Genalyn Corocoto

The NASA Kepler Mission has discovered a new exoplanet similar in size to Earth but with a temperature nowhere near the habitable zone.

Dec 01, 2011

The European Space Agency (ESA) has conducted a new experiment involving the firing of laser pulses between satellites to track greenhouse gases as part of the agency’s need to understand global change, one of today’s most pressing scientific challenges.

Dec 01, 2011

NASA’s nanosatellite that deployed the agency’s first-ever solar sail in low-Earth orbit has successfully completed its Earth Orbiting Mission.

Dec 01, 2011

Beware of buying things from the internet. You could be buying something that should not be sold in the first place, like the RL-10 rocket engine that is owned by NASA.

Dec 01, 2011

Pluto’s small moons may pose a serious threat to NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft once it reaches the planet in 2015.

Nov 30, 2011

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in its annual briefing to the UN climate summit, said that the Earth’s surface continues to get warmer, and the warming is due to human activities.

Nov 30, 2011

Planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres, even if they are far from their parent star, can generate enough heat to keep liquid water on their surfaces making it habitable.

Nov 30, 2011

The European Space Agency’s latest attempts to send commands to the Phobos-Grunt have not been successful as the spacecraft did not raise its orbit and remained on track for its re-entry to Earth’s atmosphere.

Nov 30, 2011

Researchers have found what could be the oldest known fossils for two single-celled microbes, the tube-shelled foraminifera and the hairy ciliates.

Nov 30, 2011

A new study has uncovered a region of DNA that can boost the growth of stem cells and lead to safe cell therapies.

Nov 30, 2011

A new study shows that the combined effects of warming and predation could lead to more widespread marine biodiversity loss than are currently predicted, as animals or plants are unable to shift their habitat ranges.

Nov 30, 2011

A new study said wood-based biofuel, which creates fewer greenhouse gas emissions and requires less water to produce, could become a competitive alternative to fuel made from corn by 2020 but commercial production requires government support to be economically viable.

Nov 29, 2011

Russian space officials face threats of fine and/or criminal prosecution due to the failure of several projects, particularly the Phobos-Grunt mission, the most ambitious Mars mission so far.

Nov 29, 2011

A 40-year-old NASA tradition of sending presidential plaques on planetary missions continues with the inscription of the signatures of President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other administration and NASA officials on a metal plate on board Curiosity.

Nov 29, 2011

The United Nation Food and Agriculture Organization said that farmers need to produce 70 percent more food to feed an expected 9 billion world population in 2050.

Nov 29, 2011

A new study has discovered a specific gene that plays an important role in keeping a balance between food intake and energy use that could have an impact on the weight problems of many Americans.

Nov 28, 2011

Unlike previous global warming models, a new study suggests that high carbon dioxide levels may have less impact on the rate of global warming.

Nov 28, 2011

The world's largest marine reserve will soon be established by the Australia government in the Coral Sea. If approved, it will cover 989,842 sq km.

Nov 28, 2011

Efforts to communicate with the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft suffered a setback after the European Space Agency tracking antenna in Australia failed to pick up any signals after Nov. 24. Attemtps to communicate with the spacecraft on November 25/26 (UTC) have not been successful.

Nov 28, 2011

NASA’s DC-8 airborne science laboratory has successful completed its 2011 Operation IceBridge science flights over the Antartica, collecting data over glaciers, including the discovery of a large crack that had began across the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf.

Nov 28, 2011

A new study has found that daily weather in many parts of the planet have become more erratic. The study, which is the first global climate study to focus on the variation in day-to-day weather, has found that in certain places, daily weather is increasingly changing between sunny and cloudy, and wet and dry days.

Nov 28, 2011

NASA has received a signal from its Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, which is now headed for Mars, shortly after the spacecraft separated from the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Nov 28, 2011

Researchers have found evidence that the planet may have been a "Snowball Earth" at some points in pre-historic time, and the deep freeze could have spurred the explosive diversity of life forms.

Nov 28, 2011

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) physicists have raised the possibility that the Higgs boson, the particle that some believe gave the universe its form after the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, is a figment of the imagination.

Nov 26, 2011

Russian space officials said it has deciphered the telemetry data received from the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft but they have yet to find out how functional the data will be.

Nov 26, 2011

Physicists have determined that dark matter, the mysterious particles believed to make up almost a fourth of the universe, must have a mass greater than 40-giga-electron volts or it is not a dark matter.

Nov 25, 2011

NASA's future space missions may be delayed or cancelled to the scarcity of plutonium-238, which has been used by the space agency to fuel its manned spacecrafts for the past 50 years.

Nov 25, 2011

The European Space Agency (ESA), which was able to established a two-way communication with Russia’s Phobos-Grunt mission after its successful contact on Tuesday, said it is pursuing strategies to consolidate contact with the mission.

Nov 25, 2011

NASA’s Expedition 30 crew need not take shelter in their Soyuz spacecraft after flight controllers determined that the Fengyun 1C satellite debris poses no threat of the International Space Station crew.

Nov 24, 2011