• Space Telescope Science institute Stellar Populations Symposium

    Updated: 2010-05-03 00:00:00
    Monday, May 3, 2010

  • Strange Spots on Pluto May be Tar and Frost

    Updated: 2010-04-29 23:29:10
    Mysterious bright and dark spots mottling the surface of Pluto could be tar and frost, scientists say.

  • Could Extraterrestrials Really Invade Earth, and How?

    Updated: 2010-04-29 23:29:10
    Famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking has warned that humanity could be devastated if intelligent extraterrestrials learned of our existence.But how could aliens really invade Earth?

  • Seeing Aliens Will Likely Take Centuries

    Updated: 2010-04-29 23:29:10
    As telescopes become more advanced, we'll be able to see more details about planets orbiting other stars — including indications that those planets have life. However, it would probably take many centuries before we could actually see the aliens.

  • Water Ice Discovered on Asteroid for First Time

    Updated: 2010-04-29 23:29:10
    Scientists have found water ice for the first time on the surface of an asteroid - a discovery that could help explain how Earth got its oceans.

  • NASA: Claims of Life on Mars 'Positively False'

    Updated: 2010-04-29 23:29:10
    Despite recent media reports that NASA found evidence for life on Mars, the space agency says proof that we are not alone is still a ways off.

  • Huge NASA Science Balloon Crashes in Australian Outback

    Updated: 2010-04-29 23:29:10
    A huge NASA balloon loaded with two astronomy telescopes crashed in the Australian outback on Thursday.

  • Giant Blizzard Raging on Saturn

    Updated: 2010-04-29 23:29:10
    A massive blizzard is raging on Saturn — a storm so large and fierce NASA astronomers and amateur skywatchers can see it from Earth.

  • Massive Eruption Creates Magnetic Plasma 'Rain' on the Sun

    Updated: 2010-04-29 23:29:10
    Massive solar eruption and coronal rain spied by new NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory.

  • Potentially Dangerous Asteroid Spotted Passing Earth

    Updated: 2010-04-29 23:29:10
    An asteroid on the list of potentially dangerous space rocks that could endanger the Earth was caught on camera as it zoomed past our planet this month.

  • Search for Alien Life Set to Take Giant Leap Forward

    Updated: 2010-04-29 23:29:10
    Scientists haven't found E.T. just yet, but they may be pinning down the best places and ways to look for alien life during future space missions.

  • Arecibo telescope tracks potentially dangerous asteroid within 1.5 million miles of Earth

    Updated: 2010-04-29 21:54:34
    Radar imaging of asteroid 2005 YU55 showed that the asteroid is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) in size and about twice as large as previously estimated.

  • Ice lurks in asteroid's cold heart

    Updated: 2010-04-29 21:54:33
    Scientists say the discovery of water-ice is a result of 6 years of observing asteroid 24 Themis.

  • Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks May 6

    Updated: 2010-04-29 05:47:43
    Debris from Halley's Comet gives birth to an impressive sky show during May's first week.

  • World's biggest telescope to be located on Cerro Armazones, Chile

    Updated: 2010-04-29 05:47:42
    The decision to build the telescope on Cerro Armazones was based on an extensive comparative meteorological investigation that lasted several years.

  • Planck highlights the complexity of star formation

    Updated: 2010-04-28 05:25:52
    Where optical telescopes see only black space, Planck's microwave eyes reveal myriad glowing structures of dust and gas.

  • Lunokhod 1 retroreflector found

    Updated: 2010-04-28 05:25:52
    The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter team helped scientists track laser signals to the Russian rover mirror.

  • Research illuminates the shape of dark matter's distribution

    Updated: 2010-04-27 05:05:49
    A thorough examination of the shape of dark matter's distribution in the cosmos may open up a new way to explore the nature of this enigmatic matter.

  • M81's halo sheds light on galaxy formation

    Updated: 2010-04-27 05:05:48
    The most prominent of the galaxy formation models predicts that galaxies are built up from the merging and accretion of many smaller galaxies that orbit within their gravitational sphere of influence.

  • LUCIFER allows astronomers to watch stars being born

    Updated: 2010-04-24 04:05:39
    The new instrument on the Large Binocular Telescope is a powerful tool that will gain spectacular insights into the universe — from the Milky Way to extremely distant galaxies

  • Distant planet missing common ingredient

    Updated: 2010-04-23 03:45:46
    The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered planet GJ 436B is methane-free.

  • New eye on the Sun delivers stunning first images

    Updated: 2010-04-23 03:45:45
    Images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory show never-before-seen detail and help scientists understand our Sun's dynamic processes.

  • VISTA captures celestial cat's hidden secrets

    Updated: 2010-04-22 03:25:42
    The view of NGC 6334 in the infrared is strikingly different from that in visible light. With the dust obscuring the view far less, scientists can learn more about how these stars form and develop in their first few million years of life.

  • Researchers study galaxy mergers

    Updated: 2010-04-22 03:25:42
    The largest galaxies in the universe are elliptical in shape, and how they formed is central to our understanding of how the universe has evolved over the past 15 billion years.

  • Einstein's theory fights off challengers

    Updated: 2010-04-21 03:05:47
    In recent years, physicists have turned their attention to competing theories to general relativity as a possible explanation for the accelerated expansion of the universe.

  • Source of zodiac glow identified

    Updated: 2010-04-21 03:05:46
    Scientists say more than 85 percent of the zodiacal dust originated from Jupiter-family comets, not asteroids.

  • Wisconsin meteorite shards on display at UW Geology Museum

    Updated: 2010-04-20 14:55:40
    Pieces from the fireball that fell in southwestern Wisconsin April 14 will be showcased through the weekend.

  • Astronomy magazine to sponsor Northeast Astronomy Forum

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:58:55
    Astronomy, the world's largest magazine on the subject, proudly announces a partnership with the Rockland Astronomy Club to sponsor this terrific event.

  • Celestron celebrates 50 years in business

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:58:54
    On September 17, 2009, editors will dedicate the magazine's observatory at Rancho Hidalgo, near Animas, New Mexico.

  • Astronomy magazine celebrates its new observatory

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:58:54
    On September 17, 2009, editors will dedicate the magazine's observatory at Rancho Hidalgo, near Animas, New Mexico.

  • Comets and Asteroids New Scientist

    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:04:31
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  • Space news and outer space articles from New Scientist New Scientist Space New Scientist

    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:04:25
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  • Astrobiology New Scientist

    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:04:06
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  • Browse the New Scientist Archive 2010 New Scientist

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  • Space news and outer space articles from New Scientist New Scientist Space New Scientist

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  • Saturn and its Moons New Scientist

    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:03:42
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    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:03:19
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