Scientific Exploration News

1:04 PM EST
2/7/2012 Russian drillers reach surface of lake under Antarctic ice sheetRussian scientists in Antarctica have drilled two miles beneath the continent’s ice sheet, on Sunday reaching the surface of the subglacial lake Vostok, which is believed to have been buried under ice for tens of millions of years.

Source:AHN Topics:Science And Technology, Scientific Exploration, Human Interest, Curiosity, Environmental Issue, Nature

12:44 PM EST
1/4/2012 Oxford University researchers find new species of sea creatures in Antartica OceanResearchers from the University of Oxford have found a community of sea creatures on the sea floor near Antarctica that were previously unknown to scientists.

Source:AHN Topics:Science And Technology, Scientific Exploration, Environmental Issue, Nature, Natural Science

7:10 PM EST
12/20/2011 Kepler discovers more planetsNASA scientists announced the discovery of two Earth sized planets orbiting a Sun-like star some 945 light years away. Discovered by the Kepler space telescope team, the planets have been named Kepler 20E and 20F.

Source:AHN Topics:Science And Technology, Scientific Exploration, Natural Science, Astronomy

2:22 PM EST
11/8/2011 Asteroid to zip closely past EarthA quarter-mile-long asteroid, dubbed 2005 YU55, is expected to narrowly zip by Earth Tuesday at 6:28 p.m. EST.

Source:AHN Topics:Science And Technology, Natural Science, Astronomy, Scientific Exploration

4:34 PM EDT
10/17/2011 Sick American researcher finally evacuated from South PoleThe sick American researcher stuck in the South Pole has finallt been evacuated.

Source:AHN Topics:Weather, Science And Technology, Scientific Exploration, Human Interest

10:19 AM EDT
10/6/2011 Researchers find water similar to Earth’s oceans in Comet Hartley 2Researchers say that the latest study with the Herschel space telescope found that Comet Hartley 2 contains a water-like substance in it – something like that found in Earth’s oceans.

Source:AHN Topics:Science And Technology, Scientific Exploration, Space Program, Human Interest, Good

11:16 AM EDT
10/5/2011 Israeli scientist wins Nobel Prize in chemistryThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to an Israeli scientist for his work with quasicrystals.

Source:AHN Topics:Science And Technology, Scientific Exploration, Human Interest, Award And Prize

2:05 PM EDT
9/14/2011 New NASA system to take astronauts to Mars and beyondNASA announced Wednesday it is building a more powerful rocket that will take astronauts deeper into space, including asteroids and Mars.

Source:AHN Topics:Science And Technology, Scientific Exploration, Human Interest, Curiosity

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9/12/2011 Chile telescope finds habitable super-EarthsPlanet hunters using a powerful telescope in Chile have discovered 16 so-called super-Earths that could be habitable.

Source:AHN Topics:Science And Technology, Scientific Exploration, Human Interest, Curiosity

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8/25/2011 Researchers find 160-million-year-old mammal fossil in ChinaA newly found mammal fossil pushes back the date when two lines of mammals diverged, researchers say.

Source:AHN Topics:Science And Technology, Animal Science, Arts, Culture And Entertainment, History, Scientific Exploration