News articles tagged with 'Earth'
ESA spacecraft may help unravel cosmic mystery
— 13 Nov 2009 14:15 | AstronomyWhen Europe's comet chaser Rosetta swings by Earth tomorrow for a critical gravity assist, tracking data will be collected to precisely measure the satellite's change in orbital energy.... — full story
Earth's early ocean cooled more than a billion years earlier than thought: Stanford study
— 12 Nov 2009 08:37 | EnvironmentThe scalding-hot sea that supposedly covered the early Earth may in fact never have existed, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers who analysed isotope ratios... — full story
Soil moisture and ocean salinity satellite ready for launch
— 30 Oct 2009 10:27 | EnvironmentA new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday morning (2 November 2009) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia... — full story
32 new exoplanets found
— 20 Oct 2009 13:56 | Astronomy'HARPS is a unique, extremely high precision instrument that is ideal for discovering alien worlds,' says Stephane Udry, who made the announcement. 'We have now completed our initial... — full story
Geologists point to outer space as source of the Earth's mineral riches
— 19 Oct 2009 08:04 | Geology and palaeontologyAccording to a new study by geologists at the University of Toronto and the University of Maryland, the wealth of some minerals that lie in the rock beneath the Earth's surface may... — full story
Banded rocks reveal early Earth conditions, changes
— 12 Oct 2009 10:18 | Geology and palaeontologyThe strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past, offering clues to the environment of the early... — full story
Princeton palaeomagnetists put controversy to rest
— 3 Oct 2009 09:41 | Geology and palaeontologyPrinceton University scientists have shown that, in ancient times, the Earth's magnetic field was structured like the two-pole model of today, suggesting that the methods geoscientists... — full story
New ancient fungus finding suggests world's forests were wiped out in global catastrophe
— 2 Oct 2009 13:03 | Geology and palaeontologyTiny organisms that covered the planet more than 250 million years ago appear to be a species of ancient fungus that thrived in dead wood, according to new research published 1 October... — full story
Unlocking the secrets of the seafloor: The future of scientific ocean drilling
— 30 Sep 2009 15:24 | EnvironmentClose to 600 scientists from 21 countries met 23-25 September in Bremen, Germany, to outline major scientific targets for a new and ambitious ocean drilling research program. The scientific... — full story
Scientists outline planetary boundaries: A safe operating space for humanity
— 24 Sep 2009 09:06 | EnvironmentNew approaches are needed to help humanity deal with climate change and other global environmental threats that lie ahead in the 21st century, according to a group of 28 internationally... — full story