News articles tagged with 'orbit' (Page 2)
Planet hunters no longer blinded by the light
— 16 Oct 2010 10:33 | AstronomyUsing new optics technology developed at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, an international team of astronomers has obtained images of a planet on a much closer orbit…
Asteroid collision forensics
— 15 Oct 2010 12:05 | AstronomyIn the first half of February 2009, two asteroids collided in a region of space beyond the orbit of Mars, as scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS)…
CU-Boulder student dust counter breaks distance record on New Horizons mission to Pluto
— 13 Oct 2010 15:33 | AstronomyA University of Colorado at Boulder space dust counter designed, tested and operated by students that is flying aboard NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto now holds the record for…
Venus Express finds planetary atmospheres such a drag
— 8 Oct 2010 14:18 | AstronomyThe polar atmosphere of Venus is thinner than expected. How do we know? Because ESA's Venus Express has actually been there. Instead of looking from orbit, Venus Express has flown through…
Saturn's icy moon may keep oceans liquid with wobble
— 8 Oct 2010 13:12 | AstronomySaturn's icy moon Enceladus should not be one of the most promising places in our solar system to look for extraterrestrial life. Instead, it should have frozen solid billions of years…
Milky Way sidelined in galactic tug of war
— 30 Sep 2010 12:53 | AstronomyThe Magellanic Stream is an arc of hydrogen gas spanning more than 100 degrees of the sky as it trails behind the Milky Way's neighbour galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.…
NASA's Hubble harvests distant solar system objects
— 14 Sep 2010 11:01 | AstronomyBeyond the orbit of Neptune reside countless icy rocks known as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). One of the biggest, Pluto, is classified as a dwarf planet. The region also supplies…
NASA's Kepler mission discovers two planets transiting same star
— 26 Aug 2010 19:01 | AstronomyNASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet transiting the same star. Today's announcement of the discovery of the two planets,…
International study shows some asteroids live in own little worlds
— 26 Aug 2010 09:49 | AstronomyWhile the common perception of asteroids is that they are giant rocks lumbering about in orbit, a new study shows they actually are constantly changing 'little worlds' that can give…
Study of electron orbits in multilayer graphene finds unexpected energy gaps
— 11 Aug 2010 09:33 | TechnologyResearchers have taken one more step toward understanding the unique and often unexpected properties of graphene, a two-dimensional carbon material that has attracted interest because…