http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. From 14 - 25 August 2010, scientists from around the world will gather in Southern Turkey to measure the spectral reflectance of a few square kilometres of salt. These measurements will have a major impact on the future of satellite based Earth observation, and will ultimately improve our understanding of the Earth's climate. http://phys.org/news201172013.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:30:05 EST news201172013 (AP) -- An island of ice more than four times the size of Manhattan is drifting across the Arctic Ocean after breaking off from a glacier in Greenland. http://phys.org/news200718828.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:14:07 EST news200718828 (AP) -- Two Russian cosmonauts on Tuesday completed a nearly 7-hour-long spacewalk to replace a video camera and improve cable connections to the orbiting laboratory's newest module. http://phys.org/news199455660.html Space & Earth Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:40:01 EST news199455660 (PhysOrg.com) -- A proposal to design a spacecraft that would seek out habitable planets beyond our own solar system could become reality after receiving support from the UK Space Agency. http://phys.org/news198752114.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:10:01 EST news198752114 The ESA space probe Rosetta flew past the Lutetia planetoid at around 6 p.m. CEST on Saturday. The OSIRIS camera system, built and developed under the direction of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, provided unique images of this rendezvous. They not only show a large number of craters on the surface of the celestial body, but also individual rocks and parallel grooves. http://phys.org/news198320549.html Space & Earth Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:20:02 EST news198320549 The European spacecraft Rosetta performed a fly-by of a massive asteroid, the European Space Agency said, taking images that could one day help Earth defend itself from destruction. http://phys.org/news198075759.html Space & Earth Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:02:56 EST news198075759 Tiny little shutters as small as the width of a human hair are a key component in the James Webb Space Telescope's ability to see huge distances in the cosmos, and they have now arrived at the European Space Agency. Those little "shutters" are actually called "microshutters" and they are tiny doorways that focus the attention of the infrared camera on specific targets to the exclusion of others. They will focus in on objects like very distant stars and galaxies. http://phys.org/news197048142.html Space & Earth Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:35:57 EST news197048142 (PhysOrg.com) -- A planetary scientist from University College London is designing the 'eyes' of a rover that will search for signs of life on Mars. http://phys.org/news195834060.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:40:01 EST news195834060 (PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine watching the birth of the universe -- the Big Bang -- from the outside. What would you have seen? http://phys.org/news195402955.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:36:20 EST news195402955 Ever wondered what it would be like to go on a mission to Mars? On June 3, a six-man international crew entered an isolation chamber in Moscow for a simulated 520-day Mars mission conducted by the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation - Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The crew has a mission schedule full of more than 90 experiments and realistic scenarios, including emergency situations, 20-minute communications delays and a trip to the martian surface. http://phys.org/news194769907.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:45:27 EST news194769907 A development model of the Mars Rover, called Bridget, was on display at the University of Leicester today providing invited schoolchildren as well as staff and students with an exciting glimpse into the shape of things to come. http://phys.org/news194695428.html Space & Earth Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:04:06 EST news194695428 (AP) -- For the past decade, NASA's Mars exploration strategy was to follow the water. http://phys.org/news193383644.html Space & Earth Tue, 18 May 2010 06:48:01 EST news193383644 Japan on Tuesday postponed the launch of a rocket due to deploy a Venus probe and an experimental "space yacht" propelled by solar particles, because of bad weather at the launch site. http://phys.org/news193379581.html Space & Earth Tue, 18 May 2010 06:00:04 EST news193379581 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers, like physicians, use as much of the electromagnetic spectrum as they can, from X-ray to radio wavelengths, to examine their subjects the with the most suitable diagnostics. http://phys.org/news193337135.