River networks on Titan point to a puzzling geologic history
Findings suggest the surface of Saturn's largest moon may have undergone a recent transformation.
Jul 20th, 2012
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Findings suggest the surface of Saturn's largest moon may have undergone a recent transformation.
Jul 20th, 2012
Read moreHeliophysics nuggets are a collection of early science results, new research techniques, and instrument updates that further our attempt to understand the sun and the dynamic space weather system that surrounds Earth.
Jul 20th, 2012
Read moreMathematicians at UC Davis have come up with a new way to crinkle up the fabric of space-time -- at least in theory.
Jul 19th, 2012
Read moreThe University of Central Florida has detected what could be its first planet, only two-thirds the size of Earth and located right around the corner, cosmically speaking, at a mere 33light- years away.
Jul 18th, 2012
Read moreTelescope network zooms in on the heart of a distant quasar.
Jul 18th, 2012
Read moreA new NASA mission called the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), due to launch in August 2012, will improve our understanding of what makes plasma move in and out of these electrified belts wrapped around our planet.
Jul 18th, 2012
Read moreNASA has selected a team of students from Purdue and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State universities to design and build an experiment to be operated on the International Space Station.
Jul 11th, 2012
Read moreAn 18-member international team of researchers has found exciting new evidence that supports the theory of an extraterrestrial impact that occurred nearly 13 000 years ago. Their evidence lies in material found in a thin layer of sedimentary rock in Pennsylvania and South Carolina in the United States and in Syria.
Jul 11th, 2012
Read moreAstronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the smallest and faintest galaxies in our cosmic neighbourhood. These galaxies are fossils of the early Universe: they have barely changed for 13 billion years.
Jul 10th, 2012
Read moreA team of scientists has created an "MRI" of the Sun's interior plasma motions, shedding light on how it transfers heat from its deep interior to its surface.
Jul 9th, 2012
Read moreObservations with CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array have confirmed that astronomers have found the first known "middleweight" black hole.
Jul 9th, 2012
Read moreFirst interferometric signals between the Effelsberg telescope and orbital radio telescope Spektr-R.
Jul 6th, 2012
Read moreTo better understand Saturn's moon Titan, scientists must study the methane in its atmosphere, the persistence of which was likely influenced by an ocean of water recently discovered 100 kilometers below the moon's surface.
Jul 5th, 2012
Read moreThe effect of spaceflight on a microscopic worm - Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) - could help it to live longer. The discovery was made by an international group of scientists studying the loss of bone and muscle mass experienced by astronauts after extended flights in space.
Jul 5th, 2012
Read moreRice researcher part of team that used Doppler shifts to ID phenomenon; may help predict space weather.
Jul 3rd, 2012
Read moreA new series of images from Gemini Observatory shows Comet C/2012 S1 racing toward an uncomfortably close rendezvous with the Sun. In late November the comet could present a stunning sight in the twilight sky and remain easily visible, or even brilliant, into early December of this year.
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