signal.
Schiaparelli impact site on Mars, in color
Nov 04, 2016, at 02:29 pm
Washington, Nov 4 (IBNS): On Nov. 1, 2016, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed the impact site of Europe's Schiaparelli test lander, gaining the first color view of the site since the lander's Oct. 19, 2016, arrival.
Scientists reveal new space-based view of human-made carbon dioxide
Nov 02, 2016, at 03:07 pm
Washington, Nov 2 (IBNS): Scientists have produced the first global maps of human emissions of carbon dioxide ever made solely from satellite observations of the greenhouse gas.
NASA’s SDO catches a Lunar Transit
Nov 01, 2016, at 03:19 pm
Washington, Nov 1 (IBNS): On Oct. 30, 2016, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, experienced a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun.
See how Arctic Sea ice is losing its bulwark against warming summer
Oct 29, 2016, at 02:25 pm
Washington, Oct 29 (IBNS): Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and its neighboring seas, has been hit with a double whammy over the past decades: as its extent shrunk, the oldest and thickest ice has either thinned or melted away, leaving the sea ice cap more vulnerable to the warming ocean and atmosphere.