The World Heritage Committee has approved the Stone Circles of the Senegambia to the World Heritage List.
Consisting of four large groups of stone circles that represent an extraordinary concentration of over 1,000 monuments in a band 100 km wide along some 350 km of the River Gambia. The four g...
A small 13 metre sized asteroid, 2006 OK3, was discovered by the Siding Spring Survey in Australia on the 22nd July, 2006.
The magnitude 21 asteroid will pass through the Earth-Moon system coming as close as 0.7 lunar distance a...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will stop producing M-5 solid-fuel rockets and replace them with cheaper ones in the next fiscal year, JAXA officials said Thursday.
JAXA has determined the M-5 capabilities and price tag are excessive. The M-5 can put satellites of up to 1.8 tons into orbi...
So was it a meteorite or space junk falling to earth? No one knows. But at 1.30pm in the afternoon of July 19, many people across the Mid North of South Australia - from Wirrabara Forest to Quorn and Hawker saw a large object moving across the sky.
One witness, John Teague was at Hawker in the Flinders Ra...
Today, Nebraska’s Sandhills, a region of gently rolling sand dunes blanketed with prairie grasses and wetlands that cover a quarter of the state, provide ideal habitat for wildlife and livestock. During medieval times 800 to 1,000 years ago, however, the region was a swirling desert, far worse th...
It came from outer space - and nearly hit three Caister teenagers.
Friends Christian Baker, Liam Luxton and Jason Hewitt, all 14, were on Caister beach at about 6.30pm on Monday when they saw a rock falling from the sky.
"It fell quite close to us and it was going at a high speed. When we picke...
A magnitude 15.6 , Type II, supernova 2006ds, was discovered on the 18th July, 2006, by Y.-S. Tsai and K.-C. Liu, in the spiral galaxy PGC 70011, in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. (z = 0.029314).
The supernova is located 5".4 west and 3".6 south of the nucleus.
Position(2000): R.A. = 2...
Asteroid 2006 BQ6 was discovered by the Mt. Lemmon Survey (University of Arizona) on January 22, 2006.
It will approach within 0.037 AU (14 lunar distances) of Earth on July 29.
Its physical properties are unknown, but its absolute magnitude of 19.5 suggests a diameter within a...
Bloggers in India are getting together to protest against the sudden blocking of popular Google-owned blog-hosting site Blogger by some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Spectranet, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), Reliance Powersurfer, Airtel Broadband and Sify.
On Jul...
A replica of the Swedish merchant ship "Gotheborg" will sail up the Pearl River in south China.
It departed from the Swedish city of Gothenburg in October last year for China.
Next Tuesday, it will reach Guangzhou and will stay in the province for one month.
A wooden sailing boat modelled on a...
Scientists from around the world are engaged in building a new generation of observatories, with larger effective areas and higher resolutions, to probe the very early universe.
"To reach the sensitivity required to image these first discrete objects in the universe needs a major advanc...
"Britain has sweltered on its hottest recorded July day as temperatures hit 36.5C (97.7F) in Wisley, Surrey.
The previous hottest July day was in 1911, when Epsom, Surrey, reached 36C. The highest UK temperature recorded was 38.5C (101.3F) in Faversham, Kent, on August 10, 2003."
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Celebrate the Red Planet at the National Air and Space Museum!
Our closest neighbour in the Solar System has been the subject of mythology for centuries. In only the past 40 years have Earthlings been exploring Mars with satellites and landers, yet the more we learn about Mars, the more question...
Uzbek geologists have found a large meteorite crater located in the unpopulated Ust-Yurt deserted plateau, located in the north-western part of Uzbekistan.
State Committee for Geology and Mineral Resources of Uzbekistan said the collision was so powerful it created an 7 km wide by 10 km long...
