Space
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Planetary Science
Thirty years to Mars
Excerpt from the June 15, 1963, issue of Science News Letter.
- Health & Medicine
Mars trip would deliver big radiation dose
Curiosity instrument confirms expectation of major exposures.
- Planetary Science
Gone perhaps, but Kepler won’t soon be forgotten
Astronomers look forward to building on the planet-hunting telescope's discoveries.
- Space
Kepler mission may be over
The planet-hunting telescope has been crippled by the failure of two out of four pointing devices.
- Space
Moon’s water may have earthly origins
Ratio of hydrogen to deuterium suggests molecule on both orbs has a common source.
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- Space
Snapshots reveal details of Saturn’s gigantic hurricane
Storm dwarfs anything on Earth, with enormous eye and whipping winds.
- Space
LHC detects asymmetry in particle’s decay
While interesting, the imbalance in the decay of strange B mesons isn’t large enough to explain why matter predominates over antimatter in the universe.
- Space
Comet’s water still hanging around on Jupiter
Shoemaker-Levy 9 supplied almost all of aqueous part of the planet's upper atmosphere.
- Space
American Physical Society meeting
A supernova’s remnants possibly showing up in fossils and an explanation for the Crab Nebula are among highlights from the physics meeting.
- Astronomy
Most Earthlike planets yet seen bring Kepler closer to its holy grail
Space telescope finds globes that, compared with our world, are slightly larger and orbit a smaller star.
- Planetary Science
Faint Young Sun
Scientists struggle to understand how early Earth stayed warm enough for liquid water.
