Date: 2002-08-08
Science News: Atom & Cosmos
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Stellar superflares' trigger challenged
A 'hot Jupiter' may not be needed for huge eruptions on sunlike stars
Categories: Astronomy News
Sun’s shock wave goes missing
Spacecraft observations redraw astronomers’ ideas about the local stellar environment
Categories: Astronomy News
More than one way to explode a star
New observations confirm two leading theories of type 1a supernova production
Categories: Astronomy News
Ancient scribes may have banked on blinking binary
For the Egyptians, luck may have been written in the Demon Star
Categories: Astronomy News
Deleted Scenes: A result of zero doesn't always mean zero results
Two recent astrophysics studies found meaningful results in nothing
Categories: Astronomy News
Earth took a multibillion-year beating
Estimates grow for length of the Late Heavy Bombardment
Categories: Astronomy News
Dark matter search turns up empty
New calculations suggest dearth of invisible substance in solar neighborhood
Categories: Astronomy News
Hunt for cosmic ray source falls short
Experiment’s dearth of neutrinos may burst gamma-ray bubble
Categories: Astronomy News
Tall, devilish storm skids across Mars’ surface
Probe captures 20-kilometer dust devil in action
Categories: Astronomy News
Planets’ gravity tidies stellar ring
Dust disk around Fomalhaut hints at pair of orbiting bodies
Categories: Astronomy News
Deleted Scenes: The Newtonian physics (or not) of Angry Birds Space
Ca-Caw! Experts weigh in on the basic principles featured in the birdiverse
Categories: Astronomy News
News in Brief: Highlights from the American Physical Society April Meeting, Atlanta
String theory’s take on the Higgs, newborn pulsars may have iron by-products, and coupled neutrons in beryllium nuclei revealed
Categories: Astronomy News
New data support Einstein on accelerating universe
Galaxy measurements indicate dark energy, not flaw in relativity, to blame for cosmic repulsion
Categories: Astronomy News
Life’s building blocks grow close to home
Chemical reactions in the early solar system create complex organic molecules
Categories: Astronomy News
News in Brief: Highlights from the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, March 19-23
Geologic activity and weather on Saturnian moons, and studies in Greenland to learn about Mars
Categories: Astronomy News
Bits of Reality
Not just for codes and computers, quantum information holds clues to the nature of the physical universe
Categories: Astronomy News
Vesta seems more planet than asteroid
Spacecraft explorations reveal a layered, beat-up body
Categories: Astronomy News
Smallest planet yields big surprises
Mercury has a complicated inside and an active geologic past
Categories: Astronomy News
On the Scene: Proposed cuts in planetary science take center stage
NASA officials endure slings and arrows of outraged researchers
Categories: Astronomy News
