Archaeological excavations in Marvdasht Plain in Fars province led to discovery of a 10,000-year-old stone dwelling near Rahmat Mountain. Archaeologists believe that an advanced technology was used in the construction of the partition walls of this Neolithic shelter.
"This stone dwe...
A project that will interest budding astronomers is a software that will enable one to the position of stars over any given place at any given time. The SkyFY Sky For You was developed by Nishil Gupta and Alok Mandavgane in three months. "The software is useful for amateur astronomers, depicts t...
A man with a handgun fired shots and barricaded himself inside a building at the Johnson Space Center Friday afternoon, forcing an evacuation. Read more
Possible Nova in Sagittarius A possible magnitude 10.3 nova was discovered in Sagittarius by Yukio Sakurai, Mito, Ibaraki-ken, Japan, on Apr. 14 V5558 Sagittarii = Nova Sagittarii 2007 Position (2000.0): R.A. = 18h 10m 18.27s Dec. = -18o 46' 52.1" [url=http://cfa-www.harvard.edu...
Grand opening of Sky Watch offered to public The Waterman Conservation Education Centre invites the public to the grand opening of Sky Watch at 11 a.m. Tuesday. Sky Watch is a direct feed by Internet service of the Hubble Telescope to Waterman Centre. The grand opening is sponsored by Lockheed Marti...
A magnitude 15.2 supernova, 2007bj, was discovered on the 18th April 2007, by Jack Newton, R. Gorelli and Tim Puckett in the elliptical galaxy NGC 6172 in the constellation Ophiuchus. The supernova is located 3"...
A large number of "stone eggs" were recently discovered along with a copper sword at a construction site in Bandeng Hill and Zhanlong Hill, Gongxi Town of Hunan Province. The discoveries were made by highway construction workers while they were digging the foundation for a road. The ori...
Dave Gough isn't quite certain exactly what he saw streak through the sky above the Churchill Plaza around 11 a.m. Thursday morning. "I saw a fiery ball fly through the sky from east to west" - Dave Gough. Local astronomy experts say it could have been anything from a meteor to a piece of spac...
The UK could soon have its first mission to the Moon - an orbiting spacecraft that would fire instruments into the lunar surface.
The "penetrators" would yield new information about the rocky interior.
BBC News understands the venture is being considered by Britain's astronomy funding agenc...
Rocks arouse more interest when they come from outer space, thus becoming meteorites. "Asteroids tell us about the early history, the dawn of the solar system. The rocks are part of the story of how the solar system formed and evolved. Instead of using the world's largest telescopes to study ho...
Dmitry Donskoy the Russian strategic nuclear submarine successfully launched a new Bulava ballistic missile in the White Sea on Wednesday morning.
The missile hit a target at the Kura firing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
"This was the first underwater launch of a Bu...
A Type Ia magnitude 16 supernova, 2007bc, was discovered on the 4th April 2007 by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search, in the galaxy UGC 6332. The supernova is located 29".2 west and 16".5 south of the centre of the Galaxy Position(2000): R.A. = 11h19m14s.57, Dec. = +20°48'32&...
Title: XMMU J174716.1-281048: a "quasi-persistent" very faint X-ray transient? Authors: M. Del Santo, L. Sidoli, S. Mereghetti, A. Bazzano, A. Tarana, P. Ubertini The X-ray transient XMMU J174716.1-281048 was serendipitously discovered with XMM-Newton in 2003. It lies about 0.9...
Schools from across the UK have named a new asteroid discovered using the Faulkes Telescope Project's facility in Hawaii. The mountain-sized asteroid, found between Mars and Jupiter, has been officially named Snowdonia as a tribute to the beauty of this famous Welsh region. The asteroid was offi...
A theory suggests a giant meteorite falling on Earth 65 million years ago and killing all dinosaurs. Russian scientists have found traces of this meteorite. During a marine expedition, organized by the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics (Russian Academy of Sciences) and aimed at ocean st...
