* Astronomy

The Solar Maximum Mission satellite (or SolarMax) was designed to investigate solar phenomenon, particularly solar flares. It was launched on February 14, 1980. Read more

The 40 - 89 metre wide asteroid 2004 XG will make a close pass (76.6 lunar distances, 0.1968 AU), travelling at 14.23 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th February, 2012 @ 12:03 UT ±04:18. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...

Exploding Fireball Recorded from Japan - February 11, 2012 A fireball/meteor/space debris object entering Earth's atmosphere and exploding

Live Astronomy and Astrophotography from the RockStar Observatory See more

Archaeologists strike gold in quest to find Queen of Sheba's wealth A British excavation has struck archaeological gold with a discovery that may solve the mystery of where the Queen of Sheba of biblical legend derived her fabled treasures. Almost 3,000 years ago, the ruler of Sheba, which spanned...

MOIRE - Membrane Optic Imager Real-Time Exploitation DARPA is soliciting innovative system-oriented research proposals in the area of large, low cost, lightweight, deployable, visible and/or infrared electro-optical systems for persistent, tactical, real-time video over denied territo...

Luna 20 (Ye-8-5 series) was the second of three successful Soviet lunar sample return missions. It was flown as part of the Luna program, also called Lunik 20, as a robotic competitor to the six successful Apollo lunar sample return missions. Luna 20 was placed in an intermediate Earth parking orbit...

After publication of his work on the aberration, British astronomer James Bradley continued to observe, to develop and check his second major discovery, the nutation of the Earth's axis, but he did not announce this in print until 14 February 1748 (Phil. Trans. xlv. I), when he had tested its realit...

George Bassett Clark (February 14, 1827 - December 20, 1891) was an American instrument maker and astronomer. Read more

Edward Arthur Milne FRS (14 February 1896 - 21 September 1950) was a British astrophysicist and mathematician. Read more

Fritz Zwicky (February 14, 1898 - February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy. Read more [video=http://www.y...

Solar System Family The cameras of Voyager 1 on Feb. 14, 1990, pointed back toward the sun and took a series of pictures of the sun and the planets, making the first ever "portrait" of our solar system as seen from the outside. In the course of taking this mosaic consisting of a total of 60 fram...

Title: Stellar Variability of the Exoplanet Hosting Star HD 63454 Authors: Stephen R. Kane, Diana Dragomir, David R. Ciardi, Jae-Woo Lee, Gaspare Lo Curto, Christophe Lovis, Dominique Naef, Suvrath Mahadevan, Genady Pilyavsky, Stephane Udry, Xuesong Wang, Jason Wright Of the hundreds of exop...

Poland's first ever satellite launched The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched Poland's first ever satellite, the PW-Sat, from its Space Centre in Guiana, Monday. The satellite was launched around 10.50 CET and has been built by students from the Warsaw University of Technology and scienti...

Maser-12 is scheduled to launch from the Esrange Range, Kiruna, on the 11th February, 2012.