NASA will host a news teleconference at 2 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 21, to announce new findings about a record-setting gamma-ray burst observed in unprecedented detail by the agency’s Fermi, Swift and NuSTAR high-energy satellites and by telescopes on the ground.
The journal Science has embargoed the findings until the time of the news conference.
Gamma-ray bursts are the … Read the rest of this article
A NASA mission that will investigate how Mars lost its atmosphere and abundant liquid water launched into space at 1:28 p.m. EST Monday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The agency’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft separated from an Atlas V Centaur rocket’s second stage 53 minutes after launch. The solar arrays deployed approximately one hour … Read the rest of this article
What are the odds? On Nov. 18th and 19th not one but two comets will fly by the planet Mercury.
“This is a unique coincidence,” says Ron Vervack an astronomer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab and a member of the science team for NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, “and a golden opportunity to study two comets passing close to … Read the rest of this article
Comet ISON is brightening as it approaches the sun. Multiple observers now report that it is a binocular object. “I finally saw Comet ISON for the first time using small binoculars!” says pilot Brian Whittaker. He was flying 38,000 feet over the Mediterranean Sea on Nov. 8th at the time.
“It was faint, but is predicted to brighten and move … Read the rest of this article
Sir Richard Branson is set to travel to outer space in 2014 on Virgin Galactic’s first commercial spaceflight, and all of us on Earth will get to watch the adventure.
Sir Richard has admitted that he didn’t have a clue about space travel, or even how he would raise the money to start the business when he registered the name … Read the rest of this article
The entry, descent and landing demonstrator module that will fly on the 2016 ExoMars mission has been named ‘Schiaparelli’ in honour of the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who famously mapped the Red Planet’s surface features in the 19th century.
ExoMars is a joint endeavour between ESA and Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, and comprises two missions that will be launched to … Read the rest of this article
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified what they can only describe as a never-before-seen “weird and freakish object” in the asteroid belt that looks like a rotating lawn sprinkler.
Normal asteroids should appear simply as tiny points of light. But this asteroid, designated P/2013 P5, has six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it like spokes on a … Read the rest of this article
Join NASA/JPL for a preview of three Earth-observing missions being prepared for launch in 2014 and JPL’s role in studying our home planet.
Speaker Program
Welcome
Veronica McGregor, JPL News & Social Media Mgr.(@veronicamcg)
Jim Graf, Dep. Dir. Earth Science Directorate, JPL
Mission Introductions
Stephanie L. Smith, JPL Social Media Specialist (@stephist)
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Instead of giving your loved ones a traditional burial, why not send them off in style with a memorial spaceflight? That’s the vision of Elysium Space, a company that aims to launch portions of cremated human remains into space.
Under Elysium Space’s plan, human ashes will launch into space and orbit the Earth for several months before burning up … Read the rest of this article
Eyes on the Solar System is a new way for you to explore our cosmic neighborhood.
It lets you fly to the planets, ride aboard NASA spacecraft and discover the wonders of robotic space exploration from right inside your web-browser.… Read the rest of this article
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