Important News Updates

Jan 4, 2011

By the CNN Wire Staff

Governor of Pakistan's Punjab province Salman Taseer assassinated

Jan 6, 2011
RELEASE : 11-004

 

 

NASA Research Team Reveals Moon Has Earth-Like Core


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Jan 10, 2011
RELEASE : 11-007

 

 

NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet


WASHINGTON -- NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. 


RELEASE : 11-008

 

 

NASA'S Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter Into Space

 

 

WASHINGTON -- Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before. 

Jan 12, 2011

RELEASE : 11-013

 

 

NASA Telescopes Help Identify Most Distant Galaxy Cluster

 

 

WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster similar to the massive ones seen today. 


RELEASE : 11-014

 

 

NASA Research Finds 2010 Tied For Warmest Year On Record

 

 

WASHINGTON -- Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on record, according to an analysis released Wednesday by researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York