A far-off solar system
Researchers measure the orientation of a multiplanet system and find it very similar to our own solar system.
Jul 26th, 2012
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A black hole's dinner (w/video)
A giant gas cloud is on collision course with the black hole in the centre of our galaxy in 2013. This is a unique opportunity to observe how a super massive black hole sucks in material, in real time.
Jul 25th, 2012
Read moreTwo Solar System puzzles solved
Comets and asteroids preserve the building blocks of our Solar System and should help explain its origin. But there are unsolved puzzles. For example, how did icy comets obtain particles that formed at high temperatures, and how did these refractory particles acquire rims with different compositions? Carnegie's theoretical astrophysicist Alan Boss and cosmochemist Conel Alexander are the first to model the trajectories of such particles in the unstable disk of gas and dust that formed the Solar System.
Jul 25th, 2012
Read moreAfter the Canadarm, the Canadeyes for the future Webb
Cutting-edge Canadian space technology directed by Université de Montreal's Rene Doyon
Jul 25th, 2012
Read moreESA's Mars Express supports dramatic landing on Mars
NASA?s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is set to deliver the largest planetary rover ever flown onto the Red Planet?s surface early in the morning of 6 August.
Jul 25th, 2012
Read moreSatellites see unprecedented Greenland ice sheet surface melt
For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its 2-mile-thick center, experienced some degree of melting at its surface, according to measurements from three independent satellites analyzed by NASA and university scientists.
Jul 24th, 2012
Read moreNew clues to the early Solar System from ancient meteorites
In order to understand Earth's earliest history--its formation from Solar System material into the present-day layering of metal core and mantle, and crust--scientists look to meteorites. New research from a team including Carnegie's Doug Rumble and Liping Qin focuses on one particularly old type of meteorite called diogenites.
Jul 23rd, 2012
Read moreNASA successfully tests hypersonic inflatable heat shield
A large inflatable heat shield developed by NASA's Space Technology Program has successfully survived a trip through Earth's atmosphere while travelling at hypersonic speeds up to 7,600 mph.
Jul 23rd, 2012
Read moreThe Sun has a great idea
A light bulb-shaped eruption leaps from the Sun and blasts into space in this archival image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO.
Jul 23rd, 2012
Read moreNASA telescope captures sharpest images of sun's corona
A telescope launched July 11 aboard a NASA sounding rocket has captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun's million-degree atmosphere called the corona. The clarity of the images can help scientists better understand the behavior of the solar atmosphere and its impacts on Earth's space environment.
Jul 20th, 2012
Read more'Seeds' of massive black holes found at the center of the Milky Way
A research team observed emission lines at wavelengths of 0.87 mm, emitted from carbon monoxide molecules in an area of several degrees that includes the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Jul 20th, 2012
Read moreRiver 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
Read moreColorful science sheds light on solar heating
Heliophysics 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 moreA wrinkle in space-time
Mathematicians 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 moreScientists discover exoplanet neighbor smaller than Earth
The 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 moreA magnification of two million
Telescope network zooms in on the heart of a distant quasar.
Jul 18th, 2012
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