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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...

Meteorite Records History of Planets

Friday, October 31st, 2008 - 14:02:05 - Anuradha Menon

Meteorites that are among the oldest rocks ever found have provided new clues about the conditions that existed at the beginning of the solar system...

NASA Reveals Mercury's Hidden Territory

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 - 18:14:15 - Anuradha Menon

A NASA spacecraft gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the...

MAVEN - New NASA Mission to Mars
Monday, October 13th, 2008 - Shalhevet Bar-Asher
The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder was selected by NASA to lead a new...

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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...

Massive Planet-Sized Object Found

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 - 18:39:44 - Anuradha Menon

COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that...

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...

Planets Turned to Dust

Saturday, September 27th, 2008 - 15:20:50 - Ehud Rattner

Call it a planetary pile up. Astronomers have discovered the remains of a collision of two planet-sized bodies in a well-established solar system in...

Astronomers Tune in to 'Radio Universe'

Saturday, September 13th, 2008 - 14:45:43 - Anuradha Menon

Astronomers at the School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, have joined an innovative project that aims to address many of the key issues in...

Marveling the Formation of Planets
Monday, August 25th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
NASA has recently announced the Multi-Object Apache Point Observatory Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-Area Survey, whose...