Title: An Earth-mass Planet in a 1-AU Orbit around a Brown Dwarf Author: Y. Shvartzvald, J. C. Yee, S. Calchi Novati, A. Gould, C.-U. Lee, C. Beichman, G. Bryden, S. Carey, B. S. Gaudi, C. B. Henderson, W. Zhu, M. D. Albrow, S.-M. Cha, S.-J. Chung, C. Han, K.-H. Hwang, Y. K. Jung, D.-J. Kim, H.-W. Kim, S.-...
Human settlers made it to the Americas 30,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new evidence.
British scientists came to this controversial conclusion by dating human footprints preserved by volcanic ash in an abandoned quarry in Mexico.
The first Americans may have arri...
NASA has told the team developing an asteroid mission to "stand down" from launch preparations.
The Dawn spacecraft was scheduled for launch in June 2006 on a missiom to the large asteroids [url=http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=58381&subForumID=163878&action=view...
Scientists cook up material 200 times stronger than steel out of soybean oil An everyday cooking oil has been used to make graphene in a lab - a development scientists said could significantly reduce the cost and complexity of making the super-substance on a commercial scale. Graphene, which is mad...
It is one of the major goals of observational cosmology to trace the way galaxies formed and evolved and to compare it to predictions from theoretical models. It is therefore essential to know as precisely as possible how many galaxies were present in the Universe at different epochs.
This is ea...
Meteor illuminates sky Tuesday night in Florida Keys That flash of light many stargazers saw in the nigh's sky Tuesday in the Florida Keys was a meteor. The meteor was captured on the dashboard camera of a Monroe County Sheriff's Office sergeant while he was on patrol in Big Pine Key. It was one of sever...
The World's Oldest Water? New evidence bolsters the notion that deep saline groundwaters in South Africa's Witwátersrand Basin may have remained isolated for many thousands, perhaps even millions, of years. The study, recently accepted for publication in Chemical Geology, found the noble gas...
Iceland Geothermal Project Completes Deep Drilling In Volcano Earlier this year the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) at the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland completed drilling at a depth of 4.659 kilometers where it recorded temperatures of 427 degrees Celsius The drilling, which began in Au...
China launches second aircraft carrier China launched its second aircraft carrier Wednesday morning in a Dalian shipyard in Liaoning Province, northeast China. The new carrier, the first developed and built by China, was transferred from a dry dock into water at a launch ceremony, starting abou...
Ancient inscription discovered in northern Chinese cliff cave Chinese archaeologists have discovered an ancient inscription carved in a cliff cave in northern China's Hebei Province, believed to be a place of seclusion for a renowned Shaolin monk, local authorities said Wednesday. Dating bac...
Title: WASP-167b/KELT-13b: Joint discovery of a hot Jupiter transiting a rapidly-rotating F1V star Author: L.Y. Temple, C. Hellier, M. D. Albrow, D.R. Anderson, D. Bayliss, T. G. Beatty, A. Bieryla, D.J.A. Brown, P. A. Cargile, A. Collier Cameron, K. A. Collins, K. D. Colón, I. A. Curtis, G. D'Ago...
Title: DDO 161 and UGCA 319: an isolated pair of nearby dwarf galaxies Author: I. D. Karachentsev, L. N. Makarova, R. B. Tully, L. Rizzi, V. E. Karachentseva, E. Shaya We report HST/ACS observations of two nearby gas-rich dwarf galaxies: DDO 161 and UGCA 319. Their distances determined via the Tip of...
Title: Discovery of a 26.2 day period in the long-term X-ray light curve of SXP 1323: a very short orbital period for a long spin period pulsar Author: Stefania Carpano, Frank Haberl, Richard Sturm Context. About 120 Be/X-ray binaries (BeXBs) are known in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC); about hal...
Title: Chandra Observations of the field containing HESS J1616-508 Author: Jeremy Hare, Oleg Kargaltsev, George G. Pavlov, Blagoy Rangelov, Igor Volkov We report the results of three Chandra observations covering most of the extent of the TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1616-508 and a search for a lo...
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