NASA Glenn Technology pumps hope into broken hearts
Mar 09, 2016, at 03:46 pm
New York, Mar 9 (IBNS) Dr. Mark Rodefeld knows the hearts of children. As a pediatric heart surgeon at Indiana University, he’s spent decades fixing them.
NASA recognizes outstanding small businesses with industry awards
Mar 09, 2016, at 03:45 pm
New York, Mar 9 (IBNS) The winners of the Fiscal Year 2015 agency-level Small Business Industry Awards (SBIA) were announced Tuesday during the spring 2016 NASA Industry Forum meeting hosted by the agency’s Office of Small Business Programs at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
Citizen scientists help NASA researchers understand Auroras
Mar 09, 2016, at 01:16 am
California, Mar 8 (IBNS) Space weather scientist Liz MacDonald has seen auroras more than five times in her life, but it was the aurora she didn’t see that affected her the most.
NASA to provide live coverage for March 8 solar eclipse
Mar 09, 2016, at 12:56 am
California, Mar 8 (IBNS) NASA, in partnership with the Exploratorium Science Center in San Francisco, will host activities around the Mar 8 total solar eclipse, including opportunities to talk with solar scientists and live coverage of the eclipse originating from Woleai island in Micronesia.
NASA awards contract for test evaluation, support
Mar 08, 2016, at 03:42 pm
California, Mar 8 (IBNS) NASA has awarded a contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, for continued test and operations support at the agency’s White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
NASA analyzes March 7 U.S. Pacific Northwestern Storm System
Mar 08, 2016, at 03:35 pm
California, Mar 7 (IBNS) NASA's RapidScat instrument spied tropical-storm-force winds in a weather system affecting the Pacific Northwestern U.S. and southwestern Canada on Mar 6 and Mar 7.
NASA, Honeywell bring Hip-Hop education show to West Coast
Mar 08, 2016, at 03:20 pm
California, Mar 8 (IBNS) NASA and Honeywell are visiting the West Coast with the FMA Live! Forces in Motion show for a spring 2016 tour designed to ignite students' interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
World Meteorological Organization Secretary General Petteri Taalas meets Harsh Vardhan
Mar 08, 2016, at 01:11 am
New Delhi, Mar 7 (IBNS) Secretary General, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Geneva Dr Petteri Taalas, called on the Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Harsh Vardhan, in New Delhi on Monday.
NASA scientific balloon team hopes to break flight duration record with New Zealand launch
Mar 05, 2016, at 02:32 pm
Washington, Mar 4 (IBNS) After years of tests and development, NASA’s Balloon Program team is on the cusp of expanding the envelope in high-altitude, heavy-lift ballooning with its super pressure balloon (SPB) technology.
Some birds are just as smart as apes
Mar 05, 2016, at 12:23 am
Bochum, Mar 4 (IBNS) At first glance, the brains of birds and mammals show many significant differences. In spite of that, the cognitive skills of some groups of birds match those of apes.
Versatile instrument to Scout for Kuiper belt objects
Mar 04, 2016, at 03:02 pm
California, Mar 4 (IBNS) At the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, astronomers are busy tinkering with a high-tech instrument that could discover a variety of objects both far from Earth and closer to home.
Methane snow on Pluto’s peaks
Mar 04, 2016, at 02:06 pm
California, Mar 4 (IBNS) One of Pluto’s most identifiable features, Cthulhu (pronounced kuh-THU-lu) stretches nearly halfway around Pluto’s equator, starting from the west of the great nitrogen ice plains known as Sputnik Planum.
Mystery feature evolves in Titan's Ligeia Mare
Mar 03, 2016, at 02:37 pm
California, Mar 3 (IBNS): These images from the Radar instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the evolution of a transient feature in the large hydrocarbon sea named Ligeia Mare on Saturn's moon Titan.
Atmospheric river storms can reduce Sierra snow: Study
Mar 03, 2016, at 02:26 pm
California, Mar 3 (IBNS) A new study by NASA and several partners has found that in California's Sierra Nevada, atmospheric river storms are two-and-a-half times more likely than other types of winter storms to result in destructive “rain-on-snow†events, where rain falls on existing snowpack, causing it to melt. Those events increase flood risks in winter and reduce water availability the following summer.
