* Astronomy

Squyres Wins Carl Sagan Medal for Public Outreach For his work making NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission a compelling saga for millions of people, Steven W. Squyres, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy and principal scientific investigator for the mission, has received the 2009 Carl Sag...

Orbital elements: 2011 TG2 Earth MOID = 0.0511 AU Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC M 39.18152 (2000.0) P Q n 1.16625681 Peri. 218.57968 -0.63085595 +0.77166526 a 0.8938677 Node 12.99781 -0.59215422 -0.41141174 e 0.5150423 Incl. 21.09604 -0.50137227 -0.48504959 P 0.85 H 20.4 G 0...

Orbital elements: 2011 QG9 Earth MOID = 0.1929 AU Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC M 347.72677 (2000.0) P Q n 0.21721773 Peri. 73.19300 +0.90165116 -0.40432999 a 2.7407696 Node 310.37368 +0.27847476 +0.81427383 e 0.6081266 Incl. 11.61897 +0.33087308 +0.41650378 P 4.54 H 20.0 G...

Europe's scientists have presented the six dream space missions they would like to fly before 2020. The concepts ranged from a quest to map the "dark" components shaping the cosmos, to a plan to find far-off planets that most resemble Earth. The European Space Agency (Esa) will probably...

Tynemouth lifeboat search after planet Jupiter mistaken for flare Tynemouth RNLI and an RAF Boulmer rescue helicopter were called out to search for a possible vessel in distress six miles from the coast. However, after an extensive search, it was found that the informant had mistaken the planet Ju...

Autumn constellation Camelopardalis has no real Greco-Roman mythology, as it wasn't discovered until the 17th century. With the changes in the foliage so obvious and dramatic, it can be easy to forget that the heavens also change with the seasons. Get acquainted with the autumn constellations at...

MTSU Department of Physics and Astronomy instructor Jana Ruth Ford will discuss "Tennessee's Meteorite Impact Sites" in the University's second First Friday Star Party for Fall 2011 on Oct. 7. Read more

Title: DASCH J075731.1+201735: Discovery of A Peculiar Slow Nova in A Peculiar Symbiotic Binary Authors: Sumin Tang, Jonathan Grindlay, Maxwell Moe, Jerome Orosz, Robert Kurucz, Samuel Quinn, Matthew Servillat We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of a peculiar slow nova (d...

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS (October 4, 1916 - November 8, 2009) was a Soviet theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb. Read more

John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4, 1903 - June 15, 1995) was an American physicist and inventor. The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer. His special-purpose machine has come to be called the Atanasoff...

Cyril Stanley Smith (October 4, 1903-August 25, 1992) was a renowned metallurgist and historian of science. Smith is perhaps most famous for his work on the Manhattan Project where he was responsible for the production of fissionable metals. Read more

The Dark Universe Conference, Heidelberg, Germany

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (October 4, 1841 - March 23, 1924) was an autodidact US physicist and meteorologist. Read more

Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (or Longberg) (4 October 1562 - 8 October 1647) was a Danish astronomer. Read more

The naval battle of Lake Poyang (30 August - 4 October AD 1363 and was one of the final battles fought in the fall of China's Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. Read more