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Can We Spot Volcanoes on Alien Worlds? Astronomers Say Yes.
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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Volcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Earlier this year, ash from an Icelandic volcano disrupted air travel throughout much of northern Europe. Yet this recent eruption pales next to the fury of Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system. (2010-09-08)
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Recipe for water: just add starlight
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is the key ingredient for making water in space. It is the only explanation for why a dying star is surrounded by a gigantic cloud of hot water vapour. (2010-09-03)
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NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same Star
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet transiting the same star. (2010-08-27)
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Astronomers find two large planets, plus possible super-Earth-size one
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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A team of three University of Florida astronomers contributed to the Kepler spacecraft's discovery of two Saturn-sized planets, plus a possible third planet with a radius just one-and-a-half times that of Earth, orbiting a distant star. (2010-08-27)
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Decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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A new report by the National Research Council identifies the highest- priority research activities for astronomy and astrophysics in the next decade that will "set the nation firmly on the path to answering profound questions about the cosmos." (2010-08-16)
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Asteroid found in gravitational 'dead zone'
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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There are places in space where the gravitational tug between a planet and the Sun balance out, allowing other smaller bodies to remain stable. These places are called Lagrangian points. (2010-08-13)
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Citizen Scientists Discover Rotating Pulsar
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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Idle computers are the astronomers' playground: Three citizen scientists--an American couple and a German--have discovered a new radio pulsar hidden in data gathered by the Arecibo Observatory. (2010-08-13)
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Oldest Earth Mantle Reservoir Discovered
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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Researchers have found a primitive Earth mantle reservoir on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Geologist Matthew Jackson and his colleagues from a multi-institution collaboration report the finding--the first discovery of what may be a primitive Earth mantle--this week in the journal Nature. (2010-08-12)
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Making sense of space dust: Researchers explore solar system's origins
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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The chemical breakdown of minerals that may be lurking in space dust soon will be available to scientists around the world. (2010-08-11)
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Caltech astronomer finds planets in unusually intimate dance around dying star
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. (2010-07-28)
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Herschel: The first science highlights
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing a special feature devoted to the first science results obtained with Herschel, an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA. (2010-07-16)
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Caltech scientists measure changing lake depths on Titan
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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On Earth, lake levels rise and fall with the seasons and with longer-term climate changes, as precipitation, evaporation, and runoff add and remove liquid. Now, for the first time, scientists have found compelling evidence for similar lake-level changes on Saturn's largest moon, Titan-the only other place in the solar system seen to have a hydrological cycle with standing liquid on the surface. (2010-07-15)
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Shocking results from diamond anvil cell experiments
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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At first, nanoshocks may seem like something to describe the millions of aftershocks of a large earthquake. (2010-07-07)
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Scientists see billions of miles away
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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A large group of scientists, including Jay Pasachoff, Bryce Babcock, and Steven Souza at Williams College, reveal the character of one of the most distant objects in the solar system in a scientific paper to appear in the June 17 issue of the journal Nature. (2010-06-21)
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More Solar System Current Events and Solar System News
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09/09/2010 02:04 AM
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More Solar System current events and Solar System science news articles, research and discoveries from Brightsurf
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