"Remember the astronaut who recently tested whether boomerangs return to their throwers in the absence of gravity? Well, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has released video of astronaut Takao Doi showing that the objects do, in fact, come back - even in the microgravity environment o...
Title: Millimetre Imaging of HH 24 MMS: A Misaligned Protobinary System Authors: Miju Kang (1,2,3), Minho Choi (1), Paul T. P. Ho (4,5), Youngung Lee (1) ((1) Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, (2) Chungnam National University, (3) Steward Observatory, (4) Academia Sinica Institute o...
The Earths oceans play a vital role in the carbon cycle, making it imperative that we understand marine biological activity enough to predict how our planet will react to the extra 25 000 million tonnes of carbon dioxide humans are pumping into the atmosphere annually. The colour of oceanic seawat...
It rained red in Pattazhy in 2001. Now the village near Kollam has a namesake near the red planet in the solar system. Dr Sainudeen Pattazhy, the environmentalist who made his mark with a pioneering study on the red rain phenomenon in Kerala, never knew he would be instrumental in immortalising his b...
Future missions to the moon could be a case of one small step for woman, one giant leap for womankind.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed that it has been inundated with applications from women hoping to be Britain's first official astronaut after announcing its first astronaut selectio...
A magnitude 16, Type Ia supernova, 2008cc, was discovered on the 24th April, 2008, by Giuliano Pignata et al. (CHASE), in the galaxy ESO 107-G4 in the constellation of Pavo. The supernova is located...
Andrea Boattini at the Catalina Sky Survey discovered a new comet on May 2, 2008. The preliminary orbital elements of the comet C/2008 J1 (Boattini) indicate a perihelion passage on the 17th March 2008, at a distance of 1.5 AU from the Sun. Currently at magnitude 14, the comet is visible in the nort...
After extensive redesign and retooling the NEW Portaball is here accepting orders beginning June 2008.
"The 8-inch Portaball is designed to deliver outstanding visual imagery in a compact, lightweight, and highly transportable scope featuring quick setup and knock down. In transit, t...
According to two astrophysicists of the Observatory of Paris, the fate of stars which venture too close to a galactic massive black hole could prove even more violent than previously believed. Not only are the stars are crushed into a "pancake" shape by the enormous gravity of the b...
The U.S. space agency says its Polar satellite has concluded its 12-year mission to study the Northern and Southern lights. When the Polar satellite was launched in February 1996, the plan was for a two-year mission to study the lights that form a r...
Imagine receiving an announcement touting the birth of a baby 20 inches long and weighing 180 pounds. After reading this puzzling message, you would immediately think the baby's weight was a misprint. Astronomers looking at galaxies in the universe's distant past received a similar perplexing a...
Space International Services and Sea Launch Company have announced the award of a firm launch contract with Israel Aircraft Industries, Ltd., utilising the Land Launch system.
The delivery-in-orbit (DIO) agreement requires a Zenit-3SLB vehicle to launch the AMOS-3 communications satel...
