Space and Earth Sciences News http://www.news-about-space.org/ en-us Your daily source for the latest space and earth sciences news Fourth 'habitable' planet close to home EARTHLY NEIGHBOUR: Astronomers have found the fourth potentially habitable planet outside our solar system, only 22 light-years from Earth. http://www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster13343286/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:16:01 EST 13343286 Spectacular High-Res Image of Earth: The Other Side Last week, NASA released its 2012 version of the famous "Blue Marble" image. By using a planet-pointing satellite, Suomi NPP, the space agency created an extremely high resolution photograph ... http://www.news-about-space.org/space-exploration-news/cluster13353864/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:46:29 EST 13353864 In the dark abyss, a slightly warped mirror on the Milky Way There is just something wonderful when Hubble points to nearby spiral ... http://www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster13358292/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:46:20 EST 13358292 Surface of Mars an unlikely place for life after 600 million year drought, say scientists Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet's surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the painstaking ... http://www.news-about-space.org/space-exploration-news/cluster13361859/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:46:11 EST 13361859 Russian Drill Nears 14-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Lake After 20 years of drilling, a team of Russian researchers is close to breaching the prehistoric Lake Vostok, which has been trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years. http://www.news-about-space.org/earth-sciences-news/cluster13326681/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:46:22 EST 13326681 Scientists snare 'superprawn' off New Zealand Scientists have captured a "supergiant" crustacean in waters seven kilometres (4.5 miles) deep off New Zealand, measuring 10 times the normal size of related species. http://www.news-about-space.org/earth-sciences-news/cluster13348083/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:15:56 EST 13348083 Iran launches observation satellite: media Iran on Friday launched an observation satellite into orbit above Earth, its third since 2009, the official IRNA news agency reported. http://www.news-about-space.org/space-exploration-news/cluster13369116/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:15:54 EST 13369116 Video: How the View From a Comet Might Look The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is heading for a comet. The ambitious mission -- scheduled to enter orbit Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in January of 2014 and place a tiny lander ... http://www.news-about-space.org/space-exploration-news/cluster13375881/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:46:35 EST 13375881 ScienceShot: Braking a Dead Star's Wild Spin Magnetic fields may tame the most extreme pulsars http://www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster13349313/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:46:50 EST 13349313 Scientists chart high-precision map of Milky Way's magnetic fields (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision ... http://www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster13367886/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:16:38 EST 13367886