* Astronomy

Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart aka Schweikart (born October 25, 1935) is an American former astronaut, research scientist, US Air Force fighter pilot, business and government executive. Schweickart, chosen in NASA's third astronaut group, is best known as the Lunar Module pilo...

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Gabon Expedition: The Lost Underwater Volcano Today we explored a seamount that is not on the nautical charts. It is about 20 miles off the coast of Gabon, and we had little hope to find it. A local fisher gave us GPS coordinates, and we followed them. But in our sonar we could only see a vast expanse of dee...

USU observatory will open to public Friday night The Utah State University Observatory will be open for viewing Friday for the Cache Valley community. The observatory, located on the roof of USUs Science Engineering Research building, opens its doors to the public from 8 to 10 p.m. Friday. Admissi...

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Venera 10 was a USSR unmanned space mission to Venus. It consisted of an orbiter and a lander. It launched on June 14, 1975 03:00:31 UTC. Read more

The Charge of the Light Brigade was a charge of British cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. Lord Raglan, overall commander, had intended to send the Light Brigade to pursue and harry a retreating Russian artillery b...

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In the heart of Oxfordshire, plans are being readied to ship the final and most crucial parts of another telescope, an all-British project, to the rocky, high-altitude desert in northern Chile. The arrival of the four metres-wide main mirror, precision-polished at the Rutherford Appleton L...

Researchers plan to drill more than a mile under the bay to search for watery pockets of a prehistoric ocean, bacteria that thrive in boiling heat and clues about the meteorite that left a 83 kilometre hole in Earth's surface. About 35 million years ago, a meteorite smashed into what is now Virgin...