Amateur astronomer spots another Jupiter strike (w/ Video)
Jupiter has gotten whacked again.
Jun 04, 2010
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Jun 04, 2010
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Hubble Images Suggest Rogue Asteroid Smacked Jupiter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Without warning, a mystery object struck Jupiter on July 19, 2009, leaving a dark bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean. The spot first caught the eye of an amateur astronomer in Australia, ...
Jun 03, 2010
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Saturn, Mars and Venus line up in June sky
(PhysOrg.com) -- As darkness falls at the beginning of June, three planets will form a long line in the western sky. Saturn will be at the upper left, Mars in the middle and Venus at the lower right.
Jun 01, 2010
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Europa's Churn Leads to Oxygen Burn
Jupiter’s moon Europa has a salty ocean, and scientists have long wondered if life could be found there. One scientist says Europa also has enough oxygen to support an ocean teeming with life.
May 28, 2010
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Weird orbits of neighbors can make 'habitable' planets not so habitable
Astronomers hunting for planets orbiting nearby stars similar to the sun are looking for signs of rocky, Earth-like planets in a "habitable" zone, where conditions such as temperature and liquid water remain ...
May 24, 2010
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First results dealing with the impact of a celestial body on the planet Jupiter
The Planetary Sciences Group at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country (Spain) led by Professor Agustín Sánchez Lavega, has published the first results of research into one of the recent events that has ...
May 20, 2010
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Jupiter has lost one of its cloud stripes
(PhysOrg.com) -- New photographs of the gas giant Jupiter, the first taken on May 9, show the massive reddish band of clouds known as the Southern Equatorial Belt in the planet’s southern hemisphere has ...
May 14, 2010
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Picking Planets from Potatoes
New research indicates that there may be many more dwarf planets similar to Pluto in our solar system than previously thought. Studying these distant objects can help astrobiologists understand the basic properties ...
Apr 26, 2010
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Wis. man finds rock believed to be meteor fragment
(AP) -- Scientists say an apparent fragment from a meteor that lit up Midwestern skies this week has been recovered in southwestern Wisconsin.
Apr 17, 2010
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Dual Drill Designed for Jupiter’s Europa Ice
NASA and the European Space Agency are sending a mission to study Jupiter and its moon Europa in 2020. There may be life in the moon’s ocean, but to find out a mission will have to be able to drill down ...
Apr 15, 2010
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Turning Planetary Theory Upside Down (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of nine new transiting exoplanets is announced today at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting. When these new results were combined with earlier observations of transiting exoplanets ...
Apr 13, 2010
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A Fresh Look at Jupiter's Great Red Spot
(PhysOrg.com) -- New, ground-breaking thermal images obtained with powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot.
Apr 02, 2010
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An Avalanche of Asteroids
Imagine you're a Brontosaurus with your face in a prehistoric tree top, munching on fresh leaves. Your relatives have ruled planet Earth for more than 150 million years. Huge and strong, you feel invincible. ...
Mar 29, 2010
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Europa on Earth
Cracks in the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa contain sulfur-rich material. An expedition to a sulfur spring in the Arctic could help solve some mysteries about Europa - including its potential for life.
Mar 25, 2010
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Helium rain on Jupiter explains lack of neon in atmosphere
(PhysOrg.com) -- On Earth, helium is a gas used to float balloons, as in the movie "Up." In the interior of Jupiter, however, conditions are so strange that, according to predictions by University of California, ...
Mar 22, 2010
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