Gravity tractor could deflect killer asteroids
9-2-2009 |
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A British team of scientists and engineers have come up with a plan for a "gravity tractor", a device that would use gra...
India loses Moon satellite links
9-1-2009 | 0
Contact with India's orbiting moon Satellite Chandrayaan-1 has been lost, the mission was originally intended to last tw...
How deadly are cosmic rays ?
8-30-2009 | 5
Cosmic rays constantly bombard the Earth with high-energy particles and for the most part we do not notice them but some...
Space probes team up in hunt for moon water
8-27-2009 | 1
US and Indian space probes are joining forces in orbit around the moon to find evidence of water ice which can be identi...
Landing sites on Europa identified
8-26-2009 | 4
Scientists have been examining the images returned by the Galileo spacecraft in an attempt to identify potential sites t...
NASA tests inflatable heat shield
8-24-2009 | 3
NASA have successfully tested a new inflatable heat shield made of silicone-coated Kevlar that can be used in future spa...
Mega black hole twice as big as thought
8-23-2009 | 6
It sits at the centre of the M87 galaxy and weighs the same as 6.4 billion suns, this supermassive black hole situated o...
Dark energy may not actually exist
8-19-2009 | 17
The theoretical dark energy thought to account for over 70% of the universe might not actually exist. A team of mathemat...
Massive methane storm spotted over Titan
8-15-2009 | 0
A huge storm the size of India has been observed over Saturn's moon Titan. Scientists are now working to try and piece t...
NASA's 21st century Moon car
8-14-2009 | 10
NASA are currently developing this unusual looking new vehicle for use by astronauts on their upcoming visit to the moon...
Two worlds collide in deep space
8-12-2009 |
Astronomers have observed two distant planets that collided thousands of years ago in what would have been a catastrophi...
Fast-spinning black holes might reveal all
8-11-2009 | 3
A theory has been proposed suggesting that a black hole could spin so quickly that it would shed its event horizon produ...
The universe's furthest object ever
8-8-2009 | 43
Astronomers from around the world have collaborated to observe the furthest object ever seen in the universe. The object...
Martian methane mystery deepens
8-7-2009 | 10
The mystery surrounding the discovery of methane on Mars has deepened as new data has revealed that the gas is being pro...
Kepler sees its first exoplanets
8-7-2009 | 2
The Kepler space telescope has discovered its first extrasolar planets. Collecting data on over 50,000 stars during its ...
Mystery 'monolith' spotted on Mars
8-5-2009 | 81
Buzz Aldrin recently hinted at the presence of a 'monolith' on Phobos during an interview, now an image taken from NASA'...
Mysterious bright spot found on Venus
8-3-2009 | 2
Astronomers are trying to determine the cause of a mysterious spot that has appeared on Venus. The spot was first observ...
Evidence of liquid water in comets
8-2-2009 | 4
During the first million years of their formation comets would have contained large amounts of liquid water it has been ...
Race is on for space-junk alarm system
7-30-2009 | 4
The US government is running a competition aimed at finding the best way to deal with the threat posed by junk and debri...
Is Pluto a planet after all ?
7-30-2009 | 29
State governors in Illinois have declared that Pluto has been unfairly demoted to the category of 'dwarf planet', a sent...
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