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. Just two months after the successful launch of the GOES-O spacecraft, now called GOES-14 in orbit, the NASA team removed the GOES-P spacecraft from storage and commenced its post storage testing. GOES-P is being prepared for an early March 2010 launch and if the launch schedule holds, it boasts an unprecedented two launches in approximately 8 months. http://www.physorg.com/news174933942.html Space & Earth Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:00:01 EST news174933942 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn -- by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings. http://www.physorg.com/news174111597.html Space & Earth Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:21:07 EST news174111597 (PhysOrg.com) -- Of the roughly 350 known exoplanets (i.e., extrasolar planets), the one orbiting the star HD149026 is unique. http://www.physorg.com/news173697614.html Space & Earth Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:20:01 EST news173697614 (PhysOrg.com) -- Studies of features in Jupiter`s spectacular and rapidly changing aurorae have given new insights into the complex electromagnetic interactions between the giant planet and two of its innermost moons. http://www.physorg.com/news172496043.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:35:24 EST news172496043 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's first-ever moon temperature-mapping effort has returned its first data. http://www.physorg.com/news172424963.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:51:32 EST news172424963 (AP) -- A brand new Japanese space station cargo ship has arrived at its destination 225 miles above Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news172424425.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:40:57 EST news172424425 Scientists using the Cassini spacecraft's  Magnetospheric Imaging instrument (MIMI) have detected a new, temporary radiation belt  at Saturn, located around the orbit of its moon Dione at about 377 000 km from the center of the planet. The discovery will be presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam by Dr Elias Roussos on Monday 14 September. http://www.physorg.com/news172139487.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:32:31 EST news172139487 (AP) -- Bad weather in Florida has stalled space shuttle Discovery's landing once more. http://www.physorg.com/news171865683.html Space & Earth Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:06:58 EST news171865683 (AP) -- NASA has moved the shuttle Discovery out of the way of a mystery piece of orbiting junk and is hoping for a scheduled landing on Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news171778248.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:55:42 EST news171778248 One of ESA's future Earth observation missions will monitor its orientation in space with the help of the smallest gyro ever flown by the Agency. Now being tested, the sugar cube-sized device at the heart of the gyro unit is derived from a sensor used in anti-lock braking systems on millions of cars. http://www.physorg.com/news171731607.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:30:02 EST news171731607 (AP) -- Shuttle Discovery's astronauts aimed for a Thursday evening landing to wrap up their successful space station delivery mission, but late summer storms threatened to keep them up an extra day or two. http://www.physorg.com/news171730420.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:10:01 EST news171730420 Three decades ago, American and Finnish scientists came up with a very powerful method for cooling gases by "laser bombardment." Only now were physicists at the University of Bonn able to demonstrate that it actually works. The work of the Bonn scientists will appear in the forthcoming issue of the journal Nature. Fast cooling by laser bombardment could, inter alia, possibly be used for the construction of new mini fridges. http://www.physorg.com/news171120090.html Physics Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:00:07 EST news171120090 (AP) -- It's moving and spacewalking day in orbit. http://www.physorg.com/news171005334.html Space & Earth Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:29:30 EST news171005334 An Ariane 5 rocket successfully placed communications satellites into geostationary orbit on Friday for Japan's SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation and Australian operator Optus, according to Arianespace. http://www.physorg.com/news170137626.html Space & Earth Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:50:01 EST news170137626 China's first satellite to probe Mars has been transported to Russia for a launch later this year, state media reported Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news168778030.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:40:01 EST news168778030 The Naval Research Laboratory's satellite suite, the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment 2 (ANDE-2), was deployed from NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 30, 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news168716575.html Space & Earth Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:43:25 EST news168716575 (PhysOrg.com) -- The new image, showing a very rich field of stars towards the Carina arm of the Milky Way, is centred on the star HD 87643, a member of the exotic class of B[e] stars [1]. It is part of a set of observations that provide astronomers with the best ever picture of a B[e] star. http://www.physorg.com/news168689716.html Space & Earth Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:15:44 EST news168689716 South Korea has rescheduled its first space rocket launch from its soil to August 11 after repeatedly postponing it due to technical reasons, officials said Saturday. http://www.physorg.com/news168412334.html Space & Earth Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:50:02 EST news168412334 (AP) -- Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts are inspecting their ship to make sure it's safe for Friday's landing. http://www.physorg.com/news168072866.html Space & Earth Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:20:01 EST news168072866 (AP) -- They've spent the past one-and-a-half weeks together in space, and now it's time for two teams of astronauts to say goodbye. http://www.physorg.com/news167978840.html Space & Earth Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:47:45 EST news167978840 One one-thousand, 2 one-thousand, 3 one-thousand, 4 one-thousand... Continue counting and don't stop until you reach 399 one-thousand. http://www.physorg.com/news167402894.html Space & Earth Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:00:10 EST news167402894 (PhysOrg.com) -- Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts set out on a daring adventure to explore the Moon. They ended up discovering their own planet. http://www.physorg.com/news167323008.html Space & Earth Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:50:03 EST news167323008 The imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently had its first of many opportunities to photograph the Apollo landing sites. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged five of the six Apollo sites with the narrow angle cameras (NACs) between July 11 and 15, within days of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. http://www.physorg.com/news167056047.html Space & Earth Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:28:26 EST news167056047 Nature has provided five huge rest stops far out in space for the convenience of spacecraft traveling from Earth. Some NASA folks call them "parking lots" in space. http://www.physorg.com/news166903758.html Space & Earth Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:10:01 EST news166903758 (AP) -- Families crowded around black-and-white television sets in 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong take man's first steps on the moon. http://www.physorg.com/news166680440.html Space & Earth Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:30:06 EST news166680440 On June 27, 2009, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, soared into space during a spectacular launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. GOES-O has now been renamed and its solar array has been deployed. http://www.physorg.com/news166455961.html Space & Earth Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:46:27 EST news166455961 Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new theory by a University of Melbourne physicist. http://www.physorg.com/news166355079.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:45:25 EST news166355079 (PhysOrg.com) -- Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2. http://www.physorg.com/news165839026.html Space & Earth Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:24:25 EST news165839026 (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