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Iron 'snow' helps maintain Mercury's magnetic field, scientists say (5/9/2008)

Iron 'snow' helps maintain Mercury's magnetic field, scientists sayNew scientific evidence suggests that deep inside the planet Mercury, iron "snow" forms and falls toward the center of the planet, much like snowflakes form in Earth's atmosphere and fall to the ground. ...> Full Article


Supercomputer To Simulate Extreme Stellar Physics (5/8/2008)

Supercomputer To Simulate Extreme Stellar PhysicsScientists to work on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, simulating an event that takes less than five seconds. ...> Full Article


Life-Probing Instrument Preparing for Mission to Mars (5/7/2008)

Life-Probing Instrument Preparing for Mission to MarsResearcher receives $2 million in funding for Urey instrument's flight planning and design ...> Full Article


Missing piece of cosmological puzzle found (5/7/2008)

Missing piece of cosmological puzzle foundAstronomers detect a part of long-searched baryonic matter in a filament connecting two clusters of galaxies ...> Full Article


Searching the heavens (5/6/2008)

A new space mission, due to launch this month, is going to shed light on some of the most extreme astrophysical processes in nature - including pulsars, remnants of supernovae, and supermassive black holes. It could even help us comprehend the origin and distribution of dark matter ...> Full Article


Record-setting Laser May Aid Searches for Earthlike Planets (5/6/2008)

Record-setting Laser May Aid Searches for Earthlike PlanetsLaser used as a frequency comb-an ultraprecise technique for measuring different colors of light-could boost the sensitivity of astronomical tools searching for other Earthlike planets as much as 100 fold ...> Full Article


Big Black Holes Cook Flambeed Stellar Pancakes (5/5/2008)

Big Black Holes Cook Flambeed Stellar PancakesThe fate of stars that venture too close to massive black holes could be even more violent than previously believed ...> Full Article


Did the solar system 'bounce' finish the dinosaurs? (5/5/2008)

The sun's movement through the Milky Way regularly sends comets hurtling into the inner solar system - coinciding with mass life extinctions on earth ...> Full Article


Solar Images Show Green And Blue Flashes (5/4/2008)

Solar Images Show Green And Blue FlashesStunning images, obtained by ESO staff at Paranal, of the green and blue flashes, as well as of the so-called 'Gegenschein', are real cases in point. ...> Full Article


Stellar Ticking Time Bomb Explodes on Cue (5/4/2008)

Stellar Ticking Time Bomb Explodes on CueUsing observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), an international team of astronomers has discovered a timing mechanism that allows them to predict exactly when a superdense star will unleash incredibly powerful explosions. ...> Full Article


Astronomers Discover New Type of Pulsating White Dwarf Star (5/3/2008)

Astronomers Discover New Type of Pulsating White Dwarf StarDiscovery helps solve riddle of where the carbon white dwarfs come from, and what happens to their hydrogen and helium ...> Full Article


Cracks In The Foundation: Fundamental Geological Assumption Relating To Planet Earth Not Quite True (5/2/2008)

Cracks In The Foundation: Fundamental Geological Assumption Relating To Planet Earth Not Quite TrueChondritic meteorites have a similar chemical composition to the sun and are therefore reliable witnesses as to what the solar nebula, from which the planets formed, was composed of ...> Full Article


Ultra-Dense Galaxies Found in Early Universe (5/1/2008)

Ultra-Dense Galaxies Found in Early UniverseA team of astronomers looking at the universe's distant past found nine young, unusually compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. ...> Full Article


Scientists Find Rings of Jupiter Are Shaped in Shadow (5/1/2008)

Scientists Find Rings of Jupiter Are Shaped in ShadowScientists appear to have solved a long-standing mystery about the cause of anomalies in Jupiter's gossamer rings. ...> Full Article


Black hole expelled from its parent galaxy (4/30/2008)

Black hole expelled from its parent galaxyGravitational rocket propelled the monster at a speed of thousands of kilometres per second ...> Full Article


Oldest Known Celestial Objects Are Surprisingly Immature (4/29/2008)

Oldest Known Celestial Objects Are Surprisingly ImmatureSome of the oldest objects in the Universe may still have a long way to go ...> Full Article


Northern lights glimmer with unexpected trait (4/28/2008)

