Posts Tagged ‘nasa’

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!

Voyager’s Great Leap

Thursday, September 19th, 2013
Voyager, NASA, Solar System, Exploration, Space, Astronomy, Spacecraft, Interstellar

Have we actually left the Solar System at long last?

LADEE

Friday, September 6th, 2013
NASA, LADEE, lunar, moon, dust, atmosphere

While there is no officially acknowledged “man in the moon,” there is a LADEE…

Hot Jupiters

Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
NASA, exoplanets, hot, jupiters, universe, atmosphere, silicate, solar system, goldilocks

What can hot Jupiters tell us about the diversity of planets in our universe?

Supervolcanoes in Space

Tuesday, August 27th, 2013
NASA, Io, Jupiter, galileo, volcanoes, supervolcanoes

And you think supervolcanoes here on Earth capture a lot of attention…

How Much Do Black Holes Eat?

Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
nasa, chandra, black holes, accretion, pulsars, magnetic field

How can we “see” how much the black hole in the center of our galaxy is eating?

Kepler Beyond Repair

Friday, August 16th, 2013
Artist rendering of Kepler. Illustration Credit: Detlev van Ravenswaay, Picture Press/Getty Images.

Kepler is Beyond Repair

Disappearing Gravitational Waves

Monday, July 15th, 2013
NASA, stars, massive, gravity, gravitational, waves, binary

The quest to measure gravitational waves…

New Moon Around Neptune

Saturday, July 13th, 2013
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New Moon Discovered Around Neptune!

10,000 Near-Earth Objects

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013
10,000, near-earth object, asteroid, mz5, comets, neo, potentially hazardous asteroid, damage, NASA, pan-STARRS-1,solar system, sentinel

Asteroid 2013 MZ5 joined the ranks of asteroids and comets whose orbits pass near Earth. On an astronomical scale, “near” means within 28 million miles…

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