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Statistics experts reject global cooling claims

(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

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (93) | comments 23

Satellite proposed to send solar power to Earth

(Phys.org) -- Artemis Innovation Management Solutions has been given some seed money by NASA to look deeper into a project the company first proposed last summer; namely, building a satellite that could collect ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (54) | comments 75 | with audio podcast report

Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max'

The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (37) | comments 57

Climate models make too hot forecasts of global warming

Data from NASA's Terra satellite shows that when the climate warms, Earth's atmosphere is apparently more efficient at releasing energy to space than models used to forecast climate change have been programmed to "believe."

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (32) | comments 161 | with audio podcast

Falcon Heavy Rocket gets unveiled by SpaceX (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Private spaceflight company, SpaceX, unveiled their massive 22 story big Falcon Heavy rocket capable of carrying a cargo capacity of 117,000 pounds. The 27-enginge Falcon Heavy is aimed to ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (25) | comments 110 | with audio podcast report

Possibly the most distant object known

The most distant objects in the universe are also the oldest -- or at least that is how they appear to us, because their light has had to travel for billions of years to get here. They are also extraordinarily ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 204 | with audio podcast

Destroyed Chinese satellite close to ISS: official

Debris from a satellite destroyed in 2007 by a Chinese missile is in the vicinity of the International Space Station and astronauts are ready to take cover if required, a Russian official said Friday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 23, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (20) | comments 5

NASA Study Finds Atlantic 'Conveyor Belt' Not Slowing

(PhysOrg.com) -- New NASA measurements of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, part of the global ocean conveyor belt that helps regulate climate around the North Atlantic, show no significant ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

Two new brown dwarf Solar neighbors discovered

Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have discovered two new brown dwarfs at estimated distances of only 15 and 18 light years from the Sun. For comparison: The next star to ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Hubble discovers another moon around Pluto

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Sun-gazing spacecraft carries out never-before-tried slewing maneuver

The fastest path between Point A and Point B is a straight line. Not so fast, says a team of scientists and engineers who recently disproved this commonly accepted notion using a NASA satellite that had not ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 23, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Tiny Satellites for Big Science

The shrinking technology of cell phones, laptops and cameras are now leading to palm-sized satellites. Easy to build and affordable, these small satellites offer a new way to conduct astrobiology research. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Polar ice adding more to rising seas: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study. The findings of the study -- the longest to date of changes ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (17) | comments 48 | with audio podcast

Nearby galaxy boasts two monster black holes, both active

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study using NASA's Swift satellite and the Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a second supersized black hole at the heart of an unusual nearby galaxy already known to be sporting one.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 41 | with audio podcast

How hard are we pushing the land?

We may be becoming an ever more technologically advanced society, but we remain as dependent as ever -- if not more and more so -- on the natural world that surrounds us.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 8 | with audio podcast