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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... read more

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... read more

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... read more

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... read more

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

Microsoft Emails Show Early Vista Woes Friday, November 21st, 2008 - 12:07:32 - Anuradha Menon Emails from Microsoft managers show they feared Mac comparisons even before Vista launched. Microsoft is definitely feeling the heat as Apple gains... read more

Mysterious High-Energy Cosmic Rays Detected Thursday, November 20th, 2008 - 18:10:27 - Anuradha Menon Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays. The finding was made with a... read more

Indian Spacecraft Hits the Moon Saturday, November 15th, 2008 - 12:04:05 - Anuradha Menon In a historic event, the Indian space programme achieved a unique feat today with the placing of Indian tricolour on the Moon’s surface on Pandit... read more

New Jupiter - Type Planet Found Friday, November 14th, 2008 - 10:32:12 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Estimated to be no more than three times... read more

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