JAKARTA, Indonesia - A volcano has erupted in central Indonesia, shooting clouds of smoke and flames into the night sky. Indonesia's volcanology centre says smoke plumes up to a kilometre high are billowing from Mount Soputan on Sulawesi Island, about 2,160 kilometres northeast of Jakarta, the capital.
Oct 6, 2008 - 10:42:18 AM
MEXICO - Hurricane Marie hovered far off Mexico's Pacific coast Saturday, barely moving on its northwestern path. A tropical depression off the Mexican resort city of Acapulco was forecast to strengthen into a tropical storm Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. It was located about 200 miles (325 kilometers) south of Acapulco, and was expected to remain well off the coast as it drifts west.
Oct 6, 2008 - 9:29:35 AM
The Sun has been strangely unblemished this year. On more than 200 days so far this year, no sunspots were spotted. That makes the Sun blanker this year than in any year since 1954, when it was spotless for 241 days.
Oct 6, 2008 - 9:24:29 AM
The proposal to hold IAGA Symposium Entitled" Space weather and its effects on Spacecraft" , April 5 – 9 , 2009 at Cairo Egypt to get opportunity to discuss relevant researches in many areas of the space weather and geomagnetism. The goal of the symposium is the cooperation of scientists from different fields of space research.
Oct 6, 2008 - 9:18:15 AM
Beijing -- For the Chinese, the space program is becoming another point of pride. The spacewalk, like the two other manned space flights China has conducted in the past five years, was a nationally televised event. Schoolchildren created artwork to commemorate the feat. A black-market cell phone maker was doing a brisk business selling a rocket-shaped mobile device, painted red with "Shenzhou VII" stamped on the side.
Oct 6, 2008 - 9:09:23 AM
A magnitude-8 earthquake struck Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic that borders China and Kazakhstan, killing at least 70 people and injuring dozens more.
Oct 6, 2008 - 8:14:39 AM
BEIJING - China's official Xinhua News Agency says 30 people are dead after an earthquake struck Tibet. The news agency said Monday a magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit a county near Tibet's capital Lhasa. The U.S. Geological Survey said there were two quakes. The first measured magnitude 6.6 and struck at 4:30 p.m. 50 miles west of Lhasa, more than 1,600 miles away from Beijing.
Oct 6, 2008 - 8:10:32 AM
Like it or not, Republicans, Tina Fey is right on with her presentation of Sara Palin. SNL has always created great comedy from politics - often because they make it so easy. Tina Fey, congrats on a smart, accurate and hysterical character. CLICK HERE
Oct 5, 2008 - 12:33:08 PM
A giant asteroid could have destroyed Mars’s chances of evolving into an Earth-like blue planet by punching a hole in its crust so large that it damaged the red planet’s magnetic field, scientists have found.
Oct 5, 2008 - 12:24:21 PM
MEXICO CITY — The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Norbert is strengthening off Mexico's southern Pacific coast and could become a hurricane in the next 24 hours.
Oct 5, 2008 - 12:05:34 PM
Geographic coordinates: 39.543N, 73.771E. Magnitude: 6.6 Mw. Depth: 35 km. Universal Time (UTC): 5 Oct 2008 15:52:50. Time near the Epicenter: 5 Oct 2008 21:52:50. Local standard time in your area: 5 Oct 2008 15:52:50. Location with respect to nearby cities: 51 km (32 miles) NNE (13 degrees) of Karakul, Tajikistan.
Oct 5, 2008 - 11:53:08 AM
They call Chaco Canyon in New Mexico the Stonehenge of America and its nine magnificent pueblos "great houses." The greatest of them all is Pueblo Bonito, built during the eighth to 11th centuries A.D. Semicircular, three stories high, with two large plazas and numerous subterranean chambers, this stupendous pueblo is one of the great architectural wonders of ancient America.
Oct 5, 2008 - 10:04:28 AM
Geographic coordinates: 30.327S, 177.194W. Magnitude: 6.5 Mw. Depth: 35 km. Universal Time (UTC): 5 Oct 2008 09:12:40. Time near the Epicenter: 5 Oct 2008 21:12:40. Local standard time in your area: 5 Oct 2008 09:12:40. Location with respect to nearby cities: 136 km (85 miles) SSE (152 degrees) of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands.
Oct 5, 2008 - 9:24:37 AM
Archaeologists are pressing for criminal charges against the organizers, reviving a debate over how to use treasured ancient sites. Placido Domingo's concert at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza on Saturday night is being billed as "the world's greatest tenor at one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World," a claim few lovers of opera or history would dispute.
Oct 4, 2008 - 8:51:28 AM
