Archaeologists have unearthed a "mini-Stonehenge"... on the moors of Rochdale. The two nearby sites - an oval made up of collapsed slabs, and a 30-metre circle of rounded stones - are believed to be ancient burial sites dating back as far as 5,000 years. They were spotted by archaeologis...
Titan: Nearby Supernova Factory Observations of SN 2005gj: Another Type Ia Supernova in a Massive Circumstellar Envelope
Authors: The Nearby Supernova Factory Collaboration: G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, A. Bauer, N. Blanc, S. Bongard, Y. Copin, E. Gangle...
Researchers in the US have found what is probably the largest living organism on Earth. It is a fungus that is growing through the earth and roots of trees in the Malheur National Forest in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon. Scientists say it covers 890 hectares (2,200 acres) of land - an area equiva...
An amateur astronomer called John is celebrating the rare honour of having an asteroid named after him. Asteroid number 6137 is now officially called Johnfletcher, after the retired postman from Tuffley, Gloucester. [url=htt...
Title: HAT-P-9b: A Low Density Planet Transiting a Moderately Faint F star Authors: A. Shporer, G. A. Bakos, F. Bouchy, F. Pont, G. Kovacs, D. W. Latham, B. Sipocz, G. Torres, T. Mazeh, G. A. Esquerdo, A. Pal, R. W. Noyes, D. D. Sasselov, J. Lazar, I. Papp, P. Sari, G. Kovacs We report the discovery of a pl...
Title: Resolving a Class I Protostar Binary System with Chandra Authors: Kenji Hamaguchi, Minho Choi, Michael F. Corcoran, Chul-Sung Choi, Ken'ichi Tatematsu, Rob Petre (Version v2) Using a sub-pixel event repositioning technique, we spatially resolved X-ray emission from the infrared doub...
Scientists say a fossil of a four-legged fish sheds new light on the process of evolution. The creature had a fish-like body but the head of an animal more suited to land than water. Read more
In what appears to be a masterful illusion, astronomers at Gemini Observatory have imaged two nearly identical spiral galaxies in Virgo, 90 million light years distant, in the early stages of a gentle gravitational embrace. The new image was obtained at the Gemini South telescope in Chile using GM...
German scientists said Thursday they are planning a satellite especially to hunt space rocks that might slam into the planet Earth and wipe out complete cities or countries, the dpa reported. The modest satellite, costing 15 million euros (24 million dollars), would scan space for near earth ob...
A Proton-K SL-12 rocket booster auxiliary motor that was launched from pad LC200 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the 26th December, 2004, for the Kosmos 2411/12/13 mission, is expected to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 26th June, 2008 @ 03:28 GMT ± 24 hours TLE Data pre>SL-12 MOTOR 1 28514U...
An almighty blast rang through the skies. On that day 10 years ago, Greg Brown thought an LPG tanker had exploded and ran to see if his neighbour was still alive. Inside the house, Betty Brown was convinced a bomb had gone off as the windows first sucked in, then out. It was a meteorite entering the Earth'...
Silverpit structureWhat is thought to be the UK's only space impact crater has been mapped in detail in 3D for the first time. The so-called Silverpit structure lies several hundred metres under the floor of the North Sea, about 130km east of the Yorkshire coast. The new pictures show a spectacular s...
The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems ( CCSDS ) today announced that the China National Space Administration ( CNSA ) has been accepted as the eleventh full member agency of the organisation. China's admission to the organisation marks the first addition to the membership since 1997....
