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Bizarre achievements win Ig Nobel prizes
10-3-2009 |
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A number of unusual achievements have been honoured with this year's Ig Nobel prize including a designer who invented a ...
Could a gravity trick speed us to Mars ?
9-29-2009 | 5
NASA engineer Robert Adams has proposed a new trick for flying to Mars based on a technique devised by Hermann Oberth in...
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...
Tough microbes could survive on Mars
7-21-2009 | 5
Scientists have found a microbe called Methanosarcina barkeri that lives in water sediment where oxygen is scarce, breat...
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...
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...
Reverse-engineering bird's quantum compass
6-29-2009 | 0
For years scientists have been studying birds in an attempt to determine exactly how they are able to navigate large dis...
Hadron Collider to restart in October
6-24-2009 | 4
After further delays and a lot of time and money the Large Hadron Collider is due to start up again in October, over a y...
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...
Microbe wakes up after 120,000 years
6-16-2009 | 14
Microbes locked within the ice in Greenland for 120,000 years have awoken, the new species of bacteria was found 2 miles...
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 ...
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...
Glacier 'bleeds' proof of ancient life forms
4-20-2009 | 14
A rust-stained substance gushing from a glacier or 'Blood Falls' in Antarctica has provided scientists with proof that a...
Life could have survived Earth's early pounding
3-17-2009 | 1
A new analysis has revealed that microbes living deep underground could have survived the massive bombardment of impacts...
Russia to send life to Phobos in new mission
3-3-2009 | 10
In its first mission to Mars in over 10 years Russia plan to send a probe to one of the martian moons Phobos later this ...
Is humanity a spacefaring race?
2-28-2009 | 12
Seth Shostak writes about the future of manned space exploration, unmanned probes and the problems we will face in the f...
Gravity holes - planetary assassins ?
2-24-2009 | 3
NASA's new 'STEREO' probes will search for objects that are trapped in Langrangian points, can this new research pinpoin...
NASA selects Jupiter for next major mission
2-20-2009 | 10
The destination of NASA's next major mission to the planets has been announced, Jupiter and two of its moons Ganymede an...
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