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Trees to offset the carbon footprint? How effective are new trees in offsetting the carbon footprint? A new study suggests that the location of the new trees is an important factor when considering such carbon offset projects. Planting and preserving forests in the tropics is more likely to slow down global warming. view more (2007-04-10)
Volcanic Activity Shaped Mercury After All Scientists have long anguished over how little is known about Mercury, the innermost of the four terrestrial planetary bodies in our solar system. view more (2008-07-07)
Astonomers find tiny planet orbiting tiny star An international team of astronomers led by David Bennett of the University of Notre Dame has discovered an extra-solar planet of about three Earth masses orbiting a star with a mass so low that its core may not be large enough to maintain nuclear reactions. The result was presented Monday (June 2)... view more (2008-06-03)
Physicists create millimeter-sized 'Bohr atom' Nearly a century after Danish physicist Niels Bohr offered his planet-like model of the hydrogen atom, a Rice University-led team of physicists has created giant, millimeter-sized atoms that resemble it more closely than any other experimental realization yet achieved. view more (2008-07-01)
APL Astronomer Spies Conditions 'Just Right' for Building an Earth An Earth-like planet is likely forming 424 light-years away in a star system called HD 113766, say astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. view more (2007-10-04)
Wales hosts world workshop for better conservation These special scientists, known as taxonomists are members of BioNET International, the brainchild of Professor Tecwyn Jones of Cardiff University. They are skilled in the science concerned with identifying, classifying and understanding the relationships of the myriad species of organisms which... view more (1999-08-16)
Geoscience converges under pressure The contents of the deep Earth affect the planet as a whole, including life at its surface, but scientists must find unusual ways to "see" it. view more (2007-05-22)
Astronomers discover most Earth-like extrasolar planet yet The world's preeminent planet hunters have discovered the most Earth-like extrasolar planet yet: a possibly rocky world about 7.5 times as massive as the Earth. view more (2005-06-14)
Even 'failed stars' form planets An international team of astronomers shows that even brown dwarfs start to form planets. view more (2005-10-26)
How long is a day on Saturn? Measuring the rotation period of a rocky planet like the Earth is easy, but similar measurements for planets made of gas, such as Saturn, pose problems. view more (2006-05-04)
Key molecule discovered in Venus's atmosphere Venus Express has detected the molecule hydroxyl on another planet for the first time. This detection gives scientists an important new tool to unlock the workings of Venus's dense atmosphere. view more (2008-05-16)
Arizona State scientists keep an eye on Martian dust storm Scientists at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Center are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to monitor a large dust storm on the Red Planet. view more (2007-07-12)
MIT finds young planets stay hotter longer Hot, young planets may be easier to spot because they stay that way longer than astronomers have thought, according to new work by MIT planetary scientist Linda Elkins-Tanton. view more (2008-10-16)
Mars Express confirms methane in the Martian atmosphere During recent observations from the ESA Mars Express spacecraft in orbit around Mars, methane was detected in its atmosphere. Whilst it is too early to draw any conclusions on its origin, exciting as they may be, scientists are thinking about the next steps to take in order to understand more.... view more (2004-03-30)
Mystery of fossilized trees is solved An international research team has found evidence of the Earth's earliest forest trees, dating back 385 million years. view more (2007-04-19)
Mars Express: no signal from Beagle 2 so far ESA's Mars Express orbiter made its first attempt to establish contact with the Beagle 2 lander, after the two spacecraft separated on 19 December 2003. The orbiter made its first pass over the Beagle 2 landing site today at 13:13 CET, but could not pick up any signal from the tiny lander. More... view more (2004-01-07)
Geologists finding a different Mars underneath Scientists are finding an older, craggier face of Mars buried beneath the surface, thanks to pioneering sounding radar co-sponsored by NASA aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft. view more (2006-12-14)
Oxygen increase caused mammals to triumph, researchers say The first, high resolution continuous record of oxygen concentration in the earth's atmosphere shows that a sharp rise in oxygen about 50 million years ago gave mammals the evolutionary boost they needed to dominate the planet. view more (2005-09-30)
The Drifting Star By studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harbouring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted away from the metal-rich Hyades cluster. This discovery has implications for theories of star and planet formation, and for the dynamics of... view more (2008-04-16)
A little bit of Ferrari takes off to the Red Planet ! ESA PR 52-2002. What is the fastest Ferrari`s distinctive red paint has ever travelled? Next year it will be 10800 km/h! Mars Express, to be launched in May/June 2003, the first European spacecraft to visit the Red Planet, will be speeding on its way accompanied by the very essence of Ferrari: a... view more (2002-07-22)
Climate catastrophes in the Solar System Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate catastrophes. In the effort to combat global warming, our neighbours can provide valuable insights into the way climate catastrophes affect planets. view more (2007-04-27)
Earth's Core is a Recycling Product The planets of the solar system, including the Earth, formed about four and a half billion years ago from a swirling disk of gas and dust that was left over from the newly formed Sun. However, we do not understand, why the Earth ended up being different from other Earth-like or «terrestrial»... view more (2004-02-04)
Earth's strongest winds wouldn't even be a breeze on these planets Earth's inhabitants are used to temperatures that vary, sometimes greatly, between day and night. New measurements for three planets outside our solar system indicate their temperatures remain fairly constant - and blazing hot - from day to night, even though it is likely one side of each planet... view more (2007-01-10)
Planet finders use much faster instrument to discover distant planet Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting a very young star nearly 100 light years away using a relatively small, publicly accessible telescope turbocharged with a new planet-finding instrument. view more (2006-01-12)
Beta Pictoris planet finally imaged? A team of French astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered an object located very close to the star Beta Pictoris, and which apparently lies inside its disc. view more (2008-11-24)
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