 Ocean 'dead zones' expanding worldwide: study August 16, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Oceanic "dead zones" where marine life cannot survive have been steadily increasing over the past five decades and now encompass 400 coastal areas of the world, a US-Swedish study said Friday. | |
Iran launches home-built satellite rocket August 17, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Iran said it had launched a rocket carrying a test-satellite into space on Sunday, in a move that could further exacerbate tensions with the West over its nuclear drive. | |
 Phoenix Mars Lander Confirms Martian Water July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 87 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced ... | |
New computer simulations show how special the solar system is August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Prevailing theoretical models attempting to explain the formation of the solar system have assumed it to be average in every way. Now a new study by Northwestern University astronomers, using recent data from the 300 exoplanets ... | |
 'Cosmic ghost' discovered by volunteer astronomer August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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When Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski and his colleagues at Oxford University enlisted public support in cataloguing galaxies, they never envisioned the strange object Hanny van Arkel found in archived ... | |
 New insights into centre of the Earth August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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A new observation of the very deepest part of the Earth, the solid inner core, has been reported this week in Nature. The team from the University of Bristol also observed intriguing evidence of a ‘texture’ ... | |
Mother Earth naked -- a modern masterpiece July 31, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Have you ever wondered what our world would look like stripped bare of all plants, soils, water and man-made structures? Well wonder no longer; images of the Earth as never seen before have been unveiled in what is the world's ... | |
 The M2-F1: 'Look Ma! No Wings!' August 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The planned retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2010 will bring to a close an era that opened in the Antelope Valley nearly a half century ago. | |
 XMM-Newton's massive discovery August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has discovered the most massive cluster of galaxies seen in the distant Universe until now. The galaxy cluster is so big that there can only be ... | |
Brian May, guitarist for rock band Queen, completes Ph.D. thesis following 30-year hiatus July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Brian May, the guitarist and founding member of the legendary rock band Queen, earned his PhD in astronomy last year from Imperial College London. His PhD thesis A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud ... | |
 Jupiter and Saturn full of liquid metal helium August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A strange, metal brew lies buried deep within Jupiter and Saturn, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and in London. | |
 Virgin Galactic unveils space tourism craft 'WhiteKnightTwo' (Update 2) July 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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British tycoon Richard Branson on Monday unveiled a futuristic aircraft that will ferry tourists to the edge of the heavens as part of Virgin Galactic's much-anticipated space program. | |
 Martian soil may contain detrimental substance August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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Scientists are analyzing results from soil samples delivered several weeks ago to science instruments on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to understand the landing site's soil chemistry and mineralogy. | |
Snapshot of past climate reveals no ice in Antarctica millions of years ago July 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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A snapshot of New Zealand's climate 40 million years ago reveals a greenhouse Earth, with warmer seas and little or no ice in Antarctica, according to research published this week in the journal Geology. | |
 Perseid Meteor Shower To Peak Aug. 12 August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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The annual Perseid meteor shower will be visible in the night sky throughout Colorado and will peak during the early morning hours of Aug. 12, according to an astronomy expert at the University of Colorado ... | |
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