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University of Western Ontario cameras capture 'fireball'
For the second time this year, The University of Western Ontario Meteor Group has captured incredibly rare video footage of a meteor falling to Earth. The team of astronomers suspects the fireball dropped meteorites in a region north of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, that may total as much as a few... view more (2008-10-27)

Canadian astronomers on hunt for meteor
Astronomers from The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, have captured rare video of a meteor falling to Earth.   view more (2008-03-10)

More than a meteor likely killed dinosaurs 65 million years ago
Growing evidence shows that the dinosaurs and their contemporaries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub meteor impact alone, according to a paleontologist who says multiple meteor impacts, massive volcanism in India and climate changes culminated in the end of the Cretaceous Period.   view more (2006-10-27)

ESA`s shortcut to a comet
Night owls across Europe, get ready. On the night of 18-19 November 2002, you may see a spectacular sky show. As tiny particles in Comet 55/P Tempel-Tuttle`s tail enter Earth`s atmosphere, they will pierce through it, heating up, and finally explode. Welcome to one of the most spectacular natural... view more (2002-11-15)

Meteor impacts: Life's jump starter?
Meteor impacts are generally regarded as monstrous killers and one of the causes of mass extinctions throughout the history of life.   view more (2005-08-09)

Will The Leonids Go Out With A Bang?
Anyone willing to brave the early morning cold on 19 November may be rewarded with one of Nature's most spectacular firework displays - a major meteor storm. This year's Leonid meteor shower is expected to provide the last great storm for at least 30 years, and possibly the biggest in the 21st... view more (2002-11-15)

ALIS a multi-eyed voyeur in a plasma universe
The Northern Lights are a visible result of physical processes in inner space. By studying the optical signal from the Northern Lights and similar phenomena, we can gain new knowledge about the physics behind them. In the long run such pure research may be of great importance for applications in... view more (2003-06-24)

Listen to the Leonids - ESA scientists try something new
Full story at: http://sci.esa.int/leonids99   view more (1999-11-16)

Meteor no longer prime suspect in great extinction
The greatest mass extinction in Earth's history also may have been one of the slowest, according to a study that casts further doubt on the extinction-by-meteor theory.   view more (2007-10-25)

Far more than a meteor killed dinos
There's growing evidence that the dinosaurs and most their contemporaries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub meteor impact, according to a paleontologist who says multiple meteor impacts, massive volcanism in India, and climate changes culminated in the end of the Cretaceous Period.   view more (2006-10-24)

Meteorites delivered the 'seeds' of Earth's left-hand life
Flash back three or four billion years - Earth is a hot, dry and lifeless place. All is still. Without warning, a meteor slams into the desert plains at over ten thousand miles per hour. With it, this violent collision may have planted the chemical seeds of life on Earth.   view more (2008-04-07)

Marine researchers from Bremen discover giant canyon off the coast of northwest Africa
Scientists from the DFG Research Center Ocean Margins in Bremen made a sensational discovery during their latest expedition on board RV "Meteor" which ended only a few days ago. Off the coast of Mauritania they came across an enormous underwater canyon in a phantastic shape. It meanders a distance... view more (2003-05-22)

New theory for mass extinctions
A new theory on just what causes Earth's worst mass extinctions may help settle the endless scientific dust-up on the matter.   view more (2006-10-25)

Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India?
A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico.   view more (2007-10-31)

Big bang in Antarctica — killer crater found under ice
Planetary scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact much larger and earlier than the one that killed the dinosaurs — an impact that they believe caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history.   view more (2006-06-02)

Polar clouds take a 'bite' out of meteoric iron
Polar clouds are known to play a major role in the destruction of Earth's protective ozone layer, creating the springtime 'ozone hole' above Antarctica. Now, scientists have found that polar clouds also play a significant role in removing meteoric iron from Earth's atmosphere. Polar clouds have... view more (2004-04-14)

NORTH ATLANTIC SLOWS DOWN THE GREENHOUSE-EFFECT
What sounds to us like bookkeeping of global change and tedious science, has a big meaning for our climate future. After all, traffic and industrial plants in Europe and North America play a particularly large role in the carbon dioxide pollution of the atmosphere and the greenhouse-effect... view more (1999-06-08)

Freshly painted Arecibo Observatory returns to work, spies object associated with meteor showers
After receiving its first fresh, full coat of paint in more than 40 years, Arecibo Observatory made its first observation in more than six months at 6:36 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 8.   view more (2007-12-26)

Dinosaur extinction didn't cause the rise of present-day mammals, claim researchers
A new, complete 'tree of life' tracing the history of all 4,500 mammals on Earth shows that they did not diversify as a result of the death of the dinosaurs, says new research published in Nature today.   view more (2007-03-29)

Expert dispels bird flu paranoia
The risk of human bird flu infection is small in Australia and people can still safely eat chicken and keep pet birds, according to bird medicine specialist Dr Bob Doneley.   view more (2005-11-04)

AGU Journal European Highlights - 9 July 2002
American Geophysical Union AGU Journal European Highlights - 9 July 2002 ***** Contents I. Highlights, including authors and their institutions II. Ordering information for science writers ***** I. Highlights, including authors and their institutions ***** The following highlights are from... view more (2002-07-09)

Current mass extinction spurs major study of which plants to save
The Earth is in the midst of the sixth mass extinction of both plants and animals, with nearly 50 percent of all species disappearing, scientists say.   view more (2008-10-21)

Mini-Monsoon In The Mediterranean - Science article on the climate puzzle in the Near East
Our post-ice-age climate is not nearly as stable as is commonly believed. New evidence for this is reported by geoscientists of the DFG Research Center Ocean Margins in the upcoming issue of the journal Science. Investigating marine sediments from the northern Red Sea, they discovered that this... view more (2003-04-01)

Microbes under Greenland Ice may be preview of what scientists find under Mars' surface
A University of California, Berkeley, study of methane-producing bacteria frozen at the bottom of Greenland's two-mile thick ice sheet could help guide scientists searching for similar bacterial life on Mars.   view more (2005-12-15)

Largest crater in the great Sahara discovered by Boston University scientists
Researchers from Boston University have discovered the remnants of the largest crater of the Great Sahara of North Africa, which may have been formed by a meteorite impact tens of millions of years ago.   view more (2006-03-06)
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