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) -- This spectacular image of our home planet was captured by the OSIRIS instrument on ESA's Rosetta comet chaser earlier today as the spacecraft approached Earth for the third and final swingby. Closest approach is due at 08:45 CET, 13 November 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news177262843.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:50:01 EST news177262843 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA reported Thursday that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed its testing and calibration phase and entered its mapping orbit of the moon. http://www.physorg.com/news172417835.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:20:01 EST news172417835 (AP) -- Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole a decade ago, has died after the disease recurred. She was 57. http://www.physorg.com/news165085627.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:40:02 EST news165085627 A tiny fraction of a second following the big bang, the universe allegedly experienced the most inflationary period it has ever known. http://www.physorg.com/news161612749.html Physics Fri, 15 May 2009 13:26:22 EST news161612749 What happened in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang? Super-sensitive microwave detectors, built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, may soon help scientists find out. http://www.physorg.com/news160546763.html Physics Sun, 03 May 2009 05:21:46 EST news160546763 (AP) -- On the 27th day of their trek, a dozen "black specks" of humanity crawling across Antarctica's vast white silence, Lou Albershardt heard a sound she'd never heard in two decades on the ice. http://www.physorg.com/news156870658.html Space & Earth Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:11:35 EST news156870658 Three disabled athletes from Spain have reached the South Pole unassisted by animals or machines, in what a Spanish newspaper said Sunday was a world first. http://www.physorg.com/news155139994.html Space & Earth Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:27:30 EST news155139994 During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory, which proposes that a random, microscopic density fluctuation in the fabric of space and time gave birth to the universe in a hot big bang approximately 13.7 billion years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news154010927.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:49:33 EST news154010927 It's 40 degrees F below zero (with the wind chill) at the South Pole today. Yet a research team from the University of Delaware is taking it all in stride. http://www.physorg.com/news148067825.html Space & Earth Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:57:05 EST news148067825 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists now have a ‘Martian weather satellite` to observe the weather on Mars in the same way as they monitor Earth`s weather. Its first ‘weather report` has been given by a team including Oxford University scientists. http://www.physorg.com/news143124410.html Space & Earth Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:46:50 EST news143124410 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are now able to better explain why Mars`s residual southern ice cap is misplaced, thanks to data from ESA`s Mars Express spacecraft - the martian weather system is to blame. And so is the largest impact crater on Mars - even though it is nowhere near the south pole. http://www.physorg.com/news141317473.html Space & Earth Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:51:13 EST news141317473