NASA's Mars program cancelled ?
2-28-2012 |
19
Future missions to Mars seem unlikely due to large budget cuts to NASA's planetary budget.
'Water world' discovered
2-22-2012 | 28
Astronomers have discovered a distant extrasolar water planet shrouded in a thick steamy atmosphere.
Planck images show strange galactic haze
2-15-2012 | 0
Planck mission photographs are helping to shed light on the star formations that make up our galaxy.
NASA to scale back Mars budget
2-13-2012 | 23
NASA executives are to make significant cuts to its exploration of other planets in our solar system.
Astronaut feels toll of space on his body
2-11-2012 | 8
A former astronaut is undergoing a battery of tests to understand how space has changed his eyesight.
Is Mars now too dry for life to survive ?
2-4-2012 | 9
Scientists believe 600 million years of drought have rendered the Martian surface totally devoid of life.
NASA probe discovers 'alien' matter
2-2-2012 | 8
The Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system.
Radiation blamed for Russian probe failure
1-31-2012 | 2
Russian space officials have claimed that cosmic radiation was to blame for the demise of Phobos-Grunt.
NASA takes new 'blue marble' photograph
1-27-2012 | 9
NASA has used a new satellite to take a stunning update to the famous 'blue marble' Earth photograph.
US joins efforts for space 'code of conduct'
1-26-2012 | 8
Calls are being answered for an international code of conduct to govern off-world exploration practices.
Russia proposes manned Moon base
1-20-2012 | 89
Russia is discussing the possibility of a permanent manned outpost on the Moon with NASA and ESA.
Protection sought for Apollo landing sites
1-16-2012 | 47
Historians are looking to the future with efforts to formally protect the Apollo landing sites.
Every star has planets, new study suggests
1-12-2012 | 13
A team of scientists has found evidence to suggest that every star in the universe has planets.
Phobos-Grunt tracked in orbit
1-8-2012 | 4
The stricken Russian Mars probe has been photographed in the sky by an amateur astronomer.
Stephen Hawking: 'we must colonise space'
1-6-2012 | 46
Celebrated physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has said that he believes we may face nuclear armageddon.
Nasa's Grail gravity twins set to orbit Moon
12-31-2011 | 10
The two satellites will enter in to orbit around the moon within hours to begin mapping its gravity.
China announces manned moon mission
12-30-2011 | 56
China has declared plans to land a man on the moon and to build a space station by as early as 2020.
Could there be life on Pluto ?
12-28-2011 | 20
Scientists have discovered the 'building blocks of life' on the surface of the cold, distant world Pluto.
Soyuz rocket launch fails yet again
12-24-2011 | 7
Russia's space endeavours haven't gone to plan lately as another Soyuz rocket fails after lift-off.
Can Earth survive the Sun as a red giant ?
12-23-2011 | 11
Two planets have been found that appear to have survived their star's destructive red giant phase.
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