• 14-Million-Year-Old Buried Antarctic Lake --Preview of Jupiter's Europa, Soon to Yield Its Secrets

    Updated: 2012-02-06 17:12:05
    Vostok Station, Antarctica: Specialists at the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute predict they will find 'the only giant super-clean water system on the planet-- ancient Lake Vostok, the largest and deepest sub-glacial lake in Antarctica --under 2.5 miles of...

  • 600 Million Year Drought Makes Life on Surface of Mars Unlikely

    Updated: 2012-02-06 16:44:31
    Mars is often referred to as a desert world, and for good reason – its surface is barren, dry and cold. While water was abundant in the distant past, it has long since disappeared from the surface, although ice, snow, frost and fog are still common. Other than liquid brines possibly trickling at times, all [...]

  • New Solar Cell Pulls Electricity Out of Chopped-up Plants | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-02-06 15:08:39
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Massage Doesn’t Just Feel Good—It Changes Gene Expression and Reduces Inflammation New Solar Cell Pulls Electricity Out of Chopped-up Plants For years , solar energy researchers have tried to imitate the success of photosynthesis by building devices like an  artificial leaf and a solar cell that hijacks  chemistry of photosynthetic bacteria Now  researchers at MIT have come up with an innovative technique that also happens to be very cheap : all you need is some stabilizing powder” and plant waste . Mowed your lawn lately The stabilizing powder is a mix of safe , easily

  • Socialized personal genomics? | Gene Expression

    Updated: 2012-02-06 08:07:25
    Norway to bring cancer-gene tests to the clinic: Norway is set to become the first country to incorporate genome sequencing into its national health-care system. The Scandinavian nation, which has a population of 4.8 million, will use ‘next-generation’ DNA sequencers to trawl for mutations in tumours that might reveal which cancer treatments would be most [...]

  • An astronomer’s paradise | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-05 14:00:39
    Cerro Paranal, in the high, dry, Atacama desert in Chile, is where some of the best astronomy in the world is done. It’s graced with incredibly dark and steady skies, and a view of the southern hemisphere skies that, frankly, makes me jealous. So it’s hard to argue with the title of this short time [...]

  • A personal note | Gene Expression

    Updated: 2012-02-04 21:12:23
    Cerro Paranal, in the high, dry, Atacama desert in Chile, is where some of the best astronomy in the world is done. It’s graced with incredibly dark and steady skies, and a view of the southern hemisphere skies that, frankly, makes me jealous. So it’s hard to argue with the title of this short time [...]

  • New Study Shows How Trace Elements Affect Stars’ Habitable Zones

    Updated: 2012-02-04 18:23:40
    Habitable zones are the regions around stars, including our own Sun, where conditions are the most favourable for the development of life on any rocky planets that happen to orbit within them. Generally, they are regions where temperatures allow for liquid water to exist on the surface of these planets and are ideal for “life [...]

  • Get Scott Sigler’s The MVP for $3 off | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-04 18:12:20
    Wanna get Scott Sigler’s brand-spankin’ new novel The MVP for three bucks off? Read on… Scott is a pal of mine, but he’s also a few other things… like a NYT best selling author, for example. His science-based horror books like Infected, Contagious, and Ancestor are really fun (and ookie) reads. He’s been writing a [...]

  • Image of the Day: "Galactic Magic"

    Updated: 2012-02-04 16:12:39
    This image shows central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4631, "The Whale," as seen edge-on from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope. The Chandra data (shown in blue and purple) provide the first unambiguous evidence for a...

  • Space caturday | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-04 14:00:54
    This is cute and all, but I was debating whether to run it on the blog or not when I got to the 1:05 mark or so, and decided to go ahead. Why? Watch: Did you get the joke? It’s a Chandra X-ray Observatory image in the background if that helps. Note the cat. Also, [...]

  • Quote of the Day: "Humans May be One of the Early Advanced Species in Our Universe"

    Updated: 2012-02-04 14:00:00
    "The problem with this (that humans maybe an early bird in the universe) is that it fails to really understand that when life can exist, it exists rapidly and in great profusion. Using our only existence of proof, Earth, we...

