Articles Posted in the Space – Time Category
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Magnetic Tremors Pinpoint The Impact Epicenter Of Earthbound Space Storms
Using data from NASA’s THEMIS mission, a team of University of Alberta researchers has pinpointed the impact epicenter of an earthbound space storm as it crashes into the atmosphere, and given an advance warning of…
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Meteoroid Bombardment May Have Made Earth More Habitable
Large bombardments of meteoroids approximately four billion years ago could have helped to make the early Earth and Mars more habitable for life by modifying their atmospheres, suggests the results of a new study. When…
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Planet-Hunting Method Succeeds: Jupiter-like Planet Found Orbiting One Of Smallest Stars
A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch — a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known. The technique, called astrometry, was first attempted 50 years ago to search for…
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Hidden Details of Earth’s Atmosphere Revealed By Orbiting Spacecraft
Watching the stars set from the surface of the Earth may be a romantic pastime but when a spacecraft does it from orbit, it can reveal hidden details about a planet’s atmosphere. The technique is…
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Bonn astronomers simulate life and death in the universe
Stars always evolve in the universe in large groups, known as clusters. Astronomers distinguish these formations by their age and size. The question of how star clusters are created from interstellar gas clouds and why…
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Chance Encounter With Comet Nets Surprising Results
Comets are made of the most primitive stuff in the solar system. As hunks of rock and ice that never coalesced into more planets, they give researchers clues to the evolution of solar systems. So…
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Understanding The Big Bang: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Aids Search For Quark-gluon Plasma
A large scale STAR experiment is currently under way at Brookhaven National Laboratory, with the Sun Grid Compute Utility from Sun’s Network.com delivering large-scale computing power and related resources on a utility basis as the…