Items tagged with earth

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Carbon Discovered on Distant Planet Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 - 10:00:27 - Ehud Rattner Carbon dioxide, one of the telltale signs that a planet may be able to support life, has been spotted in the atmosphere of a gas giant orbiting a... read more

Small Satellite Takes on Large Thunderstorms Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 - 14:07:09 - Anuradha Menon Firefly, it's called, this new small satellite mission sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). It's designed to help solve the mystery of... read more

Google Earth Comes to iPhone and iPod Touch Monday, November 3rd, 2008 - 16:37:11 - Anuradha Menon Google Earth has long offered users the opportunity to explore their planet with just a few mouse clicks. Today, a few clicks have become a few... read more

Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth Monday, November 3rd, 2008 - 12:22:58 - Anuradha Menon During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A... read more

Origin of Photosynthesis Doubted Friday, October 24th, 2008 - 10:02:59 - Ehud Rattner New research contradicts key evidence that Sun-fuelled life arose 2.7 billion years ago. A fresh analysis of ancient rocks from the Australian... read more

First Gamma-ray-only Pulsar Observation Friday, October 17th, 2008 - 12:13:50 - Ehud Rattner About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. This object, known as a pulsar, is the first... read more

How Dust Rings Point to Exo-Earths Saturday, October 11th, 2008 - 10:02:37 - Anuradha Menon Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sun-like stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes... read more

2008 Ozone Hole Larger than Last Year Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 - 12:36:05 - Anuradha Menon The 2008 ozone hole – a thinning in the ozone layer over Antarctica – is larger both in size and ozone loss than 2007 but is not as large as 2006... read more

Small Asteroid to Light Up Sky Over Africa Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 - 10:38:34 - Anuradha Menon An asteroid measuring several feet in diameter is expected to enter the atmosphere over northern Sudan before dawn Tuesday, setting off a potentially... read more

Theory of the Sun’s Role in Solar System Saturday, September 6th, 2008 - 17:43:35 - Anuradha Menon A strange mix of oxygen found in a stony meteorite that exploded over Pueblito de Allende, Mexico nearly 40 years ago has puzzled scientists ever... read more

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