  • NCBI ROFL: The science of Facebook relationship status: It’s complicated. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-02-03 23:28:16
    : : . Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Tweet Us Not Into Temptaton . OK , Just This . Once NCBI ROFL : The science of Facebook relationship status : It’s . complicated It’s Facebook week on NCBI ROFL All this week we’ll be featuring papers about everyone’s favorite social networking site . Enjoy Are We Facebook Official Implications of Dating Partners’ Facebook Use and Profiles for Intimate Relationship . Satisfaction Extending previous research on positive and negative correlates of Facebook use for individuals’ outcomes , this study examined male and female dating partners’ n=58 couples Facebook use and

  • The week in pictures January 28–February 3, 2012 Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-03 23:21:01
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  • The week in pictures January 28–February 3, 2012 Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-03 23:21:00
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  • NASA spacecraft returns first video from farside of the Moon Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-03 23:20:59
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  • NASA spacecraft returns first video from farside of the Moon Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-03 23:20:59
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  • Hubble zooms in on a magnified galaxy Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-03 23:20:57
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  • Hubble zooms in on a magnified galaxy Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-03 23:20:57
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  • Come to Hawaii for the transit of Venus Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media

    Updated: 2012-02-03 23:20:53
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    Updated: 2012-02-03 23:20:52
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  • Ebooks on the radio: 6 pm ET tonight | The Loom

    Updated: 2012-02-03 20:10:00
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Flu Fighters Ebooks on the radio : 6 pm ET tonight I’ll be talking on Wisconsin Public Radio with host Ben Merens about ebooks and the future of publishing . I’ll be on for the hour from 5 pm to 6 pm CT 6-7 ET You can listen live . here Share February 3rd , 2012 3:10 PM by Carl Zimmer in Ebooks 1 comments RSS feed Trackback One Response to Ebooks on the radio : 6 pm ET tonight” 1. Ebooks on the radio : 6 pm ET tonight The Loom Discover Magazine My Blog Says : February 4th , 2012 at 3:12 am the original post : Ebooks on the radio : 6 pm ET tonight The Loom Discover Magazine

  • Tweet Us Not Into Temptaton. OK, Just This Once. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-02-03 19:05:50
    . , . Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Here , Listen to My Underpants” : The Robot Psychics of India NCBI ROFL : The science of Facebook relationship status : It’s . complicated Tweet Us Not Into Temptaton . OK , Just This . Once Oh Oh God , I spent the last 8 hours on Facebook When you text thousands of people seven times a day for a week , and ask them whether they have felt temptation recently , what do you get A giant database of thousands of tiny vices and people’s own admissions—some true , some likely edited for the sake of vanity—of whether they . caved According to researchers who recently performed

  • Video of the lunar far side from GRAIL/Ebb | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-03 17:49:19
    This is so cool: NASA’s twin GRAIL spacecraft (now named Ebb and Flow) have cameras on board to take images of the lunar surface, and an animation has been put together of Ebb’s view of the Moon’s far side! Pretty neat. I love the wide-angle view; the individual images were taken while Ebb was still [...]

  • Mars' 600-Million-Year Drought -- Did It Drive Life Underground?

    Updated: 2012-02-03 17:27:02
    Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet’s surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the painstaking task of analysing individual particles of...

  • “Here, Listen to My Underpants”: The Robot Psychics of India | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-02-03 17:26:37
    , : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS NCBI ROFL : The no sh t , Sherlock” award : Facebook . edition Tweet Us Not Into Temptaton . OK , Just This . Once Here , Listen to My Underpants” : The Robot Psychics of India As technology marches ever onward , robots have taken on more and more of life’s necessary jobs : heavy lifting , precise mechanical manipulations , and , of course , predicting the . future Peppering the fairs and festivals of India , striking in their boldly colored if battered armor , are a fleet of robots that are part fortune cookie , part street-corner psychic . These bots wait in perpetual

  • NewsFlash: Habitable Zone Earth-like Planet Discovered 22 Light Years Away

    Updated: 2012-02-03 16:46:08
    A team of scientists using data from the Kepler space telescope say they have identified a planet 22 light-years away that could possibly harbor life. Astronomers from the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of California, Santa Cruz say...

