* Astronomy

Kongsberg acquires space contract[url=http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=203150]Read

JPL's new online Space Gallery captures the beauty of Earth, the solar system and the universe in a single web site. A scrollable image navigation makes browsing easy, and users can view individual planet "galleries" as slide shows. Pictures can also be emailed to friends and searched f...

Slovenians see UFO Unusual sighting last night in Slovenia when several people noticed a strange large object, believed to be a UFO, reports local media. Read more

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An international team of astronomers have confirmed that a radio and x-ray luminous object is indeed a supernova, as has long been suspected. Located only 12 million light years away in a nearby galaxy, there is an abundance of observational data on this object, making the task of studying it and det...

Building on the success of the two rover geologists that arrived at Mars in January, 2004, NASA's next rover mission will depart for the Red Planet in 2009. Read more

Astronomer Dr. Mariska Kriek has been selected for The Netherlands Christiaan Huygens Science Award for 2008 in the discipline of Space Science. Read more

Meteorite nails car in Las Vegas? Nope. Its not a meteorite, it was a dummy test weapon that landed on a truck at Nellis Air Force base near Las Vegas. So, false alarm. Read more

q = 6.220 AU, Q = 15.550 AU, H = 12.3, (11.7 km) Orbital elements: br />Epoch 2008 Oct. 1.0 TT = JDT 2454740.5 MPC M 350.56520 (2000.0) P Q n 0.02744561 Peri. 177.98797 +0.60563083 -0.79115058 a 10.8848087 Node 234.72646 +0.72861390 +0.59447590 e 0.4285696 Incl. 6.00396 +0.31989541 +0.14380256 P 3...

Sunspot 10953 has emerged from the Suns eastern limb. Expand (110kb, 560 x 560)

Hurricane Omar is forecast to make landfall in the Virgin Islands probability for CAT 1 or above is 55% within 8 hours probability for TS is 95% within 8 hours The British Virgin Islands probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% in about 20 hours probability for TS is 95% i...

The name's Krishnamurthy. S. Krishnamurthy. He is 59 and has a dull designation: general manager safety. But he is the only man licensed to kill in midair the rockets of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) without seeking anybody's permission. [url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes....

There were strange goings on in the sky above Coppull over the weekend. Read more

A team of scientists, including astronomers from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), have detected long wavelength radio emission from a colliding, massive galaxy cluster which, surprisingly, is not detected at the shorter wavelengths typically seen in these objects. The discovery implies...

If China wants to become a dominant space power, it must step up and take a leading role in providing new Earth observation satellite (EOSAT) technology. However, the field is crowded and becoming more so, making this a far more difficult task than previously thought. [url=http://www.atimes.com...