The Discovery astronauts will have a little something extra in their gear when the space shuttle blasts off in October: Luke Skywalker's original Jedi Light-sabre. Where are these transmissions coming from?
Four massive galaxies are colliding in the largest galactic merger ever seen, new observations reveal. The smash-up is shedding light on how the biggest galaxies in the universe form and why many of them stopped giving birth to stars billions of years ago. Astronomers classify mergers according t...
Bidding on nature's relics Ancient treasures, including a fossilised walrus penis, went on sale at I.M. Chait in Beverly Hills, US. Nearly 200 other objects found new owners at the auction, including a mummified Egyptian falcon, a 6 ½-foot narwhal tusk and a 1.94-gram piece of the moon that arrive...
GRB 971214 is a gamma ray burst observed in 1997. It originated 12 billion light years away. For a brief period this was thought by some researchers to have been the most energetic event observed in the universe, but this claim has since been discredited. R.A. = 11h56m30s, Decl. = +65o12'.6 (equino...
PQ Andromedae, (TAV0226+39), is a WZ Sagittae-type dwarf nova , with a period of about 4400 days (?). Position (2000): RA 02h29m29s Dec +40°02'38" Magnitude range: 10.1 v - 19 V Read more Light Curve PQ And.kmz Google Sky File -- Edited by...
Northern Kentucky University today became the first educational institution in the world to have a laser projection planetarium system. The $1.2 million Digistar 3 Laser Projector was dedicated in ceremonies on the fourth floor of the Science Building on the Highland Heights campus. [url=http...
Enthusiasts are preparing to launch what is claimed to be the biggest rocket fired by amateurs in Britain. The craft, named the Corpulent Stump, is set to take off from a site near Largs in Ayrshire on Saturday as part of International Rocket Week. The rocket, built by Richard Brown and his team, weigh...
Rajeev Lochan, scientific secretary to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), was killed late Friday in a road mishap in Andhra Pradesh, it was announced Saturday. Read more A scientific secretary with th...
Mysterious icy chunk smashes through roof Corrina Vargas, 26, was cooking breakfast in her mother's neighbourhood home Monday morning when she heard an explosion. Her son, Carlos Mendez, 10, was sitting on a bed in the living room watching cartoons when something came through the roof. A small pie...
Half Life - Journey into the Neolithic Kilmartin Glen, Argyll 4-16 September 2007 Preview: 3 September 2007 HALF LIFE is a major new landscape work and the first co-production between the renowned innovators NVA and the National Theatre of Scotland. Staged throughout the day and night in one of the...
The U.S. military is about to launch a small missile-watching satellite after years of quiet preparation and years of alarming reports from critics about its purpose. The NFIRE satellite is due to be sent into space early Monday from a Virginia launch pad. To the US Defence Department, which owns an...
Nine fossilised teeth found in Ethiopia are from a previously unknown species of great ape, Nature journal reports. The 10 million-year-old fossils belong to an animal that has been named Cororapithecus abyssinicus by the Ethiopian-Japanese team. This new species could be a direct ancestor of l...
