Newest Posts in Space Atom Feed from Searchles Wed Jul 23 18:16:51 -0400 2008 en-us The North Star Has Revived Itself ... Its No Longer Dying! g8rrrry Astronomers were watching Polaris in the expectation that they would catch the star switching off its vibrations completely when they made the surprising observation of its revival. Scientists have no idea why this is happening! Our Small World diane_court Our Small World. Compilation of various stars with correct scaling. Holy crap, Earth is a dot. Dwarf planet near Pluto named for Polynesian god maybelline A dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune has been designated the third plutoid in the solar system and given the name Makemake, the International Astronomical Union said on Saturday. Gorgeous Images of Echus Chasma--Water Source Region on Mars g8rrrry Gorgeous Images of Echus Chasma--Water Source Region on Mars Which is the brightest star of all? g8rrrry The Milky Ways current record holder, Eta Carinae, has some competition in the Peony nebula star Asteroid Cruises Past Earth ... With a Partner! g8rrrry A good-sized asteroid sailing past our planet right now turns out to be two giant rocks doing a celestial jig.Now seen as two objects orbiting each other, the pair will be closest to Earth on July 14, at about 1.4 million miles (2 million kilometers) away. Thats nearly six times as far from us as the moon. Asteroid Cruises Past Earth ... With a Partner! g8rrrry A good-sized asteroid sailing past our planet right now turns out to be two giant rocks doing a celestial jig.Now seen as two objects orbiting each other, the pair will be closest to Earth on July 14, at about 1.4 million miles (2 million kilometers) away. Thats nearly six times as far from us as the moon. NASA engineers work on alternative moon rocket Kimberley McKee NASA engineers work secretly on new moon rocket; team says design would be cheaper, safer Moons interior held water g8rrrry US scientists have found evidence that water was held in the Moons interior, challenging some elements of the theory of how Earths satellite formed. For Better or Worse, Sex in Space Is Inevitable Kimberley McKee Weddings in space could be right around the corner, and experts figure the inevitable cosmic consummation will be just around the next corner. Roswell UFO Incident Confirmed by U.S. Astronaut Puget Sound Pundit Will NASA Ever Find Life on Mars? Mindscout Martian soil appears able to support life Kimberley McKee "Flabbergasted" NASA scientists said on Thursday that Martian soil appeared to contain the requirements to support life, although more work would be needed to prove it. Martian Dirt Carbonless But Similar To Backyard Soil Kara Rand Results of soil analysis made by the Phoenix Mars lander on a scoop of Martian dirt showed the Red Planet's surface has no carbon but has other elements that can grow a backyard plant. Huge Meteor Strike Explains Mars’s Shape, Reports Say dweller The lopsided shape of Mars may well be a result of a cataclysmic impact of a Pluto-size meteor billions of years ago, three teams of scientists are reporting. That would suggest that the lowlands of Mars’s northern hemisphere are a single gigantic impact crater, the largest crater in the solar system. Astronomers on Verge of Finding Earth's Twin - Yahoo! News lordskab Planet hunters say it's just a matter of time before they lasso Earth's twin, which almost surely is hiding somewhere in our star-studded galaxy. Momentum is building: Just last week, astronomers announced they had discovered three super-Earths — worlds more massive than ours but small enough to most likely be rocky — orbiting a single star. And dozens of other worlds suspected of having masses in that same range were found around other stars. Astronomers on Verge of Finding Earth's Twin - Yahoo! News lordskab Planet hunters say it's just a matter of time before they lasso Earth's twin, which almost surely is hiding somewhere in our star-studded galaxy. Momentum is building: Just last week, astronomers announced they had discovered three super-Earths — worlds more massive than ours but small enough to most likely be rocky — orbiting a single star. And dozens of other worlds suspected of having masses in that same range were found around other stars. For Alien Life-Seekers, New Reason to Hope craig88 For those of us who still mourn the demise of the “Star Trek” franchise and its vision of the cosmos as a thrillingly multicultural if occasionally lethal nightclub, the announcement last week that many Sun-size stars in our galaxy are girdled with Earth-size planets was, frankly, transporting. Sun Might Hold Secret of Dark Matter speedy Plutoid chosen as name for solar system objects like Pluto diane_court when i was your age, pluto was a planet