* Astronomy

Creepy things from beneath the sea are clichés of modern exploration, but the abyss has now produced a surprise so bizarre as to have touched off hot international debate: tiny, mysterious, apparently living creatures far smaller than any known bacterium -- so small as to strain the limits on what i...

Title: The Formation and Evolution of Massive Stellar Clusters in IC 4662 Authors: A. M. Gilbert (The Aerospace Corporation), W. D. Vacca (USRA-SOFIA) We present a multiwavelength study of the formation of massive stellar clusters, their emergence from cocoons of gas and dust, and their feedbac...

Title: The Large Scale Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy as Observed with Milagro Authors: A. A. Abdo, B. T. Allen, T. Aune, D. Berley, S. Casanova, C. Chen, B. L. Dingus, R. W. Ellsworth, L. Fleysher, R. Fleysher, M. M. Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, C. M. Hoffman, B. Hopper, P. H. Hüntemeyer, B. E. Kolterman, C. P. Lan...

A new sunspot, 10999, has emerged from the Suns eastern limb. Expand (95kb, 560 x 560) Credit NASA

Rik E. Hill (Catalina Sky Survey) has announced the discovery of a new magnitude 18.5 comet on June 12, 2008. The preliminary orbital elements of comet C/2008 L2 (Hill) indicate a perihelion passage on July 27, 2008 at a distance of 2.5 AU from the Sun. MPEC 2008-L55 Ephemerides

Rik E. Hill (Catalina Sky Survey) has announced the discovery of a new magnitude 17.5 comet on June 13, 2008. The orbital elements of the comet C/2008 L3 (Hill) indicate a perihelion passage on April 20, 2008 at a distance of 2 AU from the Sun. MPEC 2008-L56 Ephemerides

**Occultation by asteroid 286 Iclea, 15 June 2008** Click to Play | View Details

Occultation by asteroid 286 Iclea, 15 June 2008 Click to Play | View Details

Dolmen (burial chambers) located near the town of Albersdorf, north Germany Expand (199kb, 800 x 600) Schalenstein Bunsoh.kmz[url=http://adrive.com/public/bee4dfd8612f9ae1ed49bca561b542f3a2404...

A massive meteorite weighing a staggering 2,607 pounds has been found near the northern Swedish village of Kitkiojarvi, officials say. Thomas Osterberg, one of the two people who found it, said it was the biggest meteorite ever found in Sweden, the Swedish news agency TT reported. [url=http://ww...

A Winsford man had an unwelcome visitor on Sunday night in the form of a small meteorite. Graham Brooks, 37, a heavy goods vehicle fitter, lives at his mother Christines house at Railway Cottages in Rilshaw Lane. He was sitting at home looking at wedding magazines with his partner Karen at around 10.3...

Expand (186kb, 800 x 600) Impact crater in New Mexico Latitude 35°22'11.26"N, Longitude 106°51'58.63"W

NASA is targeting May 25 at 7:26 p.m. EDT for the launch of the space shuttle Discovery's STS-124 mission from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida.

Alcatel Alenia Space has announced that it has signed a turnkey contract with Turkish operator Turksat AS, for the construction and the in-orbit delivery of a new powerful telecommunication satellite, Turksat 3A. Alcatel Alenia Space has been Turksat's sole satellite provider with fiv...

Title: Probing Shock Breakout with Serendipitous GALEX Detections of Two SNLS Type II-P Supernovae Authors: Suvi Gezari, Luc Dessart, Stephane Basa, D. Chris Martin, James D. Neill, S.E. Woosley, D. John Hillier, Gurvan Bazin, Karl Forster, Peter G. Friedman, Jeremy Le Du, Alain Mazure, Patric...

Every issue of The Times published between 1785 and 1985 has been digitally scanned in conjunction with Times Online. Twenty million articles, pictures and advertisements, from the groundbreaking coverage of the Crimean War by William Howard Russell to letters to the Editor from figures such as...