* Astronomy

The Sich-1 Satellite, launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome LC32, on 24th December 2004 , on the SICH-1M mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on April 16th 2006 @ 21:49 UTC ± 20 hours. Int...

In a few days time the planet Saturn will be the closest to the planet Earth for 2006 - It will be only 1215.9 million kilometres away. Saturn appears as a bright yellowish star, low to the east-northeast as evening twilight is ending. It is the brightest object in the constellation of Cancer. [i...

Seattle University houses a resident unknown to most of its students. Up a few steep flights of stairs in the Bannan Centre for Science and Engineering and through a locked door sits an astronomy observation point worth around $70,000 at the time of its creation. The tower offers a 360 degree view of C...

Aurora Alert: A geomagnetic storm may trigger auroras tonight.

Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have created in the laboratory a type of molecule thought to exist only in interstellar space, which may have valuable applications in the chemical industry. The finding of their paper, titled Cyclopropenylidenes: From Interstellar...

An image made of about 300 million pixels is being released by ESO, based on more than 64 hours of observations with the Wide-Field Camera on the 2.2m telescope at La Silla (Chile). The image covers an 'empty' region of the sky five times the size of the full moon, opening an exceptionally clear view tow...

SlySoft has announced that the latest version of their DVD ripper, AnyDVD, now also removes Macrovision's CDS-300 copy protection mechanism. Unlike most other protection methods removed by AnyDVD, CDS-300 can be only found on audio CDs and the copy protection mechanism itself is si...

A Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket will launch the Japanese JCSAT 9 telecommunications satellite, from the Odyssey platform, Pacific Ocean (154° West, 0°...

A bolide was seen and photographed in the Tokyo area on April 9th, 04:13 local time. Source

Hyperion Entertainment has announced the availability of the Software Development Kit Version 51.22 for the AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-Release. The SDK is available in two versions: A 160 Mb download that contains everything to get you started, including compiler and contributed librarie...

The main and backup crews of the 12th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), has been approved by a state commission. The main crew includes Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev, NASA astronaut William McArthur Jr., and Gregory Olsen, an American multimillionaire and the third comm...

A new Gemini Observatory image of NGC 246, nicknamed the "Skull Nebula," shows what can happen as the outer atmosphere of a fast-moving, dying star like the Sun (in several billion years) pushes through the complex soufflé of gas and dust that lies between the stars of our gal...

Asteroid 2006 GC was discovered on 2 April 2006 with the Spacewatch 0.9m telescope. On April 4th it was given a low-rated impact solution for 2049/07/20. Orbital period (days) 1272.88 ...