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Waking up to a new year 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 In the time it takes you to complete a single workday, or get a full night's sleep, a small fireball of a planet 700 light-years away has already completed an entire year...
NASA Spacecraft Capture an Earth Directed Coronal Mass Ejection 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 On August 20, 2013 at 4:24 am EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon which can send billions of tons of particles...
New Horizons - Late in Cruise, and a Binary Ahoy 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Laurel MD (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 New Horizons has just completed a summer of intensive activities and entered hibernation on Aug. 20. The routine parts of the activities included thorough checkouts of al...
UA astronomers take sharpest photos ever of the night sky 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 Astronomers at the University of Arizona, the Arcetri Observatory near Florence, Italy and the Carnegie Observatory have developed a new type of camera that allows scient...
Comet ISON to fly by Mars 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 Around the world, astronomers are buzzing with anticipation over the approach of Comet ISON. On Thanksgiving Day 2013, the icy visitor from the outer solar system wil...
Global sea level rise dampened by Australia floods 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 When enough raindrops fall over land instead of the ocean, they begin to add up. New research led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) shows that when ...
Starbirth Surprisingly Energetic: ALMA observations give new insights into protostars 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Charlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 While observing a newborn star, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope discovered twin jets of matter blasting out i...
Russian Aerospace Industry Needs State Help 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 26, 2013 The Russian space industry is plagued by such a great number of problems that the government cannot afford to leave it to its own devices, Deputy Prime Minis...
Indian rocket GSLV-D5 to go back to assembly building 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Chennai, India (IANS) Aug 26, 2013 The Indian space agency will be able to take its heavy rocket geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle-development 5(GSLV-D5) back to the rocket assembly building ei...
Promise of jobs triggers scramble for civilian drones 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Washington (UPI) Aug 26, 2013 The promise of tens of thousands of jobs has U.S. states jockeying to become hosts for testing before drones are introduced alongside civil aviation in U.S. airspace. A ...
