Posted August 13, 2010 - 03:44 by Emma Woollacott
Three 'citizen scientists' putting their home computers to work when they would otherwise have been idle have discovered a rare rotating pulsar.
Posted August 9, 2010 - 14:29 by STARR KESHET
Stephen Hawking believes humans must colonize additional planets or face mass extinction.
Posted August 4, 2010 - 07:39 by Emma Woollacott
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time been able to see a stellar explosion in 3D.
Posted August 3, 2010 - 03:32 by Emma Woollacott
Spectacular Northern Lights may be visible tonight across the northern hemisphere, following a solar eruption on Sunday night.
Posted August 2, 2010 - 03:57 by Emma Woollacott
The International Space Station's cooling system has shut down, forcing crew to plan repairs during a spacewalk later this week.
Posted July 30, 2010 - 04:31 by Emma Woollacott
A team of researchers says that rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars may contain the fossilized remains of life.
Posted July 27, 2010 - 08:59 by Emma Woollacott
A dangerously large asteroid could hit the earth in 2182 - and it needs to be deflected by 2080 at the latest, according to a global research team.
Posted July 26, 2010 - 03:05 by Emma Woollacott
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered the spherical carbon molecules known as 'buckyballs' in space for the first time.
Posted July 23, 2010 - 13:15 by A STAFF WRITER
NASA has published an amazingly detailed map of Mars which was painstakingly rendered using nearly 21,000 images gathered by Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS).
Posted July 21, 2010 - 06:42 by Staff writer
Astronomers have discovered the biggest star ever - more than 300 times the mass of the Sun, and twice as large as the generally accepted limit of 150 solar masses.
Posted July 21, 2010 - 05:37 by Emma Woollacott
New pictures from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show 12-mile-wide snowballs forming in one of Saturn's rings.
Posted July 20, 2010 - 08:08 by Emma Woollacott
An Australian company is to build the world's first automated laser system to track dangerous space junk.
Posted July 19, 2010 - 06:17 by Emma Woollacott
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, WISE, completed its first survey of the entire sky over the weekend.
Posted July 19, 2010 - 04:44 by Emma Woollacott
Richard Branson's private commercial spaceship has made its first crewed flight.
Posted July 16, 2010 - 03:28 by Emma Woollacott
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of what they're calling a 'cometary planet' - one that's so close to its star that its heated atmosphere is escaping into space.
Posted July 15, 2010 - 03:59 by Emma Woollacott
The most powerful X-ray blast ever detected from deep space temporarily blinded NASA's Swift space observatory last month.
Posted July 12, 2010 - 07:19 by Emma Woollacott
Creationists still won't like it, but a new study indicates that the Earth is rather younger than previously believed - up to 70 million years younger, says the team.
Posted July 11, 2010 - 16:13 by STARR KESHET
The Rosetta spacecraft has captured the first, high-quality pictures of the "Lutetia" asteroid.
Posted July 9, 2010 - 03:37 by Emma Woollacott
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered a new class of moons in the rings of Saturn that create distinctive propeller-shaped gaps in ring material.
Posted July 8, 2010 - 07:31 by Staff writer
Please don't snigger, but ESO and NASA astronomers have discovered a black hole blowing out an enormous bubble of hot gas.
