Committee on Science SHERWOOD BOEHLERT, CHAIRMAN Ralph M. Hall, Texas, Ranking Democrat www.house.gov/science Press Contacts: Dave Goldston (202) 225-3665 WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) today officially announced his […]
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Astrium completes Envisat, Europe’s largest environmental satellite
Astrium GmbHFriedrichshafen, Germany Contact:Mathias Pikelj, presse-eo@astrium-space.com Noordwijk — Europe’s largest and most complex Earth observation satellite, the environmental satellite Envisat — with a mass of approximately eight tons and a […]
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First anniversary of student-built satellite [OPAL] in space
Against all odds, the first satellite designed and built entirely by Stanford students is still sending data on its first anniversary in space. The satellite, called OPAL (for orbiting picosatellite […]
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Pin-pointing Black Holes: Upgraded European Network Of Radio Telescopes Has Sharper Vision Than Hubble of Distant Galaxies
Dr Michael Garrett Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry in Europe +31 (0)521 596511 garrett@jive.nl The most detailed images ever made of faint, distant radio galaxies, located billions of […]
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Courage pays off as Cluster completes cusp crossing in Arctic blizzard
Space scientists are a hard-working, dedicated group, and few have worked harder than those involved in getting the four Cluster spacecraft up and running. With this in mind, two members […]
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Scientists find clues that the path leading to the origin of life begins in deep space
Mountain View, Calif.– Duplicating the harsh conditions of cold interstellar space in the laboratory, scientists from The Astrochemistry Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center and the Department of Chemistry and […]
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What puts the brakes on madly spinning stars?
Contact: Keivan Stassun keivan@astro.wisc.edu 608-262-4409 University of Wisconsin-Madison MADISON — Keying off new observations, astronomers are turning to an old idea of what puts the brakes on young, rapidly rotating […]
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Pacific May Repel El Ninos But Not Other Climate Woes
The El Nino and La Nina events of the past few years may have faded into climate history, but the Pacific Ocean has not calmed down. The latest satellite data […]
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Glitches in the Earth’s wobble help geophysicists probe the planet’s core
Contact: Robert Sanders rls@pa.urel.berkeley.edu 510-643-6998 University of California, Berkeley Millimeter deviations from the expected wobble of the Earth’s axis are giving geophysicists clues to what happens 1,800 miles underground, at […]
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Only Solar Systems With Jupiters May Harbor Life, UA Scientist Says
From Lori Stiles, UA News Services The search for Earth-like life on other worlds should focus on solar systems with Jupiter-like planets, a University of Arizona scientist reports today in […]
