Saturn is passing by the sun this week.
This coronagraph image from the SOHO spacecraft shows the planet as a bright dot in the constellation of Cancer.
A large fragment has been found of an asteroid that punched a 160km-wide hole in the Earth's surface.
The beachball-sized fossil meteorite was drilled out of South Africa's 145-million-year-old (± 0.8) Morokweng crater.
It is a unique discovery because large objects are widely be...
Tourists evacuated two small islands off the coast of Puerto Rico on Wednesday as Tropical Storm Chris gained strength in the eastern Caribbean and was expected to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.
The storm had top sustained winds of 65 mph as it skirted the northern Leeward Is...
Mercury Computer Systems announced a $7,999 accelerator card Tuesday that uses the Cell Broadband Engine processor that plugs into a computer's PCI slot. The Cell Accelerator Board, which will be generally available in the first quarter of 2007, can speed tasks such as signal processing or image...
When Hongrui Jiang looked into a fly's eye, he saw a way to make a tiny lens so "smart" that it can adapt its focal length from minus infinity to plus infinity — without external control.
Incorporating hydrogels that respond to physical, chemical or biological stimuli and actuate lens function,...
The Deep Space Network (DSN) that is situated in Spain, California and Australia is about to be setback because the Robledo de Chavela 70-metre dish near Madrid will be out of commission from the end of June until 1 October, following the discovery of two of the four antenna bearings were damaged.
I...
How fast is your favourite browser's JavaScript engine?
A JavaScript benchmark tool tested Opera 9.0, MSIE 6.0, and Firefox 1.5 and found that Opera came out top.
rowser Average Time (ms)
Firefox 1.5 1974
Internet Explorer 6 (SP2) 1622
Firefox 1.5 (Safe mode) 1752
Opera...
Renowned scientist and popular TV presenter Lord Robert Winston is to open next month's TechFest event in Aberdeen.
He will launch the annual science, technology, engineering and maths festival at the AECC on September 6 with a presentation about his passion for science.
TechFest, which is s...
A team of archaeologists conducting excavations in the ancient city of Antandros in Balıkesir is chasing the traces of the Cimmerians tribe -- the tribe of the fictional character Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) -- who are thought to have lived in the ancient city for ab...
Title: A Spitzer Space Telescope study of SN 2002hh: an infrared echo from a Type IIP supernova
Authors: W. P. S. Meikle (1), S. Mattila (2), C. L. Gerardy (1), R. Kotak (3), M. Pozzo (1), S. D. van Dyk (4), D. Farrah (5), R. A. Fesen (6), A. V. Filippenko (7), C. Fransson (8), P. Lundqvist (8), J. Sollerm...
Latest News: July 31, 2006
The countdown has begun and stardustathome are ready to launch! After months of delays they are finally ready to begin the search for interstellar particles of dust trapped in the aerogel collector from NASA's Stardust mission.
The project will officially begin a...
The first new meteorite identified in Canada this year is also one of the smallest ever found in the country and is the highlight of a British Columbia woman’s life-long interest in space rocks, after she discovered the specimen in 1968.
The University of Calgary-based Prairie Meteorite Searc...
On June 19, the experimental military satellites, MiTEx-A, MiTEx-B, MiTEx Vehicle, will launch atop a Delta 2/7925 rocket from SLC 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, US.
The satellites will be launched into a geostationary transfer orbit for DARPA. -- Edited by Blobrana at 16...
Successful radar echoes detected at Goldstone from 2006 BQ6 today reveal that the asteroid is elongated, like a "contact binary" shape and has a rotation period of a few hours. Additional observations are planned for August 1 and 3. The 500 metre asteroid 2006 BQ6 passed only 14 lunar dis...
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