  • Random gene sets can predict breast cancer survival better than supposedly cancer-related ones | Not Exactly Rocket Science

    Updated: 2012-02-03 15:00:05
    I’ve written a few guest posts for the Faculty of 1000’s Naturally Selected blog, covering some interesting papers from last year that I missed here. There’s one about how eggs greet sperm, and another on how sleeping alone affects newborn babies. But the third post is one that I particularly want to draw attention to [...]

  • Image of the Day: Starbursts in Distant Galaxies

    Updated: 2012-02-03 15:00:00
    In galaxies that glow most brightly in the infrared, astronomers suspect that frantic star formation is in progress, in episodes called starbursts. The European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) has observed many galaxies which are half as old as...

  • Massage Doesn’t Just Feel Good—It Changes Gene Expression and Reduces Inflammation | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-02-03 14:52:38
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Alzheimer’s Spreads Like a Virus From Neuron to Neuron , Studies Show New Solar Cell Pulls Electricity Out of Chopped-up Plants Massage Doesn’t Just Feel Good—It Changes Gene Expression and Reduces Inflammation What’s the : News If you’ve ever been told been that a massage is good for releasing toxins”—or to sound more scientific , lactic acid”—from your muscles , then you’ve been told wrong . Turns out muscle cells do like a good massage , but it has nothing to do with lactic . acid In the first study on the cellular effects of massage post-exercise , researchers found that

  • In the dark abyss, a slightly warped mirror on the Milky Way | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-03 14:00:31
    There is just something wonderful when Hubble points to nearby spiral galaxies. Sprawling and detailed, we get both great resolution on smaller features as well as a jaw-dropping overview of a grand spiral… like, say, NGC 1073: Yeah, I know. [Click to galactinate -- I had to shrink it to fit here, and it lost [...]

  • Comment of the Day: On Fermi's Paradox

    Updated: 2012-02-03 14:00:00
    "I believe Fermi's paradox to be an arrogant assumption. Say "intelligent" life is rare enough that it only occurs once or twice per galaxy. Sure that makes the universe potentialy teeming with intelligent life.... But that also means that the...

  • Alzheimer’s Spreads Like a Virus From Neuron to Neuron, Studies Show | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-02-03 13:30:21
    , Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Does a Chinese Boy Really Have Cat Eyes” That See in the Dark Massage Doesn’t Just Feel Good—It Changes Gene Expression and Reduces Inflammation Alzheimer’s Spreads Like a Virus From Neuron to Neuron , Studies Show A protein tangle in an Alzheimer’s-afflicted neuron Exactly how Alzheimer’s disease proliferates through the brain , overtaking one region after another , has eluded scientists . As the disease progresses , tau—a malformed protein that forms snarls and tangles inside neurons—shows up in more and more brain areas . Researchers have wondered whether tau , and the

  • NCBI ROFL: The “no sh*t, Sherlock” award: Facebook edition. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-02-03 00:52:22
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  • Sheldon Reynolds’ Images of Life Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Galleri

    Updated: 2012-02-02 23:09:51
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    Updated: 2012-02-02 23:09:51
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  • Six open clusters in Canis Major Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-02 23:09:50
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  • Six open clusters in Canis Major Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-02-02 23:09:44
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  • How Spider Silk’s Molecular Make-up Lets It Morph | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-02-02 21:06:48
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Hacking the Microbiome for Fun and Profit : Can Killing Just One Mouth Bacterium Stop Cavities Does a Chinese Boy Really Have Cat Eyes” That See in the Dark How Spider Silk’s Molecular Make-up Lets It Morph What’s the News : The surprising strength of spider silk has fascinated scientists and everyone else for years : it’s stronger than steel , yet incredibly flexible A new paper gives some delicious details that explain how , exactly , spider silk has such . superpowers Go With the Flow , Then Stay Strong The strand of silk that a spider hangs from can stretch to double its

  • East of the Blue Marble | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-02-02 20:45:39
    Last week, I posted an exceptional image of our home world as seen by the Suomi NPP Earth-observing satellite. The image was so popular that NASA released a second one, this time of the Eastern hemisphere, showing once again why it’s called the Blue Marble: [Click to engaiaenate, or grab the terrestrialicious 11,500 x 11,500 [...]

