Items tagged with earth

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Saturn's Secondary Aurora: More Information Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 - 08:24:14 - Ehud Rattner A UK team of researchers have discovered a secondary aurora sparkling on Saturn and also started to unravel the mechanisms that drive the process... read more

New Type of Aurora Spotted on Saturn Friday, June 20th, 2008 - 08:40:32 - Ehud Rattner A new type of aurora may exist on Saturn, creating a faint ring around one the planet's poles, a new study suggests. Debris from Saturn's moon... read more

Three-of-a-Kind Planets Found Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 - 23:09:00 - Ehud Rattner Astronomers have discovered a family of three planets, ranging from just four to nine times as massive as Earth, orbiting a Sun-like star 42... read more

Would an Antimatter Apple Fall Up? Thursday, June 12th, 2008 - 14:30:53 - Ehud Rattner New experiments are being proposed to test a big unknown in physics: how antimatter reacts to gravity. Physicists have studied antimatter, the mirror... read more

GLAST spacecraft is in Orbit Thursday, June 12th, 2008 - 07:44:29 - Ehud Rattner At June 11th, 12:05 p.m. EDT, the Delta II rocket easily lifted the GLAST spacecraft off the launch pad, out of smoke and clouds and into a beautiful... read more

Building a Baby Earth Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 - 12:34:23 - Ehud Rattner The Earth's magnetic field is quite a mystery. How is it generated? How does it remain so stable? We have known of the Earth's magnetic field for... read more

Smallest Extrasolar Planet Found Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 - 14:45:06 - Iddo Genuth Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a normal star - a distant world just three times the size of our own... read more

Phoenix Spacecraft Sends First Pictures Monday, May 26th, 2008 - 17:11:33 - Ehud Rattner A NASA spacecraft sent yesterday pictures showing itself in good condition after making the first successful landing in a polar region of Mars. The... read more

How Low Can Life Go? Friday, May 23rd, 2008 - 20:54:40 - Ehud Rattner Microbes have created a home in 111-million-year-old rock buried 1.6 kilometers below the sea floor, researchers have found. The discovery beats the... read more

Magma Has a Cracking Time Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 - 08:23:01 - Ehud Rattner Magma erupting out of volcanoes can fracture and crack even though it is a liquid. This odd-sounding phenomenon — the ‘snapping’ of a flowing mass of... read more

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