12 Jun 2009 Cape Times PARIS: A force known as orbital chaos may cause our Solar System to go haywire, leading to possible collision between Earth and Venus or Mars, according to a study released on Wednesday. The good news is that the likelihood of such a smash-up is small, around one-in-2 500. And even …
08 August 2009 by Marcus Chown IT IS the ultimate cosmic villain: space and time come to an abrupt end in its presence and the laws of physics break down. Now it seems a “naked” black hole may yet emerge in our universe, after spinning away its event horizon. In 1969, physicist Roger Penrose postulated …
Free-floating black hole may solve space ‘firefly’ mystery 20:13 05 June 2009 by Rachel Courtland Reproduced by courtesy New Scientist Magazine. A wandering black hole may have torn apart a star to create a strange object that brightened mysteriously and then faded from view in 2006, a new study suggests. But more than three years …
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The Rosetta probe will fly by Earth on Friday (Illustration: ESA/C. Carreau) 10 November 2009 by David Shiga What’s causing spacecraft to mysteriously accelerate? The Rosetta comet chaser’s fly-by of Earth on 13 November is a perfect opportunity to get to the bottom of it. The anomaly emerged in 1990, when NASA’s Galileo spacecraft whizzed …
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Inscrutable but not immutable (Image: NASA/JPL/SSI) 14 October 2009 by Rachel Courtland, Puerto Rico SATURN’S rings seem almost immutable. These planetary jewels, carved by moonlets and shaped by gravity, could well have looked much the same now as they did billions of years ago – but only from afar. Now it is emerging that an …
