A group of friends in Cambridge claim to have spotted a UFO similar to that which allegedly caused damage to a wind farm turbine in Lincolnshire only a few days earlier. Tracy Moran and five others, who had been dining at d'Arry's Wine Shop in King Street, noticed the object hovering in the sky on Wednes...
Carmine Montemarano saw it and he wants to know if you saw it, too. It was on Dec. 26 about a half an hour or so before midnight, when something that looked like fireworks caught Mr. Montemarano's eye. He was standing outside in the driveway of his cousin's house on a quiet street in the Major MacKenzie an...
A team of American astronomers discovered that two terrestrial planets underwent a collision only a few hundred thousand years ago. They were studying what was presumably a very dusty main sequence star in an attempt to determine its age. During this time independent research revealed this star w...
About 6 p.m. Thursday, people near Cross Lake saw a bright flash and heard an explosion that rattled windows and brought them out of their houses and onto their yards to look over the water. Speculation over what it could have been included a bomb and a methamphetamine laboratory hidden in the woods. I...
Britney Gallivan has solved the Paper Folding Problem. This well known challenge was to fold paper in half more than seven or eight times, using paper of any size or shape. In April of 2005 Britney's accomplishment was mentioned on the prime time CBS television show Numb3rs. The task was commonly kn...
An ancient island utopia that sank long ago is more than a fairytale for Australia's tree lobster: it's where the strange insect may have actually evolved millions of years ago, say researchers. One species of the insect, Dryococelus australis, was previously thought to be native to Lord Howe Isla...
Four villagers who bought a hill which, according to local legend, is where King Arthur married Guinevere want to turn it into a nature reserve. The four paid £86,000 for woodland at Castle Hill at Knucklas, near Knighton, Powys, and intend to allow archaeologists to excavate the site. Folklore say...
Egyptian archaeologists have found the remains of a mummy thought to be that of Queen Seshestet, the mother of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt in the 24th century BC, the government said on Thursday. After five hours spent lifting the lid of a sarcophagus in a pyramid discovered south of Cairo last year, the...
A trio of Canadian adventurers said Friday they have set a new record for fastest trek across Antarctica to the South Pole, after suffering through whiteout conditions, temperatures as low as minus 40 - and a steady diet of deep-fried bacon and butter. Ray Zahab said he and his team-mates completed t...
Orbital elements: 2008 YF29 Earth MOID = 0.0049 AU Epoch 2008 Dec. 20.0 TT = JDT 2454820.5 MPC M 349.03174 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23953495 Peri. 337.95258 -0.80210525 -0.59714603 a 2.5677739 Node 165.37591 +0.55174391 -0.74526870 e 0.6367589 Incl. 1.50202 +0.22848596 -0.29663308 P 4.11 H 24.0 G 0.15 Fr...
China is scheduled to launch a new remote sensing satellite "Yaogan V" on Monday at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The satellite is to be launched into the space on a Long March-4B carrier rocket "at an appropriate time", China News Serv...
Expand (153kb, 560 x 560) Credit SOHO A new sunspot, 11011, has emerging on the Sun's northern hemisphere. The sunspot is a member of the new Solar Cycle 24.
United Launch Alliance inked a $96 million deal to build and launch an Atlas 5 rocket for a future mission to carry a spy satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, officials announced Thursday. The rocket will fly from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg; however, the launch date hasnt been determ...
Driving between Bathurst and Miramichi on New Year's Eve, one motorist and his passenger saw a different kind of fireworks in the sky. Mike Gallant was on his way from Bathurst to Moncton when, at exactly 4:45 p.m., he saw a luminous teal-blue streak that lit up the darkening sky. [url=http://mirami...