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 May 2010 17:46:21 EST news193337135 The first launch of Russia's Soyuz rocket from Europe's space base in French Guiana, initially scheduled for the end of 2009, will now take place "during the fourth quarter of 2010," satellite launch operators Arianespace announced on Tuesday. http://phys.org/news192817132.html Space & Earth Tue, 11 May 2010 18:10:08 EST news192817132 (AP) -- A TV communications satellite is drifting out of control thousands of miles above the Earth, threatening to wander into another satellite's orbit and interfere with cable programming across the United States, the satellites' owners said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news192817061.html Technology Tue, 11 May 2010 17:18:06 EST news192817061 (PhysOrg.com) -- More than 700 kilometres above Earth, a recently launched satellite is being readied to provide University of Alberta researchers with a new set of eyes for monitoring ice thickness across the Arctic. http://phys.org/news191245345.html Space & Earth Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:00:01 EST news191245345 NASA and the European Space Agency are sending a mission to study Jupiter and its moon Europa in 2020. There may be life in the moon’s ocean, but to find out a mission will have to be able to drill down through the overlying ice shell. http://phys.org/news190564066.html Space & Earth Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:30:26 EST news190564066 Britain launched its own space agency Tuesday with the help of home-grown astronaut Major Timothy Peake, aimed at boosting the country's multi-billion-pound space technology industry. http://phys.org/news188572646.html Space & Earth Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:30:01 EST news188572646 (PhysOrg.com) -- A working replica of MIRI - the pioneering camera and spectrometer for the James Webb Space Telescope - has just been shipped (16th March) from the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre, bringing the Webb Telescope one small step closer to embarking on its journey into space where it will produce the sharpest images yet of the farthest depths of the cosmos. http://phys.org/news188143626.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:07:36 EST news188143626 Europe's third space freighter will be named after Italian physicist Edoardo Amaldi, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday. http://phys.org/news187961431.html Space & Earth Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:30:45 EST news187961431 The consortium of agencies building the International Space Station (ISS) wants to see if the orbital outpost can operate until 2028, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. http://phys.org/news187542236.html Space & Earth Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:04:10 EST news187542236 (AP) -- Astronauts ran into trouble Saturday while setting up the International Space Station's newest room, Tranquility: A critical insulating cover does not fit. http://phys.org/news185290185.html Space & Earth Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:31:20 EST news185290185 Virginia Key, Florida--Scientists at the University of Miami have analyzed images based on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations taken before and just after Haiti's earthquake, on January 12. The images reveal surprising new details. http://phys.org/news184950316.html Space & Earth Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:30:02 EST news184950316 NASA is looking forward to unprecedented scientific opportunities aboard the International Space Station. With station assembly nearing completion, the ISS Partnership is looking forward to using the station to its fullest capacity. The U.S. administration's fiscal year 2011 budget proposal calls for continuing station operations to at least 2020, which will create new opportunities for advancing microgravity science research. http://phys.org/news184602387.html Space & Earth Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:27:06 EST news184602387 The back up system of HIFI, the state of the art Dutch space instrument on ESA's Herschel space telescope, has been switched on successfully. http://phys.org/news182758476.html Space & Earth Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:40:01 EST news182758476 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Huygens probe parachuted down to the surface of Saturn's haze-shrouded moon Titan exactly five years ago on Jan. 14, 2005, providing data that scientists on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn are still building upon today. http://phys.org/news182709593.html Space & Earth Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:40:27 EST news182709593 The EU's much-delayed Galileo sat-nav network will begin operation in 2014, the European Commission said Thursday as it awarded key contracts to Germany's OHB System and France's Arianespace. http://phys.org/news182076370.html Technology Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:47:00 EST news182076370 An island-sized iceberg is breaking up as it drifts closer to Australia, producing hundreds of smaller slabs spread over a massive area of ocean, experts said Monday. http://phys.org/news179994041.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:21:28 EST news179994041 (PhysOrg.com) -- The European Space Agency has today released spectacular new observations from the Herschel Space Observatory, including the UK-led SPIRE instrument. Spectrometers on board all three Hershel instruments have been used to analyse the light from objects inside our galaxy and from other galaxies, producing some of the best measurements yet of atoms and molecules involved in the birth and death of stars. http://phys.org/news178551842.html Space & Earth Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:45:21 EST news178551842