| Japanese delegation calls on Ashwani Kumar To mark 60 years of the establishment of diplomatic ties between India and Japan, a high-level Japanese delegation headed by International Friendship Exchange Council (FEC) President Ken Matsuzawa... | |
| Rare Earth element found in ancient stars ... |
| Two journalists killed in Syria Marie Colvin, a reporter with the British daily Sunday Times, and a French photographer Remi Ochlik have been killed in Syria's besieged city of Homs, the Sun reported Wednesday.
The two western... |
| Traces of rare earth element detected in stars Scientists have detected traces of a rare earth element, tellurium, in three ancient stars located a few thousand light years away, a study reveals.
Traces of this brittle, semiconducting element... |
| Recent geological activity on moon captured New images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft have revealed that the moon's crust is being stretched, forming minute valleys in a few small areas on the lunar surface.... |
| Electricity-generating superbugs from space offer new source of power Bacteria usually found 30km above the earth have been identified as extremely efficient generators of electricity.
Bacillus stratosphericus - a microbe commonly found in high concentrations in the... |
| NASA rocket blasts into 'gleaming' aurora A team of scientists on Saturday night launched an instrument-laden, two-stage sounding rocket arcing through shimmering green aurora, 186 miles above Earth.
The precision measurements from the... |
| Hubble spots first-of-its kind 'steamy' planet Our solar system comprises three types of planets, namely rocky, terrestrial worlds (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars), gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn), and ice giants (Uranus and Neptune).
Planets... |
| Hubble discovers new, all-water planet A class of planet that is a water world and enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere has been discovered.
Astronomers spotted the planet through the Hubble space telescope.
It was revealed by... |
| Venus, Jupiter & Moon Make Skywatching Triple Play This Week Venus, Jupiter, and the moon form a skywatching treat in the evening sky on for the week of Feb. 22, 2012, with a triple conjunction on Feb. 25 and Feb.... |
| Air Force Eyes Nuclear Reactors, Beamed Power for Spacecraft This solar power satellite design features sets of lightweight, inflatable fresnel reflectors to focus the Sun's energy on small arrays of high-efficiency photovoltaic... |
| NASA rocket blasts into gleaming aurora Science News: Washington, A team of scientists on Saturday night launched an instrument-laden, two-stage sounding rocket arcing through shimmering green aurora, 186 miles above... |
| Astronomers Discover Super Earth; A Water World NASA and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have discovered water on GJ1214b, an Earth-sized exo planet, indicating there is a strong possibility it can (if it does not already) support... |
| Current Astronauts in Orbit Exchange Notes with John Glenn If you weren’t able to watch live, this is a fun exchange between the current astronauts in orbit, talking with one of the first people ever to see Earth from an orbital perspective. The... |
| Atoms Architectural keeps growing PARKERSBURG - Atoms Architectural Products continues to grow.The small company that produces louvers, sunshades, grilles and ornamental metals is building its sales and looking to expand into new... |
| Nuclear spies use earth and skies to up their game Iran's nuclear prowess is growing, fuelling a range of global tensions. Are scientists' abilities to sniff out covert nuclear weapons tests keeping up? Two new techniques could at least... |
| Union of Concerned Scientists / Friends of The Earth: Weapons Plutonium Fuel Test Fails Nuclear Fuel Test Failure Should Trigger Suspension of Weapon-Grade Plutonium Fuel Use, Groups Say Hazardous Fuel Behavior Another Setback For Troubled Energy Department Program, Has Implications... |
| Moon's crust hints at recent tectonic activity These newly detected narrow linear troughs are known as graben, and they formed in highlands of the moon's far side. Forces acting to pull the lunar crust apart formed the Virtanen graben,... |
| NASA Discovers 20 Million MPH Wind Blowing in Stellar Black Hole Michigan have clocked the wind at speeds of about 20 million miles per hour... which about 3 percent the speed of light. They believe the stellar black hole - IGR J17091 - is powering these super... |
| Glenn marks 50 years since historic orbit of Earth John Glenn made his historic spaceflight alone in 1962 but celebrated its 50th anniversary Monday among hundreds of people within his orbit, from fellow headline-making astronauts and NASA's... |
| For rent: NASA centre, all mod cons, lots of space Cape Canaveral , Florida, is only the latest symbol of the vanishing of its glory days made most obvious by the mothballing of its shuttle fleet last year.Also celebrating its 50th anniversary, the... |
| Black hole offering up cosmic surprise This artist's impression shows a binary system containing a stellar-mass black hole known as IGR J17091. Observations with Chandra have clocked the fastest wind ever seen blowing off a disk... |
| Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G to spark up T-Mobile in March Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G 's debut proved the most hush-hush. T-Mobile executives announced it at a small, exclusive event to a knot of journalists, in almost the same breath as the... |
| Living with the Samsung Galaxy Note (Credit: jmartin) I've used the massive Samsung Galaxy Note as my sole handset for a week, and life is going surprisingly well. Samsung certainly has high hopes for its unique product,... |
| New 'super-Earth' is a steamy 'waterworld' New York: An astronaut attempting to visit recently discovered planet GJ1214b would land in hot water -- literally, US scientists say.Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics... |
| Book Review: Celestial Delights: The Best Astronomical Events Through 2020 Recently, we announced an invitation for everyone who would like to review space books for Universe Today. We here at Universe Today were overwhelmed by the huge response from readers all over the... |
| Opportunity Phones Home Dusty Self-Portraits and Ground Breaking Science NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity snapped this self-portrait mosaic showcasing her current work-site location at the rim of Endeavour Crater in the background and dusty solar panels with... |
| NASA's Chandra finds fastest wind from stellar-mass black hole WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole, the U.S.... |
| Here's how the stars get their gowns for Oscars It's Hollywood's most dizzying confluence of celebrity and style, capable of transforming ordinary actors into sartorial superstars. An iconic gown is enduring, splashed onto magazine covers,... |
| Krewe of Neptune rocks downtown Biloxi BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - Fancy floats brought over from New Orleans weaved through the streets of downtown Biloxi Tuesday afternoon. Neptune rolled right after the GCCA parade. This year's theme... |
| Shrinking NASA Budget Forces Tough Trade-offs U.S. President Barack Obama's proposal to roll back NASA spending to its lowest level since 2008 puts the squeeze on planetary science and other agency activities in order to accommodate a... |
| Cosmic Hurricane: Black Hole Has 20 Million MPH Winds This artist's impression shows a binary system containing a stellar-mass black hole called IGR J17091-3624. The strong gravity of the black hole, on the left, is pulling gas away from a... |
| NASA Staff Changes Shake Up Space Agency's Senior Management NASA has made a big change to its upper management team, space agency chief Charles Bolden announced today (Feb. 21). According to Bolden, who serves as NASA's administrator, the... |
| Sun's Explosive Whiplash Clearly Seen Far Above Surface NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory had a fantastic birds eye view of a solar eruption and ensuing coronal mass ejection which began on February 9th, 2012. A filament was released from the... |
| Proud Canadian Astronaut Eager to Run Space Station VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Astronaut Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian ever to command a spaceship when he takes the helm of the International Space Station in 2013. Hadfield... |
| See a solar eclipse from outer space NASA's Solar Dynamics Observator y, today was the day the heavens aligned. The only place where you could see today's partial eclipse was in outer space. But don't worry: Some of us... |
| New breed of steamy alien planet found GJ1214b, shown in this artist’s view, is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show that it is a waterworld... |
| Kennedy Space Centre boldly goes where Nasa has never gone before: on a 'to let' list Fifty years after John Glenn ushered in an era of American supremacy in space by orbiting the Earth, Nasa is fishing for tenants to rent disused facilities at its Kennedy Space Centre in... |
| In praise of … Earth rising | Editorial status wars with the Soviet Union . But it wasn't the moment when the space age changed the world. That was six years later, when astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission became the first humans to... |
| Hubble telescope spots new class of planet: a steamy 'waterworld' The planet GJ 1214b, shown here in an artist's conception with two hypothetical moons, orbits a 'red dwarf' star 40 light-years from Earth. Observations of the planet, which measures... |
| Hubble telescope sees new type of planet The Hubble Space Telescope has found a new type of planet outside our solar system, a water world covered by a thick, steamy atmosphere, U.S. astronomers say. A team of astronomers led by Zachory... |
| Janice Voss: American astronaut The Nasa astronaut Janice Voss, who first worked for the US space agency as a teenager and flew five shuttle missions in seven years, died of breast cancer on 6 February at the age of 55. Voss flew... |
| NASA Launches Rocket Into Northern Lights Poker Flat Research Range , 30 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska. The rocket, called the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Alfvn resonator (MICA), arced 200 miles upward and plunged directly... |
