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 Bangalore, India (AFP) Aug 29, 2009 
India's first moon mission, launched amid much fanfare last year, came to an abrupt end Saturday after controllers lost contact with the country's lunar craft, the national space agency said. India launched an unmanned satellite and put a probe on the moon's surface late last year in an event that the national space agency hoped would give the country international "brand recognition" in the ... read more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2009Cosmic rays pour down on Earth like a constant rain. We don't much notice these high-energy particles, but they may have played a role in the evolution of life on our planet. Some of the mass extinctions identified in the fossil record can be linked to an asteroid impact or increased volcanism, but many of the causes of those ancient die-offs are still open for debate. "There may have been ... more
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Newcastle-Under-Lyme, England (UPI) Aug 27, 2009 British scientists are trying to determine why a Jupiter-style planet orbiting close to its sun has not spiraled into the star and burned up. Wasp-18b is so close to the star Wasp-18 that it completes its orbit in less than an Earth-length day, astrophysicists at Keele University in Staffordshire say. In an article in Nature, they say standard astronomical theories hold the planet shoul ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2009A discovery about the moon made in the 1960s is helping researchers unlock secrets about Earth's ocean today. By applying a method of calculating gravity that was first developed for the moon to data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, known as Grace, JPL researchers have found a way to measure the pressure at the bottom of the ocean. Just as knowing atmospheric pressure a ... more  
Cambridge MA (SPX) Aug 28, 2009Finding a comet can be a quick way to get some immortal fame - and a little spending money, as well. An annual award of several thousand dollars for discoveries of comets by amateur astronomers has just been announced for five individuals in five different countries. The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) - operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambri ... more |
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London UK (SPX) Aug 21, 2009A significant advance in our understanding of the early evolution of the universe has been achieved by a team of scientists associated with the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. The team's results will appear in the journal Nature. The gravitational-wave scientists, including Lee Samuel Finn, a Penn State ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2009While far from a tropical rain forest, the equatorial region of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has recently displayed tantalizing evidence that the parched, dry desert can support large-scale storms. The research, published in the journal Nature, announces the discovery of significant cloud formation (about three million square kilometers) within the moon's tropical zone near its equator. ... more 
White Sands NM (SPX) Aug 20, 2009Anyone who's vacationed in the mountains or lived on a farm knows that it's hard to get good internet access or a strong cell phone signal in a remote area. Communicating across great distances has always been a challenge. So when NASA engineers designed the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), they knew it would need an extraordinary communications system. Over the next year, the LRO, NASA ... more |
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