Space and Astronomy news feed from SciGuru.com for latest discoveries, inventions and developments in space research and astronomy http://www.sciguru.com http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3810/Asteroid-Impact-in-2182?/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:55:47 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3810 Scientists are reporting that a 560-meter diameter asteroid could hit the Earth in the year 2182. "The total impact probability of asteroid '(101955) http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3809/Martian-Dust-Devil-Whirls-into-Opportunity's-View/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:28:58 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3809 In its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3806/Unraveling-the-Matrix-to-Improve-Signal-processing-Applications-and-Data-compression-Schemes/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:01:39 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3806 Among the most common tools in electrical engineering and computer science are rectangular grids of numbers known as matrices. The numbers in a matrix http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3805/Best-hope-for-saving-Arctic-sea-ice-is-cutting-soot-emissions,-says-Stanford-researcher/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:07:31 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3805 Soot from the burning of fossil fuels and solid biofuels contributes far more to global warming than has been thought, according to a new Stanford stu http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3798/Cosmonauts-Complete-First-Expedition-24-Spacewalk-/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:23:42 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3798 Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko concluded a six-hour, 42-minute spacewalk Tuesday at 6:53 a.m. EDT. The cosmonauts began thei http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3797/Caltech-Astronomer-Finds-Planets-in-Unusually-Intimate-Dance-around-Dying-Star-/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:18:32 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3797 Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming iso http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3792/Stars-Just-Got-Bigger:-A-300-Solar-Mass-Star-Uncovered/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:32:26 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3792 Using a combination of instruments on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most massive stars to date, one weighing at birth mo http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3787/Caltech-Team-Finds-Evidence-of-Water-in-Moon-Minerals/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:50:50 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3787 That dry, dusty moon overhead? Seems it isn't quite as dry as it's long been thought to be. Although you won't find oceans, lakes, or even a shallow p http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3783/Children-with-brain-injuries-have-problems-with-story-telling,-research-suggests/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:44:18 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3783 Children with brain injuries have difficulty developing story-telling skills even though other language abilities, such as vocabulary, tend to catch u http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3782/First-results-from-Large-Hadron-Collider-announced/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:39:38 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3782 A group of University of Toronto high-energy physicists, along with their 3,000 ATLAS colleagues, announced they have broken world records in the sear http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3775/NASA-Moves-Forward-on-Commercial-Partnership-for-Rocket-Engine-Testing/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:17:38 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3775 Engineers at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center recently installed an Aerojet AJ26 rocket engine for qualification testing as part of a partnership t http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3773/Detector-Technology-Could-Help-NASA-Find-Earth-like-Exoplanets-/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:03:31 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3773 The hunt is on for Earth-like planets outside of our solar system. Since the 1990s, astronomers have detected more than 450 extrasolar planets-mostly http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3760/Antarctica-Traced-from-Space/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:51:22 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3760 Antarctica may not be the world's largest landmass -- it's the fifth-largest continent -- but resting on top of that land is the world's largest ice s http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3759/NASA-Spacecraft-Camera-Yields-Most-Accurate-Mars-Map-Ever/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:41:04 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3759 A camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Researchers and the public can access the http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3756/Newly-discovered-asteroid-named-for-Nobel-laureate-Elie-Wiesel/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:48:08 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3756 Last May, a minor planet-also known as an asteroid-discovered by an amateur astronomer was officially named "Eliewiesel" in honor of 1986 Nobel Peace http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3753/NASA-Telescope-Finds-Elusive-Buckyballs-in-Space-for-First-Time/ Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:51:35 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3753 Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time. Buckyballs are http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3741/Hyperfast-Star-Was-Booted-From-Milky-Way/ Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:29:50 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3741 A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it made a life-changing misst http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3738/Arctic-Voyage-Illuminating-Ocean-Optics/ Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:15:49 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3738 During NASA's ICESCAPE voyage to the Arctic, scientists have been looking at the phytoplankton in the Arctic's Chukchi Sea - how many, how big and at http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3729/Video-Camera-Will-Show-Mars-Rover's-Touchdown/ Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:38:59 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3729 A downward-pointing camera on the front-left side of NASA's Curiosity rover will give adventure fans worldwide an unprecedented sense of riding a spac http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3728/NASA's-Nebula-Cloud-Computing-Technology-To-Play-Key-Role-In-New-Open-Source-Initiative-/ Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:29:01 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3728 The core technology developed for NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform has been selected as a contributor for OpenStack, a newly-launched open sourc