| Title |
Type |
Date |
Words |
| The New Universe and the Human Future. |
Book review |
Aug 27, 2011 |
278 |
| Lighting the universe: rethinking what the first stars were like. |
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Jul 30, 2011 |
2155 |
| Next solar cycle may be a no-show: studies suggest sun may be headed for decades of dormancy. |
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Jul 16, 2011 |
466 |
| Mercury's messages. |
Brief article |
Jul 16, 2011 |
136 |
| Introducing ... superdupernovas: exceptional brightness marks new class of stellar explosion. |
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Jul 2, 2011 |
484 |
| Black hole jets, now in HD. |
Brief article |
Jul 2, 2011 |
176 |
| Galaxy gets an arm extension: new finding suggests Milky Way has a rare symmetry. |
|
Jun 18, 2011 |
468 |
| Survey sees local universe in 3-D. |
Brief article |
Jun 18, 2011 |
195 |
| New evidence for WIMPs reported: Minnesota experiment finds possible signs of dark matter. |
Brief article |
Jun 4, 2011 |
248 |
| Crab Nebula's behavior confounds: latest outbursts send theorists skittering for an explanation. |
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Jun 4, 2011 |
422 |
| Former planet may have a tail: Pluto appears to trail a wispy cloud of carbon monoxide. |
Brief article |
May 21, 2011 |
246 |
| Dry ice suggests recently wet Mars: frozen carbon dioxide could thicken Red Planet's atmosphere. |
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May 21, 2011 |
420 |
| Messenger pays a yearlong visit to Mercury. |
|
May 21, 2011 |
1347 |
| XENON100 finds no dark matter: detector puts new limits on elusive material's properties. |
|
May 7, 2011 |
274 |
| New scenario for planetary births: theory offers way to explain diversity of extrasolar orbs. |
|
Apr 23, 2011 |
530 |
| Mercury viewed close-up. |
Brief article |
Apr 23, 2011 |
153 |
| What happened before the big bang? Pre-bang branes and bubbles. |
|
Apr 23, 2011 |
1164 |
| Further evidence for dark energy: more precise measurements rule out alternative proposal. |
|
Apr 9, 2011 |
392 |
| NASA's planetary science to-do list: panel identifies Mars life probe as top mission for funding. |
Brief article |
Apr 9, 2011 |
259 |
| Star cents: how the cost of NASA's next big space telescope skyrocketed. |
|
Apr 9, 2011 |
3196 |
| Spots suggest sun's doldrums likely to continue: despite recent flare, weak solar activity still expected. |
|
Mar 26, 2011 |
866 |
| Shortcut through a wormhole star: spacetime tunnels may exist with aid of 'phantom matter'. |
Brief article |
Mar 26, 2011 |
231 |
| Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo. |
Book review |
Mar 26, 2011 |
263 |
| Black holes put their spin on light: Effect could help studies of Milky Way's own heavyweight. |
|
Mar 12, 2011 |
378 |
| Comet Tempel 1, take two. |
Brief article |
Mar 12, 2011 |
178 |
| First stars might still shine today: slow-burning remnants from the early universe may exist. |
|
Feb 26, 2011 |
365 |
| A thousand-plus worlds to explore: Kepler mission releases details on newly discovered planets. |
Brief article |
Feb 26, 2011 |
299 |
| Lack of funds will force Fermilab to shut Tevatron by September's end: U.S. atom smasher will cede Higgs search to Europe's LHC. |
|
Feb 12, 2011 |
866 |
| Nearby black hole's heft pinpointed: Galaxy M87's massive heart weighs in at 6.6 billion suns. |
|
Feb 12, 2011 |
373 |
| Rocky body beyond solar system. |
Brief article |
Feb 12, 2011 |
126 |
| Massive clusters and cold clumps. |
Brief article |
Feb 12, 2011 |
137 |
| Solar conundrum may be cracked: observations could reveal why sun's corona is so hot. |
|
Jan 29, 2011 |
448 |
| An odd place for life's ingredients: asteroid may have made amino acids with water-free recipe. |
Brief article |
Jan 29, 2011 |
260 |
| Cosmic reincarnation may be dead: scientists skeptical of recent evidence for series of Big Bangs. |
|
Jan 15, 2011 |
348 |
| Liguid acquisition: two new scenarios ramp up debate over how Earth got its water. |
|
Jan 15, 2011 |
2702 |
| Billions, billions and more billions: new estimate triples number of stars populating cosmos. |
Brief article |
