Read more Earth stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3258/earth.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:26:43 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71918/relax-world-isnt-ending-in-2012.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe statement issued by a Los Angeles observatory and Sky & Telescope magazine this week says it all: "The world will not come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012." It seems a confluence of events—the coming end of the Mayan calendar, for one, and the marketing of a...http://www.newser.com/story/71918/relax-world-isnt-ending-in-2012.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 17 Oct 2009 12:36:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68902/discovery-leaves-space-station-heads-for-home.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe shuttle Discovery detached from the International Space Station today and began its journey home to Earth, Space.com reports. The 13-day mission help resupply and repair the station; the seven crewmembers are scheduled to return to Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:05pm Thursday.http://www.newser.com/story/68902/discovery-leaves-space-station-heads-for-home.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 08 Sep 2009 18:51:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61882/sony-armageddon-hoax-in-crashing-bad-taste.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe latest Armageddon hoax has a marketing spin that LiveScience's Robert Roy Britt describes as a "sick twist." Sony Pictures went to elaborate lengths to disguise its movie plug on the "Institute for Human Continuity" website, which warns of "cataclysmic events that will devastate our planet" in 2012—a date...http://www.newser.com/story/61882/sony-armageddon-hoax-in-crashing-bad-taste.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 15 Jun 2009 2:07:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57258/box-office-obsessed-with-beyonce.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBeyoncé Knowles’ Obsessed clobbered rivals in this weekend’s box office prizefight, banking $28.5 million, Entertainment Weekly reports. 17 Again stayed pretty with $11.7 million, while Fighting ($11.4 million) demolished The Soloist ($9.7 million) in the battle for third. Disney’s Earth orbited into fifth with $8.5...http://www.newser.com/story/57258/box-office-obsessed-with-beyonce.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 26 Apr 2009 15:32:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56836/dim-sun-is-cold-comfort-to-scientists.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe sun may be heading for one of its dimmest periods in history, but that doesn't mean the big star is joining the battle against global warming, according to scientists. The sun hit a 100-year low in sunspot activity last year, reports the Telegraph .http://www.newser.com/story/56836/dim-sun-is-cold-comfort-to-scientists.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 22 Apr 2009 2:35:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56800/search-for-earths-twin-finds-similar-sized-planet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAstronomers in Chile looking for an Earth-like planet have discovered the closest one in size yet, the BBC reports. Don’t get your hopes up: Though Gliese 581 e, which lies outside our solar system, is just twice as large as Earth, it travels far too close to its sun to...http://www.newser.com/story/56800/search-for-earths-twin-finds-similar-sized-planet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Apr 2009 17:36:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56732/scientists-spot-end-of-world.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAstronomers looking at dead stars trillions of miles away believe they have glimpsed Earth's eventual fate, the Times of London reports. The scientists found that many white dwarfs—stars that swelled, burned out, and collapsed—are surrounded by a dust they think is the remnants of planets like ours destroyed...http://www.newser.com/story/56732/scientists-spot-end-of-world.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Apr 2009 2:50:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56159/calif-utility-aims-to-buy-power-from-space.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCalifornia’s Pacific Gas and Electric is seeking approval for its commitment to buy electricity from an innovative source, the San Francisco Chronicle reports: an orbiting solar power array that would beam electricity back to Earth. Solaren Corp. plans to deploy the satellite sometime before 2016; PG&E has signaled it would...http://www.newser.com/story/56159/calif-utility-aims-to-buy-power-from-space.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 14 Apr 2009 14:48:21 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52672/kepler-begins-search-for-other-earths.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNASA's planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral last night, Space.com reports. Kepler, the widest-field telescope ever sent into space, will spend the next three years scanning the sky for a planet in the "Goldilocks zone" where conditions are just right for liquid water to exist and...http://www.newser.com/story/52672/kepler-begins-search-for-other-earths.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 07 Mar 2009 2:18:16 CST