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Methane study boosts hunt for life on Mars
12-9-2009 |
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British scientists have succeeded in ruling out one of the three possible sources for methane detected in the Martian at...
Piece of historic spacecraft up for grabs
11-8-2009 | 1
A piece of Apollo 11 is expected to fetch a high price at auction, the scrap of Kapton Foil would have helped protect th...
Radiation prevents manned Mars mission
9-19-2009 | 19
Radiation may prove to be the single biggest hurdle in putting a human on the planet Mars. Without the protective atmosp...
Man-made volcanoes may cool Earth
9-1-2009 | 28
A controversial new area of research is being backed by the Royal Society which plans to simulate volcanic eruptions and...
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 ...
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...
NASA investigates growing algae as biofuel
5-21-2009 | 7
NASA are investigating the possibility of farming algae as a cheap and clean way to produce an alternative to foreign oi...
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 ...
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...
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...
Pluto much warmer than thought
3-6-2009 | 1
Using the VLA (Very Large Array) telescope in Chile, astronomers have been able to measure the chemical composition of P...
Could 'sprites' explain some UFO sightings ?
2-24-2009 | 7
A recently discovered natural phenomenon known as 'sprites' have been observed as flashing lights that appear in the atm...
Can algae save the world - again ?
2-16-2009 | 9
Scientists are looking in to algae as a potential means with which to save the world by using it to help remove greenhou...
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