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Solar Flare Surprise

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 - 16:12:19 - Anuradha Menon

Solar flares are the most powerful explosions in the solar system. Packing a punch equal to a hundred million hydrogen bombs, they obliterate...

Europa's Dynamic Ocean

Monday, December 15th, 2008 - 18:28:55 - Ehud Rattner

One of the moons in our solar system that scientists think has the potential to harbor life may have a far more dynamic ocean than previously...

Turbulent Star-Forming Region Captured

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 - 10:06:17 - Anuradha Menon

A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of...

Students Discover Unique Planet

Saturday, December 6th, 2008 - 16:33:19 - Anuradha Menon

Three undergraduate students, from Leiden University in the Netherlands, have discovered an extrasolar planet. The extraordinary find, which turned...

How to Destroy an Asteroid

Friday, December 5th, 2008 - 16:46:50 - Anuradha Menon

In the hit 1998 movie Armageddon, Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck blew up an asteroid to save the world. While the film was science fiction, the chances...

Better Plastic Solar Cells
Friday, December 5th, 2008 - Roni Barr
Michael Gratzel, a chemistry professor from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in Switzerland and Peng Wang, a...

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Jupiter's Core Twice as Big as Thought

Friday, November 28th, 2008 - 16:53:32 - Anuradha Menon

Jupiter has a rocky core that is more than twice as large as previously thought, researchers announced today. Burkhard Militzer, a geophysicist at...

Boosting the Power of Solar Cells

Friday, November 28th, 2008 - 14:21:02 - Anuradha Menon

New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team...

IBEX to Go to the Outer Solar System
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
NASA has recently accomplished the successful launch of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) probe into orbit. The...