News articles tagged with 'orbit'
MESSENGER spacecraft to swing into orbit around Mercury
— 15 Mar 2011 21:20 | AstronomyAt 8:45 p.m. EDT on March 17, the MESSENGER spacecraft will execute a 15-minute manoeuvre that will place it into orbit around Mercury, making it the first craft ever to do so, and…
Earth-size planet candidates found in habitable zone
— 3 Feb 2011 17:18 | AstronomyNASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface.…
NASA prepares to launch next Earth-observing satellite mission
— 21 Jan 2011 20:14 | EnvironmentNASA's newest Earth-observing research mission is nearing launch. The Glory mission will improve our understanding of how the sun and tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols affect…
Discovery of a pulsating star that hosts a giant planet
— 19 Jan 2011 18:38 | AstronomyRecently published in an article of the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal, a group of researchers from the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC) at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona…
Pulsating star mystery solved
— 24 Nov 2010 23:06 | AstronomyThe new results, from a team led by Grzegorz Pietrzynski (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile, Obserwatorium Astronomiczne Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Poland), appear in the 25 November…
Planet from another galaxy discovered
— 19 Nov 2010 11:14 | AstronomyOver the last 15 years, astronomers have detected nearly 500 planets orbiting stars in our cosmic neighbourhood, but none outside our Milky Way has been confirmed. Now, however, a planet…
Spacecraft will enable scientists to study space environment around moon, Earth
— 29 Oct 2010 14:03 | AstronomyTwo spacecraft are now beginning to study the moon's environment as part of NASA's ARTEMIS mission, whose principal investigator is Vassilis Angelopoulos, a UCLA professor of Earth…
2 THEMIS probes redirected to moon to study magnetosphere, solar wind interactions
— 28 Oct 2010 15:57 | AstronomyTwo micro-satellites originally launched into Earth's orbit in 2007 by NASA have been redirected by University of California, Berkeley, scientists toward new orbits around the moon,…
Astronomers discover most massive neutron star yet known
— 28 Oct 2010 14:51 | AstronomyAstronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered the most massive neutron star yet found, a discovery with strong and wide-ranging impacts…
Star, not so bright
— 22 Oct 2010 20:34 | AstronomyIn a galaxy far away, an exceptionally massive black hole is travelling around a massive star in an unusually tight orbit. Also odd, the star is not as bright as it should be…