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Is Pluto a planet after all ?
7-30-2009 |
29
State governors in Illinois have declared that Pluto has been unfairly demoted to the category of 'dwarf planet', a sent...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
Rival designs race to harness ocean energy
7-12-2009 | 3
Its one of the most untapped sources of energy on the planet but ocean power is about to get a boost as rivals battle it...
Ant mega-colony takes over world
7-3-2009 | 29
A single colony of ants has colonised most of the planet according to scientists. The mega-colony of Argentine ants exte...
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...
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...
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...
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...
'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...
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 ...
Telescopes poised to spot air-breathing aliens
5-19-2009 | 2
The upcoming generation of space telescopes will for the first time be able to detect "biosignatures" in the light from ...
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 ...
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...
'Skull' spotted on Mars
5-2-2009 | 137
Alien spotters claim to have spotted a 'skull' on the surface of Mars in one of NASA's photographs of the planet, the ob...
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...
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...
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