Jan 1, 2011 |
243 |
| Shocking signals from Crab nebula: gamma-ray flares from supernova remnant baffle astronomers. |
|
Jan 1, 2011 |
462 |
| Particle collider in the sky. |
Brief article |
Jan 1, 2011 |
139 |
| Cosmic radiation analysis hints at series of universal reincarnations: circular patterns suggest latest Big Bang was one of many. |
|
Dec 18, 2010 |
681 |
| It came from another galaxy: extrasolar planet's origin traced to beyond Milky Way. |
Brief article |
Dec 18, 2010 |
347 |
| Milky Way blows cosmic bubbles: Gamma-ray blobs emanate from the center of the galaxy. |
|
Dec 4, 2010 |
466 |
| Spacecraft encounters comet. |
Brief article |
Dec 4, 2010 |
167 |
| The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality. |
Book review |
Dec 4, 2010 |
295 |
| Gamma rays may signal detection of dark matter in Milky Way's core: Fermi telescope data analysis matches other experiments. |
|
Nov 20, 2010 |
684 |
| Habitable exoplanet find questioned: Swiss team's analysis can't confirm discovery of Gliese 581g. |
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Nov 6, 2010 |
521 |
| Comet impostor ID'd as asteroid: Hubble and Rosetta images undo space rock's disguise. |
Brief article |
Nov 6, 2010 |
220 |
| Life on Earth may have roots in air: early atmosphere capable of assembling life's ingredients. |
|
Nov 6, 2010 |
415 |
| Saturn moon may sport seltzer sea: fizzy ocean could be source of eruptions on Enceladus. |
Brief article |
Nov 6, 2010 |
302 |
| Close encounter fascinates media: small space rocks often pass within radius of moon's orbit. |
Brief article |
Oct 9, 2010 |
197 |
| Mars organics were possibly missed: Viking's tests could have destroyed building blocks of life. |
|
Oct 9, 2010 |
468 |
| Astronomers get closer to finding faraway Earths: two planetary systems offer new clues on planet formation. |
|
Sep 25, 2010 |
868 |
| Wishing on stars, hoping for funds: astronomers prioritize their projects for coming decade. |
Brief article |
Sep 11, 2010 |
231 |
| Twinkle, twinkle, little fuzzy dot: astronomers still wonder whether you're a planet or not. |
|
Sep 11, 2010 |
439 |
| Nearby galaxy is a very dark place: holds record for concentration of mysterious missing mass. |
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Aug 28, 2010 |
357 |
| Mining for missing matter: in underground lairs, physicists look for the dark stuff. |
|
Aug 28, 2010 |
2877 |
| Search for Higgs is hot, not heavy: new data indicate lower mass is probable for elusive particle. |
|
Aug 14, 2010 |
479 |
| Among stars, heavyweight champ: stellar record-holder weighs in at 265 times mass of sun. |
Brief article |
Aug 14, 2010 |
268 |
| Neutrino data hint at need for revised theories: nearly massless particles could turn physics on its ear. |
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Jul 17, 2010 |
607 |
| Crash of '09 suspect named: asteroid probably to blame for scar on Jupiter. |
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Jul 3, 2010 |
385 |
| Titan chemistry yields hint of life: other factors could explain lack of acetylene, hydrogen. |
Brief article |
Jul 3, 2010 |
284 |
| Kepler promises planetary bonanza: more than 700 new candidates added to roster of exoplanets. |
|
Jul 3, 2010 |
374 |
| Muons offer clue to why universe isn't just space: matter-antimatter imbalance hints at need for new physics. |
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Jun 19, 2010 |
552 |
| Black hole found a little off-center: displacement could provide clue to history of galaxy M87. |
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Jun 19, 2010 |
466 |
| WISE craft probes Heart and Soul. |
Brief article |
Jun 19, 2010 |
224 |
| Fast-moving star is a heavyweight: but it might be wimpy compared with others in neighborhood. |
|
Jun 5, 2010 |
439 |
| Voyage to the Heart of Matter: the Atlas Experiment at CERN. |
Book review |
Jun 5, 2010 |
273 |
| Satellite spots some sun secrets: first images released from Solar Dynamics Observatory. |
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May 22, 2010 |
392 |
| Hubble's instant classic. |
Brief article |
May 22, 2010 |
165 |
