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Let the Earth stretch Saturday night just a leap second longer! Sat, 30/06/2012 - 13:33 by Minnie Mahendru International timekeepers are busy adding up one more second to the time clock at 12’o clock worldwide time on Saturday, 30th June, 2012. The official atomic clocks are being coordinated by the time keepers from time to time. All these adjustments have to be made because of the gradual reduction in the Earth’s speed due to the moon’s tidal pull and the atomic clock also moves a tad too fast. Comments Read more	Gigantic crater on the moon cuddles gallons of iced up water?NASA Sat, 23/06/2012 - 14:02 by Minnie Mahendru NASA should gear up for another visit to the moon! NASA officials say that there may be the presence of iced up water inside a gigantic crater on the moon’s South Pole. The Shackleton crater or the frozen ice loaded crater was studied with a laser device used by researchers from NASA, Brown University and MIT. They discovered that the measurements that they have recorded point towards the existence of ice.The researchers excitedly claimed that the laser rays brightened up the area and they were able to calculate the accepted reflectivity in the crater’s insides. Comments Read more	Unique and very “close planet duo” surfaces on the astrophysicists list Fri, 22/06/2012 - 14:13 by Minnie Mahendru Kepler, NASA’s planet hunting spacecraft, used by the astrophysicists has unearthed an “unusual duo” of extra solar planets.The strange pair of planets have orbits near each other’s doorstep. The bigger of the two planets emerges to be more than two times the magnitude of the full moon found in the second “odd” planet’s night sky. Comments Read more
Earth has another moon -- study Fri, 23/12/2011 - 21:13 by Sam Ross Earth has always had two moons orbiting it at any one time, claims a new study. Comments Read more	Star gazers spot moon and Jupiter together Fri, 14/10/2011 - 17:06 by Neka Sehgal Enthusiatic sky gazers were offered a visual treat last evening when they spotted the moon and Jupiter brightly light up sky. Comments Read more	NASA to launch new moon mission on Thursday Tue, 06/09/2011 - 15:27 by Neka Sehgal In its quest to learn more about the moon’s structure and determine what lies deep beneath the lunar surface, NASA is all set to launch a $496 million mission to the planet on Sept. 8. Comments Read more
Moon has more water than earlier estimated--NASA Fri, 27/05/2011 - 14:28 by Yasser Ali NASA scientists claim there is copious amounts of water in the moon's interior. Comments Read more	Catch the view of four planets coming closer this week Mon, 09/05/2011 - 21:20 by Anupreet Kaur According to the StarDate magazine, four visible planets will appear together in the wee hours of the morning this week. Comments Read more	Saturday's supermoon promises a celestial treat Sat, 19/03/2011 - 13:17 by Jaspreet Virk A celestial treat awaits the sky gazers as 'Supermoon' will adorn the night sky this Saturday. Comments Read more
Monday’s total lunar eclipse promises a celestial treat Sun, 19/12/2010 - 16:35 by Anter Prakash Singh A celestial treat awaits the sky gazers as the total lunar eclipse slated for Monday night. Lunar eclipses are not so uncommon but this time the moon will be up high in the sky, visible to everyone across the United States. Comments Read more	Moon has even more water than thought Fri, 22/10/2010 - 09:36 by Prince damin Washington -- U.S. scientists say the moon has significant amounts of water, perhaps twice as much as the Sahara Desert, which could facilitate eventual manned bases there. In an experiment last year, NASA crashed a spent-fuel rocket into a lunar crater at 5,600 miles an hour while orbiting satellites analyzed the debris thrown up by the impact and found water in the form of ice, plus a host of other resources, including hydrogen, ammonia, methane, mercury, sodium and silver. NASA announced its discovery of lunar water a year ago this month, but now more detailed analysis of the data concludes there is a lot more water on the moon than anyone expected, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Comments Read more	Moon of Saturn may have hidden ocean Fri, 08/10/2010 - 11:15 by Prince damin Greenbelt, Md. -- A moon of Saturn that should be frozen solid may have liquid oceans, thanks to a "wobble" it experiences as it orbits the ringed planet, researchers say. With temperatures around 324 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, the surface of Enceladus is indeed frozen, but in 2005 NASA's Cassini spacecraft discovered a giant plume of water gushing from cracks in the surface over the moon's south pole, suggesting there was a reservoir of water beneath the ice, a release from NASA's Goddard Space Center said Thursday. Analysis of the plume by Cassini shows the water is salty, indicating the reservoir is large, perhaps even a global subsurface ocean. Comments Read more