A meteorite fell last night in the municipality of Santo Antonio de Jesus, Bahia state, Northeast Brazil.
The "fireball" created a small impact crater and caused panic among the population.
Astronomers from Antares Observatory, Feira de Santana are looking to collect samples from the impac...
The Z machine is the largest X-ray generator in the world and is designed to test materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure.
Recently a temperature of 2 to 3 billion degrees Kelvin -- hotter than the interior of any known star -- has been achieved in the lab in New Mexico.
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NASA is not going to be making a huge announcement regarding evidence of life somewhere else in our solar system today as is being erroneously reported on the Internet...
A meteorite fell with a loud bang on a field in Singpara village of sadar upazila, Bangladesh, yesterday afternoon creating panic and curiosity among people.
No one was reported hurt.
Superintendent of Police Khandker Golam Farooq rushed to the spot when he was informed and asked his compan...
A Progress 19 cargo ship atop a Starsem Soyuz rocket will be launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, to the International Space Station with provisions for the crew of Expedition 11, on September 8th, 2005, 13:08 GMT.
The unmanned Progress 19 cargo ship will ferry supplies a...
Aviation Week & Space Technology is reported that the "highly classified" project funded by the U.S. military for the development and testing of a small orbital space plane in the 1990s. The project involved a large carrier aircraft called the SR-3, modelled on the XB-70 Valkyrie superson...
Nine satellites, including one that will carry nothing but seeds, are set to be launched into space in 2006.
Zhang Qingwei, president of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, revealed the plans while he was attending the annual meeting of the National People's Congress, which open...
The 9.4 - 21 metre Asteroid 2001 FO127 is predicted to pass 0.029033 AU (11.3 lunar distances, 2,694,825 km) from the Earth at 9:00 GMT, on March 22, 2006.
Another encounter (0.180531AU) will occur in July 17th 2006 .
03 Mar 2006 23.200 RA = 2 8 7.592 Dec = -66 41 48.21 Mag = 2...
The BBC has opened its Creative Archive to the public, allowing users to be VJs and remix BBC content.
The BBC's "current music" radio station, Radio 1, is running a competition in conjunction with the release. Unfortunately, the license the content is released under requires that you ar...
StationRipper can record Shoutcast radio broadcasts, saving each song as an individual MP3 file (naming it with the band name and song name). Broadband connections can download 3k+ songs a day (shots here were of 50 stations being recorded for 3.5 hours - with over 2k songs downloaded).
Downlo...
Magnetic Fields Sculpt Narrow Jets From Dying Star
Molecules spewed outward from a dying star are confined into narrow jets by a tightly-wound magnetic field, according to astronomers who used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope to study an old...
A team of scientists from St. Petersburg State University and some other research institutions have managed to determine the characteristics of the lunar soil from the dark side of the Moon.
A small piece of lunar soil, weighing 751 grams and designated as Dhofar 025 was found in a desert o...
Japan has unveiled their fastest supercomputer. Assembled from Hitachi and IBM components, the new system sports total performance around 59 trillion calculations per second and comes at a cool 5-year lease price of $30 million.
KEK the High Energy Accelerator Research Organizati...
Steve McGreevy was sitting at home in Hegewisch, in the 13200 block of South Exchange Avenue, Chicago, US , on Sunday when an ice block fell through his ceiling.
"All of the sudden, I felt all of this stuff falling on me. Then, after I freaked out for a minute, I got up and there was this big cube som...
