Posts Tagged ‘Earth’

Signs of Life

Friday, September 20th, 2013
methane, mars, nasa, curiosity, cosmic, comets, martians, microbes, microbial, life, earth, rivers, routes, early, humans, migration, out of africa

Buried ancient rivers and missing martians– our Friday round-up of science headlines!

Titan’s Missing Waves

Thursday, July 25th, 2013
titan, cassini, waves, water, oceans, tides, rain, wind, saturn, moons, Earth

Eerily, waves appear to be missing from Saturn’s moist moon.

Space Gold

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
neutron stars, gamma-ray, bursts, gold, Earth, Universe, elements, stars

Space gold is even rarer than Earth gold, which makes the precious metal special—on our planet and in the Universe at large.

Tiny Satellite Vegetation Map

Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
Proba-V satellite for vegetation monitoring. Image credit: ESA.

Beautiful Map of World’s Vegetation

Fast Radio Burst Mystery

Tuesday, July 9th, 2013
cosmic, mystery, high-energy, universe, astronomy, fast radio burst, radio, galactic latitude, milky way, universe, earth, relativistic objects, magnetar, galaxies, astronomical, matter

The newest cosmic mystery: four distinct high-energy flashes! (Is the Universe trying to get our attention?) Astronomers are calling them Fast Radio Bursts, but we have yet to determine their origins.

Plasmaspheric Wind

Monday, July 8th, 2013
heliosphere, space wind, earth, magnetic field, magnetosphere, plasmasphere, plasma, magnetic activity, cluster spacecraft, charged particles, atmosphere, wind, solar system

Scientists proposed the existence of a space wind surrounding Earth about 20 years ago, but direct detection has eluded scientists until now.

Earth to Gliese 526

Thursday, June 20th, 2013
aliens, earth, hailing message, crowdsource, lone signal, message, jamesburg, gliese, red dwarf, radio, ata, allen telescope, interferometer

Earth calling. Can you hear us?

Commander Hadfield

Friday, June 14th, 2013
chris hadfield, nasa, international space station, iss, canadian space agency, astronaut, earth, space

Commander Chris Hadfield’s shared experiences on the International Space Station inspires future astronauts!

Tantalizing Titan

Monday, June 10th, 2013
saturn, titan, moons, cassini, nasa, earth, topography, radar, PAHs, waves, josh roberts

Is Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, the world most similar to home in the Solar System?

Earth’s Larger Neighborhood

Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
milky way, galaxy, solar system, sun, earth, spitzer, telescope, very long baseline array, black hole

Astronomers realize that our Solar System is located on a longer arm in the Milky Way.

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