Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million miles away. Tons of high-energy particles may flow th...
NASA and Odyssey Moon Ventures have made a $500,000 deal for the joint development of a low-cost lunar lander for future moon missions - with the money flowing in a direction that's different from usual. Odyssey, the first team to sign up for the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, will be paying NASA for...
SES ASTRA, an SES company, today announced that its new ASTRA 1M satellite has been fully integrated into the fairing of the launch vehicle, a Proton Breeze M rocket, and is ready for launch on 6 November (local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite built by EADS ASTRIUM on a...
In a remote part of northern Ethiopia, the Earths crust is being stretched to breaking point, providing geologists with a unique opportunity to watch the birth of what may eventually become a new ocean. Lorraine Field, a PhD student, and Dr James Hammond, both from the Department of Earth Sciences,...
At about 7:50 p.m. Tues., Valley law enforcement agencies received a report of strange lights, possibly a meteor, spotted traveling East to West in the vicinity of Hwys. 150 and 160 in the area of the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. [url=http://www.alamosanews.com/V2_news_article...
72nd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society July 13-18, 2009 The Meteoritical Society is a non-profit scholarly organisation founded in 1933 to promote the study of extraterrestrial materials, including meteorites and space mission returned samples, and their history. [url=http://www...
Meteor theory over sighting of Uppingham UFO A mystery object was seen in the skies above Uppingham. One Rutland Times reader photographed the 'UFO' and a youngster drew a sketch. A father and son were the first to report their UFO sighting to the Rutland Times. [url=http://www.rutland-times.co....
The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm is home to exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur tracks, some displaying skin impressions. These tracks, along with hundreds of fossil fish, plants, rare dinosaur remains, invertebrates traces and important sedimentary structures, sh...
Title: Absolute dimensions of the F-type eclipsing binary star VZ Cephei Authors: Guillermo Torres (CfA), Claud H. Sandberg Lacy (U. of Arkansas) We present new V-band differential photometry and radial-velocity measurements of the unevolved 1.18-day period F+G-type double-lined eclipsin...
Northrop Grumman Completes 'Green Propulsion' Engine Northrop Grumman Corporation has completed manufacturing and integrating a spacecraft engine that runs on the "green" or non-toxic propellants of liquid oxygen and liquid methane for possible use on NASA human exploration mis...
Asteroid 1998 WV24 MPEC 199812 IAUC 8998 (Subscription) Extremely red Kuiper-belt objects in near-circular orbits beyond 40 AU [url=http://www.physic...
Cook Planetarium star party Nov. 8 The public is invited to join planetarium director Bruce Brazell and staff for the annual fall star party from 6 to 10 p.m. Nov. 8 at The Cook Center on the Navarro College campus. Dr. Don Winget, professor of astronomy from The University of Texas at Austin and expert...
