A chunk of meteor that exploded over Bay Area, California, was found in the backyard of Lisa Webber home on Sunday, October 21, 2012. Peter Jenniskens, a leading meteor hunter at the Seti Institute in Mountain View, confirmed that the space rock was indeed debris from
Police departments of Devon and Cornwall, UK, received hundreds of calls from people saying they had experienced an earth tremor and heard loud bangs around 16:15 BST on Thursday, October 18, 2012. Police staff in Devon’s Newton Abbot station also said floors
A new exoplanet, closest and lightest known yet, is discovered in Alpha Centauri system by a team using ESO’s (European Southern Observatory) HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) instrument. It is notable that same team had discovered the first
Lick observatory reported that a bright meteor fireball was seen streaking across the sky over the Bay Area, California on October 17, 2012 at 7:42 pm local time. They caught it on their security cameras.The meteor appeared to be slow-moving sporadic fireball meteor
The debris from famous Comet Halley strike Earth’s atmosphere usually in late October of every year. In 2012 the view of its debris on Earth, also called Orionids, will be seen most fully from October 20 – 22 and peak on the morning of Sunday, October 21. Forecasters
Yesterday NASA revealed some really intriguing radar images of Titan’s terrain captured by Cassini spacecraft’s radar instrument during its May 22 flyby, which recently completed its 15 years in space. One of them depicts a giant, nearly circular mound which looks like
A recent study done by Nikku Madhusudhan, a Yale postdoctoral researcher in physics and astronomy, Yale geophysicist Kanani Lee, and Olivier Mousis, a planetary scientist at the IRAP suggests a surface of a nearby super-Earth planet is covered in graphite and diamond.
Europe will launch a second pair of Galileo satellites to accompany 2 satellites already sent last year in attempt to build its own global navigation satellite system. The launch is scheduled for October 12, 2012 at 18:15:00 UTC from Europe’s Space Port in French
As noted before, Voyager 1 is at the edge of our solar system. Science enthusiasts around the world are eyeing Voyager 1’s progress as such an incident will mark another giant leap for humanity. New data suggests it has already happened. There were three things
This gallery shows four planetary nebulas from the first systematic survey of such objects in the solar neighborhood made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The planetary nebulas shown here are NGC 6543, also known as the Cat’s Eye, NGC 7662, NGC 7009 and NGC 6826.
