The UK has officially launched its Cyber Security Challenge to find and attract new talent to the IT security industry. The Cyber Security Challenge is a series of national online games and competitions that will test the cyber security abilities of individuals and teams from every walk of life. It...
Two students, Anish Mukherjee and Debarghya Sarkar, of South Point High School have had minor planets named after them. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Lincoln Laboratory, USA, bestowed the honour in recognition of their winning the second Grand award in Electrical and Mech...
The 160 - 370 metre wide asteroid 1998 OX4 will make a close pass (73.4 lunar distances, 0.1886 AU), travelling at 17.34 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st August, 2010 @ 13:37 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), th...
No need for manned spaceflight, says astronomer royal Martin Rees Forget manned moon bases, forget a Mars colony - most future space travellers will be robots, according to astronomer royal Martin Rees. Rees, professor of cosmology and astrophysics at Cambridge University, thinks sending peop...
New scientific findings explain the mystery behind the development of the Banda arc The Banda arc - a gigantic 1,000km long, 180-degree curve in eastern Indonesia - has puzzled geologists for many years, with much debate and controversy surrounding its complex origin and evolution. A solution to...
Chinese engineers are considering a new super-powerful engine for the next generation of space rockets, say officials. According to Li Tongyu, general manager of the marketing department at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), engineers are currently studying a rocket engin...
A boat made from thousands of plastic bottles has sailed into Sydney Harbour, completing a four-month voyage that began in San Francisco. The boat, called the Plastiki, was built using 12,500 plastic bottles. Read more
The French particle physics community is particularly proud to have been selected to host the 35th ICHEP conference in 2010 in Paris. This conference is the focal point of all our field since more than fifty years and is the reference event where all important results in particle physics cosmology a...
This image shows the effects of a giant black hole that has been flipped around twice, causing its spin axis to point in a different direction from before. The large optical image, from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, is centered on a radio galaxy named 4C +00.58. The smaller image to the right shows a clo...
George Observatory Celebrates 8th Annual Astronomy Day On Saturday Budding astronomers and skilled stargazers alike can enjoy Astronomy Day 2008 on Saturday at the George Observatory. Located at Brazos Bend State Park, the observatory activities begin at 3 p.m. and continue through 10:30 p.m....
Pine Mountain Observatory to be open May 25 to Sept. 29New season for star gazing awaits Friday- Saturday-night visitors Star-gazing, planet-searching and constellation viewing are just a leisurely drive away, beginning Friday, May 25, at the [url=http://pmo-sun.uoregon.edu/~pmo/]Pine M...
UFO sighted at Malaysian beach resort Guests and employees at a beach resort in Malaysia have claimed that they've spotted an unidentified flying object (UFO). According to Harian Metro, the object apparently caused uneasiness among those staying at the Tuaran Beach Resort near Kota Kinabalu, S...
The 110 - 250 metre wide asteroid 1998 HG49 will make a close pass (55.3 lunar distances, 0.1422 AU), travelling at 2.25 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th November, 2010 @ 12:29 UT. See more The Lunar Distanc...
