News articles tagged with 'planet' (Page 2)
The scars of impacts on Mars
— 5 Mar 2011 13:24 | AstronomyESA's Mars Express has returned new images of an elongated impact crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. Located just south of the Huygens basin, it could have been carved out by…
Oxygen isotope analysis tells of the wandering life of a dust grain 4.5 billion years ago
— 4 Mar 2011 14:45 | AstronomyScientists have performed a micro-probe analysis of the core and outer layers of a pea-sized piece of a meteorite some 4.57 billion years old to reconstruct the history of its formation,…
Planet formation in action?
— 24 Feb 2011 20:11 | AstronomyUsing ESO's Very Large Telescope an international team of astronomers has been able to study the short-lived disc of material around a young star that is in the early stages of making…
Super-sharp radio 'eye' remeasuring the universe
— 20 Feb 2011 16:06 | AstronomyUsing the super-sharp radio 'vision' of astronomy's most precise telescope, scientists have extended a directly-measured 'yardstick' three times farther into the cosmos than ever before,…
New instrument will help confirm Kepler's planet finds
— 14 Feb 2011 15:09 | AstronomyThe search for planets outside our solar system continues to heat up. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has located more than 1,200 planetary candidates, however confirming them remains a challenge.…
Soil science: Healing our planet's ills from the ground up
— 10 Feb 2011 19:28 | EnvironmentUnder our feet and ubiquitous, lowly soil can be easily overlooked when it comes to addressing climate change and population growth. But in the January-February issue of the Soil Science…
Earth-size planet candidates found in habitable zone
— 3 Feb 2011 17:18 | AstronomyNASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface.…
The first mission to Mercury
— 1 Feb 2011 21:41 | AstronomyAs the team of scientists behind NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft eagerly awaits the craft's entry into Mercury's orbit on 17 March, we could soon get answers to questions about the origin,…
Voyager celebrates 25 years since Uranus visit
— 22 Jan 2011 10:08 | AstronomyAs NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made the only close approach to date of our mysterious seventh planet Uranus 25 years ago, Project Scientist Ed Stone and the Voyager team gathered at…
Discovery of a pulsating star that hosts a giant planet
— 19 Jan 2011 18:38 | AstronomyRecently published in an article of the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal, a group of researchers from the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC) at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona…