On Friday, a meter-sized asteroid called 2011 CQ1 was observed streaking only 5480 kilometres above the Earth's surface -the closest near miss on record, beating the previous record holder, a rock that buzzed Earth in 2004 called 2004 FU162, by... |
A group of nine unusual stars spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope in a young cluster above called NGC 3603 that are too cool to be ordinary stars, with analysis of their infrared light emissions indicating surface temperatures between 1700... |
"The geological history of Venus has long been a mystery," said Sue Smrekar, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Previous spacecraft gave us hints of volcanic activity, but we didn't know how long ago that occurred.... |
The raging turmoil inside Jupiter’s missing – and slowly re-emerging – South Equatorial Belt can now be seen in unprecedented detail by the Keck II telescope’s Adaptive Optics system and its unique near-infrared camera. The heat from Jupiter's interior shines... |
"While it will be fascinating to find out more about the earth 30,000 years ago perhaps more importantly we will have a better appreciation of the challenges of future climate change." Chris Turney of the University of Exeter A team... |
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