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Looking for landing sites on Mars
6-1-2009 |
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Four different landing sites have been proposed for NASA's upcoming Mars Science Lab spacecraft that will be launching i...
11-year-old helps SETI find aliens
5-30-2009 | 5
An 11-year-old boy has been assisting SETI in its search for extraterrestrial intelligence when he suggested that they s...
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...
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 ...
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...
Will space travel change our brains ?
5-15-2009 | 13
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...
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...
Star Trek's warp drive: not impossible
5-8-2009 | 47
One of science fiction's most prominent space-faring technologies, the warp drive, is potentially not impossible. As the...
Could the internet become self-aware ?
5-1-2009 | 28
With the ever increasing complexity of the World Wide Web and the way in which some parts of it parallel the workings of...
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...
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...
'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...
SETI chief claims alien contact within 20 years
4-9-2009 | 13
The chief astronomer of SETI has claimed that mankind will make contact with an intelligent alien race within 20 years. ...
Hidden planet found in old Hubble data
4-3-2009 | 3
Astronomers have developed a new method for finding extrasolar planets in old Hubble Space Telescope images, the new str...
Volunteers flock to space experiment
3-28-2009 | 6
6000 applicants from over 40 countries have signed up for a chance to take part in an experiment designed to see how hum...
Finding twin Earths is harder than thought
3-24-2009 | 8
NASA's recently launched Kepler spacecraft is on a mission to find Earth-sized planets around distant stars, but once it...
Bat hangs on for ride in to space
3-22-2009 | 19
A bat was spotted clinging on for dear life to the external fuel tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery during liftoff this...
NASA may send fleet of spacecraft to Venus
3-20-2009 | 27
NASA could be sending a small fleet of spacecraft to Venus within the next fifteen years, including two high-altitude ba...
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