China launched its first ever round-the-world ocean research mission on April 2nd 2005 to search the seas for new forms of life.
Its top research ship, the Dayang Yihao (Ocean No 1), will visit the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean after setting off from Qingdao in East...
A Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket is to launch the Galaxy 18 telecommunication satellite from the Odyssey platform, stationed in the Pacific Ocean, on May 13th 2008. The satellite is to replace the Galaxy 10R satellite.
A transit of Mercury will take place on November 23, 2005, 6:00 UT.
Unfortunately it is only seen from Mars.
During the transit, Mercury will pass directly between the Sun and Mars and any Martian will see a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun.
Transits of Mercury from Mars are mu...
NASAs Swift satellite picked up the brightest flare ever seen from a normal star other than our Sun. The flare, an explosive release of energy from a star, packed the power of thousands of solar flares. It would have been visible to the naked eye if the star had been easily observable in the night sky at t...
The Progress M-64/29P cargo ship aboard a Russian Soyuz U rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, is to launch to the International Space Station at 20:22 GMT, 14th May, 2008.
A 1960s-era custom-built telescope and dome donated by the Lanphier family to a local astronomy group have been transplanted and revitalised into a new observatory. The C.H. Lanphier Observatory named for the late Charles Chick Lanphier III, a Springfield business and civic leader who had the te...
ESA has just launched its campaign to recruit the next generation of European astronauts, and is expecting tens of thousands of applications from the best and the brightest across Europe. But it is also looking for men and women with the right stuff to fill challenging positions at all levels, parti...
The public was given a rare chance to dangle deep inside Britain's largest known underground chamber, Gaping Gill, at the weekend. The Bradford Potholing Club winched more than a hundred people one by one into the cave through a pothole in North Yorkshire. It was a quick descent, taking visitors, wh...
Typhoon Halong is forecast to make landfall in Philippines within 6 hours probability for CAT 1 or above is 90% probability for TS is 100% Vigan (17.5 N, 120.5 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% probability for TS is 95%
On Earth, neon is known for being flashy. Any Las Vegas tourist knows that signs sporting this noble gas are hard to miss, but in space this is not always true. Neon is the fifth most abundant element in the cosmos, but until recently, astronomers couldn't seem to get a precise measurement of it in the Un...
Comet C/2008 J6 (Hill) was discovered on May 14, 2008 by R.E. Hill (Catalina Sky Survey). The comet was confirmed by J.C. Pelle et N. Teamo (Tiki Observatory), by Y. Ikari (Moriyama), E. Guido and G. Sostero (RAS Observatory, Mayhill), and by J.E. McGaha (Sabino Canyon Observatory, Tucson). The pre...
Comet C/2008 J5 (Garradd) was discovered on May 13, 2008 by G.J. Garradd (Siding Spring Survey). The cometary nature of the magnitude 16 object was confirmed by C. Jacques and E. Pimentel (CEAMIG-REA Observatory), by J.C. Pelle and N. Teamo (Tiki Observatory) and by R. Ligustri (RAS Observato...
Title: Predictions for triple stars with and without a pulsar in star clusters Authors: Michele, Scott Ransom, Piet Hut and Douglas C. Heggie Though about 80 pulsar binaries have been detected in globular clusters so far, no pulsar has been found in a triple system in which all three objects are...
The question of whether quantum mechanics is correct could soon be settled by observing the sky and there are already tantalizing hints that the theory could be wrong. Antony Valentini, a physicist at Imperial College, London, wanted to devise a test that could separate quantum mechanics from one...
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