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[logo] New Scientist Space - Space   more  xml  hide  
last updated: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:33:37 GMT

  Cosmic particle accelerator pinpointed in Crab Nebula Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:04:00 +0100
Charged particles are being accelerated to near-light speeds by a doughnut-shaped magnetic field around the nebula's famous pulsar
  Misconduct verdict for fusion researcher upheld Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:48:00 +0100
Purdue University has demoted the scientist who claimed to have triggered 'bubble fusion' in 2002
  Are horoscopes the reason we love Pluto so much? Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:40:00 +0100
I attended the Great Planet Debate earlier this month in Laurel, Maryland, which featured plenty of scientific debate about the relative merits of different planet definitions.But to me, what was most interesting about the conference was not the back-and-forth itself,...
  Dark matter and normal matter 'divorce' in cosmic clash Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:07:00 +0100
After two massive galaxy clusters collided, their gas slowed down but their dark matter continued on unimpeded
  Do galaxies have a minimum mass? Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:55:00 +0100
The cores of a motley crew of nearby dwarf galaxies all weigh about 10 million Suns, suggesting galaxies need at least that much mass to form

[logo] New Scientist Space - Solar System   more  xml  hide  
last updated: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:33:38 GMT

  Mars rover plots escape from giant crater Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:30:00 +0100
NASA's Opportunity rover is climbing out of Victoria Crater after one of its wheels seemed to show signs of failing
  Cassini spots source of geysers on Saturn moon Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:53:00 +0100
The vents from which icy geysers erupt on Enceladus are revealed in new images – the vents' position changes over time
  First object seen from solar system's inner Oort cloud Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:00:00 +0100
Astronomers had theorised that a distant shell of comets called the Oort cloud had an inner region – now they have found its first native son
  Martian dust speck seen at highest magnification ever Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:50:00 +0100
The Phoenix lander's atomic force microscope took the image, shown at a higher magnification than anything ever seen from another planet
  Phoenix Mars lander bakes third soil sample Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:31:00 +0100
A third soil sample is being analysed by an onboard instrument called TEGA; meanwhile, the lander has dug its deepest trench yet

[logo] New Scientist Space - Space Technology   more  xml  hide  
last updated: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:33:39 GMT

  Self-help software to soothe stressed astronauts Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:14:00 +0100
Astronauts travelling to Mars won't be able to chat in real-time to therapists on Earth – new software will help them cope on the long journeys
  Shock absorbers to quell NASA rocket's vibrations Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:30:00 +0100
Astronauts on NASA's future Ares I rocket should get a smooth ride to space thanks to a two-tiered system of shock-absorbing springs
  Falcon 1 rocket fails to reach orbit Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:10:00 +0100
SpaceX, a leading player in the private spaceflight industry, loses its third rocket, but vows to plough on
  Virgin Galactic rolls out SpaceShipTwo's 'mothership' Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:59:00 +0100
Flight tests are planned to begin later this year for WhiteKnightTwo, which will launch SpaceShipTwo on suborbital flights
  'Gravity tractor' could deflect asteroids Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:55:00 +0100
The gravitational pull of a spacecraft placed near an Earth-threatening asteroid could pull the asteroid off course, a new NASA study finds

[logo] New Scientist Space - Human Spaceflight   more  xml  hide  
last updated: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:33:40 GMT

  Self-help software to soothe stressed astronauts Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:14:00 +0100
Astronauts travelling to Mars won't be able to chat in real-time to therapists on Earth – new software will help them cope on the long journeys
  Shock absorbers to quell NASA rocket's vibrations Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:30:00 +0100
Astronauts on NASA's future Ares I rocket should get a smooth ride to space thanks to a two-tiered system of shock-absorbing springs
  Springs to dampen NASA rocket's vibrations Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:20:00 +0100
NASA will incorporate springs into its future Ares I rocket to prevent potentially deadly vibrations from shaking its astronaut crew
  Virgin Galactic rolls out SpaceShipTwo's 'mothership' Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:59:00 +0100
Flight tests are planned to begin later this year for WhiteKnightTwo, which will launch SpaceShipTwo on suborbital flights
  Moonlighting engineers design alternative NASA rocket Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:40:00 +0100
In their spare time, a group of engineers is developing an alternative to NASA's Ares rockets – they want an independent review of their concept

[logo] New Scientist Space - Astronomy   more  xml  hide  
last updated: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:33:40 GMT

  Cosmic particle accelerator pinpointed in Crab Nebula Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:04:00 +0100
Charged particles are being accelerated to near-light speeds by a doughnut-shaped magnetic field around the nebula's famous pulsar
  Dark matter and normal matter 'divorce' in cosmic clash Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:07:00 +0100
After two massive galaxy clusters collided, their gas slowed down but their dark matter continued on unimpeded
  Do galaxies have a minimum mass? Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:55:00 +0100
The cores of a motley crew of nearby dwarf galaxies all weigh about 10 million Suns, suggesting galaxies need at least that much mass to form
  New 'Fermi' gamma-ray telescope makes first sky map Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:25:00 +0100
After taking its first data, the NASA telescope formerly known as GLAST is renamed for the late Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi
  Massive galaxy cluster to shed light on cosmic lumpiness Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:59:00 +0100
The most massive distant cluster of galaxies has been found – such monsters could help reveal the distribution of matter after the big bang

