MERCURY is in the morning sky, rising before the Sun, during December, but will be a very difficult object to observe. At its greatest elongation west of the Sun, on December 13, Mercury will rise only 1 hour before the Sun as seen from New Zealand, and still be only a degree or two up by the time mo...
NASA announced on Friday that the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida would be the takeoff site for an attempt to set the record for the longest flight of an aircraft or balloon.
NASA and Virgin Atlantic Airways’ agreement to use Kennedy's Space Shuttle Landing Facility is the result of a pil...
If you've got a clear sky tonight then have a quick look at the Full Moon.
Tonight's moon (At 16:15.5 UT) is the closest and highest Full moon for 18 years.
The Moon will be above the horizon for more than 15 hours...
A Mu-3 Stage 3 Rocket Body launched on the 21 February 1989 from Kagoshima LC-M1 for the Akebono mission will re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 16 DEC 2005 @ 03:48 UTC ± 22 hours
Ground track plot is limite...
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a third short gamma-ray burst (GBR) type, associated with a nearby elliptical galaxy. The low level of star formation in such galaxies and the detection of a second long-lasting flare indicate that this gamma-ray burst is most likely t...
The Swift Satellite has detected long burst on the 5th September.
At 15:59:34 UT, the Swift-BAT triggered and located GRB050911 (trigger=154630).
The BAT on-board calculated position(2000) is RA, 13.692, Dec -38.861, with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment...
Title: The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems (FEPS): Discovery of an Unusual Debris System Associated with HD 12039Authors: D. C. Hines, D. E. Backman, J. Bouwman, L. A. Hillenbrand, J. M. Carpenter, M. R. Meyer, J. S. Kim, M. D. Silverstone, J. Rodmann, S. Wolf, E. E. M...
Physicists at nearly a dozen research institutions, including New York University, have discovered evidence for very high-energy gamma rays emitting from the Milky Way, marking the highest energies ever detected from the galactic equator. Their findings, published in the December 16th issue...
Martin Nweeia, DMD, DDS, has answered a marine science question that has eluded the scientific community for hundreds of years: why does the narwhal, or "unicorn," whale have an 8-foot-long tooth emerging from its head, and what is its function?
He has discovered that the narwhal's tooth has h...
Hi,
My brother just saw something in the sky. We dont know what it was. He said it was about a quarter size of the moon, falling from south to north at an angle of about 60 degrees. It was bluish white with no tail, about the brightness of the moon. He watched it go from high in th...
Upwards of a dozen mobile phone callers in Saginaw County and more in neighbouring counties described "fire in the sky".
A smattering of early risers across a wide area of the Eastern Upper Peninsula were startled by the brilliant light from a falling meteor or some “space junk”...
A magnitude 15.7 supernova, 2005lt, was discovered on the 10th December, 2005, by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search, in the galaxy MCG +03-30-51, in the constellation Leo.
It is located 24".5 east and 5".4 south of...
Firefighters are mounting a massive operation to smother the ferocious fire still raging at a Hertfordshire oil depot after more than 24 hours.
The crews have been working through the night to contain the blaze, maintaining a curtain of water between the flames and seven unexploded fuel tanks, e...
A magnitude 15.8 supernova, 2005ls, was discovered on the 9th December, 2005, by Mark Armstrong in the galaxy MCG +7-7-1[img]http://static.flickr.com/35/72083868_f0cf407...
The launch of the Russian Zenit-2M carrier rocket has been scheduled for the first quarter of 2007 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
A delegation of Russian and U.S. specialists are currently working at Baikonur, examining the infrastructure of the space centre, and will be involved in preparin...
