March 3, 2016

March 2016 guide to the 5 bright planets | EarthSky.org

March 2016 guide to the 5 bright planets | EarthSky.org: Jupiter is at its best in March, 2016. Mars and Saturn are up long before dawn, while Venus makes a brief appearance just before sunrise.

Mysterious cosmic radio bursts found to repeat | Astronomy.com

Mysterious cosmic radio bursts found to repeat | Astronomy.com

Call for Media: The next flight to Mars is departing soon

Call for Media: The next flight to Mars is departing soon: The ExoMars 2016 mission is planned for launch at 09:31 GMT (10:31 CET) on 14 March from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Representatives of traditional and social media are invited to apply for accreditation to attend a day-long event at ESA’s control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.

February 24, 2016

One-Year Crew Returns from Space Station March 1; Live Coverage on NASA TV

One-Year Crew Returns from Space Station March 1; Live Coverage on NASA TV: NASA Television will provide complete coverage Tuesday, March 1, as three crew members depart the International Space Station, including NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos – the station’s first one-year crew.

Pulsar Web Could Detect Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves

Pulsar Web Could Detect Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves: Monitoring a vast network of rapidly spinning pulsars is key to finding very-low-frequency gravitational waves, researchers say.

February 23, 2016

Save the date: ExoMars 2016 launch event

Save the date: ExoMars 2016 launch event: Save the date: the next flight to Mars is departing soon.The ExoMars 2016 mission, a joint endeavour between ESA and Roscosmos, is targeting launch at 09:30 GMT on 14 March on a Proton-M/Breeze-M from Baikonur.Online registration for a dedicated media day at ESA’s operations centre, ESOC,…