* Astronomy

Moraine Valley Community College will host its Telescope Open Viewing Night at 8:30 p.m. July 16 at the school, 9000 W. College Parkway, Palos Hills. Read more

The US space laboratory, Skylab I, plunged to Earth this evening scattering debris across the southern Indian Ocean and sparsely populated Western Australia. All week there has been mounting speculation over where the spacecraft would come down. It has been in orbit six years - for the past five...

After an eventful year capped by the mission to moon, ISRO scientists are now developing the next generation launch vehicle to cut by half the cost of putting satellites in orbit. The new year will see a series of tests in the development of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark III...

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Brenda Ellis was getting ready for bed Thursday night when her brother called her outside and pointed to the sky. Before she could respond, Ellis said her daughter, Ashley Ellis, let out a shrill scream. Darting back and forth in the night sky were what Ellis described as four unidentified flying obj...

Fireball reported in the skies over Greenville, Pennsylvania [url=http://www.examiner.com/x-4810-Pittsburgh-UFO-Examiner~y2010m7d9...

The Indian communication satellite INSAT 4B has reached the European Spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana for its March 9 launch on board a Ariane five launch vehicle of Arianespace. The satellite landed at Rochambeau International Airport near Cayenne on January 31 and had been shifted to the Spa...

ESA began the search for new astronauts in 2008, calling for applications from talented European citizens who wished to join the European Astronaut Corps to conduct future missions to the International Space Station, and one day to the Moon and beyond. Following a very demanding selection proces...

Sunspots 11082. Expand (134kb, 560 x 560) Credit SOHO/MDI

Did you see a 'UFO' hovering over Bullbrook last Friday night? Zdravko Nanev thinks he might have seen extra-terrestrial activity from the balcony of his flat in Kelvin Gate, looking in the direction of Chavey Down and Ascot at around 11.30pm that night. Stargazers have been in touch since the story...

Title: Oscillations in the G-type Giants Authors: Hiroyasu Ando, Yusuke Tsuboi, Eiji Kambe, Bun'ei Sato The precise radial-velocity measurements of 4 G-type giants, 11Com, zeta Hya, epsilon Tau, and eta Her were carried out. The short-term variations with amplitudes, 1-7m/s and periods, 3-10...

Title: The discovery of an M4+T8.5 binary system Authors: Ben Burningham, D.J.Pinfield, S.K.Leggett, C.G.Tinney, M.C.Liu, D. Homeier, A.A. West, A. Day-Jones, N.Huelamo, T.J.Dupuy, Z.Zhang, D.N.Murray, N. Lodieu, D. Barrado y Navascues, S. Folkes, M.C.Galvez-Ortiz, H.R.A. Jones, P. W. Lu...

Title: Discovery of water vapour in the carbon star V Cygni from observations with Herschel/HIFI Authors: D. A. Neufeld, E. González-Alfonso, G. Melnick, M. Puecka, M. Schmidt, R. Szczerba, V. Bujarrabal, J. Alcolea, J. Cernicharo, L. Decin, C. Dominik, K. Justtanont, A. de Koter, A. P. Marston,...

Maxima of long period variable Z Cephei on the 9th July, 2010. Magnitude: 10.8-15.4 Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 02 26 17.56, Dec +81 40 41.6

Asteroid 3352 McAuliffe makes its closest approach to the Earth (1.517 AU) on the 9th July, 2010.