Astronauts Scott Kelly, Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth after a year in space
Mar 02, 2016, at 05:21 pm
Washington, Mar 2 (IBNS) NASA astronaut and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth Tuesday after a historic 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station.
Total eclipse of Sun to occur on Mar 9, partial phase is to be visible in India
Mar 01, 2016, at 08:42 pm
New Delhi, Mar 1 (IBNS) A total eclipse of the Sun will occur on Mar 9, the Ministry of Earth Science said on Tuesday.
NASA begins work to build a quieter supersonic passenger Jet
Mar 01, 2016, at 03:31 pm
California, Mar 1 (IBNS) The return of supersonic passenger air travel is one step closer to reality with NASA's award of a contract for the preliminary design of a “low boom†flight demonstration aircraft.
NASA technology transfer roadshow stops in Texas
Mar 01, 2016, at 03:30 pm
California,Mar 1 (IBNS) NASA’s Technology Transfer program will host events on March 9 and 10 in the El Paso, Texas, area and Las Cruces, New Mexico, to discuss how students and entrepreneurs can capitalize on NASA’s technology research and development.
PM greets the scientists and science lovers on National Science Day
Feb 28, 2016, at 07:57 pm
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IBNS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday greeted the scientists and science lovers on National Science Day.
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, researchers available to discuss one-year mission
Feb 27, 2016, at 10:15 pm
California, Feb 27 (IBNS) NASA will share the completion of American astronaut Scott Kelly’s one-year mission aboard the International Space Station with live television coverage of his return to Houston on Wednesday, March 2, and two news briefings on Mar 4.
NASA tests life-detection drill in earth’s driest place
Feb 27, 2016, at 10:08 pm
California, Feb 27 (IBNS) In a harsh environment with very little water and intense ultraviolet radiation, most life in the extreme Atacama Desert in Chile exists as microbial colonies underground or inside rocks.
NASA’s IBEX Observations pin down Interstellar Magnetic Field
Feb 27, 2016, at 01:29 pm
California, Feb 27 (IBNS) Immediately after its 2008 launch, NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spotted a curiosity in a thin slice of space: More particles streamed in through a long, skinny swath in the sky than anywhere else.
The Frozen Canyons of Pluto’s North Pole
Feb 26, 2016, at 03:45 pm
California, Feb 26 (IBNS): The ethereal scene captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft tells yet another story of Pluto’s diversity of geological and compositional features—this time in an enhanced color image of the north polar area.
ISRO signed satellite launch service agreement with the US
Feb 25, 2016, at 09:20 pm
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IBNS) In reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, Union minister Dr Jitendra Singh said that Antrix Corporation Limited (Antrix), the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), signed a Launch Services Agreement in October 2015, with PlanetIQ, an American company.
Tropical fires fuel elevated Ozone levels over western pacific ocean
Feb 25, 2016, at 03:09 pm
New York, Feb 25 (Just Earth News/IBNS) A diverse team of atmospheric chemists, meteorologists and modelers, including scientists from NASA, has traced the origins of mysterious pockets of high ozone concentrations and low water vapor in the air above the western Pacific Ocean near Guam to fires burning in Southeast Asia and in Africa, half a world away.
Flying through the Aurora's green fog
Feb 25, 2016, at 02:34 pm
California, Feb 25 (IBNS) Expedition 46 flight engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (ESA) shared a stunning image of a glowing aurora taken on Feb. 23 from the International Space Station.
NASA partners on air quality study in East Asia
Feb 25, 2016, at 01:53 pm
California, Feb 25 (IBNS) NASA and the Republic of Korea are developing plans for a cooperative field study of air quality in May and June to advance the ability to monitor air pollution accurately from space.
Feb 25, 2016, at 02:00 am
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IBNS) The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday was apprised about signing ofan arrangement for the establishment of an Indo-French Joint Committee on Science & Technology Cooperation.India and France have signed the arrangement for establishment of this apex level Joint Committee on Jan 25 in New Delhi.
K. N. Vyas takes over as BARC Director
Feb 25, 2016, at 12:12 am
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IBNS) Scientist K. N. Vyas has taken over as the Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Feb 25, 2016, at 12:05 am
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IBNS) ISRO is working with Minstry of Urban Development for enabling preparation of large scale GIS database using satellite data for 500 towns under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT).