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| Bizarre spider scar found on
Mercury's surface |
Jan 31, 2008 |
| Dark energy makes galaxies keep
their distance |
Jan 31, 2008 |
| Mercury's volcanic past revealed |
Jan 30, 2008 |
| Asteroid makes close Earth pass |
Jan 30, 2008 |
| Cosmic suburbia is a better breeding
ground for stars |
Jan 29, 2008 |
| Space impact creates giant mushroom
cloud |
Jan 28, 2008 |
| Satellite could plummet to Earth |
Jan 27, 2008 |
| Largest asteroid to come near
Earth in 22 years |
Jan 25, 2008 |
| Comet samples are surprisingly
asteroid-like |
Jan 25, 2008 |
| Jupiter's raging thunderstorms
a sign of 'global upheaval' |
Jan 24, 2008 |
| Virgin unveils
spaceship designs |
Jan 23, 2008 |
| Milky Way's
antimatter linked to exotic black holes |
Jan 22, 2008 |
| Tremors keep
crust-dwelling microbes alive |
Jan 22, 2008 |
| NASA investigates
virtual space |
Jan 21, 2008 |
| European probe
aims for Mercury |
Jan 20, 2008 |
| 'Monsters'
blamed for extreme chaos in black holes |
Jan 18, 2008 |
| Teleportation:
fact or fiction? |
Jan 18, 2008 |
| Ice clouds
put Mars in the shade |
Jan 17, 2008 |
| Upgraded neutrino
detector could root out dark matter |
Jan 17, 2008 |
| MESSENGER's
first look at Mercury's previously unseen side |
Jan 16, 2008 |
| Ocean rocket
returns to business |
Jan 16, 2008 |
| Hubble peers
into dark matter web |
Jan 15, 2008 |
| Photons orbit
black hole 'roulette wheel' |
Jan 15, 2008 |
| Cosmic dust
disc to force rethink |
Jan 14, 2008 |
| Hubble finds
double Einstein ring |
Jan 14, 2008 |
| Giant gas
cloud to crash into our galaxy |
Jan 12, 2008 |
| Even thin
galaxies can grow fat black holes |
Jan 12, 2008 |
| Where planets
can form, they do |
Jan 12, 2008 |
| Rapid spin
for giant black holes |
Jan 12, 2008 |
| MESSENGER
set for historic Mercury flyby |
Jan 11, 2008 |
| Middleweight
black holes roam the galaxy undetected |
Jan 11, 2008 |
| Fix will give
Hubble major boost |
Jan 11, 2008 |
| Risk of Mars
impact drops to 1 in 10,000 |
Jan 10, 2008 |
| Biggest black
hole in the cosmos discovered |
Jan 10, 2008 |
| Planets form
twice for old stars |
Jan 10, 2008 |
| Planet collision
could explain alien world's heat |
Jan 10, 2008 |
| Milky Way
'ancestors' discovered |
Jan 9, 2008 |
| Galaxy's spiral
arms point in opposite directions |
Jan 9, 2008 |
| 'Maverick'
sunspot heralds new solar cycle |
Jan 8, 2008 |
| Red dust in
planet-forming disk may harbor precursors to life |
Jan 7, 2008 |
| Hot cyclones
churn at both ends of Saturn |
Jan 5, 2008 |
| 10,000 Earths'
worth of fresh dust found near star explosion |
Jan 5, 2008 |
| Possible Mars
impact highlights risk to Earth |
Jan 4, 2008 |
| Airborne astronomers
to track intense meteor shower |
Jan 3, 2008 |
| First planet
discovered around a youthful star |
Jan 2, 2008 |
| Second thoughts
on life, the universe and everything by world's best brains |
Jan 1, 2008 |
Bizarre spider scar found on Mercury's
surface
(Jan 31, 2008)
A bizarre spider shape has been discovered on the surface of Mercury
during the first flyby of the planet by NASA's MESSENGER
spacecraft. The discovery of the spider – which is unlike anything
seen elsewhere in the solar system – was announced on Wednesday
along with other results from the historic pass.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
Dark energy makes galaxies keep their
distance
(Jan 31, 2008)
Galaxies today are struggling to clump together against the incredible
repulsive power of dark
energy, hints a new survey of thousands of galaxies. Measuring
this anti-clumping effect puts a new arrow in the quiver of cosmologists
seeking to uncover the nature of the mysterious force.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
Mercury's volcanic past revealed
(Jan 30, 2008)
A fly-by by a NASA unmanned space probe has revealed evidence of "widespread"
volcanism on the planet Mercury.
The US Mercury MESSENGER
spacecraft made a close pass of the first planet from the Sun on 14
January. Evidence from the Mariner 10 probe launched in the 1970s
had provided only tenuous evidence for volcanic activity.
Read
more. Source: BBC |
Asteroid makes close Earth pass
(Jan 30, 2008)
An asteroid some
250m (600ft) across has swept past the Earth. There was no chance
of it hitting the planet, but astronomers trained telescopes and radar
on the object to learn as much about it as they could. The asteroid
– which carries the rather dull designation 2007 TU24 –
passed by at a distance of 538,000km (334,000 miles), just outside
the Moon's orbit.
Read
more. Source: BBC |
Cosmic suburbia is a better breeding ground
for stars
(Jan 29, 2008)
New observations from NASA's Spitzer
Space Telescope suggest that galaxies prefer to raise stars in
cosmic suburbia rather than in "big cities." For the first time, Spitzer's
supersensitive eyes have caught an infrared glimpse of several galaxies
traveling along two filamentary roads into a galaxy cluster called
Abell 1763.
Read
more. Source: Caltech/NASA |
Space impact creates giant mushroom cloud
(Jan 28, 2008)
A mushroom-shaped hydrogen cloud rearing 1000 light years above the
plane of our galaxy
is the aftermath of a massive gas cloud that dive-bombed the Milky
Way, new computer simulations suggest. The work explains why the cloud
is unlike any other found so far.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
Satellite could plummet to Earth
(Jan 27, 2008)
A "large" US spy satellite has gone out of control and is expected
to crash to Earth some time in late February or March, government
sources say. Officials speaking on condition of anonymity said the
satellite had lost power and propulsion, and could contain hazardous
materials. The White House said it was monitoring the situation.
Read
more. Source: BBC |
Largest asteroid to come near Earth in
22 years
(Jan 25, 2008)
The largest asteroid
to come near the Earth in more than 20 years will make its closest
approach on Tuesday, venturing as close as 1.4 times the distance
to the Moon. Already, the first radar observations of the space rock
reveal it may have formed from two separate asteroids that fell together
and stuck.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
Comet samples are surprisingly asteroid-like
(Jan 25, 2008)
Samples of Comet Wild 2 suggest it is made of rocky material, like
an asteroid, rather
than the fluffy dust expected of a comet.
The object may be a refugee that formed in the asteroid belt before
getting kicked to the chilly fringes of the solar system, or it might
have formed in that frigid realm from material thrown out of the inner
solar system, scientists say.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
Jupiter's raging thunderstorms a sign
of 'global upheaval'
(Jan 24, 2008)
Towering storms more than 100 kilometres tall have been caught punching
up through Jupiter's
cloud deck for the first time, thanks to a series of Hubble Space
Telescope and ground-based observations. The rare storms – a
sign of recent turmoil on the planet – are helping scientists
deduce what lies hidden beneath the clouds that shroud the solar system's
largest planet.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
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