Four spectacular waterspouts were seen off the coast of Australia today. With images!
Robot exploration in the Great Pyramid at Giza.
The robot explorer that took the images is named Djedi, after the magician whom Pharaoh Khufu consulted when planning the layout of the Great Pyramid. It was designed and built by engineers at the University of Leeds, in collaboration with Scoutek UK and Dassault Systemes, France.
Opportunity’s journey across the deserts of Mars continues; with pictures.
The un-owned feral cats had larger territories than the house cats, but both had larger territories than expected. One of the male feral cats had a home range of 1,351 acres, while the pet cats had a mean home range of about 5 acres.
Budget deficits signal a decline in spending for astronomy telescopes, both on the ground and in space, for the next decade.
Did a spotless sun cause the Little Ice Age after all?
The dark ages return: Italy is going to put seven earthquake scientists on trial for failing to predict an earthquake in 2009. More details here, from Nature.
Asteroid sample return mission on slate for NASA in 2016. The asteroid chosen in 1999 RQ36, which is significant.
The space rock has been classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid, since its orbit brings it close to Earth in the year 2182. There is an extremely remote chance (a recent study pegs it at about 1-in-1000) that the 1,900-foot-wide (579-meter) asteroid could pose a threat to Earth.
A bullet dodged? The next Mars rover, the Mars Science Lab, appears to be okay after last week’s mishap.
NASA has decided to abandon efforts to contact the rover Spirit, incommunicado for more than a year.
Evidence mounts for liquid water on Enceladus.
Facing a launch window that ends December 18, the next rover mission to Mars was damaged last week upon arriving at the Kennedy Space Center.
Satellite monitoring of the new Iceland volcano eruption.
More on the new Kepler results: Lots of multiple planet systems.
New results from Kepler.
From JunkScience: Google to censor climate skeptics?
The next Moon mission, launching this summer.
New data provides further confirmation of the existence of dark energy.
NOAA today announced its prediction for 2011, calling for an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season.
Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest evidence of organized mining in the Americas.
A 135-year-old scab launches a smallpox scare at a Virginia museum.
Video and images from the zero gravity beer test Plus some results!
Astronomers, Kepler, and SETI@home team up to find exoplanets.
Is the extrasolar planet Gliese 581d habitable? Maybe.
Private citizen has just donated $25 million for the construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope.
This is how it used to be done all the time: All the early giant telescopes built in the United States before World War II were financed by individuals or private foundations, with no or little government investment.
