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) -- NASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. The mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 6, will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring at more than 100,000 stars for telltale signs of planets. Kepler has the unique ability to find planets as small as Earth that orbit sun-like stars at distances where temperatures are right for possible lakes and oceans. http://www.physorg.com/news161452332.html Space & Earth Wed, 13 May 2009 16:53:29 EST news161452332 Astronauts are giving a behind the scenes look at the space shuttle Atlantis's high-risk mission to service the Hubble telescope, thanks to micro-blogging sensation Twitter. http://www.physorg.com/news161316427.html Technology Tue, 12 May 2009 03:07:36 EST news161316427 (AP) -- Space shuttle Atlantis and a crew of seven thundered away Monday on one last flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, setting off on an extraordinarily ambitious repair mission that NASA hopes will lift the celebrated observatory to new scientific heights. http://www.physorg.com/news161272307.html Space & Earth Mon, 11 May 2009 14:52:06 EST news161272307 (AP) -- After months of delay, NASA cleared space shuttle Atlantis for a Monday launch to the Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.physorg.com/news161142230.html Space & Earth Sun, 10 May 2009 02:44:32 EST news161142230 Two missions to study the cosmos, Herschel and Planck, are scheduled to blast into space May 14 aboard the same Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. The European Space Agency, or ESA, leads both missions, with significant participation from NASA. http://www.physorg.com/news160762123.html Space & Earth Tue, 05 May 2009 17:11:00 EST news160762123 Millions of microbe astronauts will travel into space Tuesday aboard a NASA satellite. These germs are part of a mission led by the NASA Ames Research Center at California's Moffett Field to study how floating in space alters a medication's effectiveness. http://www.physorg.com/news160727831.html Space & Earth Tue, 05 May 2009 07:37:36 EST news160727831 (PhysOrg.com) -- The first International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defence Conference is being held in Granada, Spain, on 27-30 April. Among the topics under discussion will be preparations for the near-Earth flyby of asteroid Apophis in 2029. http://www.physorg.com/news159547499.html Space & Earth Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:46:00 EST news159547499 (PhysOrg.com) -- 'Sigmoids' are S-shaped structures found in the outer atmosphere of the Sun (the corona), seen with X-ray telescopes and thought to be a crucial part of explosive events like solar flares. Now a group of astronomers have developed the first model to reproduce and explain the nature of the different stages of a sigmoid`s life. http://www.physorg.com/news159460745.html Space & Earth Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:39:42 EST news159460745 (AP) -- Space shuttle Endeavour is on a launch pad, ready to rocket off on a rescue mission if shuttle Atlantis needs help when it flies to repair the Hubble Space Telescope next month. http://www.physorg.com/news159193884.html Space & Earth Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:32:02 EST news159193884 The hatch slammed shut Tuesday behind six volunteers from Europe and Russia who will spend three months isolated in a capsule in Moscow to simulate conditions for a manned mission to Mars. http://www.physorg.com/news157702743.html Space & Earth Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:19:49 EST news157702743 Six volunteers from Europe and Russia will on Tuesday allow themselves to be locked up in a capsule in Moscow for over three months to simulate the conditions for an eventual manned mission to Mars. http://www.physorg.com/news157533779.html Space & Earth Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:23:49 EST news157533779 (PhysOrg.com) -- After liftoff 17 March, ESA's GOCE spacecraft is performing very well, having achieved an extremely accurate injection altitude of 283.5 km, just 1.5 km lower than planned. The Mission Control Team is now working round-the-clock shifts to implement a series of critical check-out procedures. http://www.physorg.com/news156697875.html Space & Earth Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:12:13 EST news156697875 When NASA's Kepler telescope rocketed into the night sky last week, two Berkeley astronomers watching its fading contrail were hoping that the telescope will reveal Earth's - and humanity's - place in the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news156101002.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:24:13 EST news156101002 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA managers completed a review Friday of space shuttle Discovery's readiness for flight and selected the official launch date for the STS-119 mission. Commander Lee Archambault and his six crewmates are now scheduled to lift off to the International Space Station at 9:20 p.m. EDT on March 11. http://www.physorg.com/news155573470.html Space & Earth Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:52:47 EST news155573470 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Kepler spacecraft and its Delta II rocket are "go" for a launch tonight that is expected to light up the sky along Florida's Space Coast at 10:49 p.m. EST as the rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Weather predictions remain good, with a 95 percent chance of favorable conditions at launch time and a temperature of 64 degrees. http://www.physorg.com/news155568810.html Space & Earth Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:33:57 EST news155568810 (PhysOrg.com) -- On 31 March, a crew of six, including a French pilot and a German engineer, will embark on a 105-day simulated Mars mission. They will enter a special facility at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow, to emerge only three months later. http://www.physorg.com/news155488394.