 Spitzer Captures Cosmic 'Mountains of Creation' November 10, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals billowing mountains of dust ablaze with the fires of stellar youth. | |
 Hubble, Sloan Quadruple Number of Known Optical Einstein Rings November 17, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Astronomers have combined two powerful astronomical assets, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, to identify 19 new "gravitationally lensed" galaxies. Among these 19, they ... | |
Breakthrough in puzzle of giant explosions in space December 14, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Astronomers at the University of Hertfordshire have helped to solve one of the longest standing puzzles in astrophysics— the nature of the enormous explosions known as short-duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs). | |
 Measuring the size of a small, frost world January 04, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Being in the right place at the right time gave a group of Massachusetts research astronomers a unique opportunity to study Pluto's largest moon Charon. The resulting measurements, to unprecedented accuracy, ... | |
Researchers confirm role of massive flood in climate change January 10, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Climate modelers at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) have succeeded in reproducing the climate changes caused by a massive freshwater pulse into the North Atlantic that occurred at the beginning of the current ... | |
 Space Probes Detect Enormous Natural Particle Accelerator January 12, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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A fleet of NASA and ESA space-weather probes observed an immense jet of electrically charged particles in the solar wind between the Sun and Earth. The jet, at least 200 times as wide as the Earth, was powered ... | |
 Sounds of Star Death Near Middle C January 24, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Scientists have made the astonishing discovery that sound might drive supernovae explosions. Their computer simulations say that dying stars pulse at audible frequencies -- for instance, at about the F-note ... | |
 Stardust placed into hibernation mode January 31, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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NASA's Stardust spacecraft was placed into hibernation mode yesterday. Stardust successfully returned to Earth samples of a comet via its sample return capsule on Jan. 15. The spacecraft has logged almost seven ... | |
THOR Mars Mission To Seek Underground Water February 01, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A new, low-cost mission concept to Mars would slam a projectile into the planet's surface in an attempt to look for subsurface water ice. | |
The Oceans As Carbon Dioxide Sinks Increasing Our Understanding February 22, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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German and British scientists have studied the ocean off south-western Africa and have discovered that particles are transported to the deep ocean over thousands of years before being deposited on the seabed. This discovery ... | |
U.S. greenhouse emissions up 1.7 percent February 28, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says greenhouse gas emissions increased by 1.7 percent during 2004 from the previous year. | |
 Radar altimetry revolutionises the study of the ocean March 15, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Imagine a space tool so revolutionary it can determine the impact of climate change, monitor the melting of glaciers, discover invisible waves, predict the strength of hurricanes, conserve fish stocks and measure ... | |
 ESA's Venus Express to reach final destination April 07, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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It was on 9 November last year that ESA's Venus Express spacecraft lifted off from the desert of Kazakhstan onboard a Soyuz-Fregat rocket. Now, after having travelled 400 million kilometres in only about five ... | |
 Fragmenting Comet Won't Hit Earth April 27, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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There will be no tsunamis, firestorms or mass extinctions to spoil your Memorial Day weekend. Although the Internet is rife with speculation that a fragment of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 will strike the ... | |
EPA accused of ignoring sewage chemicals May 10, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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U.S. scientists say tons of bacteria-killing chemicals are being released into the environment annually, possibly entering food and water supplies. | |
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