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The damp moon: team finds water on lunar surface: interior volcanic rocks also hold more [H.sub.2]O than thought
Scientists' understanding of the moon could be all wet. Its surface is surprisingly dewy and its interior contains more water than previous...
Science News, 10/24/09 by Ron Cowen · More from publication -
Flyby details mercury's unobserved terrain
Flying within 228 kilometers of Mercury's surface on September 29, the MESSENGER spacecraft snapped portraits of a portion of the planet that had...
Science News, 10/24/09 by Ron Cowen · More from publication -
Hubble's new finds go the distance: galaxies discovered nearly 13.1 billion light-years from Earth
Just days after NASA released the first cosmic dreamscapes taken by the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope (SN: 9/26/09, p. 7), three teams...
Science News, 10/10/09 by Ron Cowen · More from publication -
Rock solid planet
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There may be no place like home, but a recently discovered exoplanet has some awfully familiar traits. Astronomers report...
Science News, 10/10/09 by Ron Cowen · More from publication -
Human spaceflight program needs additional $30 billion, panel finds: Augustine committee recommends two exploration plans
NASA's program to send astronauts back to the moon and on to Mars won't get off the ground unless the federal budget for human spaceflight is...
Science News, 10/10/09 by Ron Cowen · More from publication -
Windows on the universe: astronomy's multiwavelength revolution paints a more complete picture of the cosmos
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bathed in the painterly light of late afternoon in France's Loire Valley, an old church casts an orange-tinted glow that...
Science News, 10/10/09 by Ron Cowen · More from publication -
Seeing again through Hubble's eyes
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Five grueling space walks in May have transformed the aging--and ailing--Hubble Space Telescope...
Science News, 09/26/09 by Ron Cowen · More from publication -
Decay patterns at B factory could challenge physics' standard model: tentative evidence hints at new massive elementary particle
In a weak moment, researchers have found an unexpected asymmetry in particle production that could hint at exotic physics. The tentative evidence,...
Science News, 09/26/09 by Ron Cowen · More from publication -
Flurry of planets found at full tilt: violent interactions may have shaped extrasolar systems
Call them the wrong-way planets. Several giant, extrasolar planets, all residing within sizzling distance of their parent stars, have orbits so...
Science News, 09/12/09 by Ron Cowen · More from publication -
Green peas produce a lot of stars: compact galaxies could shed light on more distant systems
For galaxies, it's not easy being green. Most appear blue or red from Earth. Indeed, after combing through an online image bank of about 1...
Science News, 08/29/09 by Ron Cowen · More from publication
