Today’s physics news: Tuesday, 11 January 2011

In today’s news round-up: Tevatron: end of an amazing era, rocky exoplanet ‘is missing link’ and antimatter caught streaming from thunderstorms on Earth

Tevatron: end of an amazing era
The Tevatron, which was the world’s highest energy particle collider from 1985 until December 2009 will be switched off by October 2011
Guardian
New Scientist

Rocky exoplanet ‘is missing link’
Astronomers have discovered the smallest planet outside our Solar System, and the first that is undoubtedly rocky like Earth.
BBC
Physics World

Antimatter caught streaming from thunderstorms on Earth
A space telescope has accidentally spotted thunderstorms on Earth producing beams of antimatter.
BBC