Month: February 2023

Sunday, May 28, 2006 Stardust@home logoImage: Stardust@home. Stardust is a NASA space capsule that collected samples from comet 81P/Wild (also known as “Wild 2) in […]

Wednesday, October 2, 2013 Tom Clancy signing books in Boston in 1989. Image: Gary Wayne Gilbert. The bestselling US novelist Tom Clancy died yesterday in […]

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 The Roman Catholic Pontiff is visiting the United Kingdom for the first time since 1982, when his predecessor, Pope John Paul […]

Thursday, May 27, 2010 Space Shuttle Atlantis landing for the last time. Space Shuttle Atlantis landed Wednesday, May 26, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, […]

Saturday, March 5, 2022 In findings published on Monday in Scientific Reports, scientists from the University of Vienna and Vienna Natural History Museum, Austria found […]

Monday, May 7, 2018 The foggy launch of the Atlas V rocket carrying InSight and the MarCO cubesats. Image: Bill Ingalls, NASA. On Saturday, United […]

Monday, July 18, 2005 On July 13, 21 French and Japanese individuals sued Shintaro Ishihara, the governor of Tokyo, for defamation towards people who use […]

Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Computer hacking group Lulz Security has attacked a server of one of the United States affiliates of Nintendo, a Japanese-based video […]

Thursday, May 31, 2007 Newfane, Vermont. Image: Andre Engels. A tanker truck travelling Northbound on Route 30 with 2,500 gallons of diesel fuel hit a […]

Sunday, April 27, 2008 A woman in the tiny farming community of Saint-Rémi, Quebec, south of Montreal visited the local cemetery Saturday and received a […]