Image source Late last year, scientists have found plumes of water vapor spewing about 120 miles from the South Pole Europa in December 2012. Other research groups have not confirmed feathers. But all of this necessarily mean that the geysers at Europa does not exist.   Views:   Merlin Corey

    Image source Earth itself has been zapped, the study suggests, perhaps contributing to one or more of the planet’s mass extinctions. Some scientists say the study doesn’t properly account for the resilience of life, particularly if that life is protected by an ocean or an ice shell.

Image source   Auroras are the most visible manifestation of the sun’s effect on Earth, but many aspects of these spectacular displays are still poorly understood. While the genesis of the auroral oval emissions is reasonably well understood, the origin of the theta aurora was unclear until now.

  The G1 object we can be see in observational data sets since 2004. An astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany hypothesized that it was a gas cloud.  According to their research, G1 followed a path nearly identical to G2.    Views: Bonus_Panda_Sketch OMG You

From a palace in Ferrara, Italy, cosmologists have unveiled the most detailed maps yet of the infant universe. The announcement, on December 1, kicked off a weeklong conference showcasing the latest findings from the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite. The new results largely confirm earlier