* Astronomy

Cold Storage for Alien Organisms The Moon fascinates us. The only world other than Earth upon which humans have set foot, we know a remarkable amount about it, yet countless mysteries remain. One theory, presented at Europlanet's latest Planetary Science Congress by Joop Houtkooper from the Univ...

Its Monday, 5:00 a.m. at Mission Beach. Russ Gish and his son Lance have already been here an hour, sweeping the sand with a contraption that looks like a skinny, upright vacuum cleaner with a coil at the end. Theyre treasure hunters, looking for things metal things to be exact that were left the day bef...

HD 20868b is gas giant with a very eccentric orbit. Read more

HD 131664 is a massive planet 18x the size of Jupiter, with a very eccentric 1951 day orbit. Read more

HD 73267 is 3x the size of Jupiter, with an orbit of 1260 days around a star just hotter than our sun. Read more

BD-17 63b is a 5x Jupiter size-planet with a eccentric, 655-day orbit around its small star. Read more

HD 153950b in the constellation Scorpio, is 2.73x the size of Jupiter, and is a bit further from its star than Earth is, at 1.28AU. Read more

HD 145377b is almost 6x the size of Jupiter and orbits about half an AU from a sunlike star. Read more

Astronomer to focus on Milky Ways star clusters The Star Cities of the Milky Way Oct. 29, 7 p.m. Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium Admission is free and open to the public. Read more

UA Fort Smith Receives $2,200 Telescope[url=http://www.uafortsmith.edu/News/Index?skin=&...

You have to kick aside the fallen leaves to find a small marker identifying the Department of Forensic Morphology Annex, a four-year-old installation just south of the UW Law School. Students scurry by to their classes, seemingly oblivious (or accustomed) to the stainless-steel blob, which look...

Soviet-era baritone Muslim Magomayev, who died after a long illness at the age of 66 on Saturday, was buried on Wednesday in Baku, the capital of his native Azerbaijan. A minor planet in the Solar System's asteroid belt was named 4980 Magomaev in 1997. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim...

It's a moment when all Israelis remember where they were and what they were doing. In 2003, pride turned to grief in an instant when the space shuttle Columbia and its crew - including Israeli astronaut Col. Ilan Ramon - perished when re-entering the earth's atmosphere. [url=http://www.israel21c...

"Amateur" astronomers captures Charon[url=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/1...

Bulgarian scientist will try to prove their hypothesis that the rock sanctuaries of Tatul and Perperikon in the Eastern Rhodopi Mountains are more ancient than Egyptian pyramids. To prove their hypothesis, the scientists will organize the biggest archaeology expedition in the country that wil...