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Founded in 1944, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science develops philanthropic support for the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and advances its mission of science for the future of humanity.
Aug 12, 2019... The Weizmann Institute of Science and the Israel Space Agency will work together to create a new "micro-satellite," the ULTRASAT, projected to launch in 2023 (W ... Read more
Aug 01, 2016... Headed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Juno’s mission is to “improve our understanding of the solar system’s beginnings by revealing the origin and evoluti ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/a-multiple-impact-origin-for-the-moon/
Jan 09, 2017... The formation of the Moon has remained something of a puzzle. A leading theory proposes a cataclysmic impact involving a Mars-sized object and a young Earth. Bu ... Read more
May 28, 2017...
This artist’s concept shows the pole-to-pole orbits of NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter. Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI
Less than a year into its ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/truly-reaching-for-the-stars-in-2016/
Jan 19, 2016... The Mars rovers. A spacecraft landing on a comet. Space tourism. Even the Star Wars reboot: Thanks to such thrilling events, interest in space may not have been ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/breaking-the-ice-in-search-of-cosmic-answers/
Jun 25, 2012...
Hagar Landsman-Peles and flags at the South Pole. Photo by Hagar Landsman-Peles
A year and a half ago, after almost a decade of construction, a unique part ... Read more
Dec 12, 2016... This artist’s illustration depicts a sun-like star being “spaghettified” by a supermassive black hole, which has the mass of 100 million times that of Earth’s s ... Read more
Jul 26, 2010... The lakes of southern Titan are shrinking.The level of Ontario Lacus, the largest lake in the southern hemisphere of this Saturnian moon, has fallen by some 15 ... Read more
Jul 24, 2017... A mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars. This view is similar to what one would see from a spacecraft, according to NASA.The Trojan asteroids that f ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/scientists-find-signs-of-missing-god-particle/
Dec 14, 2011... Weizmann Institute of Science astrophysicists have been prominent inthe experiments that have shown "promising signs" of the existence ofthe Higgs boson – the " ... Read more
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