Indian teen builds world's 'lightest satellite' An Indian teenager has built what is thought could be the world's lightest satellite, which will be put into orbit at a Nasa facility in the US in June. Rifath Shaarook's 64-gram device was selected as the winner in a competition co-sponsored by Nasa....
RockOn/RockSat C payload successfully launched [spoiler] A NASA suborbital sounding rocket carrying multiple student experiments was successfully launched at 5:30 a.m. EDT, Thursday, June 22, from the Wallops Flight Facility in V...
Jerry Earl Nelson (January 15, 1944 - June 10, 2017) was an American astronomer known for his pioneering work designing segmented mirror telescopes, which led to him receiving the 2010 Kavli Prize for Astrophysics. Read more
Asteroid (6459) Hidesan (1992 UY5) is a main-belt asteroid orbiting the Sun with a period of 5.27 years at an average distance of 3.0234087 AU and an eccentricity of 0.0983536, inclined at 10.58889° with respect to the ecliptic. It was discovered by Kin Endate and Kazuro Watanabe in Kitami on the 28t...
Title: d1005+68: A New Faint Dwarf Galaxy in the M81 Group Author: Adam Smercina, Eric F. Bell, Colin T. Slater, Paul A. Price, Jeremy Bailin, Antonela Monachesi We present the discovery of d1005+68, a new faint dwarf galaxy in the M81 Group, using observations taken with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-C...
Title: EPIC 228735255b - An eccentric 6.57 day transiting hot Jupiter in Virgo Author: H.A.C. Giles, D. Bayliss, N. Espinoza, R. Brahm, S. Blanco-Cuaresma, A. Shporer, D. Armstrong, C. Lovis, S. Udry, F. Bouchy, M. Marmier, A. Jordán, J. Bento, A. Collier Cameron, R. Sefako, W. D. Cochran, F. Rojas...
Title: The Cosmic Ray Intensity Near the Archean Earth Authors: O. Cohen, J. J. Drake, J. Kota We employ three-dimensional state of the art magnetohydrodynamic models of the early solar wind and heliosphere and a two-dimensional model for cosmic ray transport to investigate the cosmic ray spectr...
Dwellings in colonies on the moon one day may be built with new, highly durable bricks developed by students from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. Initially designed to construct a dome, the building material is composed of a lunar rock-like material mixed with powdered aluminium that...
Star Trek virtual reality game boldly goes with IBM Watson Players of the virtual reality game Star Trek Bridge Crew will be able to control the Starship Enterprise using voice commands, following a collaboration with IBM's supercomputer. IBM Watson works with a program called Conversation to in...
Mysterious volcano-shaped pyramid discovered in Peru hosted celebrations in honour of solar eclipses The structure, known as El Volcán, was probably erected deliberately to look like a volcano A mysterious pyramid discovered in coastal Peru was built to resemble a volcano, archaeologists hav...
For the first time in its history, from 20 to 26 June, the International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget will be hosting more than 2,100 international exhibitors! With its 28 international pavilions, 140 aircraft including an exceptional appearance by the solar aircraft "Solar Impulse",...
China's first cargo spacecraft to leave factory China's first cargo spacecraft will leave the factory, according to the website of China's manned space mission. A review meeting was convened last Thursday, during which officials and experts unanimously concluded that the Tianzhou-1 cargo spa...
Roscoe Braham Jr., pioneering meteorologist, 1921-2017 Prof. Emeritus Roscoe Braham Jr., a noted expert in cloud precipitation physics who furthered weather research by combining the use of aircraft with ground-based instruments, died May 28 at the Glenaire Retirement Community in Cary, N.C...
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