  • How to Turn a Cockroach into a Mobile, and Kind of Gross, Fuel Cell | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-02-02 19:45:12
    , , Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Hearty Penguin Steaks : the Old-School Explorers’ Salve for Scurvy NCBI ROFL : The no sh t , Sherlock” award : Facebook . edition How to Turn a Cockroach into a Mobile , and Kind of Gross , Fuel Cell Discoid cockroaches , used in this study , can be up to 3 inches . long From the digestive system that demolishes glue and toothpaste comes the first living , breathing , digesting cyborg-insect power source . Researchers have created a fuel cell that needs only sugar from the cockroach’s hemolymph basically the cockroach version of blood and oxygen from the air to make

  • Life Bearing Super-Earths --Will be Geologically Active with Volcanoes & Plate Tectonics (Today's Most Viewed)

    Updated: 2012-02-02 17:15:39
    "Super-Earths would be more geologically active than our planet, experiencing more vigorous plate tectonics due to thinner plates under more stress. Earth itself was found to be a borderline case, not surprisingly since the slightly smaller planet Venus is tectonically...

  • NewsFlash: Russia to Begin Search for Alien Planets

    Updated: 2012-02-02 16:59:07
    Russia plans to start their own search for planets outside our solar system following U.S. and French successes in finding such exoplanets. The U.S. Kepler space telescope and France's CoRoT space telescope have been successful in identifying exoplanets, while Russia's...

  • Hearty Penguin Steaks: the Old-School Explorers’ Salve for Scurvy | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-02-02 16:12:34
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS NCBI ROFL : Who needs a doctor when you have Facebook NCBI ROFL : The no sh t , Sherlock” award : Facebook . edition Hearty Penguin Steaks : the Old-School Explorers’ Salve for Scurvy An Emperor penguin being skinned on board the Endurance Imagine you’re in Antarctica . It’s cold . You’re cold . Your joints ache , old wounds are reopening to ooze pus , and your teeth loosen , threatening to fall out one or two at a time . What do you feel like eating How about ”a piece of beef , odiferous cod fish and a canvas-backed duck roasted together in a pot , with blood and cod-liver

  • An Ambitious Frontier for Flying Drones: Saturn’s Earth-Like Moon, Titan | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-02-02 15:27:36
    : , Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Scientists to Breach Buried Antarctic Lake , Untouched for Millions of Years Hacking the Microbiome for Fun and Profit : Can Killing Just One Mouth Bacterium Stop Cavities An Ambitious Frontier for Flying Drones : Saturn’s Earth-Like Moon , Titan Artist’s rendering of AVIATR flying on . Titan Saturn’s moon Titan is a lot like Earth : it has rain , seasons , volcanoes , and maybe even life . Well , it’s not exactly like Earth : the rain is liquid methane the volcanoes spew ice and any life would be  based on methane But still , it’s an interesting and relatively Earth-like

  • "Humans May be One of the Early Advanced Species in Our Universe" -- Dimitar Sasselov of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

    Updated: 2012-02-02 08:40:11
    Intelligent life may be in it's "very young" stage in the observable Universe. Its 200 billion galaxies show a clear potential to continue on as we see them today for hundreds of billions of years, if not much longer. Because...

  • IBEX illuminates a dark corner of our neighborhood Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Fo

    Updated: 2012-02-02 01:45:17
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    Updated: 2012-02-02 01:45:15
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  • Illinois reactor suffers shutdown, steam containing tritium vented

    Updated: 2012-02-02 00:48:19
    Operators at Byron Generating Station [around 110 miles from Chicago] declared an Unusual Event at 10:18 a.m.CT, due to the loss of offsite power and Unit 2 coming offline. The nuclear facility’s diesel generators activated as designed to provide power to the facility when there is a loss of offsite power to the facility. The facility remains in a safe ...

  • NASA probe discovers ’alien’ matter from beyond our solar system

    Updated: 2012-02-02 00:47:27
    For the very first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system - material that came from elsewhere in the galaxy, researchers announced today."This alien interstellar material is really the stuff that stars and planets and people are made of - it’s really important to be measuring it," David McComas, IBEX principal investigator and assistant vice ...

