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Title: Doppler imaging an X-ray flare on the ultrafast rotator BO Mic - A contemporaneous multiwavelength study using XMM-Newton and VLT Authors: U. Wolter U. Wolter, J. Robrade, J. Schmitt, J. Ness Read more (PDF,...

A pair of cave divers said Monday they have found subterranean passages in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula that constitute the world's longest underwater cave system. British cave diver Steve Bogaerts said he and Robbie Schmittner, of Germany, found flooded underground passages connecti...

A team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic explosion that seems to have come from the middle of nowhere thousands of light-years from the nearest galaxy-sized collection of stars, gas, and dust. This "shot in the dark" is surprising because the type of explosion, a long-duration gam...

In the past year, a Corvallis entomologist has discovered the oldest known bee, mushroom and a chemical-spewing beetle. Now, George Poinar has come up with another ancient discovery: the oldest vertebrate eggshell, most likely that of a hummingbird. The quarter-inch-long eggshell -- its chic...

AVHRR Google Earth Imagery Latest Earth imagery from NASA satellites compiled into .kmz files from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Read more

A magnitude 18.4 object, having the appearance of an asteroid, was discovered on December 16, 2007 by the LINEAR monitoring telescope. The cometary nature was revealed during confirmation observations of the object. The preliminary orbital elements of the comet C/2007 Y1 (LINEAR) indicate...

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An Abilene man who recently moved to Collin County said he wants to share his gift from the heavens with North Texans. Terrance Cotton said he wished on what he thought was falling star outside his Abilene home while playing with his dogs. The object headed toward him at lighting speed, he said. [url=h...

A comet targeted for a flyby with NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft cannot be found, forcing mission planners to send the probe to a different comet. The comet may have evad...

Perfectly timed for pantomime season, a team of scientists has come up with instructions for how to make a flying carpet. The magical device may owe more to Walt Disney than to The Arabian Nights , but it is not pure fantasy, according to Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of Harvard University in Cambridge...

New continent and species discovered in Atlantic study A scientist from the University of Aberdeen is leading a team of international researchers whose work will continue our understanding of life in the deepest oceans, and contribute to the global Census of Marine Life. Exploring life in the Nor...

Asteroid 2007 XH16 will pass only 8.1 lunar distances (0.0208 AU) from the Earth at 19:12 UT, on December 24th, 2007. The 350 - 780 metre sized rock will appear as a magnitude 13 object. 2007 XH16 was discovered on the 8th December, 2007, by the Siding Spring Survey. pre>Date UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delt...

**Fireball over Poland** Click to Play | View Details 15/16 December 2007

Fireball over Poland Click to Play | View Details 15/16 December 2007