A new generation space rocket engine, designed to propel Soyuz and Angara rocket vehicles, was successfully tested in Voronezh, a city 450 kilometres south of Moscow.
A spokesman for the Voronezh regional administration's main department of industry, transport, and communications said t...
A fire ball was seen from Guernsey, UK, at 2017 UT, 16 July, heading in a north-easterly direction.
It was described as bright, like burning magnesium, and fragmenting into 2-3 pieces before burning out 1-2 seconds after first sighting.
Seen here are the galaxies of HCG (Hickson Compact Group) 87, about four hundred million light-years distant in the constellation Capricornus.
The large edge-on spiral near the centre, the fuzzy elliptical galaxy immediately to its right, and the spiral near the top of the imag...
Shinji Toda, a Japanese geologist, has discovered a new tectonic plate under the Tokyo area, a finding that may force the government to review its quake preparation plans.
Japan endures 20 per cent of the world's powerful earthquakes as the country lies at the crossing of four tectonic plates -- t...
A wildfire in the Arizona mountains south of Tucson is threatening the Fred Whipple Observatory on Mt. Hopkins.
The "Florida" fire, named after the mountain peak where the fire started July 7, has approached to within 1.6 km of the Observatory. The observatory is home to several telescop...
Tropical Storm Emily is shown here in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred kilometres north of the Brazilian coast on July 12, 2005. The image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite at 12:55 UTC.
The fledgling storm didn'...
A team of astronomers, led by the University of Durham, has discovered the aftermath of a spectacular explosion in a galaxy 11.5 billion light years away.
Their observations, reported today (14th July 2005) in the journal Nature provide the most direct evidence yet of a galaxy being al...
From Shepparton News (Australia)
July 14, 2005
Mystery has continued to surround an almighty bang that sounded in
Murchison on Saturday night.
While many residents have admitted to hearing a rocket like sound followed by a loud bang, most are at a loss to explain what r...
Ted Davidson indicates what he thinks was the trajectory of an object that landed in his backyard on South Woody Hill Road, Westerly.
Ted Davidson woke early Saturday to find a small crater - what he believes could be the impact of a meteorite - in his South Woody Hill Road home's backyard.
Inves...
The half-Moon is close by Jupiter tonight. Look to the south-western sky at around sunset to catch the pair in the constellation Virgo.
-- Edited by Blobrana at 17:14, 2005-07-13
Some Brook Park, Ohio, residents are puzzled by a bright red light that appeared in the sky over the weekend, (9th July 2005).
So far, there is still no answer to the mysterious light.
Resident Shari Apathy captured the object on a camrecorder; it shows a red ball of light, zigzagging (due to hand s...
The BBC today launched their BBC Open Source website, providing a home for projects such as their video codec dirac , TV-Anytime Java API and Kamaelia network testbed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/
The latest info today is that police have raided a few houses in Leeds (NE England), it seems that it is a low-key operation though – no initial evacuations of the streets or armed police.
The police seem to think that the 4 bombers died in the explosions...
It seems that they ar...
A team of university graduate students and faculty from Tennessee, with the help of NASA engineers, have "launched" a subscale spacecraft model and caught it in mid-air with a unique rendezvous or "catch" mechanism.
Their successful demonstration of this mechanism that could grab a payload or...
