* Astronomy

Khirbet Kerak (Arabic: Khirbet al-Karak, "the ruins of the castle") or Beth Yerah (Hebrew: "House of the Moon (god)") is a tell located on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee in modern day Israel. Read more L...

Everything is moving ahead with a planned Thursday evening launch attempt of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta-IV medium rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's (CCAFS) Space Launch Complex 37. The Wideband Global Satellite 5 (WGS-5) will be the payload for this mission. As long as weat...

Bigelow Aerospace is now offering to the public an exciting new opportunity. For the first time, you can actually send an item of your own into space. Your personal selection will be floating inside a spacecraft hundreds of miles above the Earth. If all systems function properly, your personal tr...

The Stratford (L6) meteorite fell in Connecticut, USA, on the 27th May, 1974. A total mass of 50 g was recovered. 41° 12'N, 73° 8'W

The Minnichhof (OC) meteorite fell in Burgenland, Austria, on the 27th May, 1905. A total mass of 550 g was recovered. 47° 42'N, 16° 36'E

The Ambapur Nagla (H5) meteorite fell in Uttar Pradesh, India, on the 27th May, 1895. A total mass of 6.4 kg was recovered. 27° 40'N, 78° 15'E

Swinburne University of Technology is set to host TEDxMelbourne's biggest event of the year. The independently organised event, in the university's landmark Advanced Technologies Centre, will be held between 11am and 4.30pm on Sunday, 26 May. With the theme "Untapped'', the event will fe...

Title: The Schertz, Guadalupe County, Texas, Meteorite Proved Identical with Canyon Diablo, Arizona Authors: Oscar E. Monnig The Schertz, Guadalupe County, Texas, iron meteorite of 308 g., which has been listed in two catalogues of Texas meteorites, resembles a typical Canyon Diablo, Arizona...

Sir William Petty FRS (26 May 1623 - 16 December 1687) was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. Read more

Muhammed Ahmed Faris (born 26 May 1951) is a Syrian military aviator. He was the first Syrian and the second Arab in space. Read more

The Battle of Gazala was an important battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought around the port of Tobruk in Libya from 26 May - 21 June 1942. Read more

The European X-ray Observatory Satellite (EXOSAT), originally named HELOS, was operational from May 1983 until April 1986 and in that time made 1780 observations in the X-ray band of most classes of astronomical object including active galactic nuclei, stellar coronae, cataclysmic variables...

OceanSat-1 or IRS-P4 is the first Indian satellite primarily built for Ocean applications. It is a part of the Indian Remote Sensing satellite series. Oceansat-1 was launched by ISRO's PSLV-C2 along with German DLR-Tubsat and South Korean KitSat 3 on 26 May 1999 from the First Launch Pad of Satish D...

Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham...

The Kuznetzovo (L6) meteorite fell in Novosibirskaya oblast', Russia, on the 26th May, 1932. A total mass of 4.05 kg was recovered. 55° 12'N, 75° 20'E