Australian archaeologist Royce Richards is among a team preparing to look for the truth behind a theory that Bosnia-Herzegovina has an ancient pyramid. Archaeologists from Australia, Scotland, Ireland, Austria, and Slovenia will begin excavation work in April on the Visocica hill, 32 kilomet...
Asteroid 2006 BA was discovered two days ago by Richard Kowalski.
At closest approach the 8-meter rock will pass about 0.0034 AU from the Earth.
Currently it is at 18th magnitude, and moving fast across the sky.
Date UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El. Ph. V
006 0...
Title: The complex X-ray morphology of NGC 7618: A major group-group merger in the local Universe?Authors: R. P. Kraft, C. Jones, P. E. J. Nulsen, M. J. Hardcastle
Researchers present results from a short Chandra/ACIS-S observation of NGC 7618, the dominant cent...
Researchers have found cosmic dust in ocean sediments that indicate the Earth was enveloped in the debris of an asteroidal collision 8.27 million years ago.
The break-up of a large asteroid caused the biggest cosmic dust storm in the last 80 million years and left a blanket of material on the Ear...
J170902+641728 is a highly unusual galaxy. In ground-based optical images, it is unresolved (less than 1\arcsec) and thus appears to be a fairly faint star. However, sensitive radio continuum observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 2255 associated it with a radio source. Altho...
Archaeologists have found an ancient oceanic trench in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The 20-hectare site with Karst topography is located at Mount Malong beside the city of Guilin.
The ocea...
A magnitude 14.3, supernova 2006E was discovered in the galaxy NGC 5338, on January 8th, 2006, by Puckett, Reddy; (LOSS); Migliardi (CROSS).
Position(2000): RA = 13 53 28.65 Dec = +05 12 22.8
Size 14'1 x 14'...
Someone has stolen a silver briefcase containing "meteorite samples" and "lunar samples" from a vehicle, a projector was also taken. They belong to NASA contracted instructors, who use them for educational purposes.
The rocks are sealed inside two clear plastic disks labelled with identific...
A research team headed by University of Colorado astronomer John Bally released an image Thursday morning of a cosmic jet that resembles a huge, multicoloured tornado whirling through space.
The infrared image was captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope, built in Boulder by Ball Aerospace &...
A very bright meteor lit up the skies of Boise, Idaho, and streaked across the horizon.
The local TV News Channel had numerous calls from people who saw it.
Police dispatch also took several calls, and even one person in the Boise Airport tower saw it.
And though the eyewitness accounts vary sli...
A team of astronomers have announced that they have discovered a giant Milky Way-sized tunnel filled with high energy particles in a distant galaxy cluster.
These new findings are of special interest to astronomers as they may provide the missing evolutionary link necessary to understand th...
A team of U.S. and Australian astronomers is announcing today that they have, for the first time, precisely measured the mass of a millisecond pulsar -- a tiny, dead star spinning hundreds of times every second.
This result is of special interest because it gives new insight into the production of...
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft has taken a multi-wavelength, neon-coloured image of the 15 magnitude Cartwheel galaxy that lies 420 million light years away in the constellation Sculptor .
The false-colour composite image shows the Cartwheel galaxy in ultraviolet ligh...
A telescope turbo-charger called the Exoplanet Tracker on the special 0.9-meter Coudé feed system within the National Science Foundation’s 2.1-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, ET has found its first planet outside the solar system.
The two s...
According to Aleksey Kuznetsov, head of the Russian Space Troops press service, the next trial launch of the Soyuz-2 medium carrier rocket will take place at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in 2006.
"The first test launch of the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket was successfully carried out on 8 November 2004. T...
