Christian Science Monitor - Scientists have found a planet about 4.5 times the mass of Earth that orbits in the heart of its star's habitable zone, with two other suns orbiting much farther away. |
Pacific Daily News - Hope that February's skies are fairly clear because it's a wonderful month for planet gazing! I've been telling you about Venus and Jupiter, the two bright planets in our early evening sky for several months now and later in February they'll be joined ... |
msnbc.com - This diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first "habitable zone" planetdiscovered by NASA's Kepler mission. By Charles Q. Choi Trace elements in stars may influence the evolution of habitable zones around ... |
SPIE Newsroom - This is because the halo created from diffracted stellar light is many orders of magnitude brighter than the planet (for instance, an Earth-sized planet located one astronomical unit from its parent star is expected to be 10 billion times dimmer). |
CNET (blog) - by Scientific American February 2, 2012 10:13 AM PST In a new issue of Nature Geoscience, evidence is laid out that plants were a primary force in shaping the surface of ourplanet. Astronomers are finding lots of exoplanets that are orbiting stars ... |
Vision 2 Mobile - Since Facebook was launched nearly eight years ago in an East Coast dorm at one of America's elite institutions, the social network has transformed into one of the most powerful Internet companies on the planet. Like Alexander the Great, ... |
Hollywood Reporter - All of these struggles nearly pale in comparison to climate change, the one unifying issue affecting the entire planet. The ongoing challenge for polluting nations to reach viable, binding reductions to carbon emissions and implement alternatives to... |
Drowned In Sound - by Cate Blanche [Edit this content] ▾ 0 comments 10:47 February 2nd, 2012 'Planet Gear' is an irregular feature on DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the 'magic' happen. |
Washington Post - On Wednesday, Acaba tweeted, “Looks like I'll b on the Planeta little longer. Issues with our Soyuz during a test will cause a delay. |
The State Column - A string of massive solar storms have unleashed their fury on the Earth in the last 48 hours, just the first set of strong solar storms expected to hit our planet in the coming months. NASA scientists report that the most solar flare - the strongest ... |
Bleacher Report - I'm talking about the baddest K-1 kickboxer and MMA powerhouse on the planet, Alistair Overeem. At UFC 141, "The Reem", displayed speed, agility, power and precision in dismantling Brock Lesnar. |
Yahoo! Contributors Network - To give some idea as to how rich this makes Bono -- at least on paper -- the richest rock star on the planet today is Sir Paul McCartney, with a wealth estimated at around $600 to $750 million. |
