Will we find life on Europa ?
6-23-2009 |
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Jupiter's moon Europa remains one of the most promising possibilities for finding life in the solar system. The icy worl...
Work begins on New Mexico spaceport
6-22-2009 | 11
Work has started at the construction site in New Mexico of the world's first ever commercial spaceport. "Spaceport Ameri...
Mystery of the missing sunspots solved ?
6-21-2009 | 0
For some time now astronomers have tried to determine the cause for the recent lack of sunspot activity in what is deeme...
Buzz Aldrin urges US to land on Mars
6-21-2009 | 1
Apollo astronaut and second man on the Moon Buzz Aldrin has said that the US space agency needs to stop focusing on the ...
NASA to crash into the Moon at 6,000mph
6-20-2009 | 15
Two new space probes are currently on their way to the Moon, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will spend the next few...
Evidence for shorelines on Mars
6-19-2009 | 5
Definitive evidence has been found of shorelines on Mars. Scientists at the University of Colorado-Boulder have found in...
Jupiter moon could one day break free
6-19-2009 | 5
Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system powered by tidal heating from the pull of Jup...
Sun to have lowest high in 90 years ?
6-15-2009 | 12
The sun has been experiencing a quiet spell recently, however astrophysicists have been debating whether it will remain ...
Nearby star may have gone supernova
6-12-2009 | 44
Nearby star Betelgeuse has been noticably shrinking over the past decade indicating that it may by now have gone superno...
'Tiny chance' of planet collision
6-11-2009 | 27
It has been revealed that astronomers have calculated a 'tiny chance' that Mars or Venus could collide with the Earth, e...
M-81 black hole bigger than thought
6-9-2009 |
Astronomers have determined that the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is at least twice as large ...
Armstrong's 'poetic' slip on Moon
6-5-2009 | 30
A linguistic analysis has confirmed that Neil Armstrong did miss out the "a" in his "one small step for man" speech when...
Cassini continues past its expiry date
6-4-2009 | 1
NASA's Cassi-Huygens spacecraft is continuing its mission to explore Saturn and its moons despite being over a year past...
Earth's protective shield is stealing our air
6-1-2009 | 11
The Earth's protective shield, the magnetosphere, may not only be protecting us from the harmful charged particles strea...
Lightest known star with exoplanet found
5-31-2009 | 2
Astronomers have discovered the lightest star known to date that has an extrasolar planet orbiting it, this is also the ...
Russia details mission to Phobos
5-26-2009 | 8
Russia has detailed plans for an ambitious unmanned mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. The probe will attempt ...
Have Mars rovers destroyed signs of life ?
5-25-2009 | 4
The Mars rovers may have been inadvertantly destroying signs of life in the methods employed to detect them it has been ...
NASA eyes water in Moon mission
5-23-2009 | 11
NASA is on target for a mission to the Moon in June designed to search for suitable landing sites with water where human...
Astronauts spacewalk to repair Hubble
5-17-2009 | 1
Astronauts paid a visit to the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday and performed some of the toughest spacewalks yet, ins...
Mars rivers flowed more recent than thought
5-16-2009 | 9
A new study in to the formation of valleys on Mars has revealed that rivers may have flowed on the Red Planet much more ...
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