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What would Earth look like to alien astronomers?
If they had super-powerful telescopes, it might look like what the Deep Impact probe recently saw from its vantage point 50 million km away
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Panel finds misconduct by bubble fusion researcher
A Purdue University committee says the scientist who claimed to have triggered 'bubble fusion' in 2002 is guilty of research misconductBreaking News - 18 July 2008Are we living in a giant cosmic void?
Several of us at New Scientist recently came across an interesting paper by Timothy Clifton and colleagues at the University of Oxford entitled "Living in a Void: Testing the Copernican Principle with distant supernovae".The paper argues that if we are...Blog - 18 July 2008What would Earth look like to alien astronomers?
If they had super-powerful telescopes, it might look like what the Deep Impact probe recently saw from its vantage point 50 million km awayBreaking News - 18 July 2008NASA's Moon plans falling behind
The US plan to send humans back to the Moon is experiencing growing pains.Publicly, NASA has said it plans to launch Orion, an Apollo-like capsule that will replace the space shuttle and will also ferry astronauts to the Moon, by...Blog - 17 July 2008Is the largest asteroid Pluto's wayward cousin?
Ceres sits in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – yet its composition suggests it has wandered far from its originsNews - 17 July 2008Phoenix takes a stab at Martian ice
The Mars lander has successfully drilled holes into the icy soil, a first step to delivering ice to the craft's science instrumentsBreaking News - 16 July 2008Mineral maps show widespread water on early Mars
The highest-resolution spectrometry ever taken shows the planet's oldest terrain is rich in clay minerals, which formed in liquid waterBreaking News - 16 July 2008Early galaxies had magnetic fields as strong as today's
Distant galaxies have magnetic fields apparently too strong to have formed by the dynamo mechanism thought to create themNews - 19 July 2008Who's the brightest star of all?
The Milky Way's current record holder, Eta Carinae, has some competition in the Peony nebula starBreaking News - 15 July 2008Astronauts prepare space station for new parking spot
Spacewalkers lay the groundwork for an extra berthing port at the space station for when the crew size doubles to six next yearBreaking News - 15 July 2008
