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Thirty Meter Telescope to Begin Constructing Powerful Next-Generation Telescope

Following the approval of a sublease on July 25 by the Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) announces the beginning of the construction phase on Hawaii Island and around the world throughout the TMT international partnership.

29 Jul 2014

Extraordinary Nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Coming Into Focus

The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe is approaching Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for a historic mission to orbit and land on the comet's nucleus.

18 Jul 2014

Static Testing Completed for Primary Mirror Backplane Support Structure of James Webb Space Telescope

Northrop Grumman Corporation and teammate ATK have completed static testing of the primary mirror backplane support structure (PMBSS), moving NASA's James Webb Space Telescope one step closer to its 2018 launch.

9 Jul 2014

Spitzer Space Telescope Measures Candidate Size for NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have measured the size of an asteroid candidate for NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a proposed spacecraft concept to capture either a small asteroid, or a boulder from an asteroid. The near-Earth asteroid, called 2011 MD, was found to be roughly 20 feet (6 meters) in size, and its structure appears to contain a lot of empty space, perhaps resembling a pile of rubble. Spitzer's infrared vision was key to sizing up the asteroid.

20 Jun 2014

LLNL Selects Ball Aerospace to Build L1-L2 Lens Assembly for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Camera

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to build the optics and support structure, designated as the L1-L2 Lens Assembly, for the camera on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will sit atop the 8,800 ft. tall Cerro Pachon mountaintop in Chile.

From BAE Systems 20 Jun 2014

Nanosatellites Launched from Yasny Cost a Fraction of Conventional Space Telescopes

Two nanosatellites were launched from Yasny, Russia, at 15:11:11 Eastern Daylight Time today by Anthony Moffat, of the University of Montreal and the Centre for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec, and the Canadian research and technology team he leads.

20 Jun 2014

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Helps Assemble Comprehensive Picture of Evolving Universe

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe – among the most colorful deep space images ever captured by the 24-year-old telescope.

5 Jun 2014

Anticyclonic Storm on Jupiter Shrinks to Smallest Size

Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot - a swirling anticyclonic storm feature larger than Earth - has shrunken to the smallest size ever measured. Astronomers have followed this downsizing since the 1930s.

16 May 2014

New Images from Two Radio Telescopes Reveal Remarkable Features of Earth’s Moon

New images of Earth’s Moon reveal more than can be seen with the naked eye, thanks to the combined efforts of the two largest radio telescopes of their kind -- the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

15 May 2014

Novel Project Enables Visually Impaired to Explore Dust-Enshrouded Stars through Touch

A project at the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory, which enables the visually impaired to almost literally touch the stars, will take flight May 5 and 7 aboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.

5 May 2014

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