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Atlantis to Land on Sunday

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 - 09:10:23 - Anuradha Menon

STS-125 Entry Flight Director Norm Knight has waved off today's landing opportunities. Capcom Greg Johnson explained to the crew the weather did not...

Gas Becomes Solid at Volcano Surface

Thursday, May 7th, 2009 - 14:30:16 - Anuradha Menon

Science has unearthed the secret to what might have been alchemy at Oldoinyo Lengai volcano in Tanzania. There, in the ancient East African Rift at a...

Twilight Sky Show On Sunday

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 - 10:02:17 - Anuradha Menon

On Sunday evening, April 26, the crescent Moon, Mercury and the Pleiades star cluster will gather for a three-way conjunction in the western sky...

Astronomers Discover an Earth-Like Planet

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 - 14:08:18 - Anuradha Menon

The Holy Grail of astronomy is to find a planet capable of supporting life. European researchers have taken a big step forward in that quest...

How Earth Moved During Italy Quake

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 - 14:03:07 - Anuradha Menon

Studying satellite radar data from ESA’s Envisat and the Italian Space Agency’s COSMO-SkyMed, scientists have begun analyzing the movement of Earth...

Jupiter's Stormy Great Red Spot is Shrinking

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 - 22:38:30 - Anuradha Menon

Everything about Jupiter is super-sized, including its colorful, turbulent atmosphere. But there's fresh evidence that one of the planet's most...

Striking a Solar Balance
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 - Sarah GIngichashvili
Planet Earth is an oasis of life, but without the Sun our home planet would be a drastically different, inhospitable place...