* Astronomy

After nearly a decade of court battles, scientists plan to begin studying the 9,300-year-old skeleton known as Kennewick Man next week. A team of scientists plans to examine the bones at the University of Washington's Burke Museum in Seattle beginning July 6, according to their attorney, Ala...

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 18:23:26 (UTC) on Thursday, September 29, 2005 in the New Britian Region, Papua New Guinea, 155 km SSW of Rabaul, at a Depth of 35 km. Location 5.596°S, 151.846°E

China will build a polar icebreaker that would be capable of shattering ice over 1.5 metres thick, an official said. Read more

Arctic lakes thawing earlier each year Scientists from the University of Southampton have found Arctic lakes, covered with ice during the winter months, are melting earlier each spring. The team, who monitored 13,300 lakes using satellite imagery, have shown that on average ice is breaking up on...

What happens when a hydrogen atom meets an antihydrogen atom? Can they form a molecule? The answer to this second question is a definite no according to two theoretical physicists in Germany who have derived the first analytical expression for the stability of matter-antimatter mo...

The Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) is an innovative design for a wide-field imaging facility being developed at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy. By using four comparatively small telescopes, each with a 3-degree diameter field...

ATel 9877: Spectroscopic classification of supernova Gaia16cbd/SN 2016iuh as a Type Ia supernova

ATel 9878: A descriptive title

ATel 9860: ASASSN-16oe: A Very Bright, Unusual Transient Near the Galactic Plane

ATel 9880: ASASSN-16oy: Discovery of A Probable Supernova in an Uncatalogued Galaxy

Science writer and broadcaster Richard Hollingham meets Dr Robert Mulvaney at the British Antarctic Survey, who explains how collecting ice cores from all over Antarctica gives scientists a unique window into the Earth's past climate. Ice cores collected from thousands of metres beneath the An...

Researchers in China have dug up the oldest known pottery. How ancient is it? The late Palaeolithic: 14,000 to 21,000 years old, according to a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The pieces were most likely made and used by early foragers in the Yangzi Basin in t...

NGC 428 (also PGC 4367, UGC 763, MCG +00-04-36, IRAS 01103 +0043, 2MASX J01125570 +0058536, ZWG 385.28, HiPass J0112 +00) is a magnitude +11.3 face-on barred spiral galaxy located 37 - 48 million light years away in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer W...

Image of sunspot 12619 and the eastern limb captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount. Prime focus. Hazy Sky. Moderate seeing. Processed in Paint Shop Pro.

Orbital elements: C/2016 U1 (NEOWISE) T 2017 Jan. 14.02505 TT MPCW q 0.3191894 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 162.76178 -0.63631195 +0.43631780 Node 61.41717 -0.76521321 -0.25249167 e 1.0 Incl. 46.42579 -0.09775396 -0.86364040 From 19 observations 2016 Oct. 21-Nov. 2. MPEC 2016 - V16