Will space travel change our brains ?
5-15-2009 |
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Will regular travel in outer space result in changes to the human brain ? Apollo 14 astronaut Ed Mitchell experienced wh...
NASA running out of nuclear fuel
5-14-2009 | 2
NASA is running low on the nuclear fuel required for deep space missions and no longer has enough plutonium for future f...
How satellites could 'sail' home
5-12-2009 | 0
A new proposal has been made in an effort to curb the amount of debris present in orbit by having redundant satellites d...
Where did Mars' magnetic field go ?
5-10-2009 | 9
It is believed that the magnetic field of Mars that may have once made it possible for life to have survived there could...
Astronauts to make final house call to Hubble
5-9-2009 | 0
On Monday the Hubble Space Telescope will be receiving its final maintenance as astronauts undertake a series of five sp...
Could flowers bloom on icy moon Europa ?
5-7-2009 | 5
Conditions could be right for plant life to grow and even flower on Jupiter's icy moon Europa a prominent physicist has ...
NASA may abandon plans for Moon base
5-2-2009 | 60
It is believed NASA may abandon its plans to build a base on the Moon and instead focus its efforts on manned missions t...
Huge impact crater discovered on Mercury
5-1-2009 | 0
NASA's Messenger spacecraft has taken a close up look at the planet Mercury, revealing many features that have never bee...
Black hole spews water vapour
4-27-2009 | 9
Astronomers have discovered the most distant evidence of water in the Universe being ejected from a supermassive black h...
UK to bid for Mars sample centre
4-26-2009 | 0
Plans to conduct a sample return mission to Mars are still in progress with the UK forwarding its bid to host a study fa...
Radio buffs tune in to Jupiter
4-25-2009 | 0
Radio buffs have taken to listening out for radio waves coming from the solar system's largest planet, Jupiter. The sign...
Why is moon dust sticky ?
4-24-2009 | 6
A scientist who has studied the question for four decades believes the answer lies in the Sun's ultraviolet and x-ray ra...
Possible Earth-like planets found
4-22-2009 | 19
Two new extrasolar planets have been discovered which appear to be similar to Earth, one is about the correct size and i...
Ancient solar systems found around dead stars
4-20-2009 | 7
Astronomers have discovered evidence that suggests between 1-3 percent of white dwarf stars are orbited by rocky bodies ...
Asteroids won't raise killer waves
4-18-2009 | 13
The risk of an asteroid hitting the oceans and producing a massive tidal wave have been reduced substantially following ...
Mars rover has unexplained reboots
4-17-2009 | 12
NASA's Mars rover Spirit has been experiencing technical issues, rebooting twice for unknown reasons. The rover has been...
'Giant hand' pictured in space
4-16-2009 | 71
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has photographed a spinning star 17,000 light years from Earth that resembles a large h...
The search for our solar system's lost planet
4-14-2009 | 18
Two spacecraft launched by NASA in 2006 will soon be in position to look for evidence of the remains of a planet named T...
Jupiter's Io - the volcanic epicenter
4-8-2009 | 13
Researchers have found clear evidence for how gas from Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active place in the know...
Black holes caught in tug-of-war
4-7-2009 |
A mysterious phenomenon in which a suppermassive black hole can regulate its energy during a tug-of-war with a hot radia...
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