* Astronomy

Researchers say they have found the first evidence that the frozen outer reaches of our solar system could be littered with many more objects than we think. Astronomers have been trying to get a picture of the region, known as the Kuiper belt, because it is believed to contain debris from the birth o...

The Mulletiwu (L) meteorite fell in Northern, Sri Lanka, on the 13th April, 1795. A total mass of 25.5 g was recovered. 9° 20'N, 80° 50'E

The Lesves (L6) meteorite fell in Namur, Belgium, on the 13th April, 1896. A total mass of 2 kg was recovered. 50° 22'N, 4° 44'E

The Sakauchi (L6) meteorite fell in Chubu, Japan, on the 13th April, 1913. A total mass of 4.18 kg was recovered. 35° 40'N, 136° 18'E

A small meteorite is displayed with an 80 million yuan price tag ($13.2 million) at a dealer's shop in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on December 25. Farmers dug up the asteroid remnant, measuring about 8 centimeters across and weighing nearly half a kilogram, after it fell in Xinjiang'...

Rocket launch firm blasts onto Milan stock market An Italian rocket launch firm, dubbed Europe's answer to SpaceX, has become the first company of its kind to list its shares. Shares in Avio began trading on the Milan Stock Exchange on Monday and jumped more than 8% before falling back. The firm, whic...

Captain Malcolm Phelps, 1928 - 2017 It is with deep sadness that we report that Captain Malcolm Phelps, formerly of the RRS John Biscoe, passed away on Saturday 8th April 2017 after a long illness. Malcolm joined BAS in 1965 as second officer on RRS John Biscoe, becoming chief officer at the end of his f...

A Scot credited as being one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence has died in a car crash along with his ex-wife, a leading geneticist. Professor Donald Michie, 84, and Dame Anne McLaren, 80, were killed yesterday when their car left the M11 motorway as they travelled from Cambridge to Lo...

Image of new sunspot 12650 captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

To understand how galaxies have formed, astronomers need your help to classify them according to their shapes. If you're quick, you may even be the first person to see the galaxies you're asked to classify. Images come from telescopes including Hubble and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Read more

Asteroid (63) Ausonia is at opposition on the 29th June 2010. (V = 9.7) Ephemeris Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase V 2010 06 05 18 54.17 -32 48.2 1.150 2.096 151.0 13.6 10.1 2010 06 10 18 50.63 -32 57.5 1.126 2.095 156.1 11.3 10.0 2010 06 15 18 46.33 -33 04.2 1.108 2.095 161.0 9.1 9.9 2010 06 20 18 4...

BBC Stargazing Live will be broadcast from the Jodrell Bank observatory between 20:00 - 21:00 GMT, from 3rd to 5th January, 2011.

Life was always hard for the lead miners who toiled on the uplands of Mendip, but probably never more so than when the Romans were their masters. We do not know the system by which the Romans worked the chief mining area at Charterhouse, but we can be certain that there were no union agreements on pay and h...

Title: NuSTAR discovery of a 3.76-second transient magnetar near Sagittarius A* Authors: Kaya Mori, Eric V. Gotthelf, Shuo Zhang, Hongjun An, Frederick K. Baganoff, Nicolas M. Barriere, Andrei Beloborodov, Steven E. Boggs, Finn E. Christensen, William W. Craig, Francois Dufour, Brian W. Gref...

The Schellin (L) meteorite fell in Szczecin, Poland, on the 11th April, 1715. A total mass of 7 kg was recovered. 53° 21'N, 15° 3'E