* Astronomy

The Opportunity rover is stuck in a sand dune. This occurred on the 24th April, (only now being reported in the media.) The MER team is hopeful that they can extract the rover from the sand dune and continue with the mission.

Archaeologists in Ethiopia uncover ancient city in Harlaa A forgotten city thought to date back as far as the 10th century AD has been uncovered by a team of archaeologists in eastern Ethiopia. Artefacts from Egypt, India and China have been found in the city in the Harlaa region. The archaeologists...

Adam West (born William West Anderson; September 19, 1928 - June 9, 2017) was an American actor widely known for his role as Batman in the 1960s ABC series of the same name and its 1966 theatrical feature film. Read more

The ancient sea was more like a giant salty lake than a rolling ocean, report scientists from Imperial College London in the May edition of the Journal of the Geological Society. A new computer model that simulates how tides in North West Europe would have behaved 300 million years ago shows a sea wi...

Russian Resupply Ship Launches to the International Space Station The unpiloted Russian ISS Progress 67 cargo ship launched atop a Soyuz booster June 14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a two-day journey to the Internation...

Title: The open cluster King~1 in the second quadrant Author: R. Carrera (1,2), L. Rodríguez Espinosa (1,2), L. Casamiquela (3), L. Balaguer Nuñez (3), C. Jordi (3), C. Allende Prieto (1,2), P. B. Stetson (4) ((1) Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (2) Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad...

Title: Discovery of Two Small High-Velocity Compact Clouds in the Central 10 Parsecs of Our Galaxy Author: Shunya Takekawa, Tomoharu Oka, Yuhei Iwata, Sekito Tokuyama, Mariko Nomura We discovered two small high-velocity compact clouds (HVCCs) in HCN J=4 - 3 and J=3 - 2 maps of the central 20 pc of ou...

Title: The First Scattered Light Image of the Debris Disk around the Sco-Cen target HD 129590 Author: Elisabeth Matthews, Sasha Hinkley, Arthur Vigan, Grant Kennedy, Aaron Rizzuto, Karl Stapelfeldt, Dimitri Mawet, Mark Booth, Christine Chen, Hannah Jang-Condell We present the first scattere...

Sunspots 12663 and 12662 captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount. DIY Focal reducer (made from 25mm achromatic objective) 90% cloud cover, moderate seeing. Processed in Paint Shop Pro. Resized 200%

ATel 10496: MASTER-OAFA: bright OT with ampl>6.8m

ATel 10497: Spectroscopic classification of M31N 2017-06e (Gaia17bmf) as a classical nova

The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, often referred to as Fukushima Dai-ichi, is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Okuma in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture. With six separate units located on site with a combined power of 4.7 GW, Fukushima I is one of the 25 largest nuclear power...

Faced with a $1 billion cost overrun, NASA may scale back the planned $3.5 billion James Webb Space Telescope and delay its planned 2011 launch. Boulder's Ball Aerospace & Technologies was awarded a $200 million contract in 2002 to develop the telescope's optical system. Ball is the ma...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has reached its target detection sensitivity, but the goal of finding the elusive phenomena known as gravity waves remains as elusive as ever. The two facilities, one in Hanford, Washington, and the other in Livingston, Loui...

Kepler, Exoplanets and SETI - Geoff Marcy (SETI Talks) Spoiler Science fiction portrays our Milky Way Galaxy as filled with habitable planets populated by advanced civilizations engaged in interstellar trade and conflic...