The Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker NS Rossiya ("Russia") has arrived at the Severny Polyus-38 (SP-38) polar station to help the 16 scientists living there relocate to a new Arctic drift station. The SP-38 polar station was established on an 7 x 12 kilometre Arctic ice floe in the C...
Observation by Cinzia Nardozza I don't know what really i've seen with my parents, 3 hours ago. We've seen two lighting object passing from the skyline till my roof (but very high in the sky), slowly passing, quite like an airplane (but it wasn't an airplane, and not even a falling star...) and gradual...
A new scientific expedition has set off for the crash site of a gigantic meteoroid that hit eastern Siberia, between the town of Bodaibo and the village of Balakhninsky near the Vitim River, in the early hours of September 25, 2002.
Researchers investigating the crater said this might be their las...
The Shanghai Aerospace Bureau has finished the first buffering test to ensure that China's manned spacecraft will be able to dock together safely.
The Shanghai bureau will be in charge of the development of the technology, according to the director, Yuan Jie.
After the successful blasto...
Ole Christensen Rømer (25 September 1644, Århus - 19 September 1710, Copenhagen) was a Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light. Read more
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (September 25, 1843 - November 15, 1928) was an influential American geologist and educator. In 1893 he founded the Journal of Geology, of which he was editor for many years. In 1905, Chamberlin and Forest Ray Moulton developed a theory of the formation of the solar syste...
Wladimir Peter Köppen (September 25, 1846 in Saint Petersburg, Russia - June 22, 1940 in Graz, Austria) was a Russian born geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist of German descent. Read more
Mars Observer, launched by NASA in September 25, 1992, was the first of the proposed Observer series of planetary missions, and was designed to study the geoscience and climate of Mars. Contact with Mars Observer was lost on August 21, 1993, three days before scheduled orbit insertion, for unknown...
Ariane 5's fifth launch of 2011 On 21 September 2011, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, Arabsat-5C and SES-2, into their planned transfer o...
Stargazers soon will be able to peruse the planets in a more historically accurate setting when the last phase of a $3 million restoration of one of the oldest observatories in the United States ends. The restoration of the Cincinnati Observatory that began in 1998 will be completed this spring. The...
Enjoy scanning for satellites You do not need binoculars or a telescope to see the brightest artificial satellites, since they appear as relatively bright starlike objects moving across the sky. Man-made satellites shine by reflected sunlight, and usually can be seen for a few hours after sunset...
The United States Space Surveillance Network is a critical part of United States Strategic Command's (USSTRATCOM) mission and involves detecting, tracking, cataloguing and identifying artificial objects orbiting Earth, i.e. active/inactive satellites, spent rocket bodies, or fragmenta...
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