Category: Science

American astronomers first discovered this planet back in 2004, but no clear indication was found on what it might contain on its surface until now.

A team of European and American astronomers say that a recently discovered extrasolar planet, located not far from Earth, contains oceans and rivers of hot solid water.

An object that fell through the roof of a New Jersey home on January 2nd was not a meteorite, but was space debris lefet behind by an unknown orbital mission.

An object that fell through the roof of a New Jersey home in January was not a meteorite, according to Jeremy Delaney a geologist at Rutgers University. Instead, it appears the object was space junk, or orbital debris. "Basically, it's a piece of stainless steel. There's huge amounts of material that have been left by the various space programs of the world," said Delaney.

A new website will take the form of a wiki-like environment, but will only be edited by scientists. The goal is to document all 1.8 million species over the next 10 years.

Today, some of the leading biologists in the world announced that they are starting a new project to write the Encyclopedia of Life, a project that aims to bring resources on all the earth's 1.8 million species together.

The James Webb Space Telescope will replace Hubble and is scheduled to be launched in 2013 from the European spaceport near Kourou, French Guiana.

NASA has unveiled the new telescope that will replace the Hubble Space Telescope in Washington D.C. called the James Webb Space Telescope [JWST]. Currently, NASA has a life-sized model on display to the public which is as tall as a two story house and weighs several tons.

Candy Feuer has developed a new design for a greenhouse on Mars. Her fellow students are working on lunar outposts and space exploration transfer vehicles as well as designs for other structures that would be habitable on the Martian surface.

The unification of gravity and quantum mechanics is considered the holy grail of physics. Einstein's Theory of General Relativity describes celestial orbits and gravitational attraction, but the theory is incompatible with quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is well-verified experimentally, but the theory does not account for, or describe, gravity. Many theories have been offered over the years to unite the two, but all, thus far, have failed. The most recent (and most popular), Superstring Theory, suffers from just one problem: it doesn't work.

Experiments with mouse embryonic stem cells show that the supporting cells of the nervous system, if mutated, can kill motor neurons in a cell culture, providing a new and powerful tool to develop therapy for ALS.

A scientist from the University of Manchester has discovered the first identified droplets of spider blood in a piece of amber up to 20 million years old.