http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have gained tantalizing insights into the nature of the most distant object ever observed in the Universe -- a gigantic stellar explosion known as a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB). http://www.physorg.com/news175958564.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:23:39 EST news175958564 The most distant galaxy cluster yet has been discovered by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical and infrared telescopes. The cluster is located about 10.2 billion light years away, and is observed as it was when the Universe was only about a quarter of its present age. http://www.physorg.com/news175436330.html Space & Earth Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:19:55 EST news175436330 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has taken its first shots of the cosmos since warming up and starting its second career. The infrared telescope ran out of coolant on May 15, 2009, more than five-and-half-years after launch, and has since warmed to a still-frosty 30 Kelvin (about minus 406 Fahrenheit). http://www.physorg.com/news168698098.html Space & Earth Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:20:01 EST news168698098 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. http://www.physorg.com/news167373533.html Space & Earth Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:39:57 EST news167373533 (PhysOrg.com) -- About two weeks ago, Herschel was weighed to record its dry mass before the satellite was fuelled with 256 kg of liquid hydrazine. After switching it on to confirm normal function, engineers integrated the fuelled satellite with the Ariane 5 adapter. http://www.physorg.com/news159632933.html Space & Earth Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:29:13 EST news159632933 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii, the IRAM Millimetre-wave Telescope in Spain, and the Spitzer Space Telescope in orbit above the Earth, have completed the most wide-ranging census ever produced of dynamical star formation in and around the well-known Great Nebula of Orion. http://www.physorg.com/news159460527.html Space & Earth Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:35:59 EST news159460527 (PhysOrg.com) -- Transiting exoplanets are routinely detected when they pass in front of their parent star as viewed from the Earth, which only happens by chance. The transit event causes a small drop in the observed starlight, which can then be detected. Fifty-five exoplanets have been detected this way since the observation of the first transiting planet HD 209458 b in 1999. http://www.physorg.com/news151168570.html Space & Earth Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:16:10 EST news151168570