Space News
College Students Study Earth From NASA's DC-8 Flying Lab
SpaceRef - 22 Jun 2014 03:29
Thirty-two undergraduate students from a like number of colleges and universities are participating in an eight-week NASA Airborne Science Program field experience designed to immerse them in the agency's Earth Science r...
Mysterious 'Magic Island' appears on Saturn's moon Titan
Phys.org - 22 Jun 2014 19:00
Now you don't see it. Now, you do. And now you don't see it again. Astronomers have discovered a bright, mysterious geologic object - where one never existed - on Cassini mission radar images of Ligeia Mare, the second-l...
Look Up! Mysterious Night-Shining Clouds Are Back
SPACE.com - 22 Jun 2014 13:38
Earth's polar skies have lit up with eerie blue-white glowing clouds, slowly twisting and undulating in the twilight sky every summer since the late 19th century.
Time to think big: a call for a giant space telescope
PTTU - 22 Jun 2014 11:35
Royal Astronomical Society: In the nearly 25 years since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers and the public alike have enjoyed ground-breaking views of the cosmos and the suite of scientific disco...
Time to think big: a call for a giant space telescope
The Royal Astronomical Society - 22 Jun 2014 11:35
In the nearly 25 years since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers and the public alike have enjoyed ground-breaking views of the cosmos and the suite of scientific discoveries that followed. The su...
University scientists unraveling nature of Higgs boson
EurekAlert! - 22 Jun 2014 06:00
(Kansas State University) Physics research finds that Higgs bosons decay into fermions, which gives elementary particles mass.
Mysterious 'Magic Island' appears on Saturn moon
EurekAlert! - 22 Jun 2014 06:00
(Cornell University) Astronomers have discovered a bright, mysterious geologic object -- where one never existed -- on Cassini mission radar images of Ligeia Mare, the second-largest sea on Saturn's moon Titan.