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After a Turkish court charged numerous top military officers with plotting to overthrow country’s elected AKP government – Turkey’s Chief of General Staff General Isik Kosaner stepped down on Friday evening followed by the army, navy and air force commanders in protest over the detention of 250...

This article is the best yet on what is being dubbed Comet Elenin. Please read the whole thing, especially the chart! “On April 8th at our Russian observatory we carried out planned observations of Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin). An analysis of the results of the observations shows a rapid growth...

Richard C. Hoagland will present startling NEW evidence that President John F. Kennedy KNEW of the existence of “ancient ruins on the Moon” ... when he dramatically announced the Apollo Lunar Program, in 1961. Hoagland’s copiously illustrated presentation of “ancient solar system artifacts”...

Today, two amateur astronomers from Florida detected a rare outburst of the recurrent nova U Scorpii, which set in motion satellite observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, Swift, and Spitzer. The last outburst of U Scorpii occurred February 1999. Observers around the planet will be observing...

At a very early age, children learn how to classify objects according to their shape. New research suggests studying the shape of the aftermath of supernovae may allow astronomers to do the same. A new study of images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory on supernova remnants — the debris from...

As the call for a clean-energy savior—to wash away our fossil-fuel sins—grows louder, the number of questionable candidates swells. Should we be looking to photovoltaic or fusion? Turbines or tides? With thanks to readers who responded to our Twitter call for favorite alt-energy duds, here's a...