Using data from the Chandra X-Ray Telescope, scientists at Alabama University have calculated the mass of a black hole in a nearby galaxy. The mass is equal to a staggering 2 Billion Suns!

A lawsuit, filed by Lamberth, challenging the Obama administration’s funding of stem cell research has been quashed. Science research wins. But what of the use of human embryos?

A small asteroid has been discovered which shares its orbit with Earth.

The US have introduced drastic fund cuts, due to its long war on terror. This adversely affects the science community and with funds drying up in every science sector, it’s a grim picture for science, the US and the future. Have the terrorists won, after all?

A team from Arizona has developed a dependable prototype that detects fake sites much better than a human being does. If you use the Internet often, and for personal purposes like banking, this prototype might save your life.

Wolfram Research has come up with CDF – a new document type in which creators can embed code into a PDF making it interactive to the user. It’s a wonderful new initiative from a company famous for Mathematica and WolframAlpha

The recent results, from the LHC runs in 2010 and 2011 have excluded huge probable mass ranges for the Higgs boson. This is both exciting and disappointing.

The official announcement for the landing site for the next Mars Rover has been made by NASA and it is Gale Crater.

Fermilab claims a discovery of a new particle, the Xi-sub-b baryon. This time it is sure of the detection!

NASA’s space shuttle program finally ends tomorrow with the final landing of Atlantis. Does the future of manned space flight lie in the hands of private companies, like SpaceX?

A new fourth moon of Pluto has been discovered, thanks to Hubble.

The new Mars Rover Curiosity will land in one of two places selected by NASA with the final announcement coming on Friday.

Russia launched a giant radio telescope that is set to be the largest telescope ever built. Its resolution will leave Hubble way behind.

India to launch the geo-stationary satellite GSAT, to be used for communication purposes, using the PSLV rocket.

With the end of the space shuttle program, NASA wants to erase out its legacy. This seems to be the mood, one of disbelief, desperation and anger, in the astronomy circles, in reaction to the cancellation of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) program.