http://www.news-about-space.org/ en-us Your daily source for the latest space and earth sciences news http://www.news-about-space.org/earth-sciences-news/cluster15170820/ Thu, 17 May 2012 16:16:40 EST 15170820 SUPER STORMS: Scientists have found superflares more than 1 million times more powerful than flares generated by the Sun occurring on other stars. http://www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster15145605/ Thu, 17 May 2012 17:16:40 EST 15145605 In the first study of its kind in Australasia, scientists used 27 natural climate records to create the first large-scale temperature reconstruction for the region over the past 1,000 years. http://www.news-about-space.org/earth-sciences-news/cluster15156921/ Thu, 17 May 2012 08:46:08 EST 15156921 (Phys.org) -- Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids. The ... http://www.news-about-space.org/space-exploration-news/cluster15154830/ Thu, 17 May 2012 06:46:38 EST 15154830 A McGill-led research team using the Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The filament connects two clusters of galaxies ... http://www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster15171681/ Thu, 17 May 2012 15:46:18 EST 15171681 FOR the past few years, a European collaboration called IMPLICC (Implications and Risks of Novel Options to Limit Climate Change) has been looking at what it might mean to engineer the climate, ... http://www.news-about-space.org/earth-sciences-news/cluster15133428/ Thu, 17 May 2012 09:47:12 EST 15133428 (Phys.org) -- Caltech has taken over operation from NASA of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), a space telescope that for the last nine years has been surveying the cosmos in ultraviolet ... http://www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster15149049/ Thu, 17 May 2012 07:16:04 EST 15149049 Tests turn up 'phosphorous substance' on stones that ignited in an O.C. woman's pocket, but experts are stumped about the science.What could possibly cause rocks picked up at a popular state ... http://www.news-about-space.org/earth-sciences-news/cluster15170697/ Fri, 18 May 2012 01:16:06 EST 15170697 Astronaut Donald Pettit has come up with a "space zip code" for sending letters beyond Earth's atmosphere http://www.news-about-space.org/space-exploration-news/cluster15168852/ Thu, 17 May 2012 06:16:58 EST 15168852 Japan completes its first successful commercial launch of a foreign-made satellite early on Friday, marking its entry into the launch business. http://www.news-about-space.org/space-exploration-news/cluster15131337/ Thu, 17 May 2012 23:16:01 EST 15131337