* Astronomy

In a paper scheduled to appear in the May 18 2005 print issue of the American Chemical Society's Energy & Fuels, Zhiyu Hu proposes a highly efficient method to convert chemicals into thermal energy and to achieve spontaneous ignition and sustained combustion at room temperature. The "nano-cata...

Residents were startled awake by a loud deep, reverberating rumble on Marco Island, Florida, early morning on April 25th. "We heard it plainly here at the station. I checked to see if there was a crash at one of the intersections, and the phone calls came in shortly thereafter. Since we had no r...

The LONEOS sky survey telescope has recovered the minor planet 2004 JG6. This object has a period of about 0.5 years, and may be locked into 2:1 resonance with our Earth. It orbits entirely within Earth's orbit with the smallest known semimajor axis of any known asteroid.

The next few days will be a good chance to catch Mercury. The planet will reach its greatest western elongation (27.2o west of the Sun) on th...

The Sea Launch team has launch DIRECTV's Spaceway satellite atop a Zenit-3SL launch vehicle from its equatorial launch site on Tuesday, Ap...

NASA scientists have announced they are releasing free software that will find 'bugs,' or defects, in Java computer code. The new software, Java Pathfinder, is classified as 'open source software.' [url=http://javapathfin...

A brilliant green fireball streaked over New England, US, on Sunday, April 24th, at about 7:45 pm EDT. It was seen as far north as southern Maine and as far south as Pennsylvania and occurred during the Lyrid meteor shower but it was probably a small fridge sized asteroid, breaking up in Earth's atmosp...

The small bluish white object, maybe the size of a basketball, with sparks for a tail and fiery "chunks breaking off", was seen burning up in the earths atmosphere at about 2 a.m. 23rd April, moving in a southwest to the northeast direction. It was witnessed by John Kempen who was travelling the Park...

The following chart is the updated ISS Flight Program Launch graphic. Enlarge This chart addresses the launches to the ISS d...

A massive meteor was spotted in the daytime sky over western Manitoba on Saturday 24th April 2005. The meteor passed over Riding Mountain before exploding high over the St. Ambroise area, north of Portage la Prairie. "About half the people only heard it because of the sonic boom – the explosion...