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:14:28 EST news155488394 (PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Kepler telescope rockets into the night sky on Friday, March 6, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, two University of California, Berkeley, astronomers - key members of the Kepler team - will be watching its fading contrail, hoping that the telescope will reveal Earth's and humanity's place in the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news155401559.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:07:52 EST news155401559 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found within Saturn's G ring an embedded moonlet that appears as a faint, moving pinprick of light. Scientists believe it is a main source of the G ring and its single ring arc. http://www.physorg.com/news155318928.html Space & Earth Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:09:19 EST news155318928 The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday named a Frenchman and a German who will join four Russians in an innovative 105-day isolation experiment to test whether humans can one day fly to Mars. http://www.physorg.com/news154893651.html Space & Earth Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:01:18 EST news154893651 Following word from Eurockot that launch of the Earth Explorer SMOS satellite can take place between July and October this year, ESA, CNES and the prime contractor Thales Alenia Space are now making detailed preparations for the last crucial steps before ESA's water mission is placed in orbit. http://www.physorg.com/news153675185.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:33:48 EST news153675185 (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) -- In May 2009, Frank De Winne, of Belgian nationality and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station at the start of his six-month mission. This mission sees him become the first European commander of the Station by October 2009. ESA has now given his mission the name OasISS. http://www.physorg.com/news153067418.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:44:14 EST news153067418 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is giving everyone the opportunity to use the world's most celebrated telescope to explore the heavens and boldly look where the Hubble Space Telescope has never looked before. http://www.physorg.com/news152379695.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:42:30 EST news152379695 HIAPER, one of the nation's most advanced research aircraft, is scheduled to embark on an historic mission spanning the globe from the Arctic to the Antarctic. http://www.physorg.com/news150572564.html Space & Earth Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:42:44 EST news150572564 From troubled beginnings nearly 18 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy and its stunning images have stirred the imaginations of people around the globe. http://www.physorg.com/news149951903.html Space & Earth Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:18:23 EST news149951903 (PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are getting ready to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The mission, scheduled to launch on March 5, will seek to answer an age-old question -- are there other Earths in space? http://www.physorg.com/news148839560.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:19:20 EST news148839560 A possible UK-led Moon mission involving 'penetrator' darts that would impact into the Moon's surface will be the focus of a technical study to ascertain its feasibility, the British National Space Centre (BNSC) announced today. http://www.physorg.com/news147706358.html Space & Earth Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:32:38 EST news147706358 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA announced Thursday that space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope is targeted to launch May 12, 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news147695932.html Space & Earth Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:38:52 EST news147695932 NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will launch two years later than previously planned, in the fall of 2011. The mission will send a next-generation rover with unprecedented research tools to study the early environmental history of Mars. http://www.physorg.com/news147618449.html Space & Earth Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:07:29 EST news147618449 (PhysOrg.com) -- Based on the outstanding success of the first tandem mission between ERS-2 and Envisat last year, ESA has paired the two satellites together again to help improve our understanding of the planet. http://www.physorg.com/news147535508.html Space & Earth Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:05:08 EST news147535508