The Atanasoff-Berry Computer the First Electronic Computer
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer the First Electronic Computer – John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry
“I have always taken the position that there is enough credit for everyone in the invention and development of the electronic computer” [...]
Amateur Planet Hunters Find Exoplanets
You can search for exoplanets via the citizen scientist project Planet Hunters, which has already found candidate worlds orbiting distant stars. John Matson reports
Out in space, NASA’s Kepler mission keeps watch on more than 150,000 stars. [...]
UK satellite shows off its vision
The most powerful UK-built imaging spacecraft ever sent into orbit has been demonstrating its capability.
Salt Lake City’s airport, with its terminal buildings, runway and approach roads
Its first pictures since being launched in August [...]
China ready for next space leap
China is taking a stepped approach to the development of its human spaceflight programmeChina is about to launch its first space laboratory, Tiangong-1.
The 10.5m-long, cylindrical module will be unmanned for the time being, but the country’s [...]
Doomed satellite landed in Pacific, NASA says
Debris from a defunct six-ton NASA science satellite that crashed to Earth on Saturday fell harmlessly in a remote area of the South Pacific Ocean, NASA said on Tuesday.
Experts estimated that as much as 1,100 pounds (495 kg) of debris survived [...]
NASA UARS Satellite Crashed in South Pacific, Says NASA
NASA now says the final resting place of its UARS satellite is a remote part of the South Pacific, halfway between Australia and Hawaii, perhaps closest to what used to be called Christmas Island in the island nation of Kiribati. The satellite [...]
Herschel:Herschel probes the dusty history of a giant star
About 5 thousand million years from now, our Sun will expand into a red giant, swelling to such a size that it may swallow the Earth. It will then begin to shed huge amounts of dust, surrounding itself with an expanding circumstellar envelope [...]
Martian devil
Giant whirlwind photographed as it snakes its way across a plain in northern Mars
Scientists studied the length of the shadow cast by this Martian dust devil and determined that the storm stood 12 miles high. Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, UA
On [...]
Hobbits: Our tiny cousins
Skeletal remains of ancient human relatives found in Indonesia are challenging some long-accepted “truths” about human evolution
Anthropologist Peter Brown examines the Hobbit fossils. Credit: Peter Brown
This story starts with a tooth. [...]
Solar Orbiter:ESA contracts Astrium UK to build Solar Orbiter
ESA has awarded the contract to build its next-generation Sun explorer to Astrium UK. Solar Orbiter will investigate how the Sun creates and controls the heliosphere, the extended atmosphere of the Sun.
Solar Orbiter exploring the Sun’s [...]