  • NCBI ROFL: Who needs a doctor when you have Facebook? | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-02-02 00:13:53
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS The World’s Heaviest Insect Is 3,500 Times More Massive Than the Smallest Vertebrate Hearty Penguin Steaks : the Old-School Explorers’ Salve for Scurvy NCBI ROFL : Who needs a doctor when you have Facebook It’s Facebook week on NCBI ROFL All this week we’ll be featuring papers about everyone’s favorite social networking site . Enjoy Laypersons can seek help from their Facebook friends regarding medical diagnosis : INTRODUCTION In contrast to Internet search engines , social media on the Internet such as Facebook , Twitter , etc . reach a large number of people , who are ready

  • Will Exo Planet "Lights" Signal a Technological Civilization? (Today's Most Viewed)

    Updated: 2012-02-01 21:41:25
    If an alien civilization builds brightly-lit cities like those shown above of the Iberian Peninsula, future generations of telescopes might allow us to detect them. This would offer a new method of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence elsewhere in our Galaxy....

  • Predicting Alien Planets With Earth-Like, Rocky Compositions

    Updated: 2012-02-01 19:58:00
    In a new study, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and collaborators came up with new methods similar to those used in weapons research for deriving and testing the equation of state (EOS) of matter in exoplanets and figured out the...

  • The performance will continue after a brief intermission… | Not Exactly Rocket Science

    Updated: 2012-02-01 19:00:21
    I’m going to be travelling for 2.5 weeks for some much-needed rest and recuperation. There are a few posts scheduled for the next few days and then I’m reposting some of my favourites from last year for a bit. If you’re hankering for your Not Exactly Rocket Science fix, now is as good a time [...]

  • Scientists to Breach Buried Antarctic Lake, Untouched for Millions of Years | 80beats

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  • "NASA Satellite Detects Alien Atoms" --Different from Chemical Composition of Our Solar System

    Updated: 2012-02-01 16:33:26
    NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, the centerpiece of a $169 million mission mapping the frontier of the sun's influence, has detected atoms from interstellar space streaming by Earth, that are different from the chemical make-up of the solar system, scientists announced...

  • 1st Video of Moon's Far Side! --NASA's GRAIL Mission

    Updated: 2012-02-01 15:21:00
    A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And InteriorLaboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon.MoonKAM, or Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students, will be used by studentsnationwide...

  • Science writing I’d pay to read – January 2012 | Not Exactly Rocket Science

    Updated: 2012-02-01 15:00:53
    It’s time for December’s Science Writer Tip-Jar picks. For those new to this, here’s the low-down: Throughout the blogosphere, people produce fantastic writing for free. That’s great, but I believe that good writers should get paid for good work. To set an example, I choose ten pieces every month that were written for free and [...]

  • Image of the Day: A Gigantic Inter-Galaxy Shock Wave

    Updated: 2012-02-01 14:26:00
    This false-color composite image of the Stephan's Quintet galaxy cluster clearly shows one of the largest shock waves ever seen (the green arc above), produced by one galaxy falling toward another at over a million miles per hour. It is... </a

  • "Solar Systems Common Across the Milky Way," NASA Probe Hints --Bodes Well for a Habitable Zone 'Super-Earth' Discovery

    Updated: 2012-01-31 23:12:44
    NASA's Kepler Mission astronomers are looking for environments that make complex chemistry viable --pathways to life in the Universe. Ideal planets will maintain surface temperatures in which large molecules can survive and can attain chemical concentrates that can be stable... <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"

  • Russia's Obsession with Mars' Mystery Moon --A New Mission to Phobos?

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:43:51
    Russia will send another sample mission to the Martian moon Phobos if the European Space Agency (ESA) decides not to include Russia in its ExoMars program, the head of Russia’s space agency said on Tuesday. The space agency also announced...

  • Astronomy 101 Planets Astronomy Magazine

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  • Earth's Largest Telescope Soon to Scan Cosmos for Extraterrestrial Signals

    Updated: 2012-01-30 19:04:08
    The image above shows the supermassive black hole in the core of a distant galaxy known as Cygnus A spews jets of gas into space over distances of more than 200,000 light-years. The jets (orange) were imaged by the new...

  • Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship

    Updated: 2012-01-30 02:46:16
    Over the past 50 years, billions of dollars have been spent visiting our nearest neighbor in space, the moon. It’s the only extraterrestrial body humans have ever walked on. Besides the United States and Russia, Japan, China, India and the European Space Agency have all sent robotic spacecraft moonward. Probably the most prolific of these missions, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...