Northern lights glimmer with unexpected traitAn international team of scientists has detected that some of the glow of Earth's aurora is polarized, an unexpected state for such emissions ...> Full Article


A Hubble atlas of interacting galaxies (4/27/2008)

A Hubble atlas of interacting galaxiesFifty nine new images of colliding galaxies make up the largest collection of Hubble images ever released together. As this astonishing Hubble atlas of interacting galaxies illustrates, galaxy collisions produce a remarkable variety of intricate structures. ...> Full Article


Plan to identify watery earth-like planets develops (4/26/2008)

Astronomers are looking to identify Earth-like watery worlds circling distant stars from a glint of light seen through an optical space telescope and a mathematical method ...> Full Article


Radio Telescope Reveals Secrets of Massive Black Hole (4/25/2008)

Radio Telescope Reveals Secrets of Massive Black HoleNew telescope evidence suggests twisted magnetic fields in supermassive black holes cause particle and energy jets to surge out in corkscrews ...> Full Article


Glaciers Reveal Martian Climate Has Been Recently Active (4/24/2008)

Glaciers Reveal Martian Climate Has Been Recently ActiveResearchers have found compelling evidence of thick, recurring glaciers on Mars, a discovery that suggests that the Red Planet's climate was much more dynamic than previously believed - and could change again ...> Full Article


Telescope helps give astronomers insights into blazars (4/24/2008)

For the first time, astronomers have observed a blazar in action, substantiating a prevailing theory about how these luminous and energetic galactic cores work. ...> Full Article


Could There Be Life On Saturn's Moon Enceladus? (4/22/2008)

Could There Be Life On Saturn's Moon Enceladus?Could microbial life exist inside Enceladus, where no sunlight reaches, photosynthesis is impossible and no oxygen is available? To answer that question, we need look no farther than our own planet to find examples of the types of exotic ecosystems that could make life possible on Saturn's geyser moon. The answer appears to be, yes, it could be possible. ...> Full Article


The Moon and the Magnetotail (4/21/2008)

The Moon and the MagnetotailEarth's magnetotail discharges plasma to charge the Moon. ...> Full Article


Mars radar opens up a planet's third dimension (4/20/2008)

Mars radar opens up a planet's third dimensionRadar sounding is opening up a planet's third dimension ...> Full Article


Solar flares set the Sun quaking (4/19/2008)

Solar flares set the Sun quakingSatellite data shows clearly that powerful starquakes ripple around the Sun in the wake of mighty solar flares that explode above its surface. The observations give solar physicists new insight into a long-running solar mystery and may even provide a way of studying other stars. ...> Full Article


NASA extends Cassini's grand tour of Saturn (4/18/2008)

NASA extends Cassini's grand tour of SaturnNASA is extending the international Cassini-Huygens mission by two years ...> Full Article


Black hole sheds light on a galaxy (4/18/2008)

Black hole sheds light on a galaxyLight echo of a high-energy flash from a black hole first observed in detail ...> Full Article


The Drifting Star (4/17/2008)

The Drifting StarBy studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harbouring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted away from the metal-rich Hyades cluster ...> Full Article

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Recent Articles
Iron 'snow' helps maintain Mercury's magnetic field, scientists say 5/9/2008

Supercomputer To Simulate Extreme Stellar Physics 5/8/2008

Life-Probing Instrument Preparing for Mission to Mars 5/7/2008

Missing piece of cosmological puzzle found 5/7/2008

Searching the heavens 5/6/2008

Record-setting Laser May Aid Searches for Earthlike Planets 5/6/2008

Big Black Holes Cook Flambeed Stellar Pancakes 5/5/2008

Did the solar system 'bounce' finish the dinosaurs? 5/5/2008

Solar Images Show Green And Blue Flashes 5/4/2008

Stellar Ticking Time Bomb Explodes on Cue 5/4/2008

Astronomers Discover New Type of Pulsating White Dwarf Star 5/3/2008

Cracks In The Foundation: Fundamental Geological Assumption Relating To Planet Earth Not Quite True 5/2/2008

Ultra-Dense Galaxies Found in Early Universe 5/1/2008

Scientists Find Rings of Jupiter Are Shaped in Shadow 5/1/2008

Black hole expelled from its parent galaxy 4/30/2008

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