Beijingers woke up Saturday to find the Chinese capital blanketed in yellow dust, as a sandstorm caused by a severe drought in the north and in Mongolia swept into the city.
Mar 20, 2010 - 11:09:13 AM
On Saturn's giant moon Titan, it is so cold that water is frozen as hard as granite. And yet there is a complete liquid cycle of methane and ethane. Scientists wonder whether there could also be life.
Mar 20, 2010 - 11:05:33 AM
Just when I thought this silly game of names was over, I receive yet another stupid low-level meteorological babble trying to explain recent extreme weather patterns. This hilarious Abbott and Costello 1945 "who's on first base" comical skit (which I still gives me a good belly laugh) is an accurate depiction of this non-sense when meteorologist attempt to play solar-physicist. What we see in today's headlines is an exact replica of the 1997/1998 extreme weather shifts.
Mar 19, 2010 - 8:38:11 PM
According to current astronomical models, the Milky Way and other large galaxies formed over billions of years in a process that involved interactions between smaller galaxies, and in particular the gradual capture of many stars from nearby dwarf galaxies (small galaxies with hundreds or thousands of times fewer stars than the Milky Way).
Mar 19, 2010 - 10:49:06 AM
March 19, 2010: When the sun sets on Saturday, March 20th, a special kind of night will fall across the Earth. It's an equal night.
Mar 19, 2010 - 10:25:26 AM
With a new satellite project, Germany's space agency is hoping to create an early warning system for potential asteroid strikes against the Earth. An asteroid impact may have contributed to the death of the dinosaurs, and scientists would like to be able to predict the next Earth-bound collosus before it hits.
Mar 19, 2010 - 10:25:23 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE,Haiti - One of the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake swamped homeless camps Friday, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water, overflowing latrines and panicking thousands.
Mar 19, 2010 - 10:00:45 AM
Scientists are learning to predict giant solar storms that could, at any time, hit the Earth and produce cascading catastrophes. This statement comes from the highest esteemed agency -- The National Science Foundation. The NSF is internationally known for its extremely careful release of information to maintain its reputation of credibility.
Mar 18, 2010 - 1:32:07 PM
Almost 1000km of Queensland coast was on cyclone watch yesterday as emergency preparations were stepped up for a storm generating destructive winds up to 200km/h.
Mar 18, 2010 - 9:38:40 AM
A Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut returned to Earth on Thursday from the International Space Station (ISS) after 169 days in space, mission control in Moscow said.
Mar 18, 2010 - 9:01:15 AM
A newly discovered exoplanet is the first such alien world to resemble the planets in our own solar system, researchers announced Wednesday.
Mar 17, 2010 - 1:26:31 PM
Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery, based largely on observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will provide a better understanding of the roots of our universe, and how the very first black holes, galaxies and stars came to be.
Mar 17, 2010 - 11:40:33 AM
Giant filaments of cold dust stretching through our Galaxy are revealed in a new image from ESA's Planck satellite. Analysing these structures could help to determine the forces that shape our Galaxy and trigger star formation.
Mar 17, 2010 - 11:38:47 AM
A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows a cosmic rosebud blossoming with new stars. The stars, called the Berkeley 59 cluster, are the blue dots to the right of the image center. They are ripening out of the dust cloud from which they formed, and at just a few million years old, are young on stellar time scales.
Mar 17, 2010 - 11:36:32 AM
