Russia Asks Anew for ESA Assistance to Avert Impending Re-entry of Phobos-Grunt
Russian has again asked the assistance of the European Space Agency (ESA) to contact the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft to avert the impending re-entry of the vehicle to the Earth’s atmosphere.
Dec 09, 2011
CERN Physicists Now Possess Data on Higgs Boson, Expect First Glimpse Soon
CERN physicists are now in possession of new data that could point with greater certainty where to find the Higgs boson or “God-particle” which has long been sought by scientists.
Dec 09, 2011
Solar Storms Could Erode Lunar Surface: NASA
The moon and other planets could be severely affected by solar storms and the accompanying coronal mass ejections (CMEs) according to a research by NASA scientists.
Dec 08, 2011
NASA Telescope Expects More Alien Planets Finds Before Mission Ends in November 2012
After its discovery of 1,094 exoplanet candidates on Monday, the NASA Kepler space telescope is expected to find more alien planets before the end of iots prime mission in November 2012, space officials said.
Dec 08, 2011
‘Sungrazer’ Comet Set to Rendezvous With The Sun
A newly discovered comet, categorized by astronomers as a “sungrazer,” is moving towards the sun and is expected to graze the sun’s surface in mid-December.
Dec 08, 2011
‘Unspoken Space Race’ Heats Up Asian Countries, Experts Say
There is an “unspoken space race” among Asian countries which may fuel regional tensions and increase risk of space militarization, according to policy experts.
Dec 08, 2011
Study Finds Link Between Childbirth And Bipolar Affective Disorder
New research show that risks of developing bipolar affective disorder is increased if a woman experiences a psychiatric episode within the first 30 days after childbirth.
Dec 08, 2011
Online Database Of Habitable Planets Now Available
Do you want to know what planets are habitable? Search the answer in the Habitable Exoplanet Catalog (HEC) website, the new online catalog of habitable planets.
Dec 08, 2011
NASA: 'Merging Tsunami' Increased Massive Destruction in Japan
The earthquake that hit Japan on March 11 triggered the long-hypothesized "merging tsunami," researchers said, noting that data from NASA and European radar satellites captured at least two wave fronts that doubled the disaster's intensity.
Dec 07, 2011
Russia’s Phobos-Grunt Spacecraft Shows Signs of Decay, Slowly Descending to Earth
Russia’s Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is currently in a 299 kilometer orbit and is slowly descending towards the Earth’s atmosphere.
Dec 07, 2011
Diamond-Made Giant Planets Are A Possibility, Study Says
Some stars in the Milky Way could be harboring giant terrestrial planets containing up to 50 percent diamonds, a new study suggests.
Dec 07, 2011
ESO’s Very Large Telescope Spots Fastest Rotating Star To Date
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has spotted the fastest rotating star known to date, rotating at more than two million kilometers per hour, more than three hundred times faster than the Sun.
Dec 07, 2011
Study of Dead Sea Sediments Reveals that It ‘Died' Long Time Ago
A new study has revealed that 120,000 years ago, during the Eemian, the Dead Sea dried down, demonstrating how dry the Middle East can become during warm phases. The Eemian is a stage in Earth history when global temperatures were as warm, if not warmer than at present.
Dec 07, 2011
Himalayan Glaciers At Risk Due to Climate Change
A report released at the United Nation’s annual climate summit in Durban, South Africa confirmed that the Himalayan glaciers are fast receding due to climate change.
Dec 06, 2011
China’s Next Space Mission Shenzhou 9 to Bring First Astronaut to Space Lab
Spacewatchers are looking forward to China’s next space mission after Shenzhou 8’s successful docking mission to Tiangong 1 space laboratory.
Dec 06, 2011
Bronze Age Men Loved Nettle Stew, Newly Discovered Artifacts in UK Show
A massive collection of artifacts, around 3,000 years old, were recently recovered from the Cambridgeshire Fens in eastern England, including containers of food that have been analyzed as nettle stew.
Dec 06, 2011
Global Carbon Emissions Reached 10 Billion Tons in 2010, Exceeds Two Degrees Warning by 2100
A study showed that global carbon emission reached 10 billion tons in 2010 and that the average yearly fossil fuel emissions increased by an average of 3.1 percent starting 2000 up to 2010, and expected to continue to increase by 3.1 percent in 2011.
Dec 06, 2011
New Way to Harness Solar Energy Mimics Greenhouse Effect, Multiplies Efficiency
A novel way to harness the sun’s energy that mimics Earth’s greenhouse effect has been discovered by researchers from MIT.
Dec 05, 2011
NASA’s New Horizon Spacecraft Breaks Proximity-to-Pluto Record
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has broken the closest-approach mark to Pluto set by NASA’s Voyager 1 in January 1986.
Dec 05, 2011
Does Higgs Boson Exist? Latest Evidence From Large Hadron Collider To Provide Answers
New evidence from the Large Hadron Collider will soon finally resolve questions on whether or not the Higgs boson or “God particle” exists.
Dec 05, 2011
More Huge Alien Planets Discovered, Number Now Over 700
The discovery of 18 new alien planets, all of which are Jupiter-sized and circle stars bigger than Earth’s sun, has brought to more than 700 the list of known exoplanets.
Dec 05, 2011
ESA Ends Mission Support to Russia’s Phobos-Grunt, Two PG-Related Objects Identified
The U.S. Space Surveillance/US STRATCOM has identified two objects associated to the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, and both objects are rapidly decaying.
Dec 05, 2011
No Prediction For 2012 Apocalypse From Mayan Calendar According to Experts
Experts have dispelled beliefs that the world will end in 2012 based on the Mayan calendar.
Dec 05, 2011
Astronomers Puzzled by Ancient Stars with Heavy Metals
A new study revealed that some ancient stars in the outer reaches of the Milky Way were found to have an unusually large amounts of heavy metals like gold, platinum and uranium.
Dec 02, 2011
Earthquake Prediction may Improve with New Study of Earth’s Past
A new study on plate tectonics will allow researchers to predict when and where earthquakes will occur, scientists believe.
Dec 02, 2011
Huge Exoplanet Somersaults, Tugging Four Sibling Planets Along
A new study showed a giant exoplanet, which is about four times the size of Jupiter, doing somersaults into space and tugging four sibling planets along.
Dec 02, 2011
No New Signals from Russian Phobos-Grunt Probe; Skywatcher Takes Snapshots of Doomed Spacecraft
The European Space Agency's latest efforts to communicate with Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft remain unsuccessul, but an astrophotographer and expert satellite spotter was able to track down the spacecraft and photograph it a few weeks after it was launched.
Dec 02, 2011
New Study May Prove That Milky Way Devours Dwarf Galaxies
Astronomers have discovered two streams of stars in the Southern Galactic hemisphere that were torn off the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, proving that the Milky Way galaxy continues to gulp down its small neighboring dwarf galaxies.
Dec 02, 2011
Long-time Mars Researcher Hopeful That Curiosity Rover Will Confirm Claim of Life on Red Planet
NASA's 1976 Viking Mission experimenter Gilbert V. Levin who had written in 1997 that his Labeled Release (LR) experiment detected living microorganisms on Mars, recently said that instruments aboard Curiosity can confirm his published claim.
Dec 02, 2011
Roundworms May Aid Human Exploration in Mars
A new study said that roundworms, which researchers has sent to the space station on the space shuttle Discovery's STS-116 mission in December 2006, may be sent farther, even to Mars, to aid human exploration efforts.
Dec 01, 2011
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