 Laika preceded the first manned spaceflight; why can't macaques preceed the... [read >>]
Date: 14 April 2008, 10:14 GMT
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 Earth, unlike the other rocky planets in the solar system, is extremely geologic... [read >>]
Date: 14 April 2008, 08:30 GMT
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 NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took lately a couple of pictures of the ... [read >>]
Date: 14 April 2008, 04:42 GMT
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 There are quite a few large laser interferometers in the world today, including ... [read >>]
Date: 14 April 2008, 04:00 GMT
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 Hayabusa, meaning peregrine falcon in Japanese, is an unmanned space mission car... [read >>]
Date: 14 April 2008, 03:04 GMT
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 On 3 November 1957, the Soviet Union launched a Sputnik 2 spacecraft carrying th... [read >>]
Date: 12 April 2008, 05:56 GMT
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 Three weeks ago, the Swift satellite detected the brightest gamma-ray burst in t... [read >>]
Date: 12 April 2008, 03:47 GMT
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 In anticipation of the expected landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander on 25 May, NA... [read >>]
Date: 11 April 2008, 10:59 GMT
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 NASA plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2020, but in order to do that... [read >>]
Date: 11 April 2008, 10:02 GMT
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 You know what they say: "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place&qu... [read >>]
Date: 11 April 2008, 06:46 GMT
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 Globular star clusters are believed to be amongst the oldest objects in the univ... [read >>]
Date: 11 April 2008, 03:31 GMT
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 Brown dwarfs, or failed stars, are stellar bodies with masses 10 to 70 times hig... [read >>]
Date: 11 April 2008, 02:53 GMT
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 From time to time, brief streaks of light may appear, moving rapidly across the ... [read >>]
Date: 10 April 2008, 08:43 GMT
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 On 8 March, a Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian astronauts and one South Kor... [read >>]
Date: 10 April 2008, 06:26 GMT
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 Mercury is probably the solar system's most extreme planet. It is the oldes... [read >>]
Date: 10 April 2008, 04:54 GMT
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 Mars' largest and closest moon, Phobos, was recently photographed with the ... [read >>]
Date: 10 April 2008, 04:02 GMT
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 The new exo-planet, dubbed GJ 436c, moves in an orbit around the star GJ 436, lo... [read >>]
Date: 10 April 2008, 03:25 GMT
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 The Big Bang theory says that the universe began at T=0 as it suffered a sudden ... [read >>]
Date: 10 April 2008, 02:37 GMT
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 Although black hole mergers are very rare in the universe, especially when these... [read >>]
Date: 09 April 2008, 05:02 GMT
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 Take a patch of the sky with an area four times that of the apparent size of the... [read >>]
Date: 09 April 2008, 04:11 GMT
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 Quasars are basically massive black holes surrounded by large accretion disks of... [read >>]
Date: 09 April 2008, 03:37 GMT
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 Weighing supermassive black holes located in the center of galactic nuclei is mo... [read >>]
Date: 09 April 2008, 02:51 GMT
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 When completed, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will have the ability of sca... [read >>]
Date: 08 April 2008, 11:09 GMT
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 Unless you haven't noticed yet, the Moon is in a waxing crescent phase sinc... [read >>]
Date: 08 April 2008, 04:20 GMT
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 It's not the first time – and probably not the last either – when your gala... [read >>]
Date: 08 April 2008, 02:42 GMT
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 Dark matter is believed to be responsible for more than 70 percent of the total ... [read >>]
Date: 07 April 2008, 10:24 GMT
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 Quasars are basically black holes surrounded by large accretion disks of matter ... [read >>]
Date: 07 April 2008, 09:40 GMT
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 Previous stellar models showed very clearly that all stars must go through a sup... [read >>]
Date: 07 April 2008, 08:57 GMT
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 The US space shuttles are supposed to retire in 2010 in order to give way to the... [read >>]
Date: 07 April 2008, 07:08 GMT
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 Yesterday, the Russian engineers from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan roll... [read >>]
Date: 07 April 2008, 05:34 GMT
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 During the span of the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meet... [read >>]
Date: 07 April 2008, 02:55 GMT
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