New eruptions from southern Chile's Llaima volcano forced Chile's government to declare a ‘Red Alert’ Thursday for residents of nearby towns. The advancing lava flow is 50 meters wide and has already stretched more than 2 kilometers down the volcano’s slopes.
Jul 4, 2008 - 10:54:10 AM
In the wee hours of August 1, the moon and the Sun will pass each other for a breathtaking full solar eclipse, but U.S. residents won't be able to catch a glimpse of the phenomenon because of their location on the planet. San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum is broadcasting the eclipse to the masses, however, combining science and technology by streaming the eclipse on virtual world Second Life.
Jul 4, 2008 - 8:52:40 AM
Record cold and snow two years in a row! Must be that “human-caused global cooling” we heard about in the 1970s! No, wait, the current hysteria is “human-caused global warming”! Environmentalists are confused! Read books on astronomy, history, geology, geography and archaeology. You will see that global climate has never been static. It has been constantly changing for the past 4 billion years.
Jul 4, 2008 - 8:46:09 AM
The next soil sample delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) will be ice-rich. A team of engineers and scientists assembled to assess TEGA after a short circuit was discovered in the instrument has concluded that another short circuit could occur when the oven is used again.
Jul 4, 2008 - 8:37:33 AM
Spacecraft controllers have just awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September. ESA's comet chaser will study the relatively rare asteroid as it flies by on its way to comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Jul 4, 2008 - 8:33:21 AM
Volcanism has played a more extensive role in shaping the surface of Mercury than scientists had thought. This result comes from multispectral imaging data gathered in January 2008 by MESSENGER, the latest spacecraft to visit the sun's innermost planet.
Jul 3, 2008 - 8:00:13 PM
Auckland - A small tornado has damaged several houses in Auckland, while in Taranaki a twister destroyed two haybarns and narrowly missed a farmhouse on Thursday.
Jul 3, 2008 - 12:30:09 PM
Michigan - About 195,000 homes and businesses remained without power Thursday morning after thunderstorms with heavy rain, hail, strong winds and frequent lightning swept across Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
Jul 3, 2008 - 12:03:09 PM
ESA and the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) will be co-hosting, in cooperation with NASA and the International Mars Exploration Working Group (IMEWG), an International Conference on 9 and 10 July in the Auditorium of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris* to discuss the next step in the exploration of Mars.
Jul 3, 2008 - 12:00:14 PM
MIAMI - The second tropical storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season formed on Thursday, thousands of miles (km) away from the United States and expected to eventually curve out northward over the open ocean, U.S. weather forecasters said.
Jul 3, 2008 - 11:54:48 AM
GREENBELT, Md. - Several bases of operations for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) are gearing up for data from the recently launched satellite. Operations centers preparing for data from GLAST include NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park, Calif.
Jul 2, 2008 - 8:58:31 PM
GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Sun-focused Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, twin spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year. This helped scientists map the energized particles where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium.
Jul 2, 2008 - 8:45:47 PM
