Title: Planetary companions orbiting M giants HD 208527 and HD 220074 Authors: B.-C. Lee, I. Han, M.-G. Park Aims. The purpose of the present study is to research the origin of planetary companions by using a precise radial velocity (RV) survey. Methods. The high-resolution spectroscopy of the fi...
Title: Starspots and spin-orbit alignment for Kepler cool host stars Authors: Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, Josh N. Winn, Daniel C. Fabrycky The angle between the spin axis of the host star and the orbit of its planets (i.e., the stellar obliquity) is precious information about the formation and evolut...
What Arctic Rocks Say About Life in Mars Meteorite In 1996, a research group led by Dave McKay of NASAs Johnson Space Centre claimed to have found evidence of fossilised life in a Mars meteorite. Not only did the shapes look like bacteria, but a form of magnetite (iron oxide) was found in the meteorite t...
Janna Levin: Black holes and the universe's secrets Chaos, black holes and the early universe. These are the pre-occupations of one of the world's leading astrophysicists, Janna Levin. Professor Levin's study and research have taken her on an academic journey through the Massachusetts Institu...
Archaeologists reveal findings as excavation comes to close Medieval objects including a 4,000 year old Bronze Age arrowhead have been uncovered in East Oxford after five weeks of digging and research by archaeologists, local volunteers and university staff. Archeox (the Archaeology of East O...
Eileen Collins: Space PioneerClick to Play | View Details Born in Elmira, New York, Eileen Collins became an astronaut in 1991, after being selected for the astronaut program while attending the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB, California. Fifteen years ago, On February 3, 1995 she clai...
An Israeli has yet to moonwalk - and the country's only astronaut Ilan Ramon perished on a tragic NASA mission in 2003 - but Israel has big ambitions to jump into the billion-dollar space industry. One of only eight nations in the world to launch an indigenous satellite into space, Israel's governmen...
La falla de Alhama de Murcia ha sufrido al menos seis grandes terremotos en los últimos 300.000 años Un grupo internacional de investigadores, con participación española, ha identificado en la historia más reciente de la falla de Alhama de Murcia seis grandes terremotos de magnitud superior a 7. S...
A natural preservation plan is threatening the Rattlesnake Mountain observatory. The Energy Department notified 12 agencies Friday to remove structures from the mountain northwest of Richland. Most are telecommunication towers, but one is the observatory of the Alliance for the Advancement...
The `radio sky' is relatively unexplored for transient signals, as demonstrated recently by the discovery of a previously unknown type of source which varies on timescales of minutes to hours.
An international team has announced that a huge number of neutron stars, ultra dense stell...
An enterprising team of astronomers is set to lug a telescope to the High Arctic, lubricate it with special low temperature grease and set up shop on Ellesmere Island. They say the island - the last big chunk of land before the North Pole - looks like it could be the best place on Earth to see the universe....
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