Jan 07 2011

Moon’s Core Much Like Earth’s

Tag: Earth,Gravity,NASA,The MoonIrene Klotz @ 10:00 pm
Earth's moon may be a chip off of the old block in more ways than one.

Dec 28 2010

Biggest Black Holes Are Mostly Quiet

Active black holes were at least 100 times more common 10 billion years ago. So what happened to these once ravenous monsters?

Dec 12 2010

Saturn’s Rings: Robbed From a Moon?

Tag: Comets,Gravity,Moons,NASA,SpacecraftIrene Klotz @ 7:00 pm
The gas giant may have stripped away a long-lost moon to create its famous rings.

Dec 12 2010

How Saturn Got Its Rings

Tag: Comets,Gravity,Moons,NASA,SpacecraftIrene Klotz @ 7:00 pm
The gas giant may have stripped away a long-lost moon to create its famous rings.

Dec 01 2010

Weather Outlook on Super-Earth: Steamy

Extreme heat and some water on a distant exoplanet may make for steamy conditions.

Dec 01 2010

Skin-Tight Space Suit Could Keep Astronauts Strong

These suits are not only fashionably snug; they also prevent bone loss when astronauts are floating in space.

Nov 17 2010

Trapped Antimatter Could Help Spill Universe’s Secrets

Tag: Gravity,Hydrogen,Nuclear Science,UniverseLarry O'Hanlon @ 6:00 pm
The antimatter equivalent of the hydrogen atom has been trapped for the first time in a milestone that could reveal more about our universe.

Oct 27 2010

New Neutron Star Largest Ever Discovered

Located about 3,000 light-years away, the neutron star also provides a very direct measure of Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Sep 24 2010

Time Warps an Everyday Occurrence

Tag: Aging,Atomic Clocks,GPS,Gravity,RelativityEric Bland @ 3:15 pm
Albert Einstein's ideas about the universe are brought down to Earth in this latest demonstration of his theories of relativity.

Aug 25 2010

Supermassive Black Holes Quickly Followed Big Bang

Tag: Big Bang,Black Hole,Galaxies,Gravity,UniverseDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 8:55 pm
The finding could rewrite theories about the formation of galaxies.

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