Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 - 10:38:38 - Anuradha Menon
Iron dust, the rarest nutrient for most marine life, can be washed down by rivers or blown out to sea or--a surprising new study finds--float up from...
Dustiest Binary Star System Found Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 - Shalhevet Bar-Asher A team of American astronomers discovered that two terrestrial planets underwent a collision only a few hundred thousand...
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...
Strange Ring Found Circling a Dead Star Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected an unusual ring of material surrounding the magnetic remains of a blasted star...
Friday, February 29th, 2008 - 00:00:00 - Ehud Rattner
Each year, long-distance winds drop up to 900 million tons of dust from deserts and other parts of the land into the oceans. Scientists from Columbia...