* Astronomy

Sea Launch has signed a launch contract with Intelsat to orbit the Intelsat Americas-9 satellite in the fourth quarter of 2007. IA-9 is currently under construction at Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto, California, US. The mission will be Sea Launch's second with Intelsat. The company laun...

A possible 14-km diameter crater in Nicaragua. The town of Las Praderas lies in the centre. 13°22'0.03"N 85°57'28.82"W

Hubble Space Telescope Public Lecture Series at the Space Telescope Science Institute Speaker: Dr. Keith Noll, Space Telescope Science Institute Topic: The Kuiper Belt Date: May 2, 2006 Time: 8 PM Place: Space Telescope Science Ins...

Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter, are visible in the early evening spring sky. Jupiter will be at opposition on May 4, 2006 in the constellation Libra. Mars during May will increase its distance from the Earth from 286 to 322 million kilometres. The planet appears in the western evening s...

The Progress M-56 cargo spaceship with the Sojuz-U carrier rocket docked to it, has been installed at the launching complex of the Baikonur cosmodrome. The Progress spaceship will deliver to the International Space Station (ISS) 2.5 tons of food, water, fuel and various equipment, including b...

A Russian rocket launched Monday, April 24, is carrying the first of three small, spherical satellites developed at MIT to the International Spa...

A pair of dancing galaxies appears dressed for a cosmic masquerade in a new image from the Spitzer Space Telescope. This infrared picture shows two merging galaxies, called NGC 2207 and IC 2163, which recently met and began to orbit around each other. Dotted along the arms are...

The defence minister of Kyrgyzstan said Wednesday that a decision on the future of a U.S. airbase 20 kilometers east of Bishkek would be made after experts complete a study of the facility. About 1,000 U.S. servicemen are currently stationed at the base, set up in December 2001 for U.S. led opera...

The large Sunspot 875 is joined by Sunspot 876 that has just emerged into view.

Tropical Cyclone Monica formed off the northeastern coast of Australia on April 17, 2006. This is the same general area where Cyclone Larry formed a month earlier. On April 19 and 20, Cyclone Monica crossed Cape York Peninsula with weaker winds than Larry, and its path in northern Queensl...

ESA's Mars Express orbiter captured this image with its High Resolution Stereo Camera that shows the Nanedi Valles valley system, a steep-sided feature that may have been formed in part by free-flowing water. The HRSC actually obtained the image on Oct. 3, 2004, during orbit 905 at a ground resolut...

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NASA will announce that Black Holes are "Green". (Green as in energetically efficient...) Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory will hold a media teleconference at 18:00 GMT (1 p.m. EDT) Monday, April 24, to announce a fundamental discovery about black holes. A vid...

ACK Software Controls, Inc. has announced the upcoming availability of two new AmigaOne XE & Micro CPU modules. The first CPU module will be equipped with a Freescale MC7448 CPU clocked at 1GHz. The 1GHz module will retail for $500.00 US Dollars. The second CPU module will be equipped with a Fr...

Sunspot 875 starts to emerge from the suns eastern limb.