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NASA Releases Map of Frequency of Small Asteroid Impacts

A map released today by NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Program reveals that small asteroids frequently enter and disintegrate in the Earth's atmosphere with random distribution around the globe. Released to the scientific community, the map visualizes data gathered by U.S. government sensors from 1994 to 2013.

18 Nov 2014

Carnegie Astronomer Honored with Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Carnegie astronomer Mark Phillips, interim director of the Las Campanas Observatory, is one of a group of scientists being honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

18 Nov 2014

Harvard Researchers Named Co-Recipients of $3 Million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Harvard researchers Robert Kirshner, Christopher Stubbs, and Peter Challis have been named co-recipients of the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their role in the 1998 discovery of dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the universe. This discovery fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe and resulted in a Nobel Prize in Physics for this work.

18 Nov 2014

Landing Debris from Philae Probe Could Provide Important Information on Solar System Creation

Planetary scientist involved in early stages of mission says early data could provide information on formation of the solar system

17 Nov 2014

Martian Soil May Form Chloromethane

Chloromethane discovered on the “Red Planet” possibly comes from the Martian soil – meteorites probably provided its carbon and hydrogen

17 Nov 2014

Sun Plays a Major Role in Determining Macroweather on Mars

Weather, which changes day-to-day due to constant fluctuations in the atmosphere, and climate, which varies over decades, are familiar. More recently, a third regime, called "macroweather," has been used to describe the relatively stable regime between weather and climate.

17 Nov 2014

SLS Researchers Investigate Superconductor YBCO Using Advanced X-ray Spectroscopy

Swedish materials researchers at Linköping and Uppsala University and Chalmers University of Technology, in collaboration with researchers at the Swiss Synchrotron Light Source (SLS) in Switzerland investigated the superconductor YBa2Cu3O7-x (abbreviated YBCO) using advanced X-ray spectroscopy.

17 Nov 2014

Intrepid Explorer to Discuss Interstellar Voyaging

For Cameron Smith, the final frontier has become the next frontier. The anthropologist and adventurer will discuss, during a live webcast public lecture at Perimeter Institute on Dec. 3, the challenges that await future generations as they leave our earthly home for the stars.

17 Nov 2014