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Astronomers Say Alien Dust Is Nothing To Sneeze AtLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2010 Using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, astronomers at UCLA have found dusty evidence for the formation of young, rocky planets around a star some 500 light-years distant. But these potential extrasolar worlds are alien in an even more intriguing way: In the aftermath of collisions between planetary embryos around this star the researchers discovered that the dusty debris bears no resemblance to the planetary building blocks of our own Solar System. "Until now, warm dust found around other stars has been very similar in composition to asteroidal or cometary material in our Solar System," ... read more |
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Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2010Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space and Communications (Nasdaq:LORL) and the leading provider of commercial satellites, has announced that it has been selected to provide a propulsion system to NASA Ames Research Center for the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft. The contract demonstrates NASA's success in leveraging the capability of commerci ... more 
Garching, Germany (SPX) Jan 07, 2010A team of astronomers led by Niv Drory of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany), Kevin Bundy (University of California, Berkeley), and Alexie Leauthaud (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, Berkeley) used data from the COSMOS project to explore the connections between the growth of dark matter halos and the growth of ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 07, 2010Most searches for planets around other stars, also known as exoplanets, focus on Sun-like stars. Those searches have proven successful, turning up more than 400 alien worlds. However, Sun-like stars aren't the only potential homes for planets. New research by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) confirms ... more |
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  Edelmans Give 15000 Telescopes To Classrooms Nationwide  Astronomers Finding Millisecond Pulsars Faster Than Ever   Instant online solar energy quotes Solar Energy Solutions from ABC Solar |
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Brussels (AFP) Jan 6, 2010The European Commission will on Thursday award Germany's OHB Technology a contract for at least eight satellites for its Galileo satnav system, dealing a blow to rival EADS Astrium, an industry source said. "We havent heard yet if its eight or 14 satellites," said Philip Davies, a senior official at Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) Ltd, British partner of OHB in the bid. "I am 100 ... more 
Las Vegas, Nevada (AFP) Jan 6, 2010A leash to prevent you from losing your mobile phone might not be too practical, but how about a wireless one? ZOMM, a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based company, is displaying what it describes as the first wireless tether for cellphones at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) here. The ZOMM is a Bluetooth device about the size of a poker chip that attaches to a keychain or can be clipped on to a ... more 
College Park MD (SPX) Jan 07, 2010An international team of scientists, led by University of Maryland astronomer Stacy McGaugh, has found that individual galactic objects have less ordinary matter, relative to dark matter, than does the Universe as a whole. Just published in the Astrophysics Journal (e-version), these results were presented by McGaugh during a press conference at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in ... more |
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  Lockheed Martin to cut 1,200 US jobs   Outside View: Strategic incompetence   Taiwan firm put on watch list after sales to Iran |
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