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 It seems that archaeologists have found the fictional King Solomon’s Mines. Even if they should have provided him with gold and diamonds, all they could offer was copper. Researches were led by Thomas Levy of the University of California, San Diego, and Mohammad Najjar of Jordan’s Friends of Archaeology. They discovered a...
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 A solar system similar to ours has been recently discovered. Epsilon Eridani is located at about 10.5 light-years from our sun and it’s surrounded by two asteroid belts that are shaped by planets. The announcement was made today by astronomers at SETI Institute and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. After a first good...
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 Climate changes have affected the flora and fauna from the Walden Pond in Massachusetts to the Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The information came from two studies that appeared in Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past few years has caused the loss of many...
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 The Russian Soyuz capsule that brought space tourist Richard Garriott home landed safely and on target this morning, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The video game millionaire from Austin, Texas was joined in his return mission by two Russian cosmonauts: Oleg Kononeko and Sergei Volkov. Garriott spent almost 10 days on the International Space...
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 Saturday seems to be the day when the Hubble Space Telescope could be snapping pictures of the sky once again. Engineers fixed one of the problems that has largely shut down the instrument for the last three weeks. Art Whipple, manager of the Hubble Systems Management Office at the Goddard Space Flight Center, told the press that the...
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 A recent experiment showed that peeling sticky tape emits X-rays strong enough to scan a human finger. U.S. researchers used a motorized peeling machine to unwind a roll of Scotch tape at a rate of 3 centimeters per second. The report, which appeared in Nature journal, measured X-rays strong enough to X-ray a human digit. A well known...
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 The battle for a contract to ship cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) after 2011 has a new competitor: Boeing. The company, which is seeking to expand its role in future U.S. manned space missions, is joining a team that already includes Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
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Four types of Jurassic dinosaurs left more than a thousand
footprints and tail-drag marks at a remote site in northern Arizona, a new study revealed. Researchers
also mentioned that probably around 190 million years ago, during the Jurassic
period, this area was an oasis surrounded by a vast desert. Even if the
footprints are...
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 India’s first mission to the Moon blasted off with success today. The probe Chandrayaan-1 launched this morning from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, the Indian Space Research Organization reports. The mission, carrying a multinational array of kit, was carried aloft atop a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle at 00:52 GMT (06:22 Indian Standard...
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 A new space probe from San Antonio’s Southwest Research Institute was launched on Sunday in a two-year mission that is set to chart the boundaries of the solar system. The probe, called The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), left Earth aboard an Orbital Space Sciences Pegasus rocket at 12:48 p.m. in the cheers of the engineers at the...
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