[logo] New Scientist Space - Cosmology   more  xml  hide  
last updated: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:33:41 GMT

  Dark matter and normal matter 'divorce' in cosmic clash Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:07:00 +0100
After two massive galaxy clusters collided, their gas slowed down but their dark matter continued on unimpeded
  Biggest 3D galaxy map to probe dark energy's history Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:20:00 +0100
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has entered a new phase, probing to greater distances to study the universe's expansion history
  Universe's first stars bulk up in new simulation Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100
The very first stars were giants weighing 100 Suns – they coalesced out of primordial gas about 300 million years after the big bang
  Spooks enlisted in hunt for gravity waves Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:17:00 +0100
Ripples in space-time, thought to emanate from the collision of black holes, might be detected with the spooky phenomenon of quantum entanglement (full text available to subscribers)
  Is our universe fine-tuned for life? Sat, 2 Aug 2008 09:00:00 +0100
A researcher questions the claim that the physical constants are fine-tuned for life - altering them can still produce life-supporting stars

[logo] New Scientist Space - Comets and Asteroids   more  xml  hide  
last updated: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:33:42 GMT

  Nearby star may be swarming with comets Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100
A star about 150 light years from Earth, seems to sport an ring of icy debris similar to our solar system's Kuiper belt
  Perseid meteor shower set to dazzle Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:40:00 +0100
One of the year's best displays of 'shooting stars' will occur on Tuesday at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower
  Comets may be spawned when mum breaks up Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:28:00 +0100
Many of the comets circling in the inner solar system might have been created in swarms when much larger ice-balls fragmented
  The end of the world is not nigh Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100
From bioterror and nuclear war to an asteroid hit, the threat from a mega-catastrophe is diminishing (full text available to subscribers)
  What would Earth look like to alien astronomers? Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:40:00 +0100
If they had super-powerful telescopes, it might look like what the Deep Impact probe recently saw from its vantage point 50 million km away

[logo] New Scientist Space - Mars Rovers   more  xml  hide  
last updated: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:33:43 GMT

  Mars rover hobbled as instruments show their age Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:57:00 +0000
Work has been halted by problems with two of Opportunity's most important instruments, but NASA hopes to fix the issues shortly
  Mars rover Spirit to head north for the winter Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:01:00 +0000
The rover will soon begin a 60-metre trek north to a slope that will maximise the feeble winter sunlight reaching its solar panels
  Prime landing sites chosen for biggest Martian rover Fri, 2 Nov 2007 19:19:00 +0000
NASA's Mini-Cooper-sized Mars Science Laboratory will likely touch down in one of six sites that all appear to have a watery past
  Lava may have buried signs of Mars water Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:42:00 +0100
Future robotic missions to the Red Planet may have a hard time uncovering evidence of past water, suggest new images
  Mars rover starts long-awaited drive into giant crater Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:44:00 +0100
After three months of delays, the Mars rover Opportunity has made its first tentative dip into a deep crater called Victoria

[logo] New Scientist Space - Cassini: Mission to Saturn   more  xml  hide  
last updated: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:33:44 GMT

  Saturn's 'metronome' disrupted by the solar wind Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:17:00 +0000
Periodic radio pulses once thought to keep time with the planet's rotation are disrupted by the solar wind, a new study suggests
  Saturn's rings hide 'sunflowers' and extra bulk Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:29:00 +0100
New observations reveal dust rings that always point at the Sun and a bright ring that is three times heftier – and much older – than thought
  Saturn's satellites reveal their secrets Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100
On its trip through the icy satellite system of Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals the secrets of Enceladus, Titan and Iapetus
  Forecasters predict morning drizzle on Titan Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:34:00 +0100
Morning brings a drizzle of methane on the moon's brightest continent, Xanadu – meanwhile, Cassini finds lakes near the south pole
  Source of Saturn moon's mysterious jets pinpointed Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:34:00 +0100
Plumes of icy particles spewing from the moon Enceladus emanate from the warmest regions of giant fractures dubbed 'tiger stripes'

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[logo] New Scientist Space - Astrobiology   more  xml  hide  
last updated: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:33:44 GMT

  New evidence for extragalactic life-forming matter Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:04:00 +0000
The hunt for organic molecules that could be the basis for life outside the Milky Way has turned up telltale signs in a galaxy 2 billion light years away
  Life could survive longer on a super-Earth Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:00:00 +0000
Big rocky planets in other solar systems could stay warm enough for life up to 35 per cent longer than our puny planet
  Largest extrasolar planetary system discovered Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:48:00 +0000
A fifth planet has been found around a star in our galaxy, and scientists say it could host life-friendly moons
  Did oceans on Venus harbour life? Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100
Ancient oceans on Venus may have lasted long enough for life to have emerged – to find out, we should look out for a hardy silicate mineral called tremolite
  Super-Earths will have plate tectonics Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:03:00 +0100
Plate tectonics may be a necessary condition for life and now it seems that super-Earths outside our solar system will have shifting continents too

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