* Astronomy

Many meteorites land in Fort Worth - eventually A chunk of Mars did most of the traveling, zooming through space as a meteor before being found in Libya in 1998. Old-fashioned horse trading brought it the rest of the way to the Monnig Meteorite Gallery at Texas Christian University. That small museum...

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Hubble's newest camera has taken an image of galaxy NGC 4214. This galaxy glows brightly with young stars and gas clouds, and is an ideal laboratory to research star formation and evolution. Dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 may be small, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in content. It is packed with everyt...

Title: Giant X-ray Bump in GRB 121027A: Evidence for Fall-back Disk Accretion Authors: Xue-Feng Wu, Shu-Jin Hou, Wei-Hua Lei The most interesting discovery in GRB 121027A is the giant X-ray bump detected by Swift/XRT. The X-ray afterglow re-brightens sharply at ~ 1000 s since the trigger by more t...

Title: Neutrino Mass Hierarchy and neutron-anti-neutron Oscillation from Baryogenesis Authors: K. S. Babu, P. S. Bhupal Dev, R. N. Mohapatra (Version v3) It has been recently proposed that the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe may have its origin in "post-sphaleron baryogene...

Following confirmation from Eurockot Launch Services that they will launch ESA's SMOS mission on 9 September this year, the satellite has just been taken out of storage - providing an opportunity for the media to view the satellite before it is prepared for shipment to the launch site in Russia. The...

The Mounting Stone The Old Ship Inn on Sunderland Road, South Shields is reputed to be one of the oldest public houses in the town. Read more

Death Valley is the hottest and driest place in North America because of its lack of surface water and its low relief. On July 10, 1913, a record 134 °F (56.7 °C) was measured at the Weather Bureau's observation station at Greenland Ranch (now the site for the Furnace Creek Inn), the highest temperatu...

Asteroid (469) Argentina occults a +6.8 magnitude star, HIP 25363, at ~2:13 UTC for eastern North America & South America.

Did dog Rocky find meteor fragment? Has a piece of the Russian meteor been found in Egremont? A family is asking readers of The Whitehaven News to help solve the mystery. Read more

David S. McKay was Chief Scientist for Astrobiology at the Johnson Space Centre. During the Apollo program, McKay trained the first men to walk on the Moon in geology. McKay was the first author of a scientific paper postulating past life on Mars on the basis of evidence in Martian meteorite ALH 84001...

Title: The remarkable meteor (fireball) of 1909 February 22 Authors: Denning, W. F. I have compared the numerous observations of the fireball of February 22 and find that the radiant point best satisfying the observed path was at 190° + 20°, about 14° ENE of the star beta Leonis. This implies that the...

Anyone who has ever seen a streaky line of vapor, known as a contrail, behind a high-flying aircraft knows that airplanes can produce their own clouds. But in rarer cases, aircraft can also punch round holes, such as the one over Antarctica pictured here, or carve long channels through existing, nat...

Orbital elements: 2013 DR9 Earth MOID = 0.4775 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 350.97024 (2000.0) P Q n 0.10517375 Peri. 249.24272 -0.49195571 +0.86276910 a 4.4449254 Node 348.84899 -0.38409784 -0.33533130 e 0.7286553 Incl. 37.10004 -0.78131199 -0.37839450 P 9.37 H 17.6...

Orbital elements: 2013 DQ9 Earth MOID = 0.2152 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 184.38180 (2000.0) P Q n 0.50019008 Peri. 11.44175 +0.94462462 +0.23279666 a 1.5717350 Node 331.60279 -0.32614404 +0.58816294 e 0.2226831 Incl. 29.09822 -0.03625456 +0.77451279 P 1.97 H 19.6 G...