NASA research teams have gotten the go-ahead to explore some big ideas that could transform aviation in (graphics, left to right)) safe and efficient global operations, ultra-efficient commercial vehicles, low-carbon propulsion, and autonomy. Credits: NASA Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 22, 2015. NASA has selected six proposals to study transformative ideas that might[Read More…]

NASA’s Cassini imaging scientists processed this view of Saturn’s moon Dione, taken during a close flyby on June 16, 2015.Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute   NASA’s Cassini imaging scientists processed this view of Saturn’s moon Dione, taken during a close flyby on June 16, 2015. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June[Read More…]

Evidence for active volcanoes on Venus EU–(ENEWSPF)–18 June 2015. ESA’s Venus Express has found the best evidence yet for active volcanism on Earth’s neighbour planet. Seeing the planet’s surface is extremely difficult due to its thick atmosphere, but radar observations by previous missions to Venus have revealed it as a[Read More…]

UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and astronaut Scott Kelly launching #whyspacematters photo contest. Photo: UNOOSA NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–16 June 2015 – The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and United States astronaut Scott Kelly, currently on board the International Space Station, today launched a global photography competition to[Read More…]

Philae touchdown EU–(ENEWSPF)–14 June 2015.  Rosetta’s lander Philae has woken up after seven months in hibernation on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The signals were received at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt at 22:28 CEST on 13 June. More than 300 data packets have been analysed by the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 4, 2015.  If you lived on one of Pluto’s moons, you might have a hard time determining when, or from which direction, the sun will rise each day. Comprehensive analysis of data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows that two of Pluto’s moons, Nix and Hydra, wobble unpredictably.[Read More…]

NASA’s Cassini imaging scientists processed this view of Saturn’s moon Hyperion, taken during a close flyby on May 31, 2015. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Full image and caption Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2015.  NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has returned images from its final close approach to Saturn’s oddball moon Hyperion, upholding the[Read More…]

This false-color view of Hyperion was obtained during Cassini’s closest flyby of Saturn’s odd, tumbling moon on Sept. 26, 2005. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI  Full image and caption Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2015.  NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make its final close approach to Saturn’s large, irregularly shaped moon Hyperion on Sunday, May 31.[Read More…]

Moving Leonardo EU–(ENEWSPF)–28 May 2015. The International Space Station’s Permanent Multipurpose Module was detached and moved by the main robotic arm to another place on the orbiting laboratory yesterday. Installing Leonardo This delicate operation required moving and rotating the 10-tonne Leonardo module from the Unity node to the Tranquility node.[Read More…]

Herschel’s view of G49 EU–(ENEWSPF)–28 May 2015.  These three new images of huge filamentary structures of gas and dust from ESA’s Herschel space observatory reveal how matter is distributed across our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Herschel’s view of G47 Long and flimsy threads emerge from a twisted mix of material,[Read More…]