A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 02:46:18 (UTC) on Thursday, February 21, 2008, in Svalbard region, about 735 km North of Hammerfest, Norway, at a depth estimated to be 10 km. Location 77.051°N, 18.349°E
Atlantis STS-122: targeted for launch Dec 6. 2007 Click to Play | View Details STS-122 will be the 24th shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
British and Iranian archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a 200 kilometre long wall, the second longest wall in Asia after the Great Wall of China, in northern Iran. Experts believe the Gorgan Great Wall in northern Iran's Golestan Province was built at about the same time as the 'Great Wall' a...
NASA has selected a proposal by an MIT-led team to develop plans for an array of radio telescopes on the far side of the moon that would probe the earliest formation of the basic structures of the universe. The agency announced the selection and 18 others related to future observatories on Friday, Feb...
AeroAstro, Inc. today announced the successful completion of the Pre-Ship Review on the STPSat-1 satellite by the Air Force. The low-earth-orbiting STPSat-1 space vehicle has been developed under contract to the Department of Defence (DoD) Space Test Program (STP) headquartered at Kirtland A...
Residents in Sukawati village in Gianyar regency, around 20 kilometres north of Denpasar, reported the appearance of a mysterious crater in the middle of a paddy field Wednesday. The hole was allegedly caused by a falling meteorite fragment. One meter wide and around 30 centimetres deep, the cavi...
Iran on Monday launched its first space research unit in presence of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The president said the launch of the first space research unit would be great stride to serve the mankind and would lead to Iran's exaltation and progress. He inaugurated Iran's first space termina...
Tropical Cyclone Nicholas is forecast to make landfall in Australia probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% in about 42 hours probability for TS is 75% in about 18 hours Onslow (21.7 S, 115.0 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 42 hours probability for TS i...
Tropical Cyclone Ivan is forecast to make landfall in Madagascar within 6 hours probability for CAT 1 or above is 85% probability for TS is 100% Ambodifototra (16.9 S, 49.9 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 75% in about 18 hours probability for TS is 100% within 6...
It's a mystery mirror. Weighing 100 pounds, with at least a 100-year history, the circle of greenish glass is known in Sudbury astronomy circles as the "Vatican Mirror." But on its wooden crate, a little charred from a recent fire, in Latin it has another name inscribed - Speculum Jusitit...
An Ariane 5 ECA rocket with a cryogenic upper stage will launch the WildBlue 1 broadband spacecraft and the AMERICOM 18 (AMC 18) communications satellite from ELA-3, Kourou, French Guiana in early December, 2006.
Splitting the quark If quarks are made of preons, then stars made of the stuff should be detectable. Are there pea-sized objects as heavy as the Moon out there in space? Perhaps so, if quarks, the constituent particles of atoms, are themselves made up of still smaller particles. Fredrik Sandin and Jo...
Latest report from John's Astro Blog of last nights observing session... After my short lunchtime excursion, I got outside again after work for about 20 minutes with my Lunar 100 challenge and picked off three or four more. This was actually easier during the day as the little numbers in the chart are...
A Russian Soyuz-U carrier rocket will launch the 27th Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on December 23rd, 2007. "The Progress M-62 will deliver food and water for the crew, as well as fuel to maintain the ISS's orbit...