* Astronomy

Police say a 6-pound chunk of metal that crashed through the roof of a Dallas home was part of a machine that was grinding up an unwanted tree nearby. Read more

Island residents are being urged by Maria Mitchell Association director of astronomy Vladimir Strelnitski to keep their eyes open for meteorites around Surfside and the south shore in the coming days following an unconfirmed sighting of a fireball blazing across the early-morning sky Friday, F...

BOOTES-3 a major boost for New Zealand astronomy New Zealand astronomers will seek a glimpse of the universe's first generation of stars using BOOTES-3, a new gamma-ray telescope to be opened in Blenheim tomorrow. A joint Spanish-New Zealand astronomy project that adds to the BOOTES telescope ne...

What has been impossible has now been shown to be possible - an alloy between two incompatible elements. The findings are being published in this week's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. A research team led by Professor H.K. Mao from Carnegie Institution of Washington...

Loral Skynet, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ: LORL), today announced that construction of Telstar 11N, a powerful new multi-region Ku-band communications satellite, has begun at Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) in Palo Alto, California, US. "With Telstar 11N, Loral S...

Croatian astrophysicist Mario Juric is one of 17 winners of a "Hubble Fellowship 2009." The Hubble Fellowship Program provides an opportunity for highly-qualified post-doctoral scientists to conduct independent research broadly related to NASA's Cosmic Origins scientific goal...

Asteroid 2009 DH39 = 9D63366 (NEOCPO) Orbital elements: 2009 DH39 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0154 AU Epoch 2009 Feb. 18.0 TT = JDT 2454880.5 MPC M 340.75837 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33134774 Peri. 62.34917 -0.64748013 +0.69310237 a 2.0682993 Node 156.12471 -0.56594212 -0.71573439 e 0.6270240 Incl. 51.51530 +0....

Asteroid 2009 DR36 = 9D18029 (NEOCPO) Orbital elements: 2009 DR36 Earth MOID = 0.1384 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 344.40778 (2000.0) P Q n 0.47657371 Peri. 104.19440 -0.22840891 -0.97355227 a 1.6232397 Node 358.96803 +0.75008808 -0.17267905 e 0.4162035 Incl. 16.23614 +0.620...

Asteroid 2009 DA1 = 92IC237 (NEOCPO) Orbital elements: 2009 DA1 Earth MOID = 0.0399 AU Epoch 2009 Feb. 18.0 TT = JDT 2454880.5 MPC M 14.45779 (2000.0) P Q n 0.24590055 Peri. 272.67953 +0.35459990 -0.93412832 a 2.5232661 Node 156.42389 +0.89327213 +0.32555830 e 0.6985115 Incl. 5.85228 +0.2762676...

Two new objects discovered by Polish students: K09BA3L and K09BA3K Two objects have been found in the main asteroid belt between the obits of Mars and Jupiter by Artur Stankiewicz, Paula Dmochowska and Mateusz Wojciechowski, supervised by their physics teacher Klemens Baranowski from Adam Mick...

Nearly a decade ago, Leik Myrabo shared with Scientific American readers his vision for the future of space travel: a "LightCraft" pushed out to the stars by a pulsed infrared laser beam from the ground or pulled into space by a laser beamed down from a solar-powered station orbiting Eart...

A magnitude 15 type II supernova, 2009af, was discovered on the 16th February, 2009, by Giancarlo Cortini in the low surface brightness galaxy UGC 1551, in the constellation of Aries. The supernova is located 15".5...

Cosmochemists have identified six main compositional types of magma that formed inside asteroids during the first 100 million years of Solar System history. These magmas vary in their chemical and mineralogical make up, but all have in common low concentrations of sodium and other volatile elem...

Title: HDE 245059: A Weak-Lined T Tauri Binary Revealed by Chandra and Keck Authors: C. Baldovin Saavedra, M. Audard, G. Duchêne, M. Güdel, S.L. Skinner, F.B.S. Paerels, A. Ghez, C. McCabe We present the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) and Keck observations of HDE 2...

Asteroid 2009 DK12 = SW40g3 (NEOCPO) Orbital elements: 2009 DK12 Epoch 2009 Feb. 18.0 TT = JDT 2454880.5 MPC M 323.28457 (2000.0) P Q n 0.12380266 Peri. 239.98238 +0.28412264 +0.71407049 a 3.9870291 Node 61.56533 -0.41250091 +0.69344840 e 0.4435892 Incl. 46.68590 -0.86551564 -0.09608665 P 7.9...