* Astronomy

Nicaragua's 1,090-meter high Telica volcano has produced a series of explosions that sent a plume gas and dust 500 metres above the crater. "The volcano has seen explosions and abundant gas and ash emissions since three in...

ATel 8090: MAXI/GSC detection of a possible X-ray flare from an dMe binary system YY Gem A third star is 73" distant from the main components[Castor A and B]. It was discovered to vary in brightness with a regular period and was thought to be an eclipsing binary, but the variations are now consid...

Mars mission by 2013-2015, says ISRO India's mission to Mars will take place between 2013-2015, Indian Space Research Organisation chief G Madhavan Nair said on Monday. Read more

White-light photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam.

NASA has given the award of launch services for the LRO mission to Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services Inc. The spacecraft is scheduled for launch aboard an Atlas V 401 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during a launch window that opens on Oct. 31, 2008. Once launched, payload instru...

The 18 - 39 metre wide asteroid 2015 SS2 made a close pass (19.9 LD, 0.0512 AU) travelling at 5.10 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th September 2015 @ 15:47 UT ±01:14. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Ten panel photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam.

Russia reopens Tsar Nicholas family murder case Russian investigators have reopened a notorious murder case dating back to 1918 - that of the last tsar and his family, the Romanovs. Read more The Russian Imperial Romanov family were shot in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918. The Tsar and his family were...

TEDxCanberra - Will Steffen - The Anthropocene Executive Director of the Australian National University's Climate Change Institute, Professor Will Steffen, takes us on a journey through the science measuring humanity's effect on the...

New Orleans, Louisiana USA Fell 2003 September 23. approx. 16:05 hrs (CST) Ordinary chondrite (H5) On the afternoon of September 23rd 2003, a meteorite crashed through the two-story home of Ray and Judy Fausset, who were not at home at the time. Neighbours said that they heard a "terrific nois...

Two panel white-light photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam.

New Study Highlights Valuable Tool for Studying Living and Extinct Animals University of Cincinnati scientists are reporting a significant finding that could open up entirely new explorations in the fields of ecology and paleoecology. A mathematical analytical tool that was designed to predi...

Aleutian Islands' Ancient Villages, Volcanoes Slowly Reveal Their Secrets Scientists flock to the Aleutians every summer to study the islands rich wildlife, long history and active volcanoes. For the past two summers, an interdisciplinary team has visited the Islands of the Four Mountains, in...

Title: The morphology of M17-UC1 - The first candidate of a disk surrounding a hyper-compact HII region Authors: M. Nielbock, R. Chini, V. H. Hoffmeister, C. M. Scheyda, J. Steinacker, D. Nuernberger, R. Siebenmorgen, J. Berndt, E. Kovacevic, I. Stefanovic, J. Winter (revis...

Orbital elements: 2012 TT5 Earth MOID = 0.0577 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 17.22437 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33178415 Peri. 272.17538 +0.24420105 +0.96808833 a 2.0664852 Node 12.40324 -0.75241629 +0.22578972 e 0.6534171 Incl. 15.19843 -0.61174797 +0.10873811 P 2.97 H 21.8 G...