* Astronomy

The Gask Ridge frontier system is the earliest Roman land frontier in Britain, built in the 70s AD, 50 years before Hadrian's Wall and 70 years before the Antonine Wall. Read more [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gask_Ridge]Read mor...

Ray Harryhausen, visual effects master, dies aged 92 Visual effects master Ray Harryhausen, whose stop-motion wizardry graced such films as Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, has died aged 92. Read more [spoiler][/spoiler...

Stunning Astronomical Alignment Found at Peru Pyramid An ancient astronomical alignment in southern Peru has been discovered by researchers between a pyramid, two stone lines and the setting sun during the winter solstice. During the solstice, hundreds of years ago, the three would have lined u...

Andrew Sherratt (8 May 1946 - 24 February 2006) was an English archaeologist, one of the most influential of his generation. He was best known for the idea of the Secondary Products Revolution. Read more

Robin F. Heath (born 8 May 1948) is a British historian, astronomer, archaeoastronomer, astro-archaeologist and author. Read more

The Dyalpur (Ureilite) meteorite fell in Uttar Pradesh, India, on the 8th May, 1872. A total mass of 300 g was recovered. 26° 15'N, 82° 0'E

The Monte Milone (L5) meteorite fell in Marche, Italy, on the 8th May, 1846. A total mass of 3.13 kg was recovered. 43° 16'N, 13° 21'E

Out of this world for a price Most people think of these as shooting stars and make a wish when they see them blazing a path across the sky. But for some people shooting stars have no magic until they hit the ground and become meteorites. While many collect antiques, stamps or coins, there is a growing ban...

The Vega VV02 launch is postponed due to unfavourable weather conditions The weather conditions being unfavourable over the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace have decided to postpone VV02. VV02 will place into orbit the Proba-V, VNREDSat-1 and ESTCu...

Title: CO J=1-0 and J=2-1 Line Observations of the Molecular Cloud - Blocked Supernova Remnant 3C434.1 Authors: Il-Gyo Jeong, Bon-Chul Koo, Wan-Kee Cho, Carsten Kramer, Jürgen Stutzki, Do-Young Byun We present the results of CO emission line observations toward the semicircular Galactic supe...

Telstar 2 was launched May 7, 1963. Telstar 1 and 2, though no longer functional, are still in orbit as of July 2012. Read more Spoiler

Alexis Claude de Clairaut (or Clairault) (7 May 1713 - 17 May 1765) was a prominent French mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, and intellectual. He obtained an ingenious approximate solution of the problem of the three bodies; in 1750 he gained the prize of the St Petersburg Academy for his e...

Asteroid 1321 Majuba (1934 JH) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 7, 1934 by C. Jackson at Johannesburg (UO). Read more

Title: Rotation periods of exoplanet host stars Authors: Elaine Simpson (1,2,3), Sallie Baliunas (1), Greg Henry (4), Chris Watson (3) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, (2) University of Southampton, (3) Queen's University Belfast, (4) Tennessee State University) The stel...

The Cilimus (L5) meteorite fell in Jawa Barat, Indonesia, on the 7th May, 1979. A total mass of 1600 g was recovered. 6° 57'S, 108° 6'E