A team of American, Australian and British astronomers has released maps from the largest full-sky, three-dimensional survey of galaxies ever conducted.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Oct 03, 2006 4.4 / 5 (117) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Abrupt climate change has occurred on earth many times over the past millions of years. Climate scientists hypothesize that these sharp transitions may be caused when the earth system reaches ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Sep 17, 2008 3.6 / 5 (139) 63

Moondust. "I wish I could send you some," says Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. Just a thimbleful scooped fresh off the lunar surface. "It's amazing stuff."

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Feb 03, 2006 4.6 / 5 (108) 1

Researchers in the Man Vehicle Laboratory (MVL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have begun this month to push a revolutionary new space suit design from investigation to initial development, aiming ...

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Feb 08, 2006 4.8 / 5 (103) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The phenomenon of time dilation is a strange yet experimentally confirmed effect of relativity theory. One of its implications is that events occurring in distant parts of the universe should ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Apr 09, 2010 4.7 / 5 (102) 165 |

U.S. astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other known in the universe. Smithsonian scientists say the new planet was discovered using a network of small automated telescopes known as HATl. The planet ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Sep 14, 2006 4.1 / 5 (117) 0

The idea of painting our roofs and roads white to offset global warming is not new, but a recent study has calculated just how significantly white surfaces could impact greenhouse gas emissions. Last week, researchers at ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 17, 2008 4.1 / 5 (115) 65

A cuneiform clay tablet that has puzzled scholars for over 150 years has been translated for the first time. The tablet is now known to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an asteroid impact at Köfels, ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 31, 2008 4.6 / 5 (104) 8

Almost every day, the great antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network turn to a blank patch of sky in the constellation Ophiuchus. Pointing at nothing, or so it seems, they invariably pick up a signal, faint but ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Sep 22, 2006 4.9 / 5 (95) 0

(AP) -- Tinkering with Earth's climate to chill runaway global warming - a radical idea once dismissed out of hand - is being discussed by the White House as a potential emergency option, the president's ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 08, 2009 4.5 / 5 (102) 33

A treasure trove of scientific data is revealing detailed information about conditions of subtropical warmth at the North Pole about 55 million years ago while also providing a window into the future, when ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 31, 2006 4.5 / 5 (101) 2

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are to blame for global warming since the 1970s and not carbon dioxide, according to new research from the University of Waterloo published in the International Journal of Modern Ph ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

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Scientists have confirmed for the first time that an important component of early genetic material which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin, in a paper published on 15 June ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jun 13, 2008 4.6 / 5 (93) 41

(AP) -- Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Oct 26, 2009 4.6 / 5 (93) 23

(PhysOrg.com) -- Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jul 31, 2008 4.8 / 5 (88) 22