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Herschel 'fingerprints' the biggest star
11-28-2009 |
The European Space Agency's new orbital space telescope has observed the death throes of the largest star known to scien...
Nasa and Esa sign Mars agreement
11-20-2009 | 1
Both Nasa and the European Space Agency have signed a new agreement giving scientists the green light to plan joint miss...
Space power zapped from space by lasers
11-10-2009 | 6
In an ambitious new project that could take over 20 years to complete Japan are aiming to collect solar power in orbit a...
Space junk increases danger for future
11-6-2009 | 1
British space experts have warned that the growing amount of debris flying around in space represents an increasing risk...
Did Earth's moon form around Mercury ?
10-25-2009 | 8
A controversial new theory has been proposed suggesting that our moon didn't form around the Earth but instead formed in...
Astronomers find rocky extrasolar planet
9-18-2009 | 3
Astronomers have discovered a rocky extrasolar planet orbiting a distant star that is 1.5 times the size of the Earth bu...
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...
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...
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'...
UFO photographed tailing RAF Hercules
8-4-2009 | 7
A man taking photographs of an RAF Hercules as it approached RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire has snapped the image of a mysteri...
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...
Ion engine could power trips to Mars
7-26-2009 | 27
A new type of ion engine is currently being tested that could one day enable trips to Mars within just 39 days. Unlike c...
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 ...
Probe to photograph Apollo landing sites
7-10-2009 | 43
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is set to take photographs of the Apollo landing sites that some believe will silenc...
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...
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...
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 ...
Rotating space elevator could propel own load
5-28-2009 | 2
For years NASA have been looking in to the possibility of space elevators, a new study has revealed that a rotating elev...
Arizona UFO is 'weather balloon'
5-20-2009 | 7
An large flying orb sighted over Arizona this week and which sparked a number of UFO reports has turned out to be a NASA...
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...
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