Tag: Space

French scientist working on the Hall thrusters -- an advanced type of engine that harnesses a stream of plasma to ...

Scottish manufacturer Ballantines comes to the aid of space-dwellers the world round (and beyond) with a new, high-tech glass that ...

Distillers have long been interested in the particularities of the aging process, and how to mature the drink to bring ...

Two different Philae instruments, known as Ptolemy and COSAC (Cometary Sampling and Composition), hunted for organic compounds— the building blocks ...

An innovative concept might allow engineers to send probes on Mars in previously inaccessible locations. The project, called MARSDROP, would ...

It's a remarkable day for NASA and space observations: the Solar Dynamics Observatory has taken its 100,000,000th photo! The mission, ...

After exactly 674 days in orbit, the Air Force's top secret spaceplane landed in California on Friday. There's very little anyone ...

Last week, the U.S. Air Force released a report in which it outlines its technological and energy plans for the ...

As I was telling you a few days ago, after Discovery, Endeavour is also preparing for its last trip, led ...

In what can be considered a highly ambitious project, but quite highly unlikely to get passed bill, Rep. Bill Posey, ...

Carl Sagan must be twisting and twitching in his grave. SETI, the project which became synonymus with searching for extraterrestrial ...

Endeavour will pretty soon begin its retirement, just like fellow space orbiter Discovery did just a while ago. However, Endeavour's ...

A few weeks ago I told you a bit about "First Orbit", a marvelous documentary by Christopher Riley which practically ...

Exactly 30 years ago, the first orbital space shuttle launch took place, marking the start of a slew of successful ...

As long as space and science is concerned, April is clearly Yuri Gagarin month, the first man in space, celebrating ...

  The discovery of a new black hole is always an interesting event; this time, researchers from the Instituto de ...

A lot of critics are raving towards the end of the space exploration age, as aerospace budgets get ever thinner, ...

A new study suggests that a blunder of cosmic proportions has been made when estimating the total number of stars ...

It's not hard to think what the purpose of the 'Eavesdropper' is; this mammoth of the US National Reconnaissance Office ...

That's right people, all the life on this beautiful planet (yep, that includes you) could descend from alien zombies. Well, ...

When early galaxies formed, there was a surprisingly high rate of new stars being formed, which was explained by major ...

After an exciting discovery of a habitable earth-like planet, skepticism settles back in as a second team of scientists casts ...

The Google Lunar X-Prize is a great initiative that awards $20 million to whoever manages to fly a robot to ...

A recently discovered planet is just about the right size and is in the right place to host life; as ...

First of all, I have no idea how this rumour started, but a number of people signaled this already; the ...

While America seems to have delayed it's Moon base ambitions, Japan seems to have no such plans; according to their ...

The first touchable scientific results of the Herschel infrared space observatory are spectacular indeed; not only is it showing previously ...

Barack Obama came out and said that it should be possible for NASA to send astronauts to Mars and bring ...

Two studies put Einstein's theory, the General Theory of Relativity to a test unlike any other before. The two teams ...

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is already in its 7th year on Mars, and over the years it provided some ...

Pluto is so upset that it's no longer a planet, that it's turning all red with anger ! No, seriously. ...

Star clusters are among the pretties things you can see, when it comes to astrophysical observations. Recently, ESO provided some ...

Hubble has had a lot of problems in recent days, but now the telescope we love the most is up ...

Well ladies and gentlemen, you'd better fasten your seat belts, because we're in for quite a spin. The Milky Way ...

Beta Pictoris (β Pic / β Pictoris) is part of a group of hot young stars that have the same ...

A while ago we were a bit worried about the future of Hubble, but it seems the people at NASA ...

Chandrayaan-1 is the name of the first mission India has ever launched towards the moon, and it was launches succesfully ...

Using the RHESSI spacecraft, scientists managed to calculate the Sun's roundness with a level of precision that surpasses anything of ...

Chinese researchers confirmed the theory that they are building an "impossible" space drive, and at this stage they are building ...

Less than a year from now, in 2009, NASA is going to launch a whole new generation of spacecraft and ...

Our old Sun has broken a milestone that has not happened for almost a hundred years, as an entire month ...

Astronauts definitely don't have it easy; preparing and training for most of your life, to go on a mission that ...

Scientists have believed for years that the moon doesn't have water, only to find that its interior proved them wrong, ...

It's not a bird, it's not a planet, it's not Jupiter... it's super earth. Actually, there's 3 of them. What ...

For almost a century, scientists have been trying to figure out what's good and what's bad about Einstein's vision of ...

Recently, the NASA observatory published some great images of some cities. For a man looking at those cities at night, ...

Recently, a small Aerospace company located in California has announced a new type of sub-orbital spaceship that can make your ...

Astronomers from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario have spotted (with the aid of cameras, of course) a ...

What seemed to be a very natural and obvious conclusion needed a whole lot of studies and research to be ...