Astronomers Find Super-Earth Using Amateur, Off-the-Shelf Technology (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

14 hours ago | 5 / 5 (11) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. They found the distant planet with a small fleet of ground-based ...

Black Holes in Star Clusters stir up Time and Space (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

20 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 (12) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Within a decade scientists could be able to detect the merger of tens of pairs of black holes every year, according to a team of astronomers at the University of Bonn’s Argelander-Institut ...

Pre-eruption earthquakes offer clues to volcano forecasters

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

9 hours ago | not rated yet | 1

Like an angry dog, a volcano growls before it bites, shaking the ground and getting "noisy" before erupting. This activity gives scientists an opportunity to study the tumult beneath a volcano and may help ...

Study: Earth's polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

14 hours ago | 2.7 / 5 (19) | 4

A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth's sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities and published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature, employs a novel statistical approa ...

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

12 hours ago | 5 / 5 (8) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system ...