Ion engine could power trips to Mars
7-26-2009 |
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A new type of ion engine is currently being tested that could one day enable trips to Mars within just 39 days. Unlike c...
Molten Mars too hot for life
7-25-2009 | 7
Life would have been prevented from developing on early Mars as the surface would have been molten for over 100 million ...
Jupiter collision a warning call to Earth
7-24-2009 | 13
A large object has smacked in to Jupiter this weekend, the collision is the most significant observed since Shoemaker-Le...
A "one way trip" to the planets
7-22-2009 | 60
A senior NASA official has suggested that in the future volunteers may be wanted to undertake voyages to distant planets...
New image shows Armstrong's face
7-22-2009 | 21
A never before seen photograph taken on the moon from the camera mounted on the lunar lander shows Neil Armstrong's face...
Apollo 11 astronauts call for mission to Mars
7-20-2009 | 17
40 years on from the first historic mission to the Moon the Apollo 11 astronauts have made a rare joint appearance in an...
Moon rocks still yielding secrets
7-19-2009 | 9
The lunar rocks collected by the astronauts from the surface during the historic Apollo moon landings still contain secr...
NASA photographs Apollo landing sites
7-18-2009 | 26
For the first time the original landing sites of the Apollo Moon landings have been photographed from orbit. The images ...
Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits
7-17-2009 | 64
NASA has been widely criticised for erasing and re-using the tapes containing the original recordings of the first manne...
Were there oceans on ancient Venus ?
7-15-2009 | 0
A new study based on a map of the planet's southern hemisphere taken by the Venus Express spacecraft has suggested that ...
Herschel telescope snaps its first pictures
7-12-2009 |
Herschel, the world's largest and most powerful infrared telescope is up and running after its launch on May 14th and ha...
Did Vatican suppress 'Galileo Cryptogram'?
7-12-2009 | 7
It has been suggested that Galileo Galilei may have discovered the planet Neptune 234 years earlier than previously thou...
Russian probe tried to beat NASA to the moon
7-11-2009 | 0
While the Apollo 11 astronauts were getting ready to blast off from the lunar surface on their return trip home the Russ...
Spots return to the Sun
7-8-2009 | 3
After a long period of sunspot drought the Sun has finally picked up again with a new group of sunspots appearing over t...
New class of black hole discovered
7-6-2009 | 6
Astrophysicists have discovered what is believed to be a medium-sized black hole over 290 million light years away. The ...
Moon probe returns first images
7-4-2009 | 8
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has succeeded in capturing and sending back the first images of the...
Seeking the pale red dot
6-30-2009 | 2
A team of astronomers have determined that an extrasolar planet with the correct conditions for life would show up as mo...
Hopes rise for liquid water on Enceladus
6-27-2009 | 4
Astronomers studying plumes of gas and dust shooting off Saturn's moon Enceladus believe they have found strong hints of...
Space shuttle provides Tunguska clues
6-26-2009 | 1
The 1908 explosion over Tunguska in Siberia was most certainly caused by a comet it has been claimed. The conclusion is ...
The weirdest object in the solar system ?
6-25-2009 | 12
Astronomers have found what they believe to be the weirdest object in our solar system, a dwarf planet located in the Ku...
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