* Astronomy

Tony Colaprete, principal investigator for the LCROSS mission, is taking question from the general public and the media. You can submit questions by logging into the LCROSS video conference. Weblink (Available at 12:00 U...

TerreStar Considers Chapter 11 Protection TerreStar Corp., a mobile-communications business trying to launch a far-reaching wireless network using satellite smart phones, is preparing a possible filing for bankruptcy protection, said people familiar with the matter. TerreStar, labourin...

The user tongxuefang, tongxuefang@521hotmail.com, has been banned for spamming.

A European team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far. By carefully analysing the very faint glow of the galaxy they have found that they are seeing it when the Universe was only about 600 million years old (a redshift of 8.6). T...

She survived a lightning strike as a child, and it's suggested that she inspired the tongue-twister "She sells sea shells" - but it was her prolific work on the Dorset beaches, known now as the Jurassic Coast, that earned Mary Anning her place in scientific history. Her fossil discoverie...

After a three-week crawl carrying 625 tonnes of cargo towards the highest ice in Antarctica, a Chinese expedition is expected this week to begin building a research base at Dome Argus, or 'Dome A', 4,093 metres above sea level. The station, called Kunlun and scheduled to open on 28 January, will gath...

A Kreutz orbital group sungrazer comet, SOHO 1932, has been discovered by Bo Zhou (China) in SOHO C3 chronagraph images. Credit SOHO

The 76 - 170 metre wide asteroid 2010 SC17 will make a close pass (49.1 lunar distances, 0.1262 AU), travelling at 13.25 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st October, 2010 @ 21:30 UT. See more The Lunar Distance...

The 230 - 510 metre wide asteroid 2010 TU149 will make a close pass (26.6 lunar distances, 0.0684 AU), travelling at 29.69 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th October, 2010 @ 11:58 UT. See more The Lunar Dista...

The 38 - 86 metre wide asteroid 2010 TQ54 will make a close pass (28.3 lunar distances, 0.0728 AU), travelling at 7.52 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th October, 2010 @ 14:29 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (L...

The 85 - 190 metre wide asteroid 2010 TM4 will make a close pass (58.5 lunar distances, 0.1504 AU), travelling at 8.94 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th October, 2010 @ 12:13 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD...

The 68 - 150 metre wide asteroid 2010 TK167 will make a close pass (25.5 lunar distances, 0.0656 AU), travelling at 14.10 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th October, 2010 @ 14:51 UT. See more The Lunar Distan...

Mud volcano erupted in Arbolete A mud volcano erupted in the town of the north west Colombian region of Uraba on Monday. Read more

It has been a few weeks since we last had news of the search for the meteorite that landed in the local district in August, but the Bombala Times has now heard from another reader who actually saw the object fall. When first we reported on the exciting occurrence, there was only one known witness who saw t...

Acraman crater is a deeply eroded impact crater in the Gawler Ranges of South Australia. Its location is marked by Lake Acraman, a circular ephemeral playa lake about 20 km in diameter. The impact event is estimated to have occurred about 580 million years ago during the Ediacaran Period. [url=http...