Well, it's news to Yahoo! News at least: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070712/ap_on_sc/cosmic_dawn&printer=1;_ylt=At_oV96tHI4zxwTO9vXN9qdxieAA Peeking around...

The 13th International LISA Symposium is happening online today (2020-Sept-01), tomorrow (2020-Sept-02), and thursday...

Is anyone familiar with this information?: Pulsation of the Sun: 30 years of measurements by V.A. Kotov, V.I. Haneychuk and T.T. Tsap "Regular measurements...

The black hole at the center of the galaxy emits flares, and with careful analysis, the people at the VLT say: The most striking result is an apparent...

in http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/jan/HQ_13-001_Mars_NWA_Meteorite.html it is reported that a 2.1 billion years old meteorite originating from the crust...

Over the years I have heard astronomers repeatedly say two things to the public so many times that they have become common knowledge. My studies have led me...

At the Texas Meeting of the AAS this month it was announced that: 1. Nearly every star has one or more planets. Exoplanets/stars ~ 1.6/1 2. Double-star...

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2003qo104.html I ain't gonna make any big deal about this 2.4 km asteroid having a couple of Torino Scale 1's on its risk...

hi all, I've been able to find the conversion between 2mass photometry and johnson/TCS colors on the IPAC 2mass website. Can someone point me in the right...

Hi there, I got a doubt about the 2mass magnitude system. It's known that 2mass is in Vega system, but what does this actually mean?? I know that according...

REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) moderated group sci.physics.foundations This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of...

Is there anything special about the period (or just time separation) of 5.5 lunar months (162 days) other than that it corresponds to 6 solar rotations? --...

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/new-structure.html Regarding the physics of the phenomenon, it looks like what one might expect for bipolar...

I am surprised that no one at SAR has called attention to the following...

Rather bad news today at arxiv.org for string/brane notions, loop quantum gravity, and other major quantum gravity theories. See: arXiv:1108.6005v1...

What is the primary cause of tidal heating of Jupiter's innermost moon Io? The moon itself always has the same face toward Jupiter (tidally locked). That...

Michael Longo has an article on the astrophysics archive at: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0707.3793 titled "Evidence for a Preferred Handedness of Spiral...

Questions in galactic astronomy.... Regarding the current state of understanding of density waves, which are thought to generate the spirals in spiral...

Can it ever occur in Gravitational Lensing that a mass distribution which lenses the object acts like a Concave lens and teh rays of light after passing around...

I see CERN is now moving their sights to "finding" dark matter -- just another $1.2 billion needed, please. And there is research afoot to locating the...