Space Physics

Largest physics meeting of the year convenes (EurekAlert!)

11 Mar 2010

( American Institute of Physics ) The March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) -- the largest physics meeting of the year -- will take place from March 15-19, 2010 in Portland, Ore., at the Oregon Convention Center and the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower Hotel.

Photo Release -- Northrop Grumman Names Paul Russell to Lead Space Navigation Business Area (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)

11 Mar 2010

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. -- Northrop Grumman Corporation has appointed Paul K. Russell vice president of the newly-created Space business area within the company's Navigation Systems Division, effective immediately.

HiFi infrared instrument discovers Orion Nebula is filled with life-generating chemicals (Geek.com)

11 Mar 2010

It might seem obvious to the contrary, but we actually don’t have any hard data that we’re not completely and totally alone in the universe. Space is unaccountably vast, and physics hems us in, so we haven’t been visited, and telescopes simply aren’t strong enough to spy alien dolphins playing in Andromeda’s methane seas. We [...]