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. They have travelled further than any fashion item on Earth, surviving a hostile environment and extremes of heat and cold on a world far from ours. But now age is catching up with NASA spacesuits. http://www.physorg.com/news166945797.html Space & Earth Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:50:01 EST news166945797 On June 29th, neighbors of Paul Mortfield in Ontario, Canada, heard "cheers of excitement" coming from the astronomer's house. What caused the commotion? http://www.physorg.com/news166451645.html Space & Earth Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:35:50 EST news166451645 Forty years ago on July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong realized the oldest dream of human civilizations when he became the first man to walk on the moon. http://www.physorg.com/news166004852.html Space & Earth Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:28:20 EST news166004852 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted its first images since reaching the moon on June 23. The spacecraft's two cameras, collectively known as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, were activated June 30. The cameras are working well and have returned images of a region in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds). http://www.physorg.com/news165764893.html Space & Earth Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:48:52 EST news165764893 (PhysOrg.com) -- Lunar eclipses are well-documented throughout human history. The rare and breathtaking phenomena, which occur when the moon passes into the Earth`s shadow and seemingly changes shape, color, or disappears from the night sky completely, caught the attention of poets, farmers, leaders, and scientists alike. http://www.physorg.com/news165512869.html Space & Earth Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:49:21 EST news165512869 (AP) -- NASA's new lunar probe launched less than a week ago has already sent back some shots of the moon. http://www.physorg.com/news165079891.html Space & Earth Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:31:52 EST news165079891 After a four and a half day journey from the Earth, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft's lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m. EDT Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news164973229.html Space & Earth Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:54:16 EST news164973229 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two NASA spacecraft will reach major mission milestones early Tuesday morning as they approach the moon -- one will send back live streaming imagery via the Internet as it swings by the moon, the other will insert itself into lunar orbit to begin mapping the moon's surface. http://www.physorg.com/news164917851.html Space & Earth Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:32:04 EST news164917851 NASA launched its first moon shot in a decade Thursday, sending up a pair of unmanned science probes that will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come. http://www.physorg.com/news164593301.html Space & Earth Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:22:00 EST news164593301 NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence. http://www.physorg.com/news164546712.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:40:01 EST news164546712 (AP) -- Japan's first lunar probe made a controlled crash landing on the moon Thursday, successfully completing a 19-month mission to study the Earth's nearest neighbor, Japan's space agency said. http://www.physorg.com/news163910504.html Space & Earth Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:42:00 EST news163910504 Astronomers using the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) William Herschel Telescope (WHT) on La Palma have confirmed an effective way to search the atmospheres of planets for signs of life, vastly improving our chances of finding alien life outside our solar system. http://www.physorg.com/news163859396.html Space & Earth Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:30:22 EST news163859396 Lunar eclipses are well-documented throughout human history. The rare and breathtaking phenomena, which occur when the moon passes into the Earth's shadow and seemingly changes shape, color, or disappears from the night sky completely, caught the attention of poets, farmers, leaders, and scientists alike. http://www.physorg.com/news163690552.html Space & Earth Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:36:18 EST news163690552 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's return to the moon will get a boost in June with the launch of two satellites that will return a wealth of data about Earth's nearest neighbor. On Thursday, the agency outlined the upcoming missions of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS. The spacecraft will launch together June 17 aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. http://www.physorg.com/news162219006.html Space & Earth Fri, 22 May 2009 13:51:45 EST news162219006 (PhysOrg.com) -- The bombardment of Earth nearly 4 billion years ago by asteroids as large as Kansas would not have had the firepower to extinguish potential early life on the planet and may even have given it a boost, says a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. http://www.physorg.com/news162045388.html Space & Earth Wed, 20 May 2009 13:37:20 EST news162045388 The European-built Node 3 module for the International Space Station will be shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, on 17 May. http://www.physorg.com/news160663280.html Space & Earth Mon, 04 May 2009 13:41:46 EST news160663280 NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are quietly being revised and are in danger of slipping past 2020. http://www.physorg.com/news159646447.html Space & Earth Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:16:05 EST news159646447 In the 1960s and 1970s, the Apollo Moon Program struggled with a minuscule, yet formidable enemy: sticky lunar dust. Four decades later, a new study reveals that forces compelling lunar dust to cling to surfaces -- ruining scientific experiments and endangering astronauts' health -- change during the lunar day with the elevation of the sun. http://www.physorg.com/news159201494.html Space & Earth Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:38:51 EST news159201494 If NASA is going to successfully establish a permanent human presence on the moon, it must be able to accurately track and direct its crew members and exploration vehicles, and the space agency has charged a University of Houston research team with helping it do just that. http://www.physorg.com/news159115921.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:53:56 EST news159115921 The flight computer onboard the Lunar Excursion Module, which landed on the Moon during the Apollo program, had a whopping 4 kilobytes of RAM and a 74 KB "hard drive." In places, the craft's outer skin was as thin as two sheets of aluminum foil. http://www.physorg.com/news158508812.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:14:11 EST news158508812 At sunset on Thursday, astronomers around the world will be limbering up for a 100-hour marathon aimed at celebrating the night sky and nurturing the Galileos of tomorrow. http://www.physorg.com/news157871372.html Space & Earth Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:10:38 EST news157871372 China will launch a space module next year and carry out the nation's first space docking in 2011 as a step towards its goal of building a space station, state media said Sunday. http://www.physorg.com/news155117562.html Space & Earth Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:13:10 EST news155117562 For the first time, a spacecraft from Earth has captured hi-resolution images of a solar eclipse while orbiting another world. http://www.physorg.com/news154885201.html Space & Earth Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:41:10 EST news154885201 (PhysOrg.com) -- Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA's Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored study prepared by Astrobotic Technology Inc. with technical assistance from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news154790420.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:20:55 EST news154790420 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, is enroute from Northrop Grumman's facility in Redondo Beach, Calif., to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for a spring launch. http://www.physorg.com/news154117276.html Space & Earth Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:22:16 EST news154117276 (PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed map of the Moon ever created has revealed never-before-seen craters at the lunar poles. The map is also revealing secrets about the Moon's interior -- and hinting about Mars's interior as well. C.K. Shum, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University, is part of the international research team that published the map in the February 13 issue of the journal Science. http://www.physorg.com/news153671640.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:34:36 EST news153671640 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft was loaded on a truck Wednesday to begin its two-day journey to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch is targeted for April 24. http://www.physorg.com/news153596607.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:45:38 EST news153596607 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will use the powerful University of Arizona/Smithsonian MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Ariz., to search for lunar water ice when NASA fires a 2-ton rocket into a polar crater on the moon later this year. http://www.physorg.com/news153152542.html Space & Earth Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:23:50 EST news153152542 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using a NASA radar flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters. http://www.physorg.com/news151331093.html Space & Earth Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:24:53 EST news151331093 (PhysOrg.com) -- The collection of rocks that the Apollo astronauts brought back from the moon carried with it a riddle that has puzzled scientists since the early 1970s: What produced the magnetization found in many of those rocks? http://www.physorg.com/news151251106.html Space & Earth Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:11:46 EST news151251106