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Noctilucent – or night-shining – cloud season starts early in 2013
Night-shining clouds appear early in northern summer, when water molecules are wafted up from the lower atmosphere to mix with "meteor smoke."
June 10, 2013
New asteroid moon movie from NASA
NASA scientists have released a new and improved movie clip of near-Earth asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon.
June 7, 2013
Down to the twilight zone of the Atlantic Ocean
A team of 23 scientists will be sampling and measuring the water column from the surface to the ocean floor some 4,800 metres down – nearly 3 miles.
June 7, 2013
Whispering light hears liquids talk
Researchers are developing optomechanical sensors that will help unlock vibrational secrets of chemical and biological samples at the nanoscale.
June 7, 2013
Astronomers discover comet factory in distant system Oph-IRS 48
The dust trap provides a safe haven for tiny particles in the disk of this young star, allowing the particles to clump and grow, ultimately to become comets, planets and moons.
June 7, 2013
Study suggests black holes abundant among the earliest stars
The evidence comes from comparing infrared and X-ray background signals across the same stretch of sky.
June 6, 2013
Brand new Earth-observing microwave radiometer
It's for observing Earth and is designed to overcome pitfalls that have plagued similar instruments in the past.
June 6, 2013
Did comet impacts jump-start life on Earth?
Icy comets that crashed into Earth millions of years ago could have produced life building organic compounds.
June 5, 2013
New all-solid sulfur-based battery outperforms lithium-ion technology
Scientists have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion technologies.
June 5, 2013
Life-producing phosphorus was carried to Earth by meteorites
New research from a team of scientists now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites.
June 4, 2013
