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by William Atkins
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Researchers working with the new South Pole Telescope have announced that the telescope has successfully observed its First Light in its quest to find a mystery that has baffled cosmologists for years: Does dark energy exist and, if so, in what form does it exist?
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by William Atkins
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Researchers from England and Germany have discovered that European adults several thousand years ago could not drink milk.
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by William Atkins
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Headed by U.S. aircraft designer Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites has designed and is building SpaceShipTwo, for its first customer Virgin Galactic, which is planning to send private citizens into space by the year 2009.
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by William Atkins
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After Iran sent a rocket into a suborbital trajectory on Sunday, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, France, Germany, and Russia are very concerned with whether Iran’s space and nuclear ambitions are peaceful or not.
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by Stephen Withers
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will make a flyby of Jupiter this Wednesday (28 February 2007), picking up an additional 9000mph from the slingshot effect and accelerating it towards Pluto. Already the fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons will be travelling at over 52,000mph when it leaves Jupiter.
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by William Atkins
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Iranian officials announced on Sunday, February 25, 2007, on Iranian government-controlled television that it has successfully launched a rocket to about 150 kilometers (90 miles) above the Earth for research and scientific purposes.
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by Stephen Withers
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The Rosetta comet probe successfully completed its swing-by of Mars and is now heading towards the Sun on its way back to Earth, according to the ESA's Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
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by William Atkins
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On Thursday, February 25, 1616, the Catholic Church passes a censure against Galileo who had earlier stated that the Sun is the center of the universe and that the Earth moves around it—directly against the Church’s belief that the Earth, instead, was at the center of the universe and the Sun revolved around it.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Ever since a female NASA astronaut went mental over a failed love affair with a fellow space traveler, the focus on space safety has momentarily shifted from stopping spacecraft from blowing up, to stopping mentally exploding astronauts from doing damage to themselves in space, or to the spacecraft they are travelling in.
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by William Atkins
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On Sunday, February 25, 2007, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe will use the orbit of Mars as a springboard to propel it on its way to its 2014 encounter and landing on the distant comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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by William Atkins
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According to a new study in the journal PLoS Genetics, humans and chimpanzees became separate species about four million years ago—much later than previous thought.
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by William Atkins
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According to a NASA official, NASA has previously written a detailed set of procedures for dealing with suicidal or psychotic astronauts while in space.
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by William Atkins
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According to a recent U.S. scientific study, and backed up by growing archaeological evidence, the Clovis people were not the first humans to call America their home.
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by William Atkins
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The NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has observed a glowing dust ring around a hot white dwarf star in the center of the Helix nebula. Astronomers think that this picture could be the fate of our solar system in about five billion years when the Sun depletes its storehouse of hydrogen fuel and engulfs the Earth.
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