- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 19th, 2006
Backward Sunspot Could Fortell Enormous Solar Cycle
Has the Solar Cycle 24 begun?
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 18th, 2006
SMART-1 Impact: Last Call for Ground-Based Observations
ESA invites the scientific community and amateur astronomers to join in the observation campaign
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 18th, 2006
Mystery of Quintuplet Stars in Milky Way Solved
A mystery that lasted for more than 15 years has been solved
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 18th, 2006
Aging Stars Reveal Secrets of the Universe
Hubble provides images deep into NGC 6397
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 17th, 2006
Far Away Galaxy Under the Microscope
SINFONI discovers rapidly forming, large proto-disc galaxies three billion years after the Big Bang
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 16th, 2006
The IAU Draft Definition of 'Planet' and 'Plutons'
The solar system may have 12 planets and counting
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 15th, 2006
'Hidden' Milky Way Deuterium Found
'Heavy hydrogen' abundance will force astronomers to revise theories about star and galaxy formation
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 15th, 2006
Large and Small Stars in Harmonious Coexistence
Seen by Hubble
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 11th, 2006
Rovers Look Forward to A Second Martian Spring
After more than two years, the rovers are still roaming on Mars
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 10th, 2006
An Oblique Look on the North Lunar Far West
The Mezentsev, Niepce and Merrill craters, on the far side of the Moon
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 10th, 2006
Stars Too Old to Be Trusted?
A possible stellar solution to the cosmological lithium problem
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 9th, 2006
Hubble Identifies Stellar Companion to Distant Planet
By Using gravitational microlensing
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 9th, 2006
Chandra Independently Determines Hubble Constant
The age of the Universe is confirmed to be between 12 and 14 billion years
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 8th, 2006
Chemical Precursors to Life Found in Space
Scientists say that a universal prebiotic chemistry may be at work
- By Vlad Tarko
- August 7th, 2006
Do You Want to Go to Mars?
Russia's space agency is seeking volunteers for a 520-day "flight" to Mars and back
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- August 4th, 2006
A Simple Survey Yields a Cosmic Inconsistency
Galaxies appear to be four times more common in the direction of gamma-ray bursts than in the direction of quasars