* Astronomy

Young researchers to explore the mysteries of our Solar System Three young researchers are starting exciting new fellowships in UK Universities dedicated to exploring and uncovering the mysteries of our Solar System. The new positions part of the Science and Technology Facilities Councils (ST...

Digital studio Radium, Santa Monica/San Francisco/Dallas, brings the Russian Space Station into living rooms in the artfully-animated :30 "Space Station" for Energizer Lithium Batteries, out of TBWA\Chiat\Day, LA. Radium's version of space rivals any seen in Hollywood blockbus...

Shooting Star Inn is not your typical B&B. It's all knotty pine and wrought iron, and innkeeper Tom Taylor has a university-research-grade telescope on the property. You can stay in the Cassini, Einstein or Galileo room, and the decor has a moon-and-stars theme. The inn runs on solar power supp...

University of New Hampshires Space Science Centre has opened a satellite test laboratory, a facility that is intended to allow a quicker, more economical turnaround in testing satellite components built at the center. The $1 million National Science Foundation-funded lab provides space scien...

Title: Lupus-TR-3b: A Low-Mass Transiting Hot Jupiter in the Galactic Plane? Authors: David T. F. Weldrake (1), Daniel D. R. Bayliss (2), Penny D. Sackett (2), Brandon W. Tingley (3), Michael Gillon (4,5), Johny Setiawan (1) ((1) MPIA, Heidelberg, (2) RSAA, Mount Stromlo Observatory, (3) Instit...

Title: XTE J1901+014 - the First Low-Mass Fast X-ray Transient? Authors: D.I. Karasev, A. A. Lutovinov, R.A. Burenin (Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia) We continue to study the fast X-ray transient XTE J1901+014 discovered in 2002 by the RXTE observatory, whose nature has not yet been es...

International Launch Services (ILS) and Inmarsat Plc announced a contract today for launch of the Inmarsat 4-F3 satellite on a Proton Breeze M vehicle in early 2008. This satellite, third in the constellation, will enable Inmarsat to offer global coverage with its BGAN mobile broadband service,...

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Leskernick stone circle Latitude: 50°35'17.21"N Longitude: 4°33'39.33"W Read more Leskernick is an extraordinarily well preserved Bronze Age settlement comprising at least forty four roun...

A Solar Cycle 24 sunspot, 11005, is visible in this image taken by the SOHO Satellite. Expand (133kb, 560 x 560) Credit NASA/SOHO

Meteorite & Comet Day: October 12th, 2008 Join us at the World-famous Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge for a whole day of lectures, displays and fun: everything you ever wanted to know about these mysterious space-visitors! Hold real meteorites and pieces of the Moon & Mars! Refreshme...

3D view of Palomar's 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope See more

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The stars in Hollywood may conceal their ages from snoops, but the ones in the sky can't escape the cosmic paparazzi. Even if they keep their distanceup to 13 million light-years of itthey have nowhere to hide from astrophysicists like the University of Minnesota's Evan Skillman. [url=http://www...