Since its launch in 2001, NASA’s TIMED (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) spacecraft, built and operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., has be...
On Saturday night, an unidentified object was sent hurtling through the roof at Steven Gleicher's workplace.
Was the football-sized object a meteor or perhaps something more common?
And perhaps just as puzzling: How could it rip through a thick pane of fibreglass strong enough to hold a hum...
Title: NGC922 - A new drop-through ring galaxy
Authors: O. I. Wong, G. R. Meurer, K. Bekki, D. J. Hanish, R. C. Kennicutt, J. Bland-Hawthorn, E. V. Ryan-Weber, B. Koribalski, V. A. Kilborn, M. E. Putman, J. S. Heiner, R. L. Webster, R. J. Allen, M. A. Dopita, M. T. Doyle, M. J. Drinkwat...
An inexpensive detector developed by a NASA-led team can now see invisible infrared light in a range of "colours," or wavelengths.
The detector, called a Quantum Well Infra...
The launch of the novel "SuitSat" satellite has been delayed.
SuitSat will not be deployed from the International Space Station until sometime in January or February.
The Russian EVA that will deploy SuitSat, originally planned for December 8, has been delayed to late January/ear...
It was a pretty typical Saturday evening for Dan and Jean Ciechanowski as they worked the barbecue and chatted with neighbours this past weekend.
Then it happened.
Dan Ciechanowski heard a noise that he described as the sound a missile makes and saw something moving across the sky at a 45-degr...
The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) is monitoring a mysterious situation on the KZN south coast.
"Numerous" eye-witnesses reported an unidentified flying object crashing into the sea on Saturday.
NSRI Shelley Beach station commander, Eddie Noyons, said eye-witnesses had reporte...
Mjølnir Crater is a recently discovered ringed structure about 24 miles wide on the floor of the Barents Sea. It is the result of the impact, roughly 142.0 ± 2.6 million years ago (Lower Cretaceous), of a 1 -3 Km wide asteroid-like body.
N 73° 48' E 29° 40'
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A white fireball with a reddish orange tail was seen over LaSalle county, Illinois, at about 9:30 pm on May 22nd.
The sight was accompanied by a whistling sound.
A suspected meteorite has brightened up the night for people across eastern Australia.
A large green ball of light was seen in many parts of Queensland at about 6:30pm AEST.
Peter Hall from the Astronomical Association of Queensland says he has been inundated with calls.
He says it can of...
Title: The Spitzer c2d Survey of Nearby Dense Cores: III: Low Mass Star Formation in a Small Group, L1251B
Authors: Jeong-Eun Lee, James Di Francesco, Shih-Ping Lai, Tyler L. Bourke, Neal J. Evans II, Bill Spiesman, Philip C. Myers, Lori E. Allen, Timothy Y. Brooke, Alicia Porras...
A major magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred at 23:25:05 (UTC) on Thursday, April 20, 2006, in Koryakia, Russia.
Location 61.092°N, 167.100°E
It occurred at a Depth of 43 km, 205 km NorthEast of Il'pyrskiy, Russia.
Strong aftershocks have occurred.
India took another step forward in nuclear power generation when its 16th nuclear power plant and second 540-MW pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR), Tarapur Atomic Power Plant (TAPP-3), went critical at 05:14 GMT, Sunday 21 May, 2006.
Commercial production will start in July. Once it is d...
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