Catch a falling star – or at least part of one – in unusual meteorite auction
Irish Times
The auction is expected to attract interest from astronomers and a network of international collectors who specialise in this very niche field of collecting. The most expensive lot in the sale is a large chunk – weighing 5.8kg – of the “Hambleton” …

Scientists: Universes Could Make up "Multiverse"
International Business Times
Since physicists and astronomers don't have the technology or means to peer beyond our universe to see other universes, they are hoping to confirm their theory by looking for signs that our universe at one time collided with another universe. …

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Higher levels of uptake in science subjects
Herald Scotland
Professor Martin Hendry, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at Glasgow University and a representative of the UK-wide Science and Technology Facilities Council, agreed. “We have come from a situation where those taking up harder sciences have …

Hundreds expected at Sidmouth's sixth astronomy fair
Sidmouth Herald
SIDMOUTH'S Norman Lockyer Observatory is staging its sixth Astronomy Fair tomorrow (Saturday) from 9am to 6-pm. Four speakers will talk on various topics. In the morning David Bryant will talk about meteorites, with Andy Newsam of John Moores …

Evidence grows for water on Mars
Financial Times
Ever since 19th-century astronomers imagined seeing Martian canals through their telescopes, stories about water on Mars have ebbed and flowed. Despite an intensive scientific search in recent years, no one has proved the …

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Science stereotypes under the microscope
Telegraph.co.uk
This autumn, high-profile women will speak on scientific subjects, including Longitude author Dava Sobel on the Copernican revolution in astronomy (September 5) and particle physicist Tara Shears on the Large Hadron Collider (October 19). …

Birmingham Mail World View: Thursday 4th August 2011
Birmingham Mail
Earth once had a second moon, until it made the fatal mistake of smacking its big sister, some astronomers now theorize. For awhile when the Earth was young, it had a big moon, the one you see now, and a smaller "companion moon" orbiting above. …

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Water keeps nanoparticle size under 3 nm diameter
nanotechweb.org
Dr Gauthier Torricelli performed this work as a postdoc in the Condensed Matter Physics Group at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, UK. He now works in the Space Research Centre at the same university. …

What's On – from August 4
West Sussex County Times
HORSHAM Astronomy Group meet on the first Wednesday of the month for talks, occasional observing sessions, and for sharing advice on astronomical techniques at Christ's Hospital. Please contact our secretary, Richard Griffith via our website at …

Popular star parties gives people a chance to explore the universe
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The observatory is one of two such facilities run by the Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh. Things should be looking up Friday and Saturday at Mingo Creek County Park in Nottingham. The Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh will …