* Astronomy

Crocodile God Temple Featured Croc Nursery Egyptian authorities put another archaeological site on the country's tourist map yesterday by opening a visitor center at Madinet Madi in the Fayoum region south of Cairo. Founded during the reigns of Amenemhat III (about 1859-1813 B.C.) and Amenemha...

Was there an ancient "lost civilization" in Cuba? During the 1950s Cuban divers and underwater archaeologists found extensive artefact evidence of a Native American civilization on the western end of Cuba that was different and more advanced that the Taino-Arawak peoples, who migra...

Mysterious Maine Earthquakes Caused by Ice Age Rebound On the last day of April and first five days of May, dozens of tiny earthquakes caused Maine's eastern coast to tremble. What could have shaken this geologically quiet region, located in the middle of a tectonic plate, far from any active faults...

Willard Sterling Boyle, CC (August 19, 1924 - May 7, 2011) was a Canadian physicist and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device. Read more

Orbital elements: 2011 JW10 Earth MOID = 0.1926 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 239.89648 (2000.0) P Q n 0.67460012 Peri. 89.54667 +0.58618709 +0.77763739 a 1.2875727 Node 219.37819 -0.80920510 +0.57569952 e 0.1983651 Incl. 20.99393 +0.03964599 +0.25268587 P 1.46 H 23.0 G...

Orbital elements: 2011 JU10 Earth MOID = 0.2347 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 297.79892 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29759357 Peri. 278.31277 +0.77742966 +0.59181831 a 2.2218788 Node 45.73335 -0.39295915 +0.72140013 e 0.5401264 Incl. 17.30129 -0.49110715 +0.35962890 P 3.31 H 20.7 G...

UA-linked galaxy discovery could yield clues to universe A group that includes a University of Arizona astronomer has discovered a galaxy believed to have formed just after the Big Bang. With stars dating back 13.5 billion years, the galaxy - which hasn't been named - was created only 200 million ye...

Radioactivity, discovered more than 100 years ago and studied by physicists ever since, would seem to be a relatively closed subject in science. However, since the 1960s, the pursuit of at least one open question about how nuclei spontaneously eject various particles has continued to nag experim...

The Lemuralia or Lemuria was a feast in the religion of ancient Rome during which the Romans performed rites to exorcise the malevolent and fearful ghosts of the dead from their homes. In the Julian calendar the three days of the feast were 9, 11, and 13 May. Read more

Asteroid 2009 KQ4 = 9K982F3 NEOCPO Orbital elements: 2009 KQ4 Earth MOID = 0.1610 AU Epoch 2009 May 9.0 TT = JDT 2454960.5 MPC M 5.46751 (2000.0) P Q n 0.44015907 Peri. 143.28754 -0.92788183 +0.35916048 a 1.7115764 Node 58.05354 -0.36399773 -0.81419564 e 0.3273142 Incl. 6.78125 -0.08087618 -0.45...

Orbital elements: 2011 CG2 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0305 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 298.54695 (2000.0) P Q n 0.76914186 Peri. 282.96279 -0.79226576 +0.60860061 a 1.1797729 Node 294.54270 -0.53949247 -0.73223157 e 0.1603302 Incl. 2.76119 -0.28506638 -0.30568322 P 1.28 H 21.2 G 0.15...

The Aerobee rocket was a small (8 m) unguided suborbital sounding rocket used for high atmospheric and cosmic radiation research in the United States in the 1950s. Read more

7,000-year-old village discovered in Erbil Erbil city has more than 1,000 potential archaeological sites. The hills were once villages that were abandoned, destroyed or the inhabitants wiped out by disease. According to Erbil Directorate of Archaeology, of the 1,000 archaeological sites in E...

Midwest ALMA Community Event Sun May 8, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Opening Night Reception Mon May 9, 8:15 AM - 5:30 PM, Talks about ALMA & ALMA science; software demos; poster session Tue May 10, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Hands-on Tutorials (Proposal Tool and CASA) University of Iowa Iowa Memorial Uni...

Tropical storm Aere struck the Philippines at about 18:00 GMT on 7 May. Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centre suggest that the point of landfall was near 13.6 N,124.7 E. Aere brought 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of around 83 km/h. Wind gusts in the are...