Astronaut Alex Gerst recently captured this glorious photo from the International Space Station. It shows a series of towering thunderstorms...
Sunday, 28 September 2014
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
If there was a tsunami warning in your area, could you escape on foot?
If there was a tsunami warning in your area, could you escape on foot? That's the question a new tool released by the USGS takes on. The Pedestrian...
Monday, 15 September 2014
Astrobiologists can now add a new term to their lexicon: The Venus Zone.
Astrobiologists can now add a new term to their lexicon: The Venus Zone. It describes the area around a star in which a planet is likely to...
Friday, 12 September 2014
Extraterrestrial Impact Event Cause of "Big Freeze" 12,000 Years Ago
Around 12,800 years ago, a sudden, catastrophic event plunged much of the Earth into a period of cold climatic conditions and drought. This...
Gigantic Holes in Venus's Hellish Atmosphere Provides Clues to Long-Standing Enigmas
Planet Venus, with its thick atmosphere made of carbon dioxide, its parched surface, and pressures so high that landers are crushed within...
NASA Simulates Alien-Planet Atmospheres that Indicate Biological Activity
Astronomers searching the atmospheres of alien worlds for gases that might be produced by life can't rely on the detection of just one type,...
Thursday, 11 September 2014
"Is Our Solar System Unique or the 'Standard'?" --Kepler Mission Scientists Ask
Kepler researchers want to understand how terrestrial planets like Venus, Earth and Mars and gas giant planets like Jupiter are distributed...
Quasar Mystery Solved --"Clues to Understanding Cosmic Growth of Supermassive Black Holes"
Quasars are supermassive black holes that live at the center of distant massive galaxies. They shine as the most luminous beacons in the...
Supernova Puzzle Solved --"The Disappearing Yellow Supergiant"
The question of how massive stars spend their short lives until they become supernovae is of great interest for astrophysicists. According...
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
New NASA Team Spots Massive Galaxies at the Very Edge of the Visible Universe
A new survey of galaxies by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is taking a plunge into the deep and uncharted waters of our cosmos. In one of...
A Mystery of the Early Universe --"The Missing Element"
The Milky Way galaxy is orbited by more than 150 globular star clusters, which are balls of hundreds of thousands of old stars dating back...
Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Water Clouds Detected for 1st Time Beyond Our Solar System
A team of scientists At the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile has discovered the first evidence of water ice clouds on an object outside...
Space Scientists Decipher Long-standing Mysteries of Sunspot Cycles
"Sunspots have been the perennial marker for understanding the mechanisms that rule the sun's interior," said Scott McIntosh, a space scientist...
97 Scientists Are Devoting 97 Hours To Debunking Climate Change Denial
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What Caused This Crater In Nicaragua?
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Here's Why You See Those Flickering Clouds Around the Tavurvur Volcano
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Explaining This Week's Geeky Buzzword: "Precipitable Water"
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8 Things We Can Do Now to Build a Space Colony This Century
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Evidence For Icy Plate Tectonics Found On Europa
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Drunk Museum Review: Why You Shouldn't Drink And Fly A Pterosaur
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Marvel At The Truly Awesome Sight (And Sound) Of A Volcanic Blast
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A Triassic Beast Brews Up A Surprisingly Gentle India Pale Ale
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Monday, 8 September 2014
Image of the Day --The Eta Carinae Superstar: Site of the "Great Eruption"
The Eta Carinae star system does not lack for superlatives. Not only does it contain one of the biggest and brightest stars in our galaxy,...
The 2020 MARS Rover --"Mankind's Most Sophisticated Search for Signs of Life"
The 2020 Mars rover has the overarching goal of seeking the signs of life, following up on the Curiosity rover's discovery at the Gale Crater...
Astronomers Discover Evidence of a Planet forming around a Star 335 Light Years from Earth
An international team that has discovered what they believe is evidence of a planet forming around a star about 335 light years from Earth....
Friday, 5 September 2014
The Mystery of Europa's Vanished Geysers --"Taller than Mount Everest"
In 2013, huge active plumes containing water vapour being released from the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa have been discovered. This sensational...
Thursday, 4 September 2014
Our galactic supercluster is 100 times bigger in volume and mass than previously thought.
Our galactic supercluster is 100 times bigger in volume and mass than previously thought . Using an innovative mapping technique, astronomers...
Wednesday, 3 September 2014
Milky Way Found to Exist on Outskirts of a Vast Supercluster of 100,000 Galaxies
Astronomers have determined that our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified ginormous supercluster of galaxies, which they have...
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