A group of ****roaches recently took a ride on a high-altitude balloon launched into space by freshmen aerospace engineering students from the University of California, San Diego. The ****roaches were put in a variety of capsules to see how they would survive in different extreme environments, i...
Cyclone Bola still making its mark after 21 years Twenty one years after New Zealand's most devastating cyclone struck the country, the effects of Cyclone Bola are still with the East Coast of the North Island. Read more
The Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicinal and Biological Problems will conduct the world's first simulated manned Martian mission this autumn.
Yevgeny Demin, a Technical supervisor, said an expedition to Mars might be launched in 2010-2016. "U.S. and EU experts are more c...
An amateur archaeologist believes a giant boulder on a hill overlooking Loch Ness was used as a guide for crop sowing and harvesting by residents of in the Great Glen more than 5000 years ago. John Forsyth - who was voted a corresponding member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for services to a...
Integral has captured one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts ever seen. A meticulous analysis of the data has allowed astronomers to investigate the initial phases of this giant stellar explosion, which led to the ejection of matter at velocities close to the speed of light. In particular, the astr...
Astronomers have published the first clear detection of signatures long sought in the spectra of X-ray astronomical sources, the so-called EXAFS signatures, standing for "Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure." EXAFS is a powerful tool for studying the structure of grains in th...
42 Draco is a class K1.5III star located in the constellation of Draco. On March 23, 2009 an exoplanet, named 42 Dra b, was discovered orbiting around the star. Read more
HD 139357 is a class K4III star located in the constellation of Draco. On March 20, 2009 an exoplanet, named HD 139357 b, was discovered orbiting around the star. Source
Tropical cyclone Izilda struck Madagascar at about 06:00 GMT on 26 March. Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centre suggest that the point of landfall was near 23.7 S, 43.3 E. [url=http://cdiver.net/blog/weather/tropical-cyclone-izilda-off-east-africa/]Sour...
A modest but unusually attractive open star cluster in Canis Major, NGC2362 hosts some of the youngest-known stars, some of which are still contracting and settling onto the main sequence. This open cluster contains many faint stars centred on the bright star tau Canis Majoris; in a telescope, th...
The nights grow warmer this month as the stars of spring finally wheel into view. Along with the seasonal beauties like M35, M44, and the galaxy fields of Leo and Virgo, this month treats us to a spectacular view of Saturn and Venus. And Comet Lulin is still bright enough to see in binoculars, while in...
Orbital elements: 2009 FH Earth MOID = 0.0002 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 39.79214 (2000.0) P Q n 0.55208169 Peri. 24.02755 -0.93625029 +0.35133302 a 1.4716363 Node 176.54108 -0.32422998 -0.86323794 e 0.3372367 Incl. 0.67849 -0.13531564 -0.36247120 P 1.79 H 26.6 G 0.15 U 6[url...
A meteorite may have been what smashed into the windshield of a Cottonwood couple's sport utility vehicle late last month, destroying much of the dashboard and melting some of the glass. "I hate to say it, but I think something fell out of the sky and did some damage to a car" - Mike Birondo, a...
Westchester County meteor (3/9/2009) The mysterious boom that may have rattled Westchester county just might have been a meteorite. Dozens of people reported hearing the noise Saturday, and now a meteorite expert says he thinks it was a falling space rock, and he's offering big bucks to anyone who...