| Not your father's space program: Obama leaves the moon off his new road map for NASA. |
Brief article |
May 8, 2010 |
280 |
| Stellar neighbor is a cool slacker: nearest brown dwarf barely ghot enough to bake a potato. |
Brief article |
May 8, 2010 |
321 |
| Inventing the light fantastic: ideas behind laser born long before device itself. |
|
May 8, 2010 |
4753 |
| Charles Townes: laser pioneer reflects on making Einstein's idea real. |
Interview |
May 8, 2010 |
826 |
| Hot gas flows cause sunspot lows: satellite observations could improve solar cycle forecasts. |
|
Apr 10, 2010 |
488 |
| Express tour of Phobos. |
Brief article |
Apr 10, 2010 |
161 |
| Happy 20th, Hubble: flying observatory's cosmic portraits continue to capture hearts and minds. |
Cover story |
Apr 10, 2010 |
1517 |
| Large Hadron Collider finally set to begin regular proton beam collisions: accelerator will be limited to half power for 18 to 24 months. |
|
Mar 13, 2010 |
527 |
| Hogan's noise: a cosmologist suggests a novel way to uncover the nature of spacetime on the smallest scales. |
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Mar 13, 2010 |
2637 |
| Relic radiation refines age of cosmos: satellite data support inflation, confirm primordial helium. |
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Feb 27, 2010 |
530 |
| Galaxies may be most distant yet: potential Hubble findings push limits of current technology. |
|
Jan 30, 2010 |
853 |
| New planet-hunter captures quarry: Kepler mission spots five extrasolar orbs in first six weeks. |
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Jan 30, 2010 |
471 |
| Where there's smoke, supernovas: gamma-ray burst may have illuminated ancient stardust. |
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Jan 30, 2010 |
363 |
| Back story: alternative visions of super-earth GJ 1214B. |
Brief article |
Jan 16, 2010 |
101 |
| Earliest stage of star birth detected: telescope finds dust cloud contracting into prestellar core. |
|
Jan 16, 2010 |
542 |
| New observatory sees star babies. |
Brief article |
Jan 16, 2010 |
134 |
| On the fringe: astronomers look to the kuiper belt for clues to the solar system' history. |
|
Jan 16, 2010 |
2673 |
| Dark matter particle found, maybe: mine experiment yields evidence of possible WIMP detection. |
|
Jan 2, 2010 |
377 |
| Revving up particles in the cosmos: Cygnus X-3 gamma rays may help explain power of quasars. |
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Dec 19, 2009 |
738 |
| Observations of starburst galaxies provide clue to cosmic ray origins: detection of gamma rays solidifies supernova explanation. |
|
Dec 5, 2009 |
699 |
| Sign of antimatter seen in lightning: gamma-ray flash energies indicate presence of positrons. |
|
Dec 5, 2009 |
251 |
| Photons' photo finish puts limits on grainy space: light-speed result challenges theories of quantum gravity. |
|
Nov 21, 2009 |
372 |
| Extrasolar planet population grows: roster tops 400 with 32 additions, including 6 superEarths. |
Brief article |
Nov 21, 2009 |
296 |
| At solar system's edge, astronomers find a surprise wrapped in a ribbon: IBEX results raise questions about heliosphere's boundary. |
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Nov 21, 2009 |
646 |
| Saturn reveals largest known planetary ring; telescope detects dust band 200 times planet's diameter. |
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Nov 7, 2009 |
358 |
| Europa's oxygen-filled ocean. |
Brief article |
Nov 7, 2009 |
190 |
| Moon crash delivers puny plume; signs of iron and mercury, but not yet frozen water, found. |
Brief article |
Nov 7, 2009 |
260 |
| Icy asteroid. |
Brief article |
Nov 7, 2009 |
84 |
| The rock that fell to Earth. |
Brief article |
Nov 7, 2009 |
162 |
| The damp moon: team finds water on lunar surface: interior volcanic rocks also hold more [H.sub.2]O than thought. |
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Oct 24, 2009 |
563 |
| Flyby details mercury's unobserved terrain. |
Brief article |
Oct 24, 2009 |
90 |
| Hubble's new finds go the distance: galaxies discovered nearly 13.1 billion light-years from Earth. |
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Oct 10, 2009 |
528 |