  • OEx - Ocean Explorer USO imaged by side-scan sonar in the Baltic

    Updated: 2012-01-30 02:45:48
    Project - OEx OEx - Ocean Explorer USO imaged by side-scan sonar in the Baltic. Overview: Baltic Sea Unidentified Sunken Object (USO) originally imaged by the crew of the Ocean Explorer using its side-scan sonar. Seven viewers, five professional and two trainees, were tasked to work this target, all on camera. Preliminary analysis suggests that the target site is not ...

  • Sun Unleashes Strongest Flare Yet of 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-30 02:44:57
    A massive solar flare - the strongest one so far this year - erupted today (Jan. 27) from the same active region of the sun that triggered a raging solar tempest earlier this week. The solar flare was rated an X1.7-class eruption, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). X-class flares are the most powerful type of solar ...

  • NASA Smackdown -- 2011 Mono Lake Arsenic-Based Life Claims Refuted

    Updated: 2012-01-28 19:22:16
    "We have cracked open the door to what is possible for life elsewhere in the universe," Felisa Wolfe-Simon of the NASA Astrobiology Institute and U.S. Geological Survey, who led the NASA Mono Lake study. Rosie Redfield of the University of...

  • Image of the Day: Pandora's Cluster --The Most Colossal Known Galaxy Mashup

    Updated: 2012-01-28 18:18:38
    This is the most colossal known smash-up observed in the universe. This awesome bundle of galaxies, nicknamed Pandora's cluster, turns out to be the result of a violent mashup between at least four separate galaxy clusters that occured over hundreds...

  • Strange Red Galaxy --Harbors a Monster Black Hole 100 Million Times Mass of Sun

    Updated: 2012-01-28 17:40:27
    A monster black hole 100 million times the mass of the Sun is feeding off gas, dust and a ring of stars at the centre of Galaxy NGC-1097 50 million light-years away. The star-ringed black hole forms the eye of...

  • Here’s meteorite in your eye Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Gallerie

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  • It’s all in the instrument renaming Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media G

    Updated: 2012-01-25 05:09:51
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    Updated: 2012-01-25 05:09:50
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  • Catch May's annular eclipse Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-24 07:56:35
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  • The first test of Einstein's gravity Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-23 21:24:15
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  • See more SOFIA Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-23 21:24:11
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  • Episode 12 The search for extraterrestrial intelligence Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-20 22:11:21
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  • Mars rocks fall on Morocco

    Updated: 2012-01-18 16:40:02
    Scientists are confirming a recent and rare invasion from Mars: meteorite chunks from the red planet that fell in Morocco last July. iThis is only the fifth time scientists have confirmed chemically Martian meteorites that people witnessed falling. Scientists are confirming a recent and rare invasion from Mars- meteorite chunks that fell from the red planet over Morocco last summer. Photo: AP ...

  • Scientists Set to Drill to Buried Antarctic Lake

    Updated: 2012-01-18 16:39:35
    A team of four British engineers recently returned from a 10-day trip to a desolate, windswept plain in Antarctica, setting the stage for a project that could uncover previously unknown life that has been cut off from the world for millennia.

  • Kids It’s time to tell us what you love most about astronomy Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online

    Updated: 2012-01-18 05:19:58
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  • RFID-enabled watch offers contactless MasterCard payments (Step One - Implantable Next?)

    Updated: 2012-01-12 16:10:40
    Watch2Pay devices include prepaid MasterCard PayPass technology to let consumers pay for purchases with a swipe of their watch anywhere PayPass is accepted. Contactless credit cards have been around for several years already through the likes of RFID-enabled offerings such as MasterCard PayPass and VISA PayWave. What we hadn’t seen until recently, however, is a wrist watch offering similar capabilities. ...

  • Astronomy and NEAF announce the 2012 Youth Essay Contest Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-01-11 21:58:44
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  • Rare moon rock samples found in Australia

    Updated: 2012-01-09 22:03:48
    Scientists in Australia discovered the mineral, which was named after the Sea of Tranquillity, in rocks at six sites scattered across the west of the country. Two other minerals, armalcolite and pyroxferroite, were found on earth within a decade of the moon landing. "This was essentially the last mineral which was sort of uniquely lunar that had